The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-03-10
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

| Missouias seventh saloon Is about 10 D<
opened.
A foundry is soon to be established in
Bozeman.
The Anselmo mine is to be incorporated
and stocked.
Forty electric lights have been subscribed
for in Helena.
| Helena has GAG boys and 2a5 girls enrolled
in her schools.
Fort Missoula is to have masquerade ball
on .he 18th inst.
The ''pink-eye" has appeared in the livery
stables in Butte.
The Lexington mill at Butte will have q
$4,000 gallon tank.
NJ. J. Smith is engaged in getting up di-
rectory history Of Butte.
Missoula county had ten delinquents on
her tax lists for last year.
Nettie Lash, of Butte, has been granted a
divorce from her husband.
Twelve persons Joined the Good Templars
society in Butte last week.
An automatic feeder is being placed in po.
| sitlOH III Tie MOuIOu HlHe.
Lumber is scarce at Coulson, and sells at
$50 to $500 per thousand feet.
The Nellie Boyd dramatic company is
playing in Northern California.
J.H. Oliver, night clerk at the st. Nicho.
las hotel at Butte, can talk Chinese.
Elvira Triplett secured a divorce from Sam
uel Triplett in the Butte court last week.
The Liederkrantz society of Butte lost
about 500 by the carnival on the I'D ult.
The postoffice at Power, on the Helena
and Benton road, has been discontinued.
The Montana Cattle Company will add g.
600 head of cattle to its Musselshell herds.
There we're fourteen deaths in Helena dur
ing the months of January and February.
The output of ore from the Hecla Compa-
ny's mines at Lion City averages sixty tons q
day.
Vice-President Cakes predicts that Helena
will have 10000 inhabitants in five years
time.
During February the thermometer at Fort
Benton ranged from So below zero to 62'
above.
Rev. d. L. Leonard, of Salt Lake. is to fill
the pulpit of the Benton Congregational
! Church.
! Seventy five men with their families are
going into the Crazy mountains to cut rail-
road ties.
Dave Conkling, a Deputy Sheriff of Custer
county, died at his home in Junction City
last week.
| A colony from Salt Lake and another from
Oregon propose to settle at the head of Flat
head lake.
Thirteen hundred head Of cattle were last
of s39, 600.
Last week 100 shares of Alice stock we're
sold in New York at prices ranging from
S2.75 to $3.50.
Cans & Klein contemplate building large
and fine business block in Benton the COM
ing summer.
Andrew Summers. an old-timer in this
Territory, died on the Sd inst, at Boulder
Hot Springs.
The present term Of court at Butte will
cost the county about $1,000 in jurors and
witnesses fees.
The ice in the Missouri at Coal Banks is
breaking loose along the shore and the water
is running over it.
| The ranch of N. Parker at the mouth of
Alder gulch was last week sold to Dennis
Collins for $1,000.
Benton claims to have had colder and also
warmer weather than any point in the Terri
tory the past winter.
Out of flock of 1000 sheep belonging to
James Morgan in Meagher county, not one
has died this winter.
The citizens of Central City, in the Barker
country, met last week and established local
| laws and regulations.
The Bismarck Tribune SAYS that Judge
Comstock, of Utica, N. Y, is to be the next
Governor Of Montana.
A Frenchman started across Pen d'Oreille
lake in small boat some weeks since and
has not been seen since.
The Pen d'Oreille division of the Northern
Pacific furnishes employment to 2 800 Chi
nese and 900 white men.
The owners of the Consolidated Salisbury
and North Star mines have been offered
500, 900 for their properties.
Geo. Hatch and Major Wallace, of Meagh-
or county, have purchased $3.50 wethers of
Oscar Stevens at S3.25 each.
John Churchill of Benton, was badly
bruised few days ago by his horse falling
with him while running cattle.
The Secretary of War has approved a rec.
ommendation to erect monument costing
$500 on the Big Hole battlefield.
N. Laubenheimer, of Helena, is importing
a Kentucky trotter that he expects to outfoot
any fve-year-old in the Northwest.
CD. Simon, alias Calico Jack, for fifteen
years stage driver in the mountains, is now
on the Helena and Bozeman route.
Missoula people contributed $3.50 for the
sian jews now arriving in America.
George Crawford was seriously injured
last Monday at ID. Leonard's sawmill near
Butte, by the bursting Of a circular saw.
William and Henry Clark, charged with
being accessory to the Christmas shooting at
l DuttCy WChu hoouu NV RuiApy W ehO yhy'
Tom Diebold, of Benton, has run away
from home. He has q mania in that direc-
ton which he gratifies every few months.
Last week E. Connors, of Dillon, an old
freighter, fell on an icy place and sustained
injuries from which he died within few
days.
Building improvements in Benton during
last year amounted to S84, 400. Those in con.
temptation for the present year win cost
STAG, 800.
Mrs. Mary Busch has rebuilt her boarding
house in Butte which was burned down at
the time her husband murdered her boy and
killed himself.
The Chinese of Butte talk of burlesquing
the recent carnival held in that CITY. Lem
Foo says: "Melican man all samee dam
foolee Chinaman."
Frank j. GougJer, a merchant doing bust.
ness at Martinsdaie, has failed with liabili-
ties Of about $4,000. Incorporate habits are