The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-11-02
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

oTNlAL
Wheat is worth eighty cents a bushel at
Missoula.
1t is stated that elm" Mcfarland Is quite
Ill at Billings.
The Billings artesian well is down 535 feet
and still no water.
District court begins next Monday in Hell
ena and Missoula.
Miss Ella Merk will teach the Silver Star
school this winter.
Sinking the Billings artesian well the first
800 feet cost $4,000.
Tracklaying has commenced on the Helena
and Wickes railroad.
Tom Haley, an old-timer at Benton, died
last Tuesday morning.
Secretary McCutchcon has returned to
Helena from Portland
Marcus DAILY, Esq, has returned from the
east, his eye being almost well.
Livingston was to hold an election yester-
day to determine if it would incorporate.
The Presbyterians of Missoula have pur.
chased ground on which to build church.
Harry w. Child, of Helena, was married to
Miss Adelaide Dean, IN Cincinnati, October
23d.
The Northern Pacific has issued a circular
refusing to take trunks as freight unless they
arc securely boxed.
Granville Stuart and Con Kohrs will ship
between LOCO and 200 beeves to the Chicago
market next month.
The Silver Belle mine at Barker is turning
out between thirty and forty tons of fine
smelling ore per day.
The loss by the late fire at Miles City was
about $50, Zoo, the greater part of which was
covered by insurance.
A Mrs. Waters died of brain fever at Ana.
conda on Monday last She leaves husband
and two children.-Miner.
The assessed valuation of property in Sill.
yer Bow county this year will foot up about
S6, go, 000.-Intcr- Mountain.
DR.. G. Lewis, formerly of Butte, died near
Boise City, Idaho, last month"; from injuries
received from vicious horse.
The shipment of cattle from Montana over
the Northern Pacific for the month of Octo.
Der will reach about 600 car loads.
Rev. r. NJ. Stevenson has been called to
the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at
Bozeman, by the unanimous vote of its men,
bers.
George f. Marsh has been appointed to fill
the position of local freight and ticket agent
at Butte, Mr.. Sims having been recalled to
Missoula.
John B. Piatt, the venerable father of Mrs.
c. N. Travis, George Fl. Piatt, and Guy X.
Piatt, arrived in Helena from the east last
Thursday.
Jack Baronette, the famous guide and scout
of the Yellowstone, after many years sojourn
in the western wilds, will rusticate in Europe
this winter.
The building in which the Livingston
Tribune is located was blown down the other
night by the boisterous breezes; so reports
the Enterprise.
The Anaconda company ships about fifty
tons of copper ore daily to Swansea Last
month the shipments aggregated nearly 1,7OO
tons.-Inter Mountain.
The ties and iron for the U. & N. branch to
Anaconda are now at Stuart. The road will
be built, we are told, within the next thirty
days.-Inter Mountain.
Charles E. Conrad has been appointed to
fill the vacancy on the Board Of Choteau
County Commissioners occasioned by the
death of Joseph s. Hill.
The meanest man that ever breathed evil
IDENTIFY lives in Choteau county. He robbed
the henroost of the Benton poor house on
Sunday night.-Enterpris:.
VIC. Reeve, vice president of the Peru
National Bank, Peru, ILL.,, will engage in the
cattle business in Yellowstone county next
spring He will invest $4,000.
The Hecla company has on hand at Glen.
dale some 400, 900 bushels of charcoal for the
winter run, and some SIX hundred tons of sur
plus ore in the bins at the smelter.
We see from the Independent that It is UNI
derstood Col Ilges will locate at Fort Benton
for the practice of law, and form a partner
ship with Judge Tattan for that purpose. =.
George 7. Wilkes, foreman of the Northern
Pacific csal company, was fined 500 and one
month imprisonment in Jail for assaulting
Rev. B. f. Stuart in the Bull Mountain coal
region.
Hon. Frederick Billings has forwarded a
draft for 1900, being his contribution to the
fund for building $4,000 school house at
Billings. Don't say, "There's nothing in q
name"
Let no one hereafter say that the ayenginp
hand Of Providence falls as heavily upon the
saint as upon the sinner. or the twelve
buildings burned in the Miles City fire, eleven
were saloons. w
Miss Jennie Corson, the Montana sheep
Queen, has been on visit east. She comes
home without the husband which ramor said
she had gone after. There's hope for R. N.
Sutherlfn yet. ...
Miles City folks are very rapid sometimes.
Last week q carpenter who needed q house
to live in, built in one day frame residence
Ax30 feet in dimensions, and moved into it
in time for supper.
G. B. Sims, recently appointed Northern
Pacific agent at Butte, has been recalled to
Missoula, having been promoted TO the posi-
ton Of assistant superintendent Of the Mis-
sonia division Of the Northern Pacific.
A large number of the prominent citizens
OF Miles City have addressed letter to VIM
Van Gaskin, James II. GarIock, and Samuel
r. Douglass, asking them to stand N candi-
dates for the Constitutional Convention.
The Livingston Enterprise claims to have
proof that ]. J. Davis, who recently visited
the towns of Montana securing subscriptions
and advertisements for so-called Northern
Pacific railway publication, Is A swipdler.
J. 0. Husseys residence, ten miles from
White Sulphur Springs, formerly occupied
BY General A. j. Smith, was burned last Sat