The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-01-12
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

old timers.
A lodge of A. o. U. W. has been organized
at Glendale.
The Miles City postoffice has just Leen sup
piled with Yale boxes.
The bullion output Of the Alice mine in
1882 amounted to 100000.
A Post of the Grand Army Of the Republic
is to be organized in Butte.
The Western Union Telegraph wire has
reached Bozeman from the east.
Vic. Smith, the Glendive hunter, killed
81 butfaloes during the last hunt.
A Philipsburg man named Lynch won the
piano at the Catholic fair at Butte.
Rev. L. l.. Wood, of the Helena Baptist
church is lecturiAg on spiritualism.
Forty per cent. of the Butte city tax for
1882 went delinquent on the LIST inst.
The internal revenue collections in Mon
tana for the year just closed were s7s,Soo.
A man named Sweeney was killed over
gaming table in a Weeksville saloon last
week.
George Henault, Of Missoula, advertises
that his wife, Henrelie, has left his bed and
board.
v-.E. Brearclih, of Sweathouse, has been
appointed a commissioner of Missoula
county.
Frank Murray fell and broke bone
of his right arm at the skating rink in Butte
last Sunday.
1t is estimated that $50, 000, 900 have passed
over Donnell, Clark s. Larabies' Butte bank
counter in 1882.
JIM. Sharp, Tongue river ranchman, has
bought the Burteld band of 5, 900 sheep, pay
ing $40, 900 for them.
The Glendive Times has enlarged to eight
columns and is neatly gotten up, but its inside
is still printed in st. Paul.
There were 337 quartz lodes located in
Madison county during the year 1882. In the
previous year there were 365
TN. Lowry, the retiring sheriff Of Silver
Bow county, was presented with q handsome
gold watch by his deputies, a few evenings
since.
The total assessment values of Montana for
the year 1882 foot up sSa, 321 ,3l9.12, being an
5l272.
The tax levy for Silver Bow county for
1888 is thirteen mills, a reduction Of five
mills from last year. Road tax SO, and poor
tax So.
J. w. Cassidy, Of Missoula, is thought to
be insane. He has been on four weeks
spree. during which time he has never been
in bed.
The Territory of Montana presents the
best showing for the yield of Irish potatoes
this year. The average yield is 132 bushels
per acre.
The marriage of W. T. Pigott, Esq, of Vir-
ginia City, and Miss Jennie Curtis, Of Lou
isiana, Mo, was to take place at the latter
place yesterday.
TIE Bishop OF Montana has authorized the
organization of an Episco opal Mission at Bill
llngs, and has appointed Rev. VIM. Hsrsfall,
of Miles, as missionary.
Ed. Stone, General Land Agent of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, recently sold
twelve lots in the new town of Townsend,
near Centreville, for $1,000.
The holiday season was enlivened at Sun
River by the elopement of Joseph White and
Miss Matte Strong. They were married in
Carterville and returned homo.
An old man named Alfred Foster, who
lived on ranch near Stevensville, was found
dead 10 the road near his home New Years
Eve. 1t is thought he died in a fit.
spopee, the Piegan Indian who murdered
Ct.- t. .rl h<ox lnot I,
sentence was commuted to imprisonment for
life, died in the Detroit House of Correction
about a month ago.
K. A. briggs, of Butte, met with a painful
accident few days since. In playful mood
one of his horses reared and struck him on
the head, infficsing some painful, though no,
dangerous, wounds.
George Burns, q prominent rancher Of
NJ adison valley, is reported as mysteriously
absent from home for the past three weeks
and 1t is feared he has fallen into some of the
prospect holes that abound in that section.
Lee Protzman, charged with being habit
| ual wife beater, was tried at Butte on the Sd
| inst and released on the understanding that
If he didn't leave town Immediately and try
through the mill.
The office of the Inter- Mountains Freeman
at Butte has been closed on attachment pre-
ceedings, instituted by Geo. w. Carleton
formerly business manager and editor, and
John c. Kramer, printer in the Office, fol
salary due, amounting to between $500 and
5000.
George =, McConkey, formerly of Ban
mack, and at one time Treasurer of Beaver
head county, was found dead in his Office al
Hamilton, Nevada, on January Sd, but
whether McConkey committed suicide or wa
murdered had net been ascertained. He wa,
agent for Wells, Fargo & Co., and alse
county treasurer.
A man named Charles Mulherrin, who
formerly resided in the Territory, was muir
dered at Pendleton, Oregon, last month. He
WAS in Helena in the winter 1889, but 1t Il
not known where he went from there. VIM
b. May of Pendleton, desires to hear of any
friends Of the murdered man who may b,
residents of this section.
Fort Logan, owned by Judge Caddis, has
!, recently been sold to Eastern parties fol
| Eso,oou. Lho piopCiey NohoAse VA aqua siuuis
miles of land and the military and suffers
buildings. It Is to be used for horse ranch
a purpose to which 1t is we'll adapted. Judge
Gaddis purchasedit about two years ago from
the Government for 81 900.
Sheriff Reinhardt, Of Beaverhoad, returned
from Maine last week without the man, f
Z. Savage, he went after. Governor Plaistet
refused to honor the requisiticn of GoverneI
Potts on the ground that the Maine law re-
quiring an affidavit from the public prosecu.
tor that there was sufficient evidence to con
vict, was not complied with.
Cranks are finding their way into this necl
of the woods. A man named Barr came her,
last week and claimed that a reward Of $40,
600 was offered for his capture by the author
tiles Of o county away back In Indiana.
deputy took him to Jail for day or 80, wher
an answering telegram from Indiana state.
that they knew nothing Of Missoulim'
An old man named Alfred Foster, who:.ha
for some time past lived on ranch about
mile and half above Stsvensville, was fount
dead In the road last Sunday evening. Dur
ing the day he had been seen Ia town, an,
late in the afternoon started for home OF
foot He was probably taken with ft o
some description, and called to his final &C
count, suddenly and alone.