The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-01-13
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Conlson Is to have newspaper.
Helena expended sa62, 900 in building last
year.
The Gallatia Necs, of Bozeman, has not yet
appeared.
Buffalo were seen within six miles of Ben
ton last week.
John welghtman has been appointed post
master at Dillon.
The Bell smelter at Butte went into opera
ton last Saturday.
The tax levy of Madison county is twenty
mills on the dollar.
w. Y. Pemberton, Esq. win locate in Butte
for the practice of law.
The tax levy in Missoula county is twenty
four mills on the dollar.
There were 365 quartz locations made in
Madison county in 1881.
There are three candidates in the Dillon
Jail for the Insane Asylum.
There was plenty of claim jumping douein
Butte New Years morning.
There still remains at Wilder about 200, 600
pounds of freight for Benton.
Leigh r. Freeman has enlarged the Inter
Mountains to an eight-page paper.
Manager Hasenwinkle will bring an oper-
attic troupe to Montana next summer.
The Record announces the death of al old
timer in the person of IA shepherd dog.
Bodie Joe, who was killed in Butte on
Christmas, had himself "killed his man"
The Gallatin county tax levy il fourteen
mills on the dollar. the same ~ last year.
w. H. Allen, of Buford, has been arrested,
charged with stealing Government mules.
Donnell, Clark & Larabie, of Butte. move
into their new bank building in few days.
Thirty families are on their way from Chi
cago TO take up ranches on the Yellowtone.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. F. McAvoy, of Butte, are
the parents of twin girls, born January 9th.
The Leiderkranz society of Butte will hold
a grand carnival on WaShington's birthday
The total value of the metal output in the
Butte district during 1881 is reported a. ST.
675 150
Mr.. and Mrs. Water, formerly of Helena,
have leased the hotel at Hot Springs, near
Boulder.
The Muscular urges the establishment of
mail route from Horse Plains to Lake Pen
dOreille.
Missoula county, for the first time in her
history is a cash-paying county, although not
out of debt.
The term of the Supreme Court now in ses.
sion in Helena will be continued several
weeks longer
At Fort Asslnaboine last Tuesday week
Fred Hebberman was kicked by mule and
will probably die.
J. J. Ptifer last week bought a Main street
lot in Butte of A. w. Barnard, paying there
for $4,000 in cash.
Fighting Finn" was shot and killed by
Mike LYNCH last week at Meagher City, in
the Barker district.
The pnblic printing of Beaverhead county,
heretofore done bv the Miner, has been given
to the Dillon Tribune.
A fire at Miles City last Saturday DESTROYED
the Kitty saloon, the st. Paul house, and
Fanny Grayson's house.
The Glendive express office was robbed
Wednesday night of last week the mail sacks
being cut open and rified
Butte has six quartz mills with total of
$50 stamps, and tour sm.lters with capacity
for reducing 1876 tons Of Ore daily.
The grain crop of Gallatin county "a shown
by the threshers, included $4,000 bushels of
wheat and ~ 900 bushels of oats.
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anil chain from a bureau drawer in AL. Les
ter's house in Benton the other day.
Jack Hams, Butte carpenter, spoiled the
beauty of fellow-workmen named Rice by
striking him in the face with hammer.
The wife Of Frank Allen. of Meagher coun-
ty, is thought to be insane and has been
placed in charge OF the county authorities.
John Cavenaugh. said to have lived in the
mountains of the Northwest for thirty years,
died in Butte on the 4th inst. of pneumonia.
S. w. Childs, a few days ago, bought n onr-
sixth interest in the Mollie Childs claim, in
the Fourth of July district, paying therefor
$500
X. NJ. Baird's team ran away i'm O'Keefe
Canon last week, resulting in Mr.. Baird hav-
ing thrs. ribs broken and one lung badly lac
Grated.
Noise Tetreault and his wife had fight at
Frenchtown last week, in which the latter
got ,ne rib broken and received other severe
injuries.
Miles City il receiving ten car loads of
-four a 4 from Niles, Mich. The tariff is
but ninety cents per hundred pounds from
st. Paul.
Butte people are beginning to complain
that under the present apportionment act
they are deprived of representation in the
Legislature.
The mines In the Judith Basin are report
ed az assaying wonderfully high. A thriving
little town, Maidenville, has sprung up in
that section.
Rev ID. J. Mcmillan who has been travel
ing In the Territory in the interest of the
Presbyterian Church, has returned to his
home in Illinois.
The total amount of license collected with
in the Territory for the quarter ending Dec.
81, 1881 was s27 5000, or at the rate of Si53,-
1880 per annum.
Prof Spcck will produce the beautiful OPP
era of "Chimes of Normandy" in Butte
shortly II il to be hoped he will favor Deer
Lodge with a performance.
Bill Russell, stage driver on the Tongue
River line. last week shot and seriously
| wounded man who insisted on riding on the
coach without paying any fare.
The Masons of Helena hold Lodge of
Sorrow. tonight in honor of the memory of
George b. Tyler. The ceremonies on such
an occasion are very impressive.
Monteitk's special Geography for Mon
tana has appeared. The matter relating to
this Territory was preparedby Colonel VIM.
+. Wheeler and Jacob Medary, Esq.
A young man named Pidcock while haul
ing freight at the Butte depot the other day,
received injuries that necessitated the ampu-
| tation of the middle finger of his left hand.
The Indians on the Flathead reservation
have stopped the engineers in their work,
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