The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-02-24
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

DlSIrlct court II IN seSsiOn III nauefsourB
Lee w. Foster, of Butte, In very iii in CALI
fornia.
Walter Eddy, jailer at Butte, died last Fri
day night.
Butte now claims population of between
1000 and 5000.
There are twenty-si members of the Butte
minstrel troupe.
Frank Strong, of Benton, lost horse last
week by pink-eye.
The Episcopal church of Helena has
choir of young boys.
A colony of $50 Missourians contemplate
settling near Benton.
The Ma~ons of Miles City are about to
build a hall 24x6o feet.
Work on the Bozeman Pass Tunnel began
on Monday, Goth inst.
Big Spring Creek district has voted $4,000
tax for school house.
The District Court for Jefferson county j.
in session Mt Radersburg.
Frank Brown was robbed of $500 Mt Coul-
son couple of weeks ago.
Geo. Sanborn, of Bozeman.
An Endowment Rank of knights of Pyth
las will b. formed in Butte.
An electric light tower il to be erected In
Butte for illuminating the city.
Miles City took in sl75 in licenses from
commercial travellers in one day.
Samuel sprck has leased the Ren>haw
opera house, Butte, for one year.
John Book was found dead in his tailor
shop in Benton last Friday. Whisky.
Jesse TAYLOR, of Helena,is reported to have
married a Miss Van Deran in Missouri.
w. b. Harlan, of Bitter Root valley, will
set out 600 fruit trees the coming season.
A hotel containing 800 rooms and costing
$50 900 Is to built in the National Park.
The Western Union Telegraph has doubled
its rates between Glendive and st. Paul.
Eddy Taylor, a Helena boy, fell and broke
his arm at Holter's planning mill last satur-
| day.
Joseph Rosenthal, of Butte, WIS recently
| married in San Francisco to .diss Rosie
| Hirsch.
| A branch Land League with fifty members
has been organized at Hughes City, Barker
| district.
A wood chopper named Anderson had
both feet frozen in the Park last Wednesday,
| 10Th inst.
DR. Baxter Todd has been elected and in
stalled Elder of the Presbyterian Church at
| Stevensville
The Benton Record turned its column rules
in respect to the memory of Colonel George
| Clendennin, Jr.
Seventeen telephone instruments have been
ordered for Butte and il is expected one hun
dred will he required.
| building in Butte. Specifications have been
received from New York.
Thos. Williams, Missoulas County Treas
urer, will go into the dry goods and clothing
business on the LIST of April.
| The new counting room of the Bozeman
Courier Is said to be one of the most elegant
and commodious in the West.
w. S Evans. near Benton, will this year
| try the experiment of raising crop on the
bench land without irrigation.
The Indians at Fort Belknap last year
raised $500 worth of vegetables more than
they required for their own use.
| Much suffering was experienced by travel
| ers during the recent cold snap, especially on
the stage routes on the east side.
In January 1887 ,44s pounds of freight
were received at Glendive; and since the
middle of July 100, AL ,466 pounds.
The new amalgamators 70: use at the Glos-
ter have been received by the Boston s.
Montana Gold Mining Company.
1t is reported that two colonies, one of 800
Scotch families and the other of 400 German
families, will locate near Glendive.
An old harsa naw dains ss-~io~ a Hell
ena delivery wagon is pioneer in the gulch,
having been there for eighteen years.
A Congregational church IL to be organ
lied In Butte by Rev. James Z. Smith, who
will arrive from Massachusetts this week.
Last Sunday Spanish Frank" frank Mon
tigo) aged fifty-six years, died at the county
hospital, Helena. The complaint WAS asthma
James Keegan, of the Barker district, has
lieved that he got lost and was frozen to
death.
A complimentary benefit will be rendered
Miss Helen Florence Mt Renshaw's opera
house in Butte on the Sd prox. by the Libra
ry Club.
p. II. Conger, the new National Park su-
perintendent, Is a distant relative of Judge
nf tI.. n. .rl
Montana.
The citizens of the Barker district will
wear badges of mourning for thirty days in |
respect to the memory of the late Col Geo
Clendennin.
The school teachers of Lewis g. Clarke
county are requested to convene in Teachers
Institute at the Helena graded school build.
ing April 3D..
The work on the Bozeman tunnel IL being
pushed a. rapidly AZ possible. The approach
- TO be cut on each side will BIZ 500 or GOO
feet long, with face Of about six feet
Galiatin Ne,cs
ball supper was attached at Helena last
week for a debt Of the caterer, but friends
came to the rescue SO that the guests wer.
not disappointed
An attempt was made to fire the barn of
y. II. Webster, Helena, last Monday night.
Web" would like to take sketch of the
How with club.
Nelson Shields, accidentally shot at White
sulphur Springs on the 18th, has had a leg
~ result of his carelessnesss In
handling pistol.
u Is reliably stated that Butte mine own
RS who are In town are contemplating put-
! ng up 2ostamp mill In the Ten Mile dis.
IL Is reported that ten engines of the Utah
Northern company were wrecked while
rying to raise snow blockade near the
fonda divide, Utah.
Billy Gaylan AMI Tom Gallagher had n
title knitting affair In Butte last Saturday
aorning, In which the latter received s.v.r.