The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-08-25
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Tberai- n ca Of carl fevrr in Helena. +,
A ca,e of small rox.-ha' deH-Iepea. "
WickTs. 4
Roz.mani,e, count Oh population of H.
COZ for that city.
Butte la, fourteen "MeIican" gambling
houses and four Chinese.
An immense prairie fire II raging In the
vicinity Of Fort Assinaboine. .-r-.-.
Oregon papers report that the Nee Perces
are going on the warpath again.
A demented Sweds is confined in the boze'
man Jail awaiting Identification.
Robt. Savilie, thirteen years old, died OF
diphtheria ut Butte last Saturday.
Glendive has brick yard which is pro-
ducing at the rate Of 20 900 per day
Montana sportsmen should remember that
quail are protected by law until 1885.
Ex-editor Yerkes, of the Billings Post has
opened real estate office In Bozeman.
For the first time in history the potato
crop is short in the Yellowstone valley.
John Smith, of the Muscleshell, was fined
$50 last week for breaking the game law.
The Northern Pacific has got out pam
phlet descriptive of the Maginnis country.
Typhoid fever is raging in Billings, there
being great many people afflicted with II.
Missoula county has three Democratic and
one Republican candidates for the Sheriff
atty
The Helena Turn vereiu society is to have |
summer night feast or open air concert
| soon. .. ~, "HsNH
Butte's last smallpox patient was dis
charged from the pest house last Thursday
week. VIM
VIM. Lebeau, of Missoula, had wrist
crushed under the wheels Of wagon last
week.
Deputy Sheriff Tom Healy is dangerously
| i'll at Benton with an attack Of spasms OF the
heart.
A medicinal spring has recently been dis
covered near Hoppers station, saiiatin
county.
| Frank Woody, of Missoula, has little six
| foot high pear tree which bore sixty pears
| this season.
F.Jay Haynes, photographer for the Mp,
was in Bozema few days since ON his way
to the Park.
There were fully 10000 people in attend
ance at the picnic Of the Butte Miners union
last Sunday.
The Jumpers of the Smokehouse lead at
Butte have relocated 1t under the name OF
the Mystery.
James Riley, proprietor Of the Boulder
Hot Springs Hotel, died of small pox last
Sunday night.
Several large herds of Wyoming cattle
were in Miles City last week awaiting ship
ment to Chicago.
Mr. Guthrie, Miles City butcher, killed
steer last week that had kidney weighing
fifty-fou pounds.
Rev. VIM. Horsfeld is to look after the
spiritual welfare of the Episcopal congrega-
ton of Miles City.
During the gale of Thursday night Of last
week at Helena the wind attained . velocity
Of sixty miles per hour. AL $50
A Northern Pacific track layer, near Bal
lings, had one of his legs broken last week
by being struck with rail.
John McDevitt is candidate for sheriff of
Choteau county, subject to the decision Of
l
George Lang was severely burned on last
Saturday near Butte by the premature sxplo-
sion of a quantity Of powder.
Poplar Grove, near Butte, is to be put up ut
rattle. The valuation set Is $1,000, and 200
tickets at SIS each will be issued.
The Bon Ton saloon at Miles City was bur
glarized last week Of money and property
l hot md
About ninety men and number Of teams
are now employed at the Northern Pacific
coal mines near Benson's Landing.
Company L, Second Cavalry, hss been
, ordered from Milk river to the Sweetgrass
Hills. Captain Howard in command.
, Miles City has discharged its last smallpox
patient from the pest house, and there have
been no new cases for several weeks
, The dividends declared this year by the
Sayres Cattle Company amount to more than
80 per cent Of the original investment.
A new railroad town has been laid out
) three miles below Thompson's Falls, and
canvas buildings are going up rapidly.
The Inter Mountain states that horsemer
|, are in favor Of substituting Deer Lodge fol
Bozeman in the Montana traceJ Circuit.
A postofiice is needed at some point he
tween Missouis and Steyensville, to accom-
modate the numerous residents of that SEQ
ton. ,r
The smallpox patients at Boulder Hot
, Springs are James Riley, John Norm, man
named Rice, and another whose name Is mn
known.
A report reached Helena Saturday that on
the preceding evening Charles Francis Wa
killed near Sheridan by being struck b
( lightning. -
The railroad town Of Rock Island is not q
> pattern Of sobriety. Fifty-two dead drum
men were counted on the street At one tins
, last week @
The Frank Clsave's dramatic company
: played in Missoula last week. They came
| from the west and will probably make tour
r of the Territory. ..aas-gs.-g '~.
A large vein Of coal has been discovered IL
Camp Creek district, within four miles ,o
Melrose. The vein has been traced Ar
miles on the surface. - .9.i
A meeting CT the members OF the But .,
electric light company will soon be held nt
some action looking toward putting the pl .,
in operation DO taken. TTGaFnan
A sheep herder in the employ of Len lie "
. Is, Of Meagher county, has mysteriously dis
. appeared. 1t is feared that he has been ;, ie
! voured by some wild beast
y Miss Kannada, twenty-five years old, di .,
: at the Sisters Hospital, Butte, last Frida .
. This is the lady from whom the large tum o
!, was taken q few weeks ago. If RIA q
VIM. Mclean, one Of the pioneers Of Il ii
s Territory, died in Helena, Sunday. He reach
a ed Bannack in 1868 and moved to Helena Il
; 1866, living there ever since.
Q The Riper Press Office came near being IL
{ stroyed by fire last Sunday week throughth
= explosion of . lamp. A number of valualbl