The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-06-02
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
Building is brisk in Virginia City.
Glendive has 81 100 draught team.

Glendive has 81, 100 draught team.
Bozeman public schools close June 9th'
EFT. Marston, of Benton, advertises his
wife.
The Missoulian has boom in new adver-
tisements.
A Chlnaman named All Sun died in Butte
last week.
The Billings Herald is announced to appear
next week.
Diphtheria is now raging in the Bitter
Root valley.
A 70 ton concentration is to be erected at
the Bell smelter.
The Butte base ball club will be formally
organized this week.
Dillon people are annoyed by hungry and
dead-broke pilgrims.
The Husbandman seems to think the Maid
en- boom has busted.
It is said the River Press will soon begin
the issue of daily edition.
Montana stockmen are investing heavily
In thoroughbreds this year.
The county seat question is agitating the
towns of Bsaverhead county.
James A. Ferrel, an early day Montanian,
died at Hayden On the 18th inst.
Reilly, deserter from Assinaboine, was
captured In Benton last Monday.
The Christians of White Sulphur Springs
talk of building q church edifce. -
About twenty-five placer claims are being
worked in the Maginnis country.
The Sadie Greeley Comedy Company play
ed two nights in Dillon this week.
Alder Gulch placer mines are yielding
| about 5000 worth Of dust per week.
The Government appropriation for Vel
lowstone improvements this year is $4,000.
Major Turner will establish n cattle ranch
near Benton, for raising thoroughbreds.
The Ripon colony will build new town
on the Yellowstone and call 1t Gladstone.
Patrick Flaherty was seriously injured at
Mulan tunnel Tuesday by premature blast
A man named Partridge had his right foot
badly crushed by the cars at Coulson last
week.
VIM. Stooltz, otherwise known as "Dutch
Bill" died in drunken fit at Billings last
| week.
A young man named Smith was accident
| ally shot fatally in Billings couple of weeks
| since.
Calamity Jane" is now living on a ranch
on Graveyard bottom, in the Yellowstone
country.
A one-eighth interest in the Sun Dorg at
| 4, h.a q avail
for $500.
| Montana Jim, of Miles City, sold a st.
Paul man twenty-five hundred buffalo hides
last week.
The placer diggings of Devoll, Timbly g.
Co., near Bannack, prospect from rs cents to
81 per pan.
The woman who was the innocent cause of
the recent murder at Glendale, was married
last Sunday.
The old Dan Woodlands ranch in the Bit
ter Root valley has been bought by L. M.
Davis for $1,000.
Mrs. w. J. Shelton, sister to Superintend-
ent Towne, of the Central Pacific, died in
Butte last Tuesday week.
TO. Adkins died suddenly at Hamilton
last Sunday. Heart disease was supposed to
be the cause of his death.
j. +. Howell attempted suicide at Bozeman
last week by cutting his throat. He couldn't
stand the pain, however.
JEFF Burgess, Dillon blacksmith, was
thrown from horse last week and both
Bones of the left leg broken.
The Lion mine, near Cataract, owned by
e. NJ. Gregg, has been sold by him to J. J,
Wagner, of Butte, for $1,000.
Harvey Ely, lately Of Salem, NO., cut off
his right foot last Tuesday while chopping
wood in the park near Butte.
Bitter Root Presbyterians talk of calling
Rev. NJ. L. Cook, late of Missoula, to minis
ter to their spiritual natures.
All squaw men are to be removed from the
Crow reservation, in accordance with the
edict lately issued by the agent.
Cora, the little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. w. Stapleton, of Butte, died in Salt Lake
last week Of typhoid pneumonia.
The residence Of @. G.. Evans, of Helena,
was burglarized last week, but the thieves
got nothing except some eatables.
Josiah Nichols has resigned his position
as commissioner of Custer county and Rus
sell Briggs is appointed to the place.
According to the local editor of the hide
pendent, a Helena man has invented flying
machine that bid, fair to be success.
An old man named Berkshire, was struck
by an express train near Keith a few days
| ago and had his right arm and left leg bro
| ken.
Dawson and Custer counties, Montana,
| ordered one bill of printing lof blanksl from
| the st. Paul Pioneer-Press amounting to
| 81 600.
A cattle herder named Hoganl had both
bones in his forearm broken last week at
South Fork by being thrown from an unruly
horse.
An unknown man, sheep herder for
Street Bros, near Bozeman, was found dead
in his tent the other day, having committed
suicide.
Clarke's Fork stampeders. expect that a
large city will be built at the head Of Soda
Butte creek. There is said to be fine town
site there.
Ore from Butcher & Knapp's late discovery
at Argenta assays, from clear across 15-foot
face, ZIG ounces silver per ton and fifty per
cent. lead.
J. NJ. Cook, Of Bozeman, is under arrest on
the charge of grand larceny, having appro-
priated and sold quantity Of goods belong
ing to j. Ellis.
The Helena physicians found 1t necessary
to amputate the feet of Nicholas Redwood,
who was badly frozen last winter while car
rying mail to Lincoln Gulch.
A postofice has been established ut Flat
head Agency, with L. G. Tuott rs postmas-
ter. Baron O'Keefe also has an office at
the entrance to O'Keefe canon,
Archbishop seghres, Of Oregon, win visit
Cenr dAlene Mission on the 10th of June
and 1t IL thought he will make tour through
Montana, which Is in his diocese.