The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-03-03
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Edward HaskelFS sleigh upset last oata1-
day between Helena and Belmont and he re-
ceived some severe bruises about the breast
and shoulders.
The Record says there Is one man In Ben
ton who il smean enough to rob a church"
The Episcopal church has lost case OF coal
oil by theft.
District Attorney Mayhem was fined 500
for contempt of court at Butte by Judge
Galbraith last Friday. The fine was remit
ted Monday
Bass Brothers farmhouse, up the Bitter
Root took fire one day last week, but the
flames were extinguished before much dam.
age was done.
VIM A. Rumsey has been appointed Under
Sheriff of Lewis & Clark county. In place of
John II. Jefferis, who has become guard In
the penitentiary.
The grand jury Mt Radersburg last week
declined to bring in any Indictment against
VIM. Mcknight, who recently shot Dan Sui
livan at Bedford.
The bucket used in the Hawkeye mine at
Butte fell forty feet down the shaft and strik-
ing John Allen, fractured his collar bone and
injured him otherwise.
An Assinaboine soldier, who last fall broke
| into house at that post, has been sentenced
| to three years confinement In the govern
ment prison at Fort Leavenworth.
Burns Smith, saloon keeper, shot Faris,
gambler, at Junction, Custer county, on the
I'D ult. Faris died in four hours. He had
fired five shots at Smith without any hitting
him.
John Roeber, working ut the Montana
Copper Company's smelter, Butte, was Sc
verely burned about the head and face one
day last week by the explosion Of a barrow
of matte.
G.. X. Thurber, superintendent of the
Tongue river stage line, froze his hands and
feet SO badly last week that probably both OF
his hands and one of his feet will have to be
amputated.
The station formerly kept ut Rock Creek,
on the Helena and Benton road, has been
moved to Wolf Creek. The military telegraph
office will be moved to the same point about
the LIST of March.
A. w. Kingsbury, of Choteau county, with
q brother and other eastern capitalists, has
recently invested 500, 900 in cattle ranch in
Texas, getting 10000 bead of cattle and II
900 acres of land.
In the District Court ut Radersburg last
week the Indictment against George r
Ticknor, for killing a man last year, was
, nollied, because the Territory was unable to
secure its witnesses.
Col A. NJ. Voolfolk, of the Independent,
and A. Jameson, builder of Helena, had 9
slight personal alteration last Saturday Over
some business matters. Friends interfered
and prevented any serious difficulty.
The citizens of Barker lately gave w. A
Cooper, q dentist, a free ride out of the dis
triet, the vehicle being pine pole well GOV
cred with knots The fellow had attempted
to skip out without paying his debts.
''Uncle Jim" vanderburg died at the poo
house near Benton last week and was buriet
in the potter's field. A subscription has sine
been taken up and the body exhumed ant
placed in a neat coffin, and buried in tn
:. cemetery.
a Newton Hedgworth, a sheep-herder on tn
Musselshell, committed suicide at Quincy
! ranch couple of weeks since by shootin
r himself through the head with .50.caIibe
gun. He had considerable property, and til
cause of his act is unknown.
1t Is thought that Benton's new hotel wi
p. be ready for occupancy by the LIST of July.
II circular letter will be addressed to prominer
# hotel men throughout the country, settin
forth the capacity and prospects of the hote
q. and inviting proposals for furnishing an
,r running it.
e. The Butte grand jury declined to bring an
indictment against Michael Carroll, VIII
MORALLY wounded Bosanko couple
n weeks since. The Cinnamon charged vii
h. conspiracy to extort money from anoth
10 Chinaman who was running a laundry, we
to also discharged.
h A soldier named Cornell attempted TO raj
or little girl named Felicia Kirst, eleven yea
be old, at Fort Shaw, last Monday, but was pl
1T vented by the opportune arrival of the CIR
I'm aunt. The man was arrested and will
re court-martia led, with a fair show of going
III prison for five years.
oe A Walkerville correspondent of the Min
says: 81 notice in the daily papers hume
ous cases of death from pneumonia. If pc
sons who feel the symptoms of the disea
coming on, such as fsver with pains In t
~ breast, ETC., will take sagebrash tea plen
- fully, it will cure any case"
he The butchers of Helena have formed thel
he selves into an association for the purpose
af unity of action and mutual protection agaiI
by deadheads and professional bilks. A reco
1t is to be kept of all those who make pr
he tice of running from one shop TO anotf
he without paying their bills ut either
up There has been trouble between the wor
ans men and superintendent ofthe Legal Tend
wo mine at Clancy, and several men have be
,ar discharged. The managers claim that
ny miners wanted to run the mine to suit the
his selves, but were not allowed to do so. I
,se miners claim that payday (the 10TH was NJ
Sc, lected, that on the 2ist they appointed
he spokesman to see about the pay that the nj
not day they were paid but the spokesman "
BILE discharged, and that they proposed to sti
!. by him.
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