The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-03-10

The River Press thinks the electric light on
Missouri river steamboats, would be good
thing as 1t would enable boats to run on
dark nights, whereas they now have to tie
mp.
Lieut.. Miller, Of the Eighteenth Infantry,
has been promoted to the rank of Captain,
and Second Lieutenant Warwick, Of the
same regiment, to the rank of First Lieuten-
ant.
The Butte Sock Board has been organized
with James A. Talbot as president, j. r.
Clark as treasurer, Mr.. Ellery as secretary,
and George p. Marshall as assistant secre-
tary.
A large party Of officers and soldiers, about
fifty in all, left Assinaboine last week for q
buffalo hunt on Milk river below Assina-
boine where the buffalo are said to be in great
numbers. -
A Miles City meat market has hanging on
its hooks seventeen beeves, all of which have
two inches of fat on their ribs. They have
been starving to death on the winter pastures
of Montana.
Rev. Father Palladino will be absent from
Helena for a few weeks and there seems to
be some doubt of his returning TO that field
Of labor. Father Kamp fills the pulpit dur
ing his absence.
A petition has been circulated in Missouri
valley, asking the county commissioners of
Meagher county to delay action in erecting
county buildings until after the next session
of the Legislature.
Bishop wightman, of the NJ. L. Church
South, died at Charleston, s. c., on the 18th
ult. He was well known to Montanians, as
he was in Helena and had charge Of this
diocese three years ago.
A rich body Of ore has been struck in the
Atlantis mine, at Glendale, which for rich
ness surpasses anything heretofore discover
ed. The new find is in sor of cavern, with
probably $4,000 in sight.
Sam Brunnelle, arrested in Missoula q
couple of weeks since for giving whisky to q
squaw, was acquitted on the ground of in
sanity, whereupon Justice Pomeroy ordered
his committal to the insane asylum.
Eugene Bailey, of the Fort Shaw band, has
deserted. He visited Helena about three
weeks since on leave of absence, met Miss
Of Bozeman, there, the two
were married, and have disappeared.
Prof. w. Egbert Smith has resigned the
postmastership Of Butte and recommended
Lee Mantle as his successor, which recon-
is seconded by large number of
the leading business men of the place.
This is the way the Benton Record gives a
birth notice: "a little halfbreed horse
thief, weighing twelve pounds, was born into
the Nicholson family at Assinaboine on
Sunday night-so Murray informs u.s."
Mrs. Mary J. Custer, of Bedford, Missouri,
wants information of her husband, Joseph
Custer, who came to the mountains last Au.
gust and has not since been heard from
When he left home he was Baptist and a
Mason.
Is it Professor HOWE, Howey, Howe, or
How? That's what puzzles the average man
Is to the correct cognomen of the Superin-
tendent of Public Instructiou.-Auant Ceur-
Ter. His annual report will tell you "Howey"
tbs. Sdbe'
Gallatin county feels good oyer the fact
that an act of the last Legislative Assembly
provides that upon the ratification of the
Grow treaty the portion Of the reservation
in the treaty shall become part
Of Gallatin county.
Last Wednesday at Benton, j ohm O'Conor,
for T. g. Power & Bro, re-
ceived injuries by heavy door slamming on
him. resulting in his death in few hours. He
had been in Montana since 1864 and was
freighter.
The Republicans of Helena have placed the
following gentlemen in nomination for the
city council: First Ward, Daniel Jewett:
Second Ward, G. L. Vawter; Third Ward,
w. II. Gebauer; Fourth Ward, Moses Morris;
Fifth Ward, R. s. Hamilton.
Mr.. Kunz, keeper of the Eleven-Mile
House on Greenhorn, near Helena, while
chopping wood Tuesday, accidentally struck
his six-year-old step-daughter in the forehead
with the AK, inflicting terrible wound. At
last accounts the girl was still living.
The Conference of the Bozeman district of
the M. K. Church was held on the 4th inst
Revs. Statler, Spencer, Andrews, Craven and
Sanford were present. The Conference was
held in Elk Grove school house in West Gal
latin. The next session will be held at Will
low Creek.
The extra cost in mileage for witnesses in
the Lynch case, which will come up this
spring, will amount to half what the county
was asked to contribute toward direct road
to Barker. The distance is forty miles, but
witnesses can not reach here in less than $50
miles. -Husbandmm
Lady visitors to Mullan pass are daily
bringing to town beautiful bouquets Of
spring flowers, gathered from the mountain
sides near the tunnel Last week specimens
tanned were neatly pressed and enclosed in a
note addressed to Vice-President Cakes, New
York-Herdld. .
Messrs. Sieben and SWEET, of Chestnut, have
sold / 900 steers, to be delivered at the round
up, at $50 per head. This lot will consist of
100 four-year.olds and 800 three-year-olds-
the highest price ever paid for that number
of cattle in the Territory. Thirty thousand
dollars is nice little sum to realize in one
year from the sale of the marketable cattle
in a herd of three or four thousand.--Riuer
Press. .r
Structure of the esophagus, or gullet, hav-
ing rendered it impossible for Coleman
Puett, of Sweetgrass, to take any nourish.
ment for several days, the post surgeon at
Fort Ellis where he was receiving treat
ment), assisted by DIR. Monroe, of Bozeman,
made an opening in the patients left side,
below the ribs, and introduced food directly
into the stomach BY means of a rubber pipe.
Mr.. Puett died, however, on the Sd inst.
General N. G. Meigs writes from Wash
ington City to advocate the adoption by
municipal fire departments Of bows and ar
rows with cord and rope, as q life saving an