The new North-west., 1882-05-19
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Dillon p. o. has been made money order
office.
Freight is $3.50 per cwt. from Billings t,
BoZeman.
II. F. Robinson, of Butte, died last week o
pneumonia.
A, z. Bell shot and killed Louis johnson
near Billings last week.
The Billings Post has been enlarged and /.
now six-column folio.
Charlie Bruce, of the Gallatin Neys, diet
May 18th of pneumonia.
There are twenty-one children in the or
phans' asylum at Helena
Col. ". w. Botkin and Lee Mantle whs
were quite i'll are recovering.
Ham. Wells died at Martinsdale last week
the result of protracted spree.
! Mrs. j. p. Woolman has recovered health
and will return TO Helena soon.
-Four men were arrested at Miles City the
| other day for stealing beer out of N. p. cars.
James Fisher was thrown from a bronco at
Sun River last week and his leg fearfully
crushed.
The various Land Leagues in the Territory
have passed resolutions condemning the re-
cent assassinations in Dublin
Helena voted for an additional school tax
of one mill and against a separate school for
colored children last Saturday.
A Flathead Indian named Pierre stabbed a
Spokaa Indian to death Mt Missoula last
week, whisky being the cause
The remains of Major Morris, who died
recently at Fort Assinaboine, have been ta-
ken to New York for interment.
Edward Preble, California '49er was
found dead near Billings one day last week.
1t is thought he died of heart disease.
3-1-T at Butte notified crowd of Migrants
in Butte that their holes in the atmosphere
were wanted and they left by dozens.
Claudio Ruy, the thirteen-year-old son of
Mrs. Joel Ransom, of Butte, died in Atchi-
son, Kansas, on the 10Th ult., of diphtheria.
DIR. Charles r. Greenleaf, of Fort Shaw.
has been relieved at that post by DIR. Kill
bourne and will be stationed at Washington
City.
A family of eight persons were found near
Missoula at a ranch last week all suffering
from acute brochi.is, while ninth member
lay dead. The family were destitute.
Helena is to have Second National Bank. |
The Hershfield Bros Bank is to be converted |
into National and e. Sharpe and others are |
about to start third bank.
Smallpox has broken out ON the steamer |
Meade, bound up the river for Benton.
Two passengers have died, one is sick, and |
others are leaving the boat at every conve-
lient opportunity.
Recent reports from Miles City are to the
'ffect that the number of smallpox cases
IRE dropping off, and that many of the strick-
If sick is twcnty-nine.
Celia, colored girl at Clancy, aged six
cen, gave birth to an illegitimate child a few
lays ago and on last Monday morning 1t was
ound in the bed dead A coroners iury de-
'eloped the fact that it was in bed with Its
nother and was strangled. The mother and
ther parties suspicioned are In arrest.
Work has been commenced on Indian
'reek ditch, Madison valley. 1t is intended
convey water to the bench lands on the
ladison, between Bear and Indian Creeks,
mere the builders own $500 acres of Gov
rnment land and larger quantity of rail.
,ad lands. The ditch win be eleven feet
'ide, four feet deep and eleven miles long.
ne stock Is divided into ten shares, one and
haif being owned in Helena, five and a
alf in Virginia City, and the rest In Madi.
IN Valley.