The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-10-26
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Secretary McCutcheon left Helena last
week for fortnights trip to the Pacific
coast.
Con Kohrs is driving 1900 head of cattle |
to his new range on Box Elder.-Riper !
Press.
"Tom" Coryell, a well known character,
has gone to Clark's Fork or Emigrant Gulch
to winter.
Old Mig" has been presented to President
Willard by the Winston Brothers and shipped
to New York.
Edward James, a young Cornishman,
dropped dead in Butte from heart disease
Sunday night.
Cook s. Hussey have sold 1000 head of
ewes to Perry Moore, of the Musselshell
The figures are $3.50.
The Alice, Moulton, Lexington, and Silver
Bow mills are now running on better grade
of ore than ever before.
Con Kohrs will start band of 100 beef
steers for Chicago shortly. The cattle will be
put on the cars at Billings.
Two carloads of Polled Angus bulls arrived
recently at Billings from Illinois. Their
destinations the Judith Basin.
Since the withdrawal Of Major McElrath
from the Butte Union, Mr.. Platte Burr has
taken charge of that paper.-Miner.
The distance from Stuart to Anaconda, as
determined by the railroad survey just COM
pleted, is seven and one-third miles.
Proposals are called for in last weeks issue
of the Courier for one million feet of lumber
with which to build an elevator at the Boze-
man depot.
The Elkhorn mine, of Ketchum, Idaho,
has paid s100,0O0 in dividends IN the last four
months. 1t is owned by Hauser, Hale &
Hotter, of Helena.
The three cowboys who killed a member
of the sheriff s posse and wounded another
at Glendive have been taken to Jail at Miles
City to await trial.
Joseph Booth, of Bitter Root bend informs
us that from 80! acres of ground he raised
the past season 800 bushels of grain, or al
| average of little over 80 bushels per acre.
Nissoulial.
Sedgwick, or "Squid," Rice passed n salts
factory examination before the military
beard at Fortress Monroe on the 9th inst,
and was admitted to the regular army as a
second lieutenant.
| "Big Frenchy," while attempting to "run''
the town of Junction, on the Yellowstone,
came in contact with stone propelled by an
old musician. "Frenchy," it is thought, will
climb the golden stair.
The Northern Pacific is about TO begin
building a snowshed at the west end of Null
len tunnel. 1t will be about 200 feet long
to be about GOO feet long.
Mr.. Frederick Lockley, editor of the Int,
Mountain, lectured in the Presbyterian
church, Butte, Tuesday evening, on "The
Situation in Utah" The audience was large
and the lecture very interesting.
Zeno Heyt an old time resident of Helena
died suddenly at seven o'clock yesterday
morning at his residence. The cause of his
death was heart disease, with which he has
suffered for some time past.-Iadependent
Goth.
Telephone connection has been established
between Sun River and Ulidia, Chestnut
valley, distance of eighteen miles. For
Geographic communication is open by tn,
military line to Helena.
Paddy Ryan knocked Jack Waite out O.
time in the third round at the Butte sparrinl
match but the opinion is that Waite did no,
understand the rules under the call of tn,
referee and was completely off his guart
when Ryan hit him in the neck.
| ,ho1 unt l.
to Bismarck to assist in bringing up tn,
squad of baggage thieves, including Staples
Shannon Adams McGraw, and Scarf Face,
Charley. He says he hopes to land them al
in Deer Lodge.-Livinosto Enterprise.
Gen. Terry has directed that practice OF
the rife range at the several posts in the de
partment be discontinued and that, until IL
resumption, practice in estimating distances
by pacing and by sight be held at least twic,
a week by each company, unless prevented
by inclement weather.
The Spectator lode was bonded yesterda,
to Colonel John T. Grayson for $4,000, b,
Erastus A. Nichols, Charles S. Warren, ant
David N. Upton. Colonel Grayson Is repre-
senting a syndicate of wealthy Califoi nj;
capitalists in this matter. The Speculate
lies just east of the Wild Bill and north o
the Belle lode claims.-Miner.
Dick Bickford, an Alder Gulch white man
A gold king way back in the past
Has married an African woman
And says he's struck color at last.
Griffith Green, brute of Butte,
Has clicked" the partner of his joys,
And now does find repose behind
The bars, with other boisterous boys.
-Piatfs Poetry
During this week thirty-one carloads O
cattle have arrived from Sioux City at III
Crow Agency. These are the cattle supple,
under government contract by the Strang
Bros, Of Sioux City, one of whom was il
) Livingston few weeks ago. They are des
tined for distribution among the Crows, an,
are expected to form the nucleus of herd
upon which the Indians will depend TO
support in later ycars.-Enterpr,se.
The outfit Of boarding cars belonging t.
the Northern Pacific carpenter force Ia.
been here for few days past. The force
now employed In erecting snow fences alonI
the road wherever they are necessary. TIL
fences were in former years sent out bull
and ready to put up, but now the carpenter
take the lumber with them in the train, an,
build the fences on the spot whore they ar
required Enterprise.
Fifty or seventy-fve tons of freight ar
awaiting transportation from Stuart to Ana
conda, the condition of the wagon road be
tween those points having for the past tw
weeks rendered hauling almost impossible
except in small Quantities. Among othe
things awaiting shipment are several thou
sand friedrich from Liverpool England
They weigh exactly seven pounds apiece
and cost laid down at Stuart just fifty cent
each.-Miner.
Suit has been commenced in the Unite,
States Court, at Helena, against the St. Loui
Cattle Co., for the sum Of $4,000. 1t seem
that the company have g large number o
cattle running on the Marias range, and Un
Gle Sam charges that on or about the LIST da,
October, 1882, they drove and herded som
1900 head Of cattle across the Marias an,
on to the valuable grass on the Blackfo.