The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-10-06
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.


Father Van Corp has resumed charge OF
st. Iguatus Mission.
Smith Bros. Of Meagher county, sheared
1000 sheep this year. n y
The Yellowstone Journal was to begin daily
publicatian about the LIST inst. -s.z-z---aa.
The assessment of Beaverhead county this
year will foot up about s2,oOo,OoO. II
District Court for Madison county will
meet at Virginia City on the 10th inst.
An employee of L. g. Fyhrie at Dillon has
invented perpetual motion machine.
The Catholic ladies' of Butte propose to
have fair during the Christmas holidays.
Frank Scar, Republican nominee for Pro
bate Judge of Beaverhead county, declines to
be o candidate. #.i EE .EEE.'.5E
The McCarthys are to appear in Bozeman
the first of the week. They will make tour
of the Territory.
The contract for the Masonic building at
Benton has been let to j. r. Wilton and Jas.
Worrick for $4,000
Superintendent Conger is receiving many
compliments for his efficient management OF
National Park matters.
Butte has juvenile Good Templar's lodge.
The members are pledged not to use liquor,
tobacco, or profane language.
Judge H. N. Mcguire, formerly resident
of Montana, is now publishing the Bee,
sprlghtly daily of Duluth, MINI.
In one round up of the Judith country,
covering one hundred miles of territory,
there are 125, 900 cattle and $4,000 sheep.
Frank Sterry attacked officer McClung at
Miles City one day last week and was shot
and dangerously wounded by the officer
Kitty Carroll, Benton damsel of easy vir-
tue, attempted to commit suicide last week
by taking morphine, but she overdd the bus
mess.
George Leis, a Fort Missouia soldier, made
a second attempt on his life last week by try
| ing to cut his throat. He inflicted an ugly
wound.
John Dolan. who attempted to murder
| Sweet in the Park last year, was sentenced in
| Butte to nine years imprisonment in the PEN
| ltentiary.
Choteau county property this year assess
es half a million dollars more this year than
| last. The cattle assess about $3.50, 900 less
| than last year.
Stephen Edmund was last week elected al
fill the vacancy created by the resignation Of
j. II. Scanland.
| Judge Fox, of Billings, was struck by an
engine on the evening ofSeptember 9th and
received serious fracture Of the skull His
recovery is doubtful
| Tramps called on bartender at White
Beaver last week and after compelling him to
him of $3.50 and left.
On Wednesday Of last week grader nam
ed Berman, while working in Rocky Canon,
near Bozeman, was caved upon by mass of
earth and instantly killed.
Seeley & Kilroy, the contractors at Gross
river, Yellowstone Valley, have suspended.
One of the parties it is reported, having de-
camped with about $4,000.
Miss Flora Cutler who was shot in the
Sweet Grass tragedy, has returned to her
home in Minnesota. She had to be carried
on litter, being paralyzed.
The Silver Bow county Jail is said to be a
disgrace to the county and the grand jury in
its recent report, called attention to the mis-
cradle accommodations afforded
On the 18th ult. King Humbert, of Italy
conferred the decoration of the Crown of
Italy on Col. j. Schuyler Crosby, late consul
ut Florence, and soon to be Montana's COVER
nor.
no. p.,lr oil % ~
Butte, has been captured fifty miles from
Butte on the Boulder. He is Frenchman
named Frank Pettis, and wanted to leave the
country. ae
There was riot at Cooke City, near Boze-
man, last Friday that the local authorities
could not suppress, and a call was made on
Fort Ellis for troops. Town lots and q
| woman caused the trouble.
Kate Mitchell has been divorced from
Charles G. Mitchell by the Butte court, Mary
Q. Peregay from q. p. Persgay, Alvin NJ
Baldwin from Ida NJ. Baldwin, and Leah M.
Parks from VIM. J. Parks. ...... :
On Montana day at the Denver Exposition
some four or five thousand people examined
the display Of ores from this Territory. J.
Ross Clark, of Butte, who was..there, thinks
it will result in great benefit to Montana.
A Swede named Anderson attempted last
week to kill Charles Jones, Glendive gro
ceryman, by the knitting process, he only sue.
ceeded in in inficting slight wound. He
has been jailed and bound over to the next
| term of court.
A man named William Joyce, while en-
gagged on Friday last in killing fish in a
creek near Barker, Meagher county, had one
of his arms shattered by the explosion of a
giant powder cartridge, rendering amputa-
| ton necessary. m Sc s.....-. .. .,t-.......
Harrison Spaulding, of Longmont, Colora.
do, has appeared in Missoula and announced
his intention of publishing Republican pa
per there. He thinks he can get out a mum.
Der or two before election, and will call his
paper the Times.
1 Three grand larcenists were, last Saturday
at Butte, sentenced to the penitentiary
Their names are Clarence Earl, VIM. Will.
Hanson, and VIM. Thompson, the first two
receiving three years sentence and the last
going up for Ave years. 20 ra.
\ Wickersham, the military telegraph opera
tor, who absconded from Bozeman some
weeks since with q considerable sum of mon
ey belonging to the Government, was captur-
ed last Saturday near Glendive and turned
over to the U. s. authorities.
At the Dell section house on Red Rock on
the 18th ult. Richard Stein was thrown or
fell off the upbound train. The wheel of one
OF the cars passed over his left leg, crushing
1t from the knee down. Stein was stealing a
ride at the time Of the acc. dent. a
A man named Henry Lump, at Coulson,
was put ont Of saloon, and getting rife,
shot at N. B. Fabery, who had put him ont,
but missed. Deputy sheriff Henry NJ. Tay-
Tor went to Lumpp's house to arrest him.
when Lump shot him in the side infiicting
. serious wound. The would be assassin Is in
Jail.
A horse which John Longmaid, of Butte,