The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-06-01
LOCAL BREVITIES.


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Kohrs s. Bielenberg have $50, 600 worth &
beeves ready for market this season.
Notice Of the Territorial Fair at Helen
appears In this issue and will be referred {
hereafter.
The band now plays at the rink each Tue,
day and Saturday evening and draws crowd
ed houses. r...-.
The Presbyterian Sunday school will NEE
in the Methodist church next Sunday after
noon at two o'clock.
McKeever, the convict who made tn
trouble Sunday, was yesterday adjudged In
sane and will be taken to the asylum to-day
Leroy Southmayd, an old and honsre,
resident Of Montana was killed Tuesday b,
a falling rock in a mine near Virginia City
The Rocky Mountain Telephone Co. ha
reduced its rates in Montana to SO per montl
for business offices and 50 per month for pri
vate residences.
The coach from Helena, with thirteen pas
sengers on, tipped over Tuesday in Roct
Pass, just this side of the Frenchwoman
| Nobody hurt seriously.
Messr,. Lodge & Beaumont have purchased
the interest of Mr.. James s. McAndrews in
the Kentucky stables and the firm name will
be Ward, Lodge & Co.
When Delegate Maginnis comes to Mon
tana he should Immediately communicate
with some of the solid men of Bear, Elk, and
Blackfoot about the service to "Sunset."
The diphtheria which was prevalent in
Butte week or two ago has disappeared
and malarious refuse has been hustled out of
the city in the most commeDdahle manner.
n. J. Bielenberg this week drove up 100
head of beef steers from Sun River. They
are very fine animals, worth $50 head and
are to be divided between Deer Lodge and
Butte.
There will be strawberry and icecream
festival at the Presbyterian church next
Wednesday evening. All are cordially in
vited to attend. Proceeds TO be used in re-
pairing the church building. Music by the
choir.
The Deer Lodge cornet band gave a con-
cert Of sacred must c in Court Square Sunday
evening, playing dozen or two fine pieces.
Their courtesy is appreciated by everybody,
and we hope they will not weary in well
doing.
There was no formal observance of Deco
ration Day in Deer Lodge, the suggestion
coming too late to enable the necessary pre-
partitions. Another year the day will doubt
less be observed with appropriate cere-
monies.
Mr.. Il. s. Kelly who was elected collector
for the Irvine Lake Fund, will call on con-
tributors next week for the amount of their
subscriptions. The expenses have all been
and now 1t is necessary the money
should all be promptly paid.
"The gamblers" say that "Deer Lodge
shows up more money than any other town
in Montana" And after all, the money on
the gambling tables is pretty fair test of
in western town-even as steady
a going town as Deer Lodge.
The rattle at the skating rink last Monday
evening resulted in ticket 100 drawing the
silver tea set, and ticket $40 drawing the gold
watch. The articles will be delivered on the
presentation of the tickets to Sister Evan
gelista, st. Marys Academy, Deer Lodge.
Two or three bands of horses of 200 or 800
each have passed through the past week,
destined for northern markets Mr.. Cooper,
Of Oregon, with first-rate band, is moving
in the same direction, and Tom. b. Warren,
is knocking off a few head where
there are purchasers, en- route.
Andrew King, fireman on the engine run
ming between Butte and Deer Lodge, had his
left foot crushed by an engine wheel last
Tuesday evening, just as the train was about
10 leave for Butte. He is at the Scott
House. 1t is not thought any amputation will
De required and that in five or six weeks he
will be out.
We noticed in DoRnell, Clark & Larabie's
gold retort, valued at $1,000. 1t was the pro-
iuct Of the first two weeks run this season
Of Rohrs, Kelley s. Co.'S Squaw Gulch mine,
where they are employing twelve men opsr-
lting three Giants. There is a very pleasant
little margin in such mining.
In excavating the cellar of y. j. Bielen-
,erg's house this week n one pound piece OF
wash quartz was found which contained
about one ounce of free gold, and was broken
Up into specimens as handsome as the cele-
,rated ones from the Gable mine. 1t indi-
;ates that there is a very rich vein of quartz
somewhere on the headwaters of Cottonwood
Creek.
G. NJ. Roberts, of Butte, with whom the
Warren & Nichols, had made
for the carriage of the mails |
between Warm Springs and Philipsburg on |
Ind after june /, 1888, until June 30, 1886, has
brown up the engagement OH the ground |
hat the matter had been misrepresented to |
lim by Mr.. Nichols. So that mail route is in |
IS bad fix as ever Won't Postal Agent Ban |
herman take that fraud in hand and straight |
m IL out?
Nelson Bennett & Co., who have the grad |
ne contract from Sweetland's to Mullan tun- |
lei land also of the overhead road now pro-
ectedl, have over two hundred men at work |
md are employing all workers who apply. |
they have headquarters at the French
ranch, and large supply store |
here. Last Sunday telephone station was |
,ut in ut their store, and persons can now
communicate from that point to Helena,
Deer Lodge, or Butte az readily as from a |
central station. This is a good thing for the |
raveling public to know.
pSSi 10 shc oSsfCcst CumulOuliy IN MOnIana. |
The shops in Butte were "out" this week; |
Helena butchers are diminishing for every /
'air OF horns in sight; and Charlie Bielen-
'erg posted in his doors last Friday, "No |
neat; go fishing" However, the crisis |
'assed here and OH Tuesday he had on the |
lock beef that cost $3.50 in the States when
wo years old. 1t was a fine Short Horn
eIfer, five years old, and dressed 800 pounds.
For reasons unnecessary to state she went to |
he shambles, with two others, and the next |
ay the Sun river cattle were here ready for
he block. IL seems strange that Montana
butchers should run short of beef cattle, but /
uch is the case now.
One of the prison mysteries was unraveled |
his week. Just before the assault on Guard
two prisoners, named Mitchell
nd Glover were discharged. 1t is known
low that Mitchell bought here the pistol |
With which the assault was made on Lock.
rood. He was permitted to return to the
rison yard after being furnished with clothes
nd slipped the pistol to Wells in the yard.
iitchell and Grover camped in the noun
aims near town for some days awaiting re-
ults, q conspiracy having been arranged
thereby the guards and warden were to be
aptured, the prison delivered, n gang mount
d and put on the road for the Jesse James
lyle Of adventure. IL looks as though the
itizens of Deer Lodge had better get togeth-
r n nd rousnlr aha,tt rerfain IN affara |