The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-03-17

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The Coulson Post calls the horse-thief the
"harbinger Of spring.
Daniel Stevens, an old resident of Butte,
died there last Saturday.
1t cost 500 to bring the murderer of james
Finn from Barker to Helena.
The Clarke's Fork country expects 1000
stampeders the coming summer.
A lodge Of the A. o. U. w. has been insti-
tuted at White Sulphur Springs.
Spring blowing has commenced in the Vel
lowstone valley below Glendive.
There are eleven saloons in Vaudeville, q
new town in the Judith country.
Highwood is to build school honse, for
| which the citizens have raised S2S5.
The Miles City fire department has decided
to buy 81 800 La France fire engine.
The Valley House, Dillon, Is being taken
down and moved in sections to Butte.
The effort to organize United Workmen
lodge in Virginia city was unsuccessful.
Two children of J. r. Latimer, of Nilsson
| In, are sick with disease resembling spotted
fever.
The Indebtedness of Madison county is
$50, 4y7.9s, decrease during the year of ST.
4A7.55
Frank Allen died suddenly at his logging
camp in Meagher county on last Saturday
night.
tana mining district averages S565 per ton in
silver.
Sixteen horses were recently stolen from
the stage station at Pompey's Pillar, near
Coulson.
Gus Senieur, of Benton, has been awarded
a s475 contract for building bridge across
the Muddy.
a great many of the horses on the Helena
aud Beafon stage road are suffering from
"pink-eye."
The sick and poor of Silver Bow county
cost that county q, 366. 81 for the three months
! ending March,.
A little child of Mr.. chesterfield, of Hell
ena, was severely but got dangerously
scalded last week.
The Indebtedness of Gallatin couaty March
Is ASo-. was @fo,cboo-y TIC ItauCtloH NNfah
the year being s6,55o.2o.
Frank Haghes, of Benton, offers S25 re.
ward for evidence that will convict the thief
that stole his chickens.
The percentage of deaths among Silve4
Bow county patients was only four per cent
in the past three months.
j. r. Wilton and G.. Il. Choate contem
plate erecting a smelter at Barker for the re
duction of Silver Bell ore.
The Laura lead in the Barker district has
been bonded to Philadelphia gentleman
named Reckard for $4,000.
AT spelling match in ono of the Heleua
schools last Friday, of 36s words given ou
only twelve were misspelled.
There were thirty-two commercial travel
ers' licenses Issued in Beaverhead county TO
the quarter ending March LIST.
Herbert Morrill, of Bozeman, is said to b
following theatrical life in San Francisc'
under the name of ii. Preston.
James Barr had his knee badly shattere,
by blast explosion At Huntley Bluff, on thu
Yellowstone, few days since.
The contract for building the Meaghe
county court house has been let to Scott
Lambert, the price being S9,774.
The Dillon Tribune wants the subject ag
tated of building canal through Beaver
head valley for irrigating purposes.
Mr.. GaugIer, Of Martinsdale, has been abb
to make satisfactory arrangement with hi
creditors and will continue in business.
A war party of Piesans are camped on the
Shonkin with thirty head of horses whic
they claim to have stolea from the Crows.
"Tex," who was reported hung in the Mus
selshell country, has turned ap on the Mis-
! souri, river, and is undoubtedly still alive.
Col. G. w. Sweet, of ST. Paul, lectured i
Helena last week on 1.-THE Religisn of tn
r ature." He took a liberal view OF ahe mat
ter.
The High River range of the Northwestern
Cattle Company comprises 100000 acre:
They 4nava ut present about 5000 head of eat
tie.
w. G. Bohannon, telegraph operator, fol
1 merly of Helena, contemrlates lecturing /
| Butte on the fallacies of the Christian rt
ligion-
Henry Brooks got lost in the Judith Basi
last week and laid out all night with no pre-
lection bat single blanket. He came nea
freezing.
Major jim, the Bannack chief, and part
| of nine lodges, are moving from the Yellow
stone buffalo country to their home in LeE
hi, Idaho.
Llewellyn L. Luce has resigned his pos
sion In the Interior Department at Washin!
| ton and will locate at Bozeman for the pra
tice of law.
In q horse-race at Canon, ten miles frcl
Coulson, recently, fer 81 900, "Gspher" too
the pot beside winning many side bets Il
his hackers.
| A little child of A. 8. Blake, of the Bite
Root valley, died last week of lung feve
making the third death in the family in I'll
last few months.
The room of AL. Blackburn and John E
mis-, at Missoula, was entered last week al
ss4 stolen. Suspicion points TO q man WI
has left the town.
Catherine z. Goetchius was granted {
vorce from her husband. James Goatchiu
last Tuesday by the Butte court on the grouI
. of extreme cruelty.
b The overland coach for Helena upset ne
. | Boulder two or three times last Friday nii,f
b iGiuring lady named Bonnell so much tn
e she had TO stop at Boulder.
Prof. Speck, of Butte, has engaged Mi
y Leonora Pearson, of Helena, to sing at fo
concerts he will give in the former city abo
the middle of next month.
p A benefit was given at the Renshaw ope
!. house at Butte last Monday evening to raj
funds for paying the burial expenses of {
II deceased actor, Gus Durham.
4 The body of a man frozen to death was ]
q Gently found between Coulson and Fort N
; Kinney, and 1t is supposed to be the renal
!, of Hank Atchison, a gambler.
A Baptist church has been organized
Butte, and the official board Is puzzled at I
outset regarding the uncertainty of . su
'. cient supply of water.-Conrier.
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