The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-06-30
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Samuel Neel, of Murphy, Neel & Co., is
quite i'll at Helena.
The Helena electric plant is en- route to its
| destination up the river.
The name Of Garfield postoffice in Nilsson
Ia county has been changed to Victor.
Bud Ford and two other men lassoed big
buffalo bull on Sun River a few days ago.
Henry Renfrey was severely injured in the
Magma Charta at Butte, last week, by a big
| cave.
Paris Gibson has bought eighty lots in a
| ne " addition to Benton, paying So, 200 for
them.
Charley Reed has discovered a ninefoot
vein of coal near Reeds Fort in the Judith
Basin.
"A lodge of Knights of Pythias, with twen-
ty-one charter members, has been organized
In Benton.
Colonel Ilges is now on his way up the
Missouri to assume his new command of Fit.
Assinaboine.
Judge Loeber, of Butte, and Miss Ella
Otto, of Yankton, were married in Butte last
Sunday night
The town laid out On the Yellowstone by
the Ripon colony is called Westbrook, and
not Gladstone.
Postmaster j. Fl. Taylor, of Bozeman, was
recently married to Miss Nettie Ray, an &C
complished lady.
Prof. Clayton has volunteered to take
charge of Montana's mineral exhibit at the
Denver exhibition.
A tenderfoot in Miles City sold fine
shepherd dog the other day to Montana
cattle king for 500.
The Journal says that 100000 head of cattle
will be shipped from Miles City to eastern
markets next month.
A Bentonite threw a stone through the
Jail window in that town last week and paid
$40 for the privilege.
The cattle corral near Fort Buford, which
had capacity of holding 1000 cattle, was
burned on the night of the 10th.
Major Young has 5000 Indians in his care
at Blacbfoot Agency. They eat fifteen beeves
and 40 sacks Of -four every week.
Thomas Sampson, on the Shonkin, counts
va ha"a hSoh5 ctooV lutit Vi
this summer, raised in his own garden.
Hay Brothers of Arrow Creek have shear
ed 800 sheep this month which yielded an
average of seven pounds of wool each.
There having been good deal of dispute
as to the boundary line between Montana
and Wyoming, it Is to he resurveyed this
fall.
The commissioners of Gallatin county have
bought 1G0 acres of land, q mile and half
from Bozeman, for poor farm. Price paid
was "a 900.
Rev. r. M. Duff, Episcopal minister at
Helena, has gone east for the summer and
there is possibility that he will not return
to Montana.
party of $50 Bloods- rode through Fort
Walsh recently, firing guns and whooping,
much to the alarm of the residents No dam
age was done.
Four companies Of Fort Assinaboine
troops have been stationed at the mouth of
Rock Creek to protect the border from In
dian incursions.
In celebrating the Fourth at Butte Rev. j.
K. Smith will deliver the Grafton and Geo.
G. Randolph, Esq, will read the Declaration
of Independence.
A little boy named Griffith was run over
by a heavily loaded wagon, driven by his
father, in Butte last week, and terribly crush
ed. He died Saturday.
The first baby born in Billings saw the
light on the 18th inst, and is the son of d.
r.. In Al
event the babe was called Josh Billings.
In crossing Clarke's fork of the Columbia,
Land Commissioner Lamborn, of the North
ern Pacific, and his travelling companions,
got a ducking by the upsetting of their
skiff.
A colored banjo player left Benton for
Maiden two weeks ago, and has not been
seen since. He is believed to have been
drowned while trying to cross the Judith
river.
1t is reported from Benton that Major j.
w. Patrick, who brought Missouri colony
up the river this spring for the Barker dis
trict, was found dead in his cabin at Barker
day or two ago.
Frank Marengo, at one time interpreter at
Fort Missoula, was murdered on the Jocko
reservation June 2lst by half-breed named
Koonsa. A reward of 500 Is offered for the
murderer's arrest.
While attempting to cross the river at Iron
Rod on a temporary foot-walk, few days
ago, workman, name unknown, fell into
the river and was drowned. At last ac-
counts the body had not been recovered.
While riding from Maginnis to Maiden,
Charles Buchanan, of Benton, got too near
the business end of government mule-one
of the kind you read about, and as a result is
laid up with broken arm and other bruises.
The FIRST National Bank of Miles City has
been organized, with Joseph Leighton as
president and Richard E. Flower cashier.
Capital, $4,000; authorized capital, $3.50, O0O
The capital will be increased to 100000 by
October.
Col. f. G. Deimling, of Virginia City, who
sustained permanent disabilities from wounds
received during the war, has secured back
pension dues amounting to 81 600, and here
after during life becomes entitled to regu-
Lar pension of $50 month.
TANK AnureWs, clerk OF sands q BOyce,
Butte, was found last week to have been
stealing dry goods from his employers, Civ
ing them to lady friend. He was allowed
to go free on returning the goods. He and
the damsel were then married and left for
the South.
Daniel McHugh, who in company with
james Tiff, recently escaped from the Hell
ena Jail, murdered man near Fit. Maginnis
year ago and ran off lot Of stock belong
ing to government surveying party has
been captured at Ft. Maginnis and sent to
Helena for trial.
A man known as French Joe was pretty
badly used mp in an encounter with bear,
near Benson's Landing, last week. 1t ap-
pears that he was creeping up to some deer,
when q bear suddenly sprang upon him from
a clump OF bushes He managed to escape
by feigning himself dead, but not until he
had been badly bruised and mangled by the
ferocious beast.
On Sunday Hotter Bros, of Helena, re-
rar al n fa1a