The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-01-13

A colored boy began going tn school in
White Sulphur Springs, whereupon the
white children and their parents kicked up
to withdraw until other arrangements could
be made.
Mr.. VIM. Rowe has growing in his front
yard a Norway maple which Is putting forth
buds and leaves. just ~ IL this were the mer-
nv month of Nav instead of bleak January.
The tree has evidently been fooled by the
lovely weather.-Bentoa Record.
1t il SAID that prominent citizen of Hell
ena has .sworn off" on whisky until the first
palace car is seen in Helena. Some OF his
friends suggest that in less than two weeks
he will be figuring on how much II will cost
to build palace car there.
The best evidence that Montana il having
an open winner is contained in the statement
of all Independent correspondent to the effect
that prairie fires, have been raging In Cho-
teau ana Meagher counties for the past ten
days, doing great damage to the grazing in
| terests.
james Morris, who is confined in the Mis-
soula jail on the charge of killing an Indian
| and who has thus far failed to secure bail for
his appearance at court next June, forwarded
| a petition TO Judge Galbraith this week, re-
questing reduction of his bail bond from
| 81 900 to $4,000.
Incendiarles attempted to burn the town OF
Benton New Years eve, by piling conbu>ti-
| bles thoroughly soaked with coal OIL agai nSt
| a wooden building and then igniting them.
| The blaze waS discovered before 10 had got
much start, and put out The wind wa high
and mad the fire got start the best part of
the town would doubtless have been burned
| There were seventy tx deaths In Helena
| last year, twenty->ix of which were chiidrrn
under five years of age. Diphtheria took OF
nine consumption and cholera infantum tx
| each and heart disease four. There were
three suicides, three deaths from accid nj,
and one person hung. The death rate for the
year was 3O.93 to the thousand.
| Mr.. CbaS Andrieux. one of the trustees of
the General Sheridan Gold and Silver Min
| ing Company. has been in the east for some
| time on the C0mpany's business, and Is ex-
| n" ctrd home again at an early date. One
| chief Object of his visit was the purchase OF
pumps and hoi ting machinery for til. Sh"ri-
dan mine, and Mr.. Jos. Lacaff, the Superin'
tendrnt, has recently been notified that the
machinery has been shipped, and may be ex-
pscted in Butte shortly
After considerable correspondence Mr.. K.
| B. Harrison has succeeded in having the
balance about 81 800 remaining from the ap
| propriation for the erection of the Assay OF
| fee. expended here. 1t will be used for
| building a rick coal and wood house, the
dimensions of which will be sixteen by
twenty-five feet, with iron roof. The con,
| tract was awarded on Mr.. Harrison's recon-
mendations through the Supervising Archi-
tect. to James Mason, who was the lowest
bidder. Work on the foundation has already
ommenced.-Independent
| The holiday Herald probably contained
more articles of agsneral interest than any
of the other holiday papers issued in the
| Territory The table of contents included
the following articles IN. A. NJ. & NJ. A"
| by Francis Pope, 1.-THE Works at Wickrs.
"Silver Creek District" " The Ten Mile and
Vaughn Districts" )" Geographical Names in
Montana" by Alex. c. Botkin, d" Way Up"
by DR. J J. Lesser, Henry Plummer," by
| W. c. Rheim, Our Railroads" by Colonel
J. r. Dodge, - Our True American Policy
by Hon. Cornelius Hedges, " The Music and
Musicians of an Era" by -. w. F." Holt
day Observance" by Rev. r. VI. Duff A
Legal "Reminiscences" by Fl. j.. Ho>mer
" Rosecrans and Garfield at ChIckamauga,'
| bv can ex-armv officer "Gilding the Iron
Age" by " b. Z. H., besides numerous Other
interesting articles.