The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-08-11
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
Burglars are plenty at Billings.

Miles City mas nau lts nrSJ CiICus' /,
The Northern Pacific has reached Billings.
Alice stock is quoted in New York at s2ao.
Maginnis is sos miles by wire from Bis
marck.
A Masonic Lodge is to be established at
Billings.
Barker had slight fall of snow last Tues
day week
Two deaths occurred in Helena during the
month of July.
CoIoneI ". F. Sanders is recovering from
his recent illness.
Indian girls supply the Missoula Market
with huckleberries.
The burnt district in Dillonis being repui'
as rapidly rs possible.
Keith, railroad station in the Yellow
stone, has postotfice.
Lightning killed a horse near Montana
CITY during recent storm.
The Yellowstone Journal is three years old
and is improving with age.
Billings has 124 completed houses IS teh'S'
aud % uncompleted houses.
Sheriffalty of Missoula county.
A man named Jones has discovered ledge
of mica in the Barker district
Rev. Theo. l.. Cuyler, DID,, of New YORK.
is iourneying to Yellowstone Park
The Weld Of gold in Alder gulch promises
70 be extraordinarily good this year.
The Odd Fellows of Benton will soon De
Gin the erection f a building OF their own.
A son of Theo Lee, on the East Gallatin'
| was accidentally shot in the instep last "eeN'
Adam Rorrowman, a '49er, died at Horse
Plains last week He came to Montana III
1871.
Rev, B,F. Shuert, of Minneapolis, Is IN
charge of the Congregational church nc BIZ
lings.
| Johp Williams had a leg broken last FRI
dav nv falling rock in the Lexington mine,
Butte.
| will Curtis, managing editor Of the Chlca-
90 Inter Ocean, is hunting buffalo on the iei'
| lowstone.
Ope.n,nth interest in the Gagnon ami one
third in the Modoc, Butte, have been sofa
for SIT, 600.
Rev. Stanley received eight persons INTO
the church. last week, at Victor, IN bitter
Root Valley.
The commodious new Benton hotel mas
been leased for five years 10 W. NJ. Lacey u
:, Sidney, Neb.
Thomas J. Bogy died in Benton the other
div. He was an old timer, having come &c
Montana in 1861
, voupg Italian at Benton recently sent 70
Chicago for "a 500 harp, and the expresSag'
amounted to $40.
The House minority report declarlnga por
) ton of the n. p. land grant forfeited has beef
laid on the table
Jack Barrouette, of Bohemian, has gone U
: meet the Sheridan party and act ~ It's g"iu
0 through the Park.
y Madison county has five candidates for as
e SCISSOR already announced, two kepuohcah
Ii and three Democrats.
$ VIM. Bryant, painter, skipped out fror
It White Sulpher Springs last week, ieaVih
Q numerous unpaid bills behind.
/ Charley johnson, of Cross river, was sho
It In the arm last week by the accidental dis
10 charge of gun in his own hands.
\. Eight steamers have arrived at Huntle
Il, fb.ad of navigation on the Yellowstone) thu
-. far this season. and more will arrive.
As Lucius S. Peck, at one time clerk OF tn
-. court at Virginia City, has been adjudged il
a sane and will be sent to Warm Springs.
4. The Episcopal Convocatiou of the Distri
of Montana meets at Virginia City on A
y gust 9th Bishop Brewer will preside.
=. A cook named B. Brumemer attempted su
. eide at Helena last week, but was preventf
VI by friends from carrying out his desires.
Felix Poznansky, an oldtime Montana
l. one of. the delegates from Dakota TO u
ie National Mining Exposition at Denver.
Miner and Boardman, of Choteau count
all have been in the cattle business three yea
Vi and their profits are already lSo per cent
III RI Marsh, formerly of Virginia City, h
as sold out his interest in the Dalles orr Tin
he and retired from the newspaper business.
ps A Benton man claims to have discover
Id the skeleton of some amphibous animal #
srs " 400 feet long. The story has decided
ar. fishy odor.
ill Charles johnson reached Bozeman !;
DO. Wednesday suffering from severe gunsf
TO- wound in the arm, the result Of an accide
he the same day.
he The Earl of Hopetoun and Mr. james Ho
aIf of Scotland arrived in Virginia City Tuesd
10 morning en- route to the mountains on hu
he ing excursion.
A half.breed stole q horse in Benton il
=. week and sold it near town, and the nj
A night went and stole it again and restored
'' to the rightful owner.
The Masonic Temple Association of Blu
'he was organized on the 31st ult, with Jose
A. Hyde, President; A. H. Barrett, Secreta
Inc and r. P. Knox, Treasurer.
icy Three wagons went into Yreka the otl
ers day, the first ever IN the town, although i
IN sixteen years old. Heretofore the place
res been supplied by pack trains.
HI. Knight, for the past year editor
the Yellowstone Journal, has abandoned
journalistic field, and formed connect
ned with Harry Coombs, bookseller in NJ
uo City.
ar Last week a dead man was found laying
ing the road in Bridger canon. There was
orn let hole in the skull. The body has b
had identified as that of a man named Geo
eht King.
rem A man named Newberry, who lives at
,slv sixteen miles below Silver Star, recently
ong bitten by rattlesnake and 1t was found !
essary to amputate the limb in order to S
his life.
TON, W.. Peck, Of Bell Creek, was knoc
TO-. senseless by lightning few days ago.
, was riding through Highwood canon and
'"s' rying an axe on his shoulder when the str
III occurred.
i'o' Daniel Sullivan was seriously injured
'gh' the premature explosion Of blast in the
rty' aconda mine. Butte. Wednesday of last W
his He lost his right eye and may possibly
ZEN. the other.
oies. "Old George" Mike Reinig's delivery h
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