The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-03-31
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

| Chotean county has go Irish voters.
The game of chess Is prevailing in Helena.
Steps are being taken to incorporate Mis-
soula.
The Butte City pound is full of confiscated
dogs.
A new Catholic church is to be erected in
Butte.
Twenty-four telephones are now in use at
Butte.
The Big Hole country is under three feet
Of snow.
Miles City had $500 st. Patricks Day cell
ebration.
Jeremiah Pambrum died at the Old Agency
last week.
A Helena man won si,O4o at faro last Fri
day night.
Sheriff Healy has got back to Benton from
Milk river.
The Butte Inter Mountain was one year old
on March 2lst.
a lodge of Good Templars is in contempla-
ton in Benton.
A number of Maine men are settling in
Meagher county.
Butte has a fortune teller, lately from Deer
Lodged. J. Schraier.
DR. A. NJ. Todd, of Stevensvile, is down
with the scarlet fever.
Reports from the Southern Montana cattle
ranges are not favorable
1t costs SIC per minute to operate the Union
Pacific and its branches.
The Congregationalists of Butte contem-
plate building church.
Several horses on the Helena and Benton
stage line died of "pink-eye."
The postotfice at Gardenland, Meagher
county, has been discontinued.
John Caplice refuses absolutely to become
a candidate for mayor of Butte.
move looking toward town incorpora-
ton Is being made ut Missoula.
j. W. Bowman and Lizzie NJ Scott were
married in Benton, March 18th.
The --latest Out" mine in the "Tex" dis
trict has been bonded for $4,000.
A 20-stamp quartz mill and two smelters
are to be erected in Alder gulch.
Ed. B. Lamme, of Bozeman, has the pio-
neer windmill of GallatIn county.
The Shelton silver mine in the Elkhorn
district has been bonded for 5000.
Contractor j. J. Smith, of the Northern
Pacific, died near Bedford Tuesday.
Assays of ore from the Collar mine at
Vaudeville run over $500 per ton.
Mrs. Sarah Jones, of Springville, Utah.
wants information of her son, Gamer T.
Jones.
Woodville is the name of a new town Just
laid out in the Park, and is six miles from
Butte.
There are unpaid claims amounting to 5000
for the Utah and Northern right of way into
Butte.
There are 80 leads located in the Maiden
vile mining camp and everybody is hard at
work.
Alta Montana was quoted in New York
on the 18th at s1.J0, which shows a slight de-
cline.
Eph. Woolsey, at one time of Benton, was
murdered at Sand Point, Idaho, on the Dist
utimo.
Louis Hoffman has withdrawn from the |
employ of Kleinschmidt & Bro. in their Ben
ten house,
The total dividends paid to date by the |
Hecla Mining Company at Glendale amount |
to S327 800.
The work of demonstrating the collapsed |
Miners Union Hall ut Butte will soon be |
commenced.
John Means and J. s. Burns travelled on |
snow shoes from Gibbonville via Big Hole |
to Corvallis In twelve days. They became |
snow blind on the way, but luckily struck a
ranch where they were cared for.
A Bitter Root Indian named Charlie Paul
was recently killed near Bridgville by COM
panion, half-breed named Alec, the muir
der being committed to get possession of
Charles property-a pony or two.
Ed. McKiernan, at one time engaged in
business in Helena, has been tried in Nevada
for forgery and sent to the penitentiary. He |
was clerk for Indian Agent Howe, and the
forgeries were committed in that office.
Louis Rumfield, better known az EVA
Walla Louis" was frozen to death Saturday
last between Gregory and Wickes He had
imbibed too much liquor and got lost in n
storm. He was German, about forty years
old.
Gebauer, Horton & Co. are about to build
in Helena planning mill and sash aud door
factory. 1t will be forty by sixty feet and
two stories high. The firm has also contract
ed to furnish the power for running the cleo.
trio light machinery.
1t is announced by letter from Harry
Emery to a Montana friend that he contem-
plates playing in this Territory the coming
summer with a company of his own. He is
at present leading man in Nellie Boyd's com
pany, now in California.
A discussion of the religious questions of
the day was held at Saesville last Friday by
Rev. George Comfort, of the Bozeman Meth
odist church, and A. G. Tidball, school
teacher at upper West Gallatin and an active
member of the Liberal League
Enos Anderson, alias Frank MARITIME. who
biiked Helena people recently, is a bigamist
He has wife and three children in Austin,
Illinois, and a wife and two children in Salt
Lake. He also left Helena in company with
u woman whom he passed off as bis wife,
A Grand Rapids, Iowa, paper says that
about 900 lonia county people will follow
Horace Greeleys advice and 60 west when
spring opens, Montana being their destina-
ton. Several families from Muskegon,
Mich, will emigratr to Montana at the same
time.
The HissoultdR says rumors are current of
the establishment of Republican paper in
and adds that, under it's present
the Missoulian will neither be-
come Republican paper nor be forced into
the Democratic fold. 1t will 20 on attending