The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-10-12
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
Miles City wants to incorporate.


Miles City wants to incorporate
Coal now sells at si6 per ton In Benton.
The Billings artesian we'll is over 400 feet
deep.
The National Park hotels have closed fl,
the season.
T. NJ. Carr died In Butte Monda, of pusu.
monia, aged B.
The Montana Fair Association has r..
elected Its former officers.
Wood Is now selling in BentoH ut sl2 and
s14 per cord, and Is scarce.
The new bridge at Missoula is completed
and saves great satisfaction.
James r. Campbell has made 20 far th,.
season 2, 200, 900 biiok mt Anaconda.
Forty acres Of land have been purchased
at Miles City for Catholic cemetery.
skinny" waterhouse died at Miles CITY
on the Sd inst, Of neuralgia Of the heart.
A large number of conductors have bean
"fred" from the Northern Pacific east ~
Helena.
Tits understood at Fort Assinaboine that.
Colonel Ilges will soon be restored TO b,s
rank and command.
The Independent has a IS pound turnip. AZ
inches In diameter. 1t was raised by VIM.
A. Tut, on the Teton.
There are nine cases on the criminal docket
for Yellowstone county's first term of Dis.
trict Court, now In session,
Ulidia and Sun River are now connected
by telephone. The line is about twenty miles
long and cost only about $1,000.
Over q hundred employees were DISCHARGED
recently onthe Yellowstone division of the
Mp. Some Of them have gone west.
DR.. James Wright, superintends of In.
dian affairs in Montana from 1879 to 1878,
died at his home In Bloomfield, Iowa, Sent,
Esd -"
Alex. Johnston has been appointed cashier
Of Donnell, Clark 81 Larabie's bank, Butte
to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement
of j. Ross Clark.
About 100000 feet Of lumber, some Of n
heavy timbers 30 feet In length, has been
successfully foated down the Basin fiume IN
the Colorado smelter
Charles L. Severance, of Martinsdals
Montana, and Miss A. III. Hussey, of White
Sulphur Springs, Montana, were married al
Unity, Maine, on August 11th
An electric enunciator with one hundred
numbers flor connecting the office with the
various rooms Of the hoter has been sold to
the Cosmopolitan, Helena, by H. W. Cole.
A man by the name of Lowell, who ha,
been engaged In the saloon business at Boze.
man, has mysteriously disappeared. His
partner mourns his absence to the tune Of
$1,000.
Less than fifty feet of bench remains to bs
taken out Of Mullan tunnel in order to com.
plete 1t. 1t is expected that trains will be
running through the tunnel by the first Of
November.
The Lewis and Clarke county commission.
ers have awarded about $1,000 damages for
the right Of way for the Helena and ,Jetfer.
SON County railroad. The company thinks
the amount too high, and the settlers want
more.
A force Of about one hundred men, who
were employed in surfacing, riprapping, and
such employment on the Northern Pacific.
west Of Bozeman, struck few days ago, on
account of q reduction of wages from 50 to
sl.6O per day.
The Governor has refused to grant petit
ton for the pardon Of Charles Herzog, SEN
fenced last winter to the penitentiary for
twenty years for the murder of his father.
in-law, old man Neabuhr, ont near Jefferson
City, early in the winter.
Hon. Schuyler Colfax aud Ex-Governor
Bross, Of Illinois, are making their third
transcontinental trip-this time ria tina
Northern Pacific and spent day or two In
Helena, where Mr.. Colfax lectured 70 the
Odd Fellows, Of which order he Is an emf.
nent officer.
Sam Scott, of Deer Lodge, reports that
when crossing the overhead track Mt Mul.
Ian tunnel, the air-brakes gave way, and that
he never worked harder In his life than IN a.
sisting to check the speed of the train by an
plying the hand brakes. Fortunately tho
train was near the bottom of the grade when
the air brakes gave out, and the train was
stopped and the damage shortly repaired.
Bozeman Chronicle.
The action Of the county commissioners
turning the county building facing Springs
Park, erected for hospital, into q iail, IL A
breach Of good faith on their part, as the lot
was decided for hospital purposes. The Jail
fronting the Park Is great eyesore to our,
village of health and pleasure, and will TO-.
main SO as long as 10 stands. -Hubandn,aa.
There were about 100000 sheep driven i'm
and through Montana this season. The bulk
of them were from Oregon, and were driven
north to the British Possessions. About Co.
600 Of them, however, came from Red Bluffs,
California. Notwithstanding this large
drive, sheep are In good demand, and Mt bet
ter figures than they have been since the
hard winter.-Husbandman
Corporators have signed articles of incor.
poration for the construction of u. railroad
from Missoula through the Bitter Root val
ley and probably on To. Salmon City, Idaho.
w. +. Sanders and Ed. Stone, of Helena, +.
ii. Woody, R. A. Eddy, and A. B. Hammond,
Of Missoula, are the incorporators, who win
no DOUBT proceed to have lines run and sur
veys made before the srow flies. The capital
stock Of the company is a million dollars
Herald E#3t G# EfH s5
While special train, bearing to their
homes number Of 'siast spike" excursion.
lists, was standing at Livingston depot on
Sunday, the 9th ult., two trunks belonging to
H. NJ. Teller, Secretary Of the Interior, and
IL Is said, jewelry and other valu-
bles to the amount of $4,000, were stolen
from the platform, where they had been care
lessly left The affair has been kent very
quiet until lately, in the hope that the thief
would be discovered. The Northern Pacific
offers reward Of $3.50 'and no questions 4.
asked for their recovery.
We see by our exchanges TINT the Union
Pacific railway company has two or three.
pe<ties In the field, looking M the,
most favorable route into the National Park
The lines TO be surveyed, as we understand.
are three In number, and inclAfls the roase
from Beaver Canon uia Camas creek and
Henry's Lake; one from Twin Bridges ,0r
that neighborhood by way Of Ruby vap sv
Virginia City, and the upper Madison. and
one from near the Three Forks mn tho Nadi.
son ver.--MaaisoasaA.
w. H. Raymond 8 Bro, II Reiy o,. Par.
have sold to @. X. Larabis, Of p ssr Lodge
the three-year-old bay sslaiag ns.dwoos
by Longwood, dam 6ipsys tn hav a,,v I'm.
Renia, two years Nv (.om,ax ~ '