The new North-west., 1883-12-14
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

There are several cases of scarlet fever In
Missoula-
There is not a house or even room for
rent in Dillon.
Sheep are selling at $3.50 per head in
Meagher county.
The Alice Mining Company uses 1000 cords
Of cord-wood per month.
A lady leads the band and performs on the
cornet with the Mussettes.
Helena enumerates 1870 school children,
or about 400 less than Butte.
Within the last thirty days Drum Lummon
stock has advanced 30 per cent. in London.
There is only one mule in the Ceur d'Alene
country, and the owner of the animal de-
mands SIS per day for him.
The county poor of Lewis and Clarke
county are kept, maintained and clothed fer
six dollars per head per week.
The Inter- Mountain says the comet of 1912,
now visible, is about the only thing of 1872
that does not draw pension.
Beaverhead county has 90 persons assessed
to pay over 500 taxes each, which the Trib-
uue says Is a noticeable increase.
Five hundred geysers and five hundred hot
springs are reported as in the Yellowstone
National Park by the Government surveyors.
Manager Mcguire is fitting up room on
the second floor of Ming's Opera House,
and will hereafter make Helena his head
quarters.
At the last meeting of the Virginia City
council, Judge H. N. Blake was appointed
city attorney and clerk Of the board, uies w.
T. Pigott, resigned.
Mr.. e. 8. Topping, the author of the
"Chronicles of the Yellowstone" has made
arrangements with st. Paul publishing
house to issue his work.
The Marquis de Mores has, on his recent
tablished eighteen slaughter houses, all of
which will be in operation next season.
The new school house at Miles City is in a
bad shape. 1t Is said by a competent archi-
tect that all the work done so far will have
to be torn down on account of its insecurity.
Shipments of cattle from Montana the past
season, by the Northern Pacific Railroad,
amounted TO 176 cars, containing 33 ,513 head.
The receipts from the east amounted to 943
cars.
Wolf Creek is coming to the front as n
grain-producing valley. Mr.. George Lewis,
who had a crop of only So acres, will have
fully 5000 bushes-the largest crop in the
valley.
w. d. Knight, of the Yellowstone Journal,
has gone to the States to purchase a steam
engine and power press, and other material
for the enlargement of that paper, which, by
the way, is an excellent one. .
On the 1st of the present month there yet
remained about 27O feet of tunneliug at the
Drum Lummon, in order to complete the big
working tunnel. The whole length Of the
tunnel is to be ,130 feet.-Iadepsndent.
Chief Engineer Anderson, of the Northern
Pacific, denies the statement which appear.
ed recently in Bismarck paper, to the effect
that one of the piers of the company'S bridge
over the Missouri at that point had settled.
The little daughter of Judge and Mrs.
Knowles still continues quite sick with, ,ty-
phoid Tor Inountain) fever. Her illness has
lasted some fifteen days, and there is no per-
ceptible change in her condition.-Inter-
Mountain, 1lh.
The Benton Record of Saturday said On
Monday Col. Ilges will leave for Helena, 60
ing thence by way of Butte and Deer Lodge
to Washington. He will lecture at these
places, and perhaps at other points on his
journey.
1t will be remembered that few months
ago the Husbandman predicted matrimonial
boom before the roses were in bloom. AS
evidence of the correctness of this predic.-
ton, we noticed five brides at the ball Fri
day evening.-Husbandman
The Northern Pacific has issued special
east-bound tariff for hides, peltrles, robes
and skins, taking effect December 10th, from
points between Bismarck and Livingston,
and St. Paul, Minneapolis, Minnesota Trans
fer, Duluth or Superior.-Ltuingston Enter
prise.
John McCormIck's thoroughbred mare,
Beulah, died on Tuesday morning of the dis
ease known as the bolts. She was sired by
bennington, and in her younger years was
feet race animal. She was valued at 81, 600,
and her death is a severe loss to her owner
-Missouliaa.
Cornelius Hedges yesterday consummated
the sale of his brick business house and lot
on Main street, two doors south of the Cos
mopolitan Hotel, to N. Il. Webster. Con-
sideration, 5000. The frontage being small,
1t makes the price about s4O0 front foot
Herald, 11h.
At the Blackfoot crossing of Bow river, on
the 18th of last month, yonng man known
As "Kid" was drowned. He had been work
ing for I. G. Baker & Co. for some time as
cowboy. His horse was found by Indians
in the ford. Nothing is known of his pa
rents, relatives, or name.
girl aged IL or Is years, residing in
Cooke City, recently gave birth to a well de-
veloped, healthy child. The supposed fa.
ther, it is reported, has Skipped" to parts
unknown. The embryo city seems deter
mined to keep abreast of the times Boze-
man Courier.
The Virginia City Rod and Gun Club has
received from the East a quantity of wild
rice, which will be sown in the Madison
marshes to induce the ducks to remain and
offer themselves rs targets for the shot gun
members of the club.-Madisonian
In announcing the award of Sl25 to Caleb
Rich for the killing of two cows by a North
ern Pacific railway train, the Billings Herald
remarks "It is not known
whether or not the result of this verdict will
be the cause Of another reduction of the
wages of the Northern Pacific employees"
To the many crazy gold-hunters who are
bound to go into the Ceur d'Alene mines
this winter, our paper of this week says in
stormy tones of hardship, there is no trail to
tbsmines as present, except by snow. shoes,
and the man who undertakes to 60 in there
must pack in his own Mlssou-
Hdn, 7h
The Minneapolis Evening JournSl SAYS
that Mr.. Topping met Alderman w. +. Da-
Wis, OF Bozeman, at the Union depot. Mr..
Davis was en- route to Chicago. He denounced |
The report Of his skipping to defraud his |