The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-04-14
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

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DR.. Wells, of Missoula, will sson remove te
Stevensville.
Dr. G. Bryant of Dillon, is going to To-
cate at Missoula.
The net Indebtedness of Lewis and Clarke
county is 119,s0043.
The crops in the Yellowstone valley are al
ready in the ground.
Prairie fires prevail between Benton and
the Snowy mountains.
The President has approved the bill con-
firming the Crow treaty.
A big stampede has set in from Bozeman
to the Crow Reservation.
Gardner s. Co. will put up a smelter In the
Judith the coming summer.
The n. P. authorities promise positively to
reach Coulson by July LIST.
Kinna & Jack are closing out their hard
ware business in Glendale.
We want a Yellowstone Journal.
Are you going TO raise HI?
Guy X Piatt, of the Independent, is recu-
perating at Boulder Hot Springs.
The wind blew at the rate of sixty-two
miles an hour at Custer last week.
The indebtedness of Choteau county is s52,-
$1,000, less So, 1884 in the treasury.
Bird Calfee, the photographers of Bozeman,
has concluded not to go 80 Missoula.
Major w. J. Mccormick, of Missoula, has
two children down with scarlet fever.
Frank MARITIME received notice recently to
skip out of Bozeman, and he skipped.
The Democrats of Butte will hold their
city nominating convention on the 18th.
The net receipts of the Land League ball
| in Helena on ST. P&tricks Day were S4IS.
Joseph A. Hyde has taken position as
cashier of the First National Bank of Butte.
The Westinghouse air brake will be used
on the Utah and Northern passenger trains.
Judge Tattan will deliver lecture before
the Land League at Benton at an early day.
Malcolm Macdonald was robbed of $500
in cheeks and money recently at Miles City.
Jules Ehrick, shot at New Chicago some
time since, is said to be getting well in Butte.
Two gigantic cattle companies have been
organized by Canadians just across the
line.
The wind recently played the deuce with
Eddy, Hammond & Co.'S saw-mill at Weeks
vile.
Mrs Helen Moray, reformed prostitute,
is lecturing in Miles City and other river
towns.
The Coulson line Of steamboats, will be
represented this year at Benton by w. s.
Wetzel.
| Well, that's queer. What has become of all
Of them?
Two thousand five hundred swedes have
arrived in New York destined for Montana
Territory.
Down at Missoula they are beginning to
talk of going to the terminus-of the North
ern Pacific.
There are now on the ranges in Choteau
| county 10000 head of cattle, worth over a
million dollars.
The railroad dyke at Iron Bluff, costing
the n. p. $4,000, has gone out with the ice
and high water
Cboteau county has increased her in
debtedness during the past year to the ex-
| tent of S5,90S4.
SIM Estes has sold his Green Mountain
Morgan stallion to Mr.. Clark, of Meagher
county, for $500.
Mr.. Martin Vivian, of Helena, was mar
ried in Winchester, Ky, March 10Th, to Mrs.
Rachel Mcmillan.
The Presbyterian choir at Helena last Sun
day had six sopranos, two altos, three tenors,
and two bass voices.
The Commissioners of Custer county call
for proposals for furnishing ice to the county
offices this summer.
About one hundred thousand buffalo hides
have been shipped from Glendive during
the month of March.
r. w. Reeves, an old Montanian, died in
San Bernadino, Cal, March 22d, at the age
Of seventy-four years.
The ice broke at Glendive on the 29th ult.
and the whole width of the river moved
towards the Missouri.
Bozeman has preacher, Rev. Joseph
Robertson, whose first broadcloth coat was
made by Andrew johnson.
According to the finer, Butte had twelve
deaths in January, eleven in February, and
ten in March up to the 2lst.
The nomination of Henry j. Armstrong as
agent for the Crow Indians, was confirmed
by the Senate on the 18th ult.
John Landrum lost little boy and Horace
Sexton little girl by scarlet fever last week
Both are Bitter Root residents.
Scotty Jewett, n U. g. N. conductor, who
was severely injured in an accident at Silver
Bow last fall, has returned to duty.
The twelve lots purchased several years
ago in Missoula by Bishop Tuttle for an
Episcopal church site have been sold.
Mrs. Angelique LIE verdure, of Benton, is
great-great-grandmoth Her husband
died thirty-five years ago at the age of 102.
Fred j. Taylor of Butte, offers to furnish
man who will play violin solo with q. D.
Warner, in answer to the latters challenge.
Clarence Earl and John Tuckermap, horse
thieves, and John Mahan, charged with ar
son, escaped from the Butte Jail last Saturday
night.
The contract for operating the direct mail
service between Benton and Fort Macleod,
has been awarded to 1. G. Baker s. Co., of
Benton.
The first stage to Macleod started from Ben
ton on the 9th inst. There was one passen.
ger, Mrs. Haes, who went to marry
rancher.
The proposition of Messrs. Connell and
Jack to build brick building 26xs0 for the
Butte postoffice, has been accepted by the
Department.
utah Johnny" was taken to Bozeman
last week by deputy Marshal Hathaway and
lodged in Jail, accused of stealing horses at
Fort Custer.
Patrick Madigan, an old-time Grasshopper
creek miner, was found dead in his cabin |
near Bannack April I'd. The cause of his |
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