The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-02-16
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TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Mixsoula has csses of scarlatiun.
Missoula has 5000 subscribed for Presby-
terian church. -z--.------
The Helena knights of Pythiss will give
grand ball on The 10Th.
The ledge will soon be tapped i'm the 700
foot level Of the Lexington.
The. Herdd says tranpS ara coming to
Helena froM both directions.
The Northern Pacific Express Co, has es-
tablished Al Office in Helena.
Virginia City property has advanced fifty
per cent. ~ the past two years.
The last dividend of the Alice Company
was declared December Is, 1891.
Benton is figuring on high school build
ing to cost from $40 900 to $4,000.
Judge II. n. Mcguire has returned from
the Black Hills and may relocate in Mon.
tana.
Vim. Thompson, a lumber dealer in Butte,
has sold within the last year, gro, 900 feet Of
lumber.
Governor Crosby sent in the nomination of
d. II. Weston for Territorial Treasurer on
Thursday.
A Chamber of Commerce is being organ
lied at Billings, and n Bar Association at
Fort Benton.
Butte has an evening school in which PEN
manship and bookkeeping are taught three
times week.
General Anderson, chief engineer of the
Northern Pacific, was expected in Missoula
few days ago.
A mountain lion entered the corral of
Sayre Bros, near Martinsdale, recently, and
killed forty sheep.
The Benton Lodge, A. +. & A. NJ, is very
strong in numbers and has nineteen appli-
cants for initiation.
Mr.. Knippenberg has been reelected
superintendent of the Hecla company for the
ensuing three years
road for its boom-its boom viii bring the
Observation-Disclosures.
The Anaconda company had bonded tract
of land on the Big Hole for one year, and
has paid 81 900 forfeit.
Pinkeye is sand to be prevalent again south
Of Virginia City. Alex. Metzel lost his four
year-old stallion, Belmont"
Charles johnson, of Genoa, Nevada, wants
| his brother, G. c. johnson, whose home Is
somewhere in Montana, to write to him.
The Yellowstone National Park is sixty
| five miles long by fifty-tive miles wide and
contains 3,575 square miles or 1850 acres
The new Presbyterian church at Wickes
was dedicated, and Rev. T. n Todd installed
as pastor, on Wednesday evening Of last
| week.
Bullion shipments from Butte now average
sI20O00 per week, and the copper matte ship.
| meats are maintained equally well.-Inter
| Mountain.
The Helena Art Loan Association made q
fine exhibit OF oil paintings, crayon and
India ink sketches, and floral designs last
Thursday evening
The foreman of bridge carpenters at
O'Keeffes gulch is expected in few days
| from st. Panl, when about dozen men will
| be put to work upon this structure. e.
| The work of surveying the Nothern Pacific
| addition to Bozeman has been completed
| The plats have been taken to headquarters
| In short time the town lots will be on sale
Speaking of the item that Leigh r. Free
| man, of Butte, has brought suit against
| Sheriff Irwin for $4,000, the Auant Courier
don't think Mr.. Irwin has that much money
The vital statistics Of Montana show that
there were TIE births and 33s deaths in the
Territory during the past year. Nearly ten
per cent. Of the deaths resulted from vio-
| leEce.
John Douglass, aged about ffty-five years
froze to death in his cabin near the Clipper
mill, Butte, afew nights ago. He had beer
drinking, went to his cold cabin and froze II
death.
The towers for the bridge over Marent'
| gulch are now all framed, but the approache.
are yet to be framed. tits claimed this bridge
will be ready for the passage of trains by the
list of May.
| On the summit west Of Missoula the snow
is over two feet deep, and on the Jocko, eigh
miles west, the grass started during the warn
weather. There is no snow there. and the
cattle are all fat.
Mrs. Pete Lauzon. of Benton, was put II
| Jail last week for drnnkenness and disorderl,
conduct, which'so broke her proud spirit that
she attempted to hang herself, teasing up
skirt to make rope.
1t is reported that in answer to call TO
troops to defend the Jocko reservation
against the hangers-on following the railroad
construction, that Co. b. will be dispatched
to the reservation in few days.
No delay win be encountered in the fayinI
of track on the Nissoula division. Our folk
say they will have everything In readiness +
accomplish the highest attaiuabie speed Il
track-laying in the spring, and talk enthusi
astically Of two to four miles per day. lie
her come MissouiioR.