The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-05-11
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
Judge A. j. Davis has returned to Butte.
The postoffice at Mullan tunnel has been
discontinued.
The new sleeper on the N. P. r. r. is
named Missoula.
The knight Templars of Helena paraded
| on Ascension day.
Carl Trowbridge is wanted at Glendive to
explain away charge of bigamy.
The Barker smeter Is running out from
100 to 200 bars Of bullion every twenty-four
| hours.
Custer county warrants are worth only fif-
| teen per cent. of their face value in the home
| market
A CGur dAlene chief offers 375 cayuse
ponies to any white man who will marry his
daughter.
The Custer county Jail is empty. It's a
good deal the same way with the treasury
Independent.
The Park branch of the N. p. will be fifty.
three miles in length and will be finished In
ninety days.
During this season the Northern Pacific
expect to receive $4,000 tons of railroad iron
at Duluth and Superior.
The Custer county grand jury at its recent
sitting found forty-one indictments against
various accused persons.
The City Marshal of Missoula is allowed
$50 per month besides fees. Policemen are
paid So per day and fees.
The river was twenty inches above low
water mark at o'clock last night and still
rising .-Benton Press, 4h.
During the recent storm, w. G. Gillette, of
Dearborn, lost 600 young lambs The storm
came just in the Landing season.
The steamer Gen. Meade was badly dam
aged at the breakup at Sioux City, and fears
were entertained of her going to pieces.
Five thousand sacks of ore, belonging to
the Hecla company, are piled up near Lion
City awaiting transportation to the smelter
1t has been ordered by the City Council
that Helenas policemen be dressed Ia uni
form. My! amt we going to put on style
Independent.
The Asant Courier says it is informed that
Gen. Lester S. Wilson contemplates closing
out business in Bozeman and hopes the re-
| port in not true.
The Henry Willard Hydraulic Mining Com
pany is the title of a new concern which has
been organized in Bozeman. The capital
stock Is ST $500
Potts & Harrison have sold their big black
English draft stallion, Duke of York weight
$50 pounds) to the Montana Cattle company
| Consideration, $500.
The must be something very terrible in
Custer county, Montana, justice. Every
| murderer convicted there commits suicide
| forthwith.-Pioneer Press.
Charles Roberts, general manager of the
Yellowstone Park Improvement company,
has gone east for Slo0 900 to pay off the men
employed and other Indebtedness
Hon. J. B. Grinnell, founder of the noted
Iowa temperance town that bears his name,
has caught the Montana cattle fever and
located fine ranch on the Musselshell.
The local page of the Husbaadman indi.
Gates White Sulphur Springs is thriving. that
business is good and many patients are de-
irving benefit from the health-giving waters.
The recent term of court in Custer county
closed with fifteen convictions, including
Daniel Lahey, for murder in the first degree.
and Henry Lump, for murder in the second
degree.
There Is some talk of having the new
| skating rink condemned as a nuisance-resi-
! dents In the vicinity declaring that their
needed rest is sadly broken by the iucessant
racket.-Auant Courier.
T. X. Staeler, travelling agent of the North.
ern Pacific, came up the road few days ago
with 100 Michigan miners who are headed
for the Clarke's Fork mines, and $50 were
expected on the 9Th for the same point.
On the Goth ult. w. 81. Raymond g. Bro, of
Belmont Park, sold to John Donegan, of
Upper Ruby Valley, Madison county, for
$1,000, the three-year-old colt Defiance, by
Commodore Belmont, son of Alexanders
Belmont, sire of Nutwood
Little Nellie Scannell died yesterday morn
| ing, being the fourth death In that afflicted
family in the past week. The funerals of
| little Nellie and Michael, who died the night
before, took place at 8 o'clock yesterday
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, I'd. j
Hon. Samuel Word, legal adviser of the
| Utah & Northern company, says that q
branch road from the west side TO the
National Park Is one of the sure things. Mr..
Word tntimates that the starting point will
| be Dillon and on to the Park ria Virginia
City.-DAlon Tribune.
The Nadisonian says of an old timer of this
Territory: yves. Travis, who was reported
In a ,unatic asylum of Colorado, turns up IN
Bristol, Nevada, in possession of all his
senses, but minus an arm, which lie lost In
some manner not stated by the Phoebe
Record, from which we obtain the news.
The examination by Drs. Cole and Brown
of Fohrmanu's brain showed It's weight to
| be forty-eight ounces, q fair average. Fobr.
mann was physically small man, weighing
less than one hundred pounds. The surgeons
pronounced the brain healthy, with nothing
to indicate that he was not a sane man.
| Herald.
Judge Wade appointed A. B. Curry. of
Livingston, James Grovely and j. s. Dick.
erson, Of Bozeman, comrn,ssiener. IN con.
demn the right OF way for the Park Branch
over the contested branch along the line
They are now out along the route attending
TO the work for which they were appointed.
| Billings Herald.
| sixty carloads Of ranch stock bound for
Montana were expected in St Paul day or
two ago. Thirty carloads are consigned to
W. Carpenter, at Miles City. Paris Gibson
has now en- route to Fort Benton two car
loads OF Merino sheep for the Improvement
OF his herds. They will 20 from Bismarck
by steaner-Bilings Herald.
The Virginia City Reduction company has
secured the services Of Mr.. Henry Kemper,
formerly Of Glendale, to superintsnd the
work Of putting up the concentrating works
IN this city. Mr.. Kemper bears the reputa-
ton Of being highly-skilled mechanic. and
~ nd considerable experience In erecting
works OF this Sort Madisonim