The new North-west., 1883-04-27
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
Virginia City has street lamps now.


miles of Helena.
The fare to the western terminus from Mis-
soula is down to $40.
The Alice has shipped s66, worth of
bullion so far this month.
The Madisonian has reduced its subs;rip-
ton rates from s5 to Si per year.
Upwards of seventy-five ladies' voted at
the school election in Miles City.
The report that the Hecla furnaces at Glen
dale had shat down proves TO be untrue.
In straight shoot ria the Road Agent
Rock il is twenty-five miles from Dillon to
Bannack.
The Commissioners of Lewis and Clarke
county rejected the survey and plat Of Helena
made by b. F. Marsh.
The Northern Pacific will soon establish
an agency at Miles City for the disposal of
town and farm property.
Maud Stevenson. of Helena, has been ad-
Springs Asylum Sunday.
The residents of Stinkingwater valley,
Wyoming do their trading in Billings, NJ on
tana, nearly 200 miles away.
The Northern Pacific railroad offers q rate
of Sl.SO per 100 pounds on wool from Billings
to Boston, including insurance.
The firm of Kinna & Jack, hardware mer.
chants is dissolved, Mr.. Kinna taking the
Helena and Mr.. Jack the Butte House.
The Anaconda shipped six bars of bullion
a. 81 -Dn
seven bars valued at SS,6iO-Hiner, 9th
Nick Pesold, aged forty-three years, died
in Butte, of apoplexy, Monday. He has re-
sided at Leadville, Deadwood and Dillon.
Col 4. NJ. Voolfolk, the able editor of the
Helena independent, left Tuesday morning
for months pleasure trip to ST. Panl
Chicago and st. Louis.
Work will soon be commenced by Wins
ton Bros, on the high trestles, five in mum
Der, between Greenhorn and Mullan Tunnel.
The foundations are now being laid.
Mike Kutt. who killed Edward Finley at
Lion City recently, was exonerated by the
coronerS jury from all balme in the killing
he having acted entirely in selr-defense.
Wilson, of the Dillon Tribune, hasn't
very big field TO work, but he puts a very
bright local page on the paper each week.
The Anaconda Company should hire him for
copcentrator
Quicksilver Joe and Frank Hunt, who
were examined before Judge Sterling last
week and adiudged insane, have been re-
moved to the Warm Springs insane Asylum
-Iadependent 81.
1t is reported that the Northern Pacific
company has closed contract with the
knights Templar of Chicago for through
transportation of their representatives to the
San Francisco Conclave.
We are informed that ground will be
broken within thirty days on the Billings &
Benton railway. Cheap fuel will thus be OBJ.
tainable from the Bull Mountain coal mines
by fall Billings Post, l4h.
The reservoir built by the Alder Gulch
Consolidated Mining Company, about three
miles above Virginia City, is the largest and
most substantial work of its kind in Madison
county, if not in the Territory.
If actions 90 for anything Nick Kessler is
one of the best friends of education in Mon
tana. He Is building, at his own expense. a
neat and substantial brick school house in
his school district near Helena.
enal-keeper Edmunds sent 125 Spring
field muskets to Butte on Wednesday, in
obedience to an order from Governor Crosby.
The remainder of the arms, except 100 guns,
with ammunition, have been ordered to
Helena MddispRidn.
The Indian who was arrested nc Missouia
last week for trying to take horse out of a
livery stable by force of arms turns out to
be one of u party of Indian horse thieves
who recently stole band of about twenty
horses from the Blackfoot Indians and drove
them over to the Jocko reserve.
Major Tom Watson, the veteran war horse
of the Democracy Of Beaverhead County, is
running the Bannack postoffce. The ap
pointment was made quite recently. When
the Oldest Democrat in Montana consents tc
oificiate under Republican commission
civil service reform must be in active opera
ton.
There Is n regular exodus from Beaverhrad
county to Idaho this spring. Joe Littlefiel,l
and Thomas e. Lyon and families GO I,
Spring Mountain; w. L. Kimball, NJ. )
johnson, Abe Sheleb rger, and families, arr
going to the b ackburn mining district, an,
ex-Representative J. C. Rogers will also soor
leave for Idaho.
Talk with the old steamboat men elicit,
the opinion that the Missouri river business
will be better this ytar than last, and that Il
will grow in Importance each year hereafter
They look hopefully forward to an era o.
local business which shall approach in i'm
portance that upon the MississippI.-Rire,
Press.
The grand jury brought in the followin.
indictments this forenoon: G.. Il. Hatfield
j. Kingsley, Charles Mollger and Heury
symes, grand larceny; John Sullivan, James
Carroll, James Edwards and James Nc.
Kiever, robbery; w. l.. Lawrence, stealing
sheep; G. A. Macarthur, murder-Mles Cit,
Press, 13tb.
The Pacific Coast Postal lndee reports the
following postoffices in Montana rs discon
tinued: Greenhorn, Lewis & Clarke county
Mount Horeb and Valley, Silver Bow county
Pineland, Missoula county; Stuart, Deer
Lodge county. Numb r of postoffices in the
Territory, 100; of this number twelve are
located in Lewis and Clarke county.
Ed. Stone is completing arrangements with
our town proprietors for the transfer to the
Northern Pacific of the lots agreed upon.
These transfers will be made this week, and
after that time the lots, both of the Northern
Pacific and those in private hands, will be
placed upon the market. As to what prices
will rule, we are unable to state, but il is
probable they will range from 500 to $500,
according to ocation.-Missouiian
the preliminary examination of Lyons,
who shot McCluen, near Stevensville, was
held before Justice Stephens on Thursday
and Friday of last week. The prisoner was
held and bail fixed at 81 900. It seems Lyons
continued to shoot after McCluen had
dropped his weapon, and it is this feature of
the Ease that will prove troublesome to him
II day of trial comes. Not five but six bul
lets, were buried in McCluen's body.
The Missoula Times states that Henry
Swanson was captured at Seattle, Washing
ton Territory. Swansons defalcation was re-.
ported by the Times last week, but the
amount stolen has since been found IN he
s2,lso instead of 81 62s. Swanson was found
at gaming table, and with only few dol
lars in his pockets. He will be brought back.
Gamoling was undoubtedly the direct cause
of the defalcation