The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-08-24
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

/ Perry Bros, Of Billings, have garden
with an area Of 81 acres.
John Chinnick, the victim Of the mysteri-
Gus shooting at Miles City, Is dead.
There are now between twenty-five and
thirty business houses in Townsend.
There was slight snow storm in Butte last
Saturday, August l6, 1869 was very cold
day.
Kleinschmidt Bros. are closing their Ben
ton establishment and are shipping their
goods to Helena.
Ut, Gilmer's celebrated runner, Red Boy,
will be entered for the Fall Races of the
West side Racing Association.
The Queen Of the Hills, Homestaks and
O'Brien mines at Barker, have been bonded
to l. G.. Barker s. Co., for $4,000
The Inter Mountain uniquely refers to
drunken man az "one who was trying to
make bonded warehouse of himself"
The assessment of Dawson county in 1888
will exceed $500, 200, an increase over last
year of about $500, 0OO.-Glendirs Times.
Senator NJ. P. Hill, of Colorado, and Fl. R.
wolcott manager of the Boston ami Colo
RADIO smelter at Denver, were in Butte last
Monday.
John s. Lindsay has secured Ming's Opera
House for fair week, and is arranging for
some new people to strengthen his present
company. -
Twenty miles will be the length of the
Helena and Jefferson County Railroad, and
but ons mile of the track will be in Lewis &
Clarke County.
The lines from opposite directions in the
Mullan tunnel came together within two
inches, the grades met within three quarters
of an inch, and the length within half a foot.
l.. s. Leavitt shot and killed Jack James
at Barker Junction. on Upper Otter Creek,
Meagher County. Leavitt was arrested. The
men had quarreled about some business mat
terS.
Lena Ellison, the little girl who was acct
dentally shot by her little brother six months
ago, is regalning her health and the attend
ing doctor says she will eventually be able to
walk.
General Grant Secretary Lincoln. w. NJ.
Evarts, Chief Justice Coleridge, and Major
Lander, Of the Bavarian army, are among
the notables who are expected to witness the
driving OF the golden spike.
The freight rates on hides and peltries
from Butte to Council Bluffs and Norfolk,
Nebraska, have been reduced to 500 per 100
pounds in less than car load lots, and 81 10 in
lots not less than IL, 900 pounds.
The Ro,apoon Tn1rior S.yo ,yha,
Hauser read few remarks the NEW NORTH
WEST made about him two weeks ago, he
blushed for the first time since he common
ced voting the Democratic ticket.
A rumor was current last night that as a
result of some shabby treatment on the part
of the management, the representatives of
Montana, Arizona, and New Mexico had
withdrawn from the Denver exposition
Miner, 21st.
An example Of the rapid strides which the
Territory is making in given in an item In
the River Press, which says that the assessor
has returned from his official trip to the Up
per Teton and that in the section he visited
he found 100000 worth of taxable property
as against 500, 900 last year. He says 1t is
simply astonishing how the Upper Teton
country is filing up with settlers.
II. W. Cole intends to light Main street,
Helena, every night during the fair with ten
Of the 1000 candle power electric lamps,
distributed at proper distances apart. He
says, too, that If the Fair Association wants
to have night races he will light the track
for them and make 1t light as day. This
would be a novelty in Montana horse racing
which would be likely to be- very popular.
John +. Harper, of Meaderyille, near
Butte, a professional wifebeater, who left the
country last spring, returned recently and
began troubling his wife again. Sheriff Irwin
run him down Monday finding him secreted
in cabin on Yankee Doodle gulch, and ar
rested him. Harper was allowed to go to the
brook to get drink, and while there, I'M
known to any one, took dose of strychnine.
The Sheriff found it out soon after, when, AZ
they were driving along toward Meaderville
the man was seized with spasms. He died
in few minutes after reaching NJ eaderville
We recently chronicled the commitment
to the Insane Asylum at Warm Springs, of
Mrs. A. G. Hanchild of this city Three
weeks ago, As a result of childbirth, Mrs
Hanchild became afflicted with puerperal in
sanity, her mania being astrange aversion to
her friends and relatives and total ignor-
ing of the child she had brought into life.
Her disease rapidly assumed the form of a
high state of nervous excitement, entire
sleeplessness and ar times tendency to vio-
lence which made it necessary to place her
under the treatment and restraint of the
asylum. She died August 16th.-Miner.