The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-10-20
LOCAL BREyITIES.

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The comet was beauty Thursday morn
Ing.
The assessment roll OF Deer Lodge county
foots MP ~, 428 ,945 and will reach two and q
half millions.
The placer season Is about closed at Pho.
neer and Pixies Peak. The season has been
| very fair one.
Business has materially increased In Deer
Lodge, and the effects are apparent in every
b'auch of industry and trade.
Geo. W. Todd, the Marquis, opened up a
| fine saloon on the corner next the fire com.
pany building last week and never closes. /"
Judge Galbraith having finished up the
Court calender at Butte this week adjourned
over until next Monday when the term will
be adjourned.
Conductor Pat o'Neill gave the Sisters and
scholars of st. Mary's Academy a compli.
mentary ride to Warm Springs and back one
day this week.
A lot 65x120, on Second street, with good
residence on IL, and one of the most desira.
BILE properties in town, can be purchased In
quire at this Office.
Col. w. +. Wheeler. according to the hide
pendent, does not think Deer Lodge shows
enough splurge ssnce the railroad has come
Oh, well, -
Mr.. Kelsey has been stationed here by
agent Holt of Silver Bow Junction to receive
| freight by car load lots until the depot is
erected and general freight comes through
Judge F. R. Bill was appointed Justice OF
the Peace by the Commissioners this week
That IL good. There has never been a better
magistrate in Deer Lodge county than +. r.
Bill.
Nick Beery has succeeded William McKin.
ney as Night Waterman and has been ap.
pointed Deputy Sheriff. We are glad to see
Nick in the position. He is frst-class man
for the place.
Granville Stuart says America is q great
country. A few months ago / left Deer
Lodge with a pack horse Last Friday the
cars landed me here within twenty feet of my
door. Vipe la America
Mr.. McMurray, tax agent of the Union Pa.
cific Company, was in town this week and
made his return to the Commissioners for the
U. g. n. at S3,0l1 per mile, the same as rated
elsewhere. The return aggregates $500 in
| this county.
Rev. Frs. Kelleher and DeRyckere will
hold services In Philipsburg next Sunday
Mass at 8 am. and 1880 am. and lecture at I
pm; on the following Sunday, t29th) like
| services will be held in the Catholic Church
Deer Lodge.
We are informed that Uncle Tommy Cruise
who owned the celebrated Drum Lummond
mine at Marysville, near Helena, has sold il
| for figures that will net him about $3.50 600
Other parties who negotiated the sale made
handsome margin.
Mr.. Joseph Richards has ordered the re.
quisite machinery to put in operation a -four
ing mill here and will commence the erection
of necessary buildings next week. He already
has set of the best quality of French burrs
and expects to have his mill In operation In
a month.
A country contemporary says that 1t under
stands that y. p. r. r. officers at Omaha are
dissatisfied with the present location of the
yet that the n. p. officers are dissatisfied with
the location of the depot in the valley below
| Helena. tits only in important cities thai
railroad officers are anxious to get up as close
as possible with the depot to the center Of
business.
| The Virginia volunteers who lost horses
| In the battle with the Nez Perces al Camas
Meadows, received pay from the Govern.
ment for their animals this week. The fel-
lows who fought, fed, and fell in the creek
| on that memorable occasion, however, are
still minus the dollar day which they have
been looking for as reward for their gal
liant services in front of the ravaging reds
| Mddisonidn.
Mr.. John B. Read, the former spicy city
editor of the Butte Inter Mountain, who rep
resented Buttes exhibit at the Denver E<posi
ton very creditably indeed, has returned ant
resumed his position. During his absenc.
Mr.. John s. Mills was city editor, ad interim
and evidenced qualifications of a high order
"John" Is energetic, industrious, and incisiv'
and yields a graceful pen. tits intimated h
will take position on the editorial staff o
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in Montana.
A few years ago when 'jerky" carriet
all the passengers 1t was alleged that ont
train a week from Ogden would do all thu
business Montana would have for man.
year. Now there are two trains day eacl
way, beside extras, and the rolling stock i
taxed to Its full capacity TO do the work
Even between Deer Lodge and Butte, Will
there are only construction trains on and con
nection is not made with coaches, there ar,
from fifteen tn sixty passengers carried eaci
way daily. Railroads make travel and bust
ness. &@
Some letters from Montana have recentl
appeared in the San Francisco Chronicl
signed "H. r w." the initials of our intel
ligent townsman, III. r. Whitehill, Esq. ow
ing to the apparent chronographic inaccur
acies and disarrangement of these articles
is due to say that they were written nearly
year ago at the instance of well know
journalistic contributor; that Montana wa
taken up county by county, each of whic
was given separate mention, and genera
summary of Territorial resources, ETC., fo
lowed. The series ofpapers would have OF
cupied some twenty columns of the Chron
Gle. The journalist held them until many Q
the events then spoken OF as possibilities 0
probabilities have become accomplishe
facts, and, in making them up, has so disa'
ranged the arrangement that glaring blur
ders appear. Being acquainted with tn
facts we have taken the liberty without cor
| smiling the writer to make this Statement
! Mr. whitehill IL a very intelligent observer
| an industrious searcher after facts, and
clear, concise, pleasing writer. Some 3
these articles as they have appeared sugget
!, "some one has blundsred," and the abov
will show where the blunder was.