The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-05-12
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Choteau county has $40 Irish voters.
The Mullan tunnel has reached depth of
5i5 feet.
III. Pittman is in Jail at Bozeman on q
charge of forgery.
1t is rumored that Helena will be visited
this season by Robinson's Circus.
The Methodists of Bohemian have planted
row of trees in front of their church.
Tom Irvine, Sheriff of Custer county, has
three months old cinnamon bear for pet
Col. q. J. Nesbitt, of Plattsburg, Mo-, is on
his way to the Barker district to start anews-
paper.
Richard Edward and Frank Adams have
been sentenced to the penitentiary for one
year by the Bozeman court.
The Helena young folks have organized a
lawn tennis and croquet club and are fitting
up the old skating rink for the sports.
A new postofice, called Stanford, has been
established on Wolf Creek near Antelope
Buttes, and Robert Robley appointed post
| master. ~
Mr.. J. II. Moe, Register of the Land Office
| at Helena, has forwarded his resignation of
that position to Washington to take effect
June 30, 1882.
Captain George L. Browning, of the Sew.
enth Infantry, died in Paris, France, on the
| Sd inst. He was stationed at Fort Shaw for
q number Of years.
j man was found drowned forty miles
above Glendive recently, supposed to be a
Il bod
an account book with Miles City and Boze-
man accounts and q letter addressed to I. J
Patterson. -saE#
| Aman in Benton last week sold band Of
cattle for s24, OO0 and has plenty Of money
besides. In 1866 he was very poor and came
near being lynehed because he was charged
by another man with stealing cattle. The
pleading of his wife saved him.
April 3Oth, in Glendale, a man named Da
| vid Eckery was shot and killed by young
man named Joseph Kessler. Eckery was ex
| tremely Jealous of his wife and especially Of
any attention on the part of Kessler, threat.
ening to kill him. On the evening in ques
tion the two met and quarrel resulted in the
tragedy. Kessler has been arrested.
The Post publishes in its last issue the fol.
i lowing legend about Coulson: The Indians
| call this place "Skull Rock owing to the
fact that in the high hill near the cemetery is
buried about 800 Indians, they having died Of
smallpox in the timber near town. -Four
young braves at the same time blindfoldesl
their ponies and rode over the precipice in
| commemoration; the Indians who accompa.
| MED them went to the rocks and wept bit
terly.
/ When your canaries are moulting and cease
to sing, do this: Put a little oxide of irer
iron rust from the drug store) or puta coupl
/ of lafh nails in the water they drink and take
away their bath SO they can't get any drinl
but their medicine. In another cup inmerst
little saffron. The latter gives color X
their incoming feathers. The iron braces
their system while moulting. In LITTLE
while they viii sing loud enough to cause
the headache.
1t Is said that . talking match" has been
i arranged to take place between John 7
Fletcher, Of Argenta, and VIM. g. Blair, o
Bannack. The stake to be talked for i
money. Fletcher Ii to be allowed full lati
tude and psomiscuous scope, while Blair
70 be confined to domestic economy and th
improperly Of permitting stnight herds" =
run at at large. The friends Of both msn vii
put up, and should the match take place
win be for blood and no throw of, IS tho me-
are recognized to be the longest-winded sin
gle-handed takers in these Northern noun
tains. The details OF the match are not ye
perfected further than the men are not .
lowed to have wood, water, Or whiaky dun
ing tho tongue-struggle.~-D Dillon Tribune.