The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-09-22
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

I TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
A religious war seems TO prevail in lBcze-
man.
Missoula is to have new bridge over the
river.
Miles City wants visit from President
Arthur.
Madam Cappiana gave concert in Helena
last night.
Congress appropriated 5000 for improv-
ing the Yellowstone.
Charles Gilman blew out his brains in
Miles City last week.
Hon. James T. Thorpe, of Meagher county
died on the 18th inst.
Mark Musgrove has become travelling agent
for the Inter Mountain.
The Territorial Apportionment Board
meets in Helena tomorrow.
1t is understood that Sisters Hospital is
to be established in Bozeman.
The assessment roll in Silver Bow county
already foots up over s5,3SO,OOo.
Another attempt was made last Friday
morning to burn Chinatown in Helena
The earnings of the Northern Pacific in
creased 1884 zoe for the month of August.
A woman said to be ffty-eight years old
gave birth to child at Benton last week.
Seven or eight hundred tourists are said
to be in the National Park at the present
time.
Captain Clayton, superintendent OF track
| layers on the N. p, died at Billings last
| week.
Shannonville is the name of new town
established four miles below Thompson's
| Falls.
| L. B. Hubbell becomes u commissioner OF
Custer county, in place of d. f. Macmillan,
resigned.
John w Barlow died in Custer county last
week from injuries received by being thrown
from his horse.
The electric light in Helena don't seem to
work as well as it should. The trouble is
laid to the engine.
Nine. Cappiani is a heavy loser by the re-
cent prairie fire on Belt creek. Her loss Is
estimated at $1,000.
Eugene Lippincott and Perry Robinson
were granted divorces by the Benton District
Court last Tuesday.
IL is reported that peoples ticket" i.
to be put in the field at the coming election
in Silver Bow county.
Clarence Earle, an alleged horsethief, who
escaped from the Butte Jail April 9th, has
been recaptured in Salt Lake
Unfortunately for Bozeman children there
is trouble between the school trustees as wei
as between clans of the citizens.
Edward Zuber, late of Benton, has skipped
the country, having sold a team and lot o.
goods that he had bought on credit.
A dead body of a man, nearly nude, was
found nine miles from Helena last Friday
No clue as to his identity was found.
Charles Rowe, of Benton, has sued DR.. w
E. Turner for malpractice during the latter's
attendance on Mrs. Rowe, now deceased.
Frank Thompson, general manager of the
Pennsylvania Central, and party of hi:
friends are now taking in the National
Park.
A fire in Butte last Friday morning destroy
ed the saloon of Joseph d. Lorraine, on
East Park street. Loss on stock $1,000; or
building, $500.
id. Weatherwax resigned his position as
county commissioner of Choteau last week
his business interfering with the perform,
ance of the duties.
Edward Il. Potter, q restaurant proprietor
at Billings, skipped the town one day last
week and creditors mourn his departure
about $1,000 worth.
| Last Tuesday night an unsuccessful attempt
was made by a Chinaman and three whites
to abduct one of the moon eyed damsels OF
Butte's Chinese quarters,
Tom Jester, of He'll Gate canon, had a
fight with $50 pound black bear last Sun
day and had to dose him with eleven Win
chester bullets before he could get his hide
DR.. g. G. Swallow, father-in-law of Col. L
NJ. Voolfolk, is TO become one of the
editors Of the Helena Independent. A
series of papers on science and religion are
promised from his pen.
! A man named Gus Uhlnan was last week
found lying In delirIous condition at O
lonely ranch on the Yellowstone, and nearly
dead of typhoid fever. He was taken to Park
City, but died the next day.
Ed Paxson is painting drop curtain fol
Renshaw Hall, Butte. The scene represents
the castle of St. Goar on the Rhine. The
same scene is used for the drop curtain II
Mcvicker's theatre, Chicago.
mhe steamer Peninah was stolen away
from Bismarck last week by her owners. She
was confscated last year on the grounds that
her officers were selling liquor to Indians
and has been tied up ever since.
John Mcguire, the we'll known monologut
artist who has made annual tours through
Montana for a number of years past, was il
Virginia City last week. He will doubles
make the round of the Territory.
Mrs. Charles I'll Boies died in Bate las
Friday after an illness of two and hal
hours. Her death is ascribed to poison re
ceived by drinking some syrup from can o
peaches that had been opened for two o
three days.
The grand jury Of Choteau county reporte
that they found the INDECENT sick in To-
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and furniture, and surrounded by filth
yard in which was IN old privy vault ope
aud exposed. =n...
The Republicans of Missoula county hav
nominated w. b. Harlan for the council,
w. Lombard for treasurer, Z. A. Kenpey 70
sheriff, f. e. Farman for probate judge, j. s
Merritt for county commissioner, j. G. Bry
ant for coroner, and Anderson Buker for SUI
veyor. ..
The dead body of man was found in tn
bushes near thu Colusa mine, Butte, last Sat
urday Papers on his person would indicat
that his name was L. Fl. Warren, and that b
came from Nevada He had beer dead som
time. Nothing was found to indicate how h
came to his death.
Three B1tte boys concluded to take In tn
Helena fair and so last week ran away iron
home taking a horse with them. They reach
ed Deer Lodge last SATURDAY night and camp
ed in the brush near town. The next morn
ing they went to ranch for breakfast, ant
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