The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-06-09
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

/ The Benton schools close next riaaJ
The ladies Of Missoula have reading cir
Gle.
The Bozeman public schools close for the
summer to-day.
The Rirer Press begins the publication of
daily this week.
Benton talks of erecting q graded school
building this fall
The Rirer Press denies that the Maiden
boom has "busted."
Stevensville has Good Templar's lodge
with thirty members.
A Congregational church society has been
| organized in Billings.
| instituted in Billings.
The prospects for big hay crop are good
all over the Territory.
The placer mines near Butte are said to be
paying well this year.
Horse racing is announced for July 4th Mt
White Sulphur Springs.
The new Billings bank will be open for
business by the 10Th inst.
Helena had four deaths during the month
of May, three being infants.
Gallatin claims to produce more grain than
any other county in the Territory.
August Averill was seriously stabbed in
Bozeman saloon row last Saturday.
Chief Justice Wade and family have start
ed on their tour of the Pacific coast.
A new postoffice called Riverside has been
established on the upper Yellowstone.
A Benton man has n hand made horse hair
bride which it took him three years to make.
appointed teacher of the Old Agency school.
The Billings Herald has made its appear
ance. 1t is an S-column folio, and patent in
side. .at
The mounted police have bought 100 head
of horses from Lee & Storey, upper Yellow
stone.
A postofice has been established at Null
Ian Tunnel, with James Morrison rs post
master.
Rev. Father Camp lectures on "Ingersoll
and the Great Hereafter" in Missoula next
Sunday.
ANottubiH lHtlHHN ubNS StVltu every 4iotFo
belonging to Mr.. John Smith on the Mac
leod road
After a two weeks rest the G0-stamp Alice
mill has again started up with LOCO tons Of
ore ahead.
Massena Bullard, Esq, is City Attorney
and Clerk for Helena. Mr.. John G. Majors
is Marshal.
There is good deal of bad feeling in the
Cork's Fork country, at present, caused by
millsite jumping,
Big Spring creek has abandoned the 50, 0C0
school house project and will put up a build
ing to cost but 81 900.
Some one cut adrift a tie boom in the Big
Hole river last week. resulting in several
hundred dollars damage.
Evan Jones, ''the Badger Boy" of Butte,
challenges Thomas Davey to rough and
tumble fight for 500 to $500.
Drunken Indians are frequently seen at
Stevensville, giving evidence that some one
Is selling them whisky on the sly.
An unusually large number of lambs are
being killed this season on Belt Creek and In
the Box Elder and Sand Coulee country.
The United States District Attorney has
entered complaint against Hartt & Taylor, of
Madison county, for infringing the timber
law.
Directly and indirectly the Wright and
Edwards mine and smelter in the Barker
district furnish employment to four hundred
men.
The military telegraph line to Fort Ma
ginnis, via Rocky Point and Poplar River,
win be ready for business by the first day of
July.
Mr.. Richard Goerdeler, of New York, is |
writing up the Northern Pacific country for /
the purpose of inducing German immigra- |
ton.
Ninety six of one hundred ewes belonging |
60 Goodale Bros, of Meagher county, had
lambs this spring, and only two of the lambs
were lost.
A band of ten Piegans planned a raid on
Cree ponies near Fort Walsh, but the Crees
got onto their racket and killed nine of the
ZEN Piegans.
John Hiner from Deadwood, was drowned
While attempting to cross the Yellowstone in
skif on the oath ult. His body has not
,een recovered.
The columns of the last issue of the Dillon
Tribune are filed to repetion with remon-
frances against the removal OF the county
eat from Dillon to Glendale. A petition IL
n circulation for thesubmission of the oues-
ion to the voters at the next general cleo
ion.
The railroad builders at Cabinet Landing.
earring that the poll tax in Montana is ten
D twelve dollars, are paying their taxes in
IDAHO in large numbers, before crossing the
me- Of course there is no truth in the re-
ort, but 1t is vastly to the benefit of the
Major Armstrong, the new agent of the
rows, denies the statement made by a num-
er OF Territorial papers that lie had ordered
squaw men" off the reservation. In letter
the Agaat Courier the Major says II did
OF come Ass;e to civilize white men, and so
Ill be just as severe as the law will permit
pom all such rs are so low down that thew
e willing to follow the camp and live in d
pee; but any white man who is legally
arried to an Indian woman, and who will
title down and live in a house and make
home for his family as a white man should
Ill not be molested by me-
1890
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