The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-12-29
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
Tho total receipts Of the Catholic FAIR At
Butte were s., 500.
There have been go miles Of railroad built
in Montana this year.
stevensville has temperance society with
seventy-fve members.
A house In Miles City was DESTROYED by
fire last week. Loss $500.
whsa. went up to si.so at ssevensvins last
week from some local cause.
Montana has this year produced ~ much
as 81, ooo, 600 in gold and silver.
The Yellowstone Lodge A. y. and A. NJ,
Miles City, has been organized.
A lodge of Odd Fellows is to be organised
at Stevensville on the 18th Of January.
Beaverhead county has seventy-three per-
sons and firms that pay taxes Of ever sleo.
Diphtheria has made its appearance among
the children of Glendive and several deaths
are reported.
Missoula will ask the Legislature for per
mission to borrow sle,ooo to build brick
| school house.
The Shakespeare Parrot copper mine, at
Butte, has been sold by Wm. Parks to
Franklin Farrell for s30,oeo.
A man named Burley was shot and killed
| by James Emerson at Livingston Sunday
week The cause seems to be unknown.
There have been AZ many As 10000 Mon
| tana cattle sold in the eastern markets this
| year and fully 5000, 900 pounds of Montana
wool.
.. From the LIST Of May until the 20fh Of De-
cember, city wood measurer. Colston, meas
ured 1913 cords Of wood on the streets Of
Helena.
James Hayes, herder, was kicked in the
head by horse on December I'd, and died in
the Billings hospital last week from the in
jur:es received.
The Billings Herald has received call FROM
Calamity Jane, and she gave the editor a
piece of her mind for certain remarks he had
made about her.
| An incendiary attempt TO burn the
Schmasle building in Miles City, WAS made
last week The flames were subdued before
much damage was done.
The Ness has ceased existence at Bozeman;
the outfit has been removed to Livingston,
and c. X. Carson, A. G. Carson and J. W.
Allen are there running the Gazette.
| The Montana friends of General "WhAck"
RYAN, who was one Of the Virginius victims,
will be Interested in knowing that the Presi-
dent has approved n joint resolution author
izing the payment of a portion Of the Vis-
cinius indemnity fund to General Ryans
mother
While hunting in the mountai n near Bra-
yer creek, recently, A. Il. Byrd came across .
mountain lion, which had killed fine fifteen
point buck (ifteen points on each side) Mr..
Byrd drove the lion away and secured the
bucks head rs a trophy. At the same time
he killed large cinnamon bear, which he
caught in trap,
James Warner, while driving a log team
into Helena last Tuesday, neglected to lock
his wagon at a slippery place on a side-hill,
and the hind wheels swung round and en-
countered boulder; the wagon was upset,
and Warner was crushed almost out Of the
semblance of man. He was about thirty-twe
years old and recently from Virginia.
The citizens OF Merrill have organised q
vigilance committee and are determined to
put stop to terrorism in that town An at
tempt was made a few evenings since to hang
a character known as Black Mike, but hs goi
away from them. He had been doing little
burglarizlng and highway robbery. A vig
lance committee has also been organi Fed a,
Clark city.
Somebody attempted to blow up Frank
woodys residence at Missoula, last Sunday
night, by throwing bomb loaded with buck
shot into the hall. The bomb exploded, bu
did little damage Phillip Reuss has beef
arrested, charged with the attempted crime
and it is understood that the evidence agains
him Is pretty strong. He is an eccentri,
character, and thought, by many, to b
insane.
J A Park street house, In Butte, was burnss
} Wednesday night of last week. The hous,
: was elegantly furnished, and during the fir'
the hoodlums worked their best to see how
, much they could destroy. The legs ant
pedals of q fine piano were knocked on
with axes, carpets torn to pieces, pier glssse
, and plate.glass windows smashed. The los
, IL from $500 to 5000, which, however, i
= covered by insurance.
Jacob kenck, q prominent brewer o
Helena, was shot at noon last Friday by hi
) fatber-in-law, Henry Formau, and died abou
o'clock the same evening. 1t Is suppose,
that Forman had become somewhat d.
ranged over the death of his daughter som
| ri hoo A.a ,ha 10
> that she would not have died if she had no
married Kenck until he felt compelled to TAX
revenge on his son-in-law.
Joseph Haskiu. Of Miles City, was badl
:, frozen last week, both feet being in a terribl
condition. He was taken to town. He ha
:. been In town couple of days previous pui
chasing supplies for the camp Of wood-chop
pers where he was working. He s.arse
home on the same day and when about fou
l. or FIVE miles from town got lost and wa
$ forced to lay out all night. The doctor
s think they will be able to avoid amputatio
of the feet.
The report Of General A. D. Hazen, thir
T. assistant postmaster general, adds sing
item in the many evidences cited shown
II Montana to stand in the front rank OF TER
tones in the magnitude of postal bushes
% transacted. In registered letters and parce
~ transmitted through the Montana mails Il
d the year the number is stated at 81 ,3i0, beir
an increase. compared with the precsdir
r. year. of 1858. The percentage of gain is nj
exceeded by any Of the Territories, excel
" Dakota and New Mexico, while only Dako
l.. leads in the number of letters and parcs
registered and transmitted. Other statistic
and data show Montana in the lead of mo
. OF her Territorial neighbors.
The Inter Mountain of Butte contains ii
r. following: A countryman displayed in
!. wagon on the streets this morning some
=, the most curious and gigantic fish bones ev,
discovered. He had found them, he said,
d the Belt range Of mountains, and only asks
~ a IL r.. TT