The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-05-18
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.


HeIena's fire department cost s11 ,52o.97 last
year.
The track Of the Northern Pacific Is ex-
pected to reach Bedford to-day.
John G. Graham, president of the Miles
City Board of Trade died last week.
The railroad track was forty-twe miles
away observation-disclosures Times, 9th.
Judge G. 4. Irvine, of Butte, who has had
hard siege of pneumonia, is recovering.
The steamers Rosebud and Butte arrived
at Benton May 11th-the first of the season.
It Is sO6 miles by river from Bismarck to
Benton, according to the Government mea-
sure.
Tho Miners Union of Butte will have a
grand parade and ball on the thirteenth Of
June.
The little town Of Sheridan, in the Ruby
valley, is exhibiting signs of steady, sturdy
growth.
Mike mclaughlin was killed by a cave on
Bennett & Co.'S grade OH Finley Creek Sun
day last.
Postmaster Smith, it Is reliably reported,
was married in the east a few days ago-Inter
Mountain.
William Miller, a miner, fell down the
Original shaft in Butte ON Monday night and
was killed.
The Montana horse, Hickory Jim, won
five-eighths mile dash at Memphis, April
10Th. Time, 1:o5l.
The bullion shipments by the Alice COM
pany this month, to date, amount to s46,.
761 42.-Miner, 18th.
In the Helena markets oats are worth s265
| cents per hundred by the wagon load, and
hay from SIS to $40 per ton.
Wood contractor Calkins, of Butte, Is said
to have skipped, leaving his creditors in the
lurch fer considerable am cunt.
| There are no new cases of diphtheria a,
the Sisters Academy at Helena, and only two
cases remaining of those previously reported
both of which will soon be cured.
The Helena Independent reports that John
Hennebery, Of Montana, was lost in the
steamer Grappier, wrecked about two weeks
ago of the Pacific coast, while en- route to
Alaska.
George Crosby recently rode from White
Sulphur Springs to Benton, distance of 16(
miles in 4S hours. The last ITO miles were
covered in sixteen hours without changing
his nag.
The Commissioners of Silver Bow County
have awarded the contract for laying tn,
foundation Of the Butte court house to j. 7
Quigley & Co., at 81. 90 per perch, aggregat
ing about $4,000.
Washington Dunn has 200 men at work O,
grading contract between the summit ant
Finlay Creek, '.ad he is pushing it so rapid.
that he will complete his job by the end o
the present month.
Mr.. kirkpatrick has succeeded Mr.Weight
man as postm aster at Dillon. The latter, II
a card, says that his assets are $1,000 an,
liabilities 5000, and that he will pay up a
soon as fortune permits.
Tom. G. Marshall, of Kentucky, a lawye
of note in the old "Old Kaintuck" State
arrived at Dillon on last Saturday. He will
look over the legal layout in the Territor,
with q view to locating in Montana.
Nearly all of the cargo of the Big Her
was loSt Dy the wrecklng OF that boat. BE
side large amount of freight for Bentol
merchants she had on board 1913, 900 pound
!; of Government freight for Fort Assina
boine.
The measles, after attacking few pilgrim
families at Glen Station, disappeared. TIL
whooping-cough has been corraled at Dillor
The general health of the people of thi
fraction of Montana may truthfully be re
ported as good and improving.-Dillon Tr1
bune.
Army officers on the northern frontier r.
. port that there are well grounded fears of
general Indian war throughout norther
Montana, as the Crees seem to be gatherin
their forces preparatory to making an attac
and advise settlers to take all possible pre-
| cautions for their own safety.