The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-07-21
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Mullan Tunnel Ii In $40 feet.
There is talk Of erecting wooden min ut
Billings. ~sss st.
white Sulphur Springs has too many dogs
for comfort. ~
Miles City had three iucirient confiagra-
lions last week. q s s
A Miles City gambler was robbed Of $500
in Forsythe last week.
About tifty buildings are In course of con-
strucsion In Miles City.
VIM. A. Baillie-Grohman author Of Clamps |
In the Rockies" Is In Butte.
The Territorial Democratic Committee |
will meet August LIST in Butte.
A large number of valuable dogs have been |
poisoned In Virginia City lately.
A race for roatisters has been added to the |
programme of fall races ut Missoula. l
1t IL estimated that two million pounds Of
wool will be delivered in Benton this year.
Archbishop Seghers has arrived in the
Territory uia the Northern Pacific from Ore
gon. .-.... - ST.
Montana stock growers have, 1t Is estimat-
| ed, sold about 100000 worth of cattle this
year. .....s ...r . a.-.*. .@@
| Another land slide of 1900 cubic yards Of
earth occurred at the Bozeman tunnel lat
| week. - qr..xg-s e.. -rs#...@ -.@@d
A signal station of the first class will he
established Mt Billings on the first of next
| January. ....n.... -...... .....s -a I'D
The Gazette IL small folio recently estab-
| lished at Fort Macleod. g. +. ID. Wood Is
tn. editor. s &c.. ARG f.
| "Shang" Minturn, who escaped from the
| Jail Mt Miles City few weeks ago, has been
recaptured. #
Gen. Dexter E Clapp, at one time Crow
agent, died on the Goth OF June Mt Yates Gen.
| ter, Kansas. --.5.
Thus far this season eight steamers have
arrived at the head Of navigation on the
Yellowstone.
ED. Platner announces himself as candi-
date for Sheriff of Madison county, to sue
coed himself.
Forty-two thousand sheep all bound for
| Montana, passed through HALEY, Idaho,
few days since.
The Annual Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church Of Montana meets In
Bozeman to-day.
The first marriage In Billings occurred on
July LIST the contracting parties being Law
Ter and Miss Sheen.
Star route witnesses who live west OF the
Mississippi get $3.50 per diem ana lee o'
seven cents per mile.
Old Agency has not had a mail since July
1 Cat ,,f tha
put in an appearances.
Il II rumored the Cree Indians have lately
murdered twenty Mounted Police In the vi
cinity of Fort Walsh.
The store of Taylor & Greenwood at For
sythe was robbed one night recently OF vaiu'
ab!es worth over 81 900.
Ten thousand dollars were offered for one
of the Bannack gold quartz mines last week
but the offer was refused.
1t has been decided to build an Episcopal
Church in Missoula, and 5000 have already
been raised for the purpose
Itis IN contemplation to levy special tax
a, White Sulphur Springs for the purpose Of
enlarging the school building.
Frederick Breithenbucher died in Butte
last Monday at the age vt eighty years he
has lived In Montana since 1866.
Il II il rumored ut Poplar Creek that the
Crees are trying to form combination VIII
the Gros ventres to defy U. 5. troops.
Mis- McGreig, of Centreville, was shot in
the shoulder last Friday by the careless hand
ling Of pistol by Richard Patterson.
While engaged In playful scuf1e with {
frieni few days ago, Nose Morrison, o.
Lion City, had one Of his leg. broken.
A tight-rope walker was badly hurt a
! wickes Monday evening by his rope break
ing and letting him fall thirty-fve feet.
John 8. Mills will act a. local editor Of thu
Inter Mountain during the absence Of Mr.
, | r .ad ut the Denver Mining Exposition.
A white mans body was picked up In tn
Missouri near Grand Island last week Nc
| papers were found to show the mans name
The Benton building association continue
| to buy lots and build houses, showing goo'
| success Deer Lodge should have siinila
inst tition.
On the night Of the 9th In Miles City, W
Brooks, q darkey, whacked a soldier nance
r Fisher over the head with club and crack
ed his skull. Eas.
Y .Billy the Bird Boy" whoever that ma
y be, was a passenger on the steamer Big Hor
ON her last down trip, ami fell overheard an
= was drowned. ...
!, A number of workmen ut Mullan tunps
struck last week tor an Increase Of wagt
,. from s270 10 S. per day. They were paid o.
= aid discharged. r.asq@a.truE
For allowing the water from his irrigatin
: d tch to overflow the public highway, j. L
!, PIT. hsr, Of Galiatin County, was last wee
: fine so and costs. 7#
Thomas Nolan, who was taken to the TIE
J, ritorial insane asylum couple Of weeks ag
from Benton, proved to be an escaped iun'
q tic from that place. #t
a T er il trouble brewing between the
h dams of Cypress and the Canadian Pasih
d the former objecting to timber being cut
It the head Of the mountain. IA sfs.a
"A jacob Stuart. n teamster, was shot in Il
i breast last week ut Miles City, but does u
n KIN W who did It, He was drunk at the tan
J. and, consequently, was not fatally hurt
- Lieutenant Commander II. III. G Orring
who brought the obelisk from Egypt 10 n.
!. York, was In Billings the other day In q
% interest of asyndieate of German CAPT sali>'
While riding u horse ina race at hi Vim
o on ths 4th, Clarence q. Tophffe was tn. os
,r against the judges stand. and received p
If ries which resulted In his death within . -
10 hours. . .sssSsa 7A
John simpson, who was injured last wee
& In the Tucker Gulch placer mines, near He
10 ena, died In the hospital In that city Tue'
h day, aged thirtysix. He came to Montan
Q In 1864. 4ik
o. Rev. n. NJ. Dnf, Episcopal minister !
sf Helena, has resigned bis passionate on ..
y count OF the ill-health Of his wife, who Is !
New York and fears TO visit the climate {
ID Montana. III
y, G. w. Wilcox, VI Butte, has challenged {
~ K. KsHtrr and G.. buffet, TO q twelve hor