The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-10-19
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| same Mclean man.
A new arrangement has gone into effect by
which Wells, Fargo g. Co.'S express viii
| toward express matter from Salt Lake to all
points in Montana. The arrangement does
not give Montana competitive rates, as the
business is said to be pooled between the
| express companies
Lewis Smith and John Mentally, wood
| choppers on Virginia creek, Lewis and
Clarke county, encountered q black bear one
| day last week and in the fight that ensued
| they got badly worsted, but they viii recover
from their injuries. The men were unarmed
except with one pocketknife.
The passenger rates of the Northern Paei-
| fc, from st. Paul, since October LIST, are:
To San Francisco and Portland, first-class
S95. The rate has heretofore been 500 to
Portland and $40 to San Francisco. The
second class rate remains the same, So to
San Francisco and SIS to Portland.
Butte is one of the few cities in the coun-
try that can boast of a baseball team that
has passed through the season without de-
feat-Inter Mountain. Helena is one of the
few cities in the country that can boast of
baseball team that has passed through the
season without victory.-Endependent
The Butte Miner says: A number of idle
mines have started up recently, which will
be worked through the winter Almost
every mill and smelter in the camp is to be
provided with additional stamps, blasts and
other improvements, and the outlook for
mining interests was never more fattering.
Joseph s. Hill, we'll known and promi-
nent citizen of Fort Benton, and county
commissioner of Choteau county, died last
Sunday at WELLESLEY Hill, Massachusetts
Mr.. Hill was not only an able commissioner
but useful and enterprising cstizen, and it [
will be with feelings of deep regret that his
many friends throughout the territory will |
hear of his death. 4
A general movement is ON foot among cat |
tie and sheep men of Choteau county to kill |
off the large number of wolves which lnfsst |
the country. prominent sheep mau has |
the matter in hand and proposes to have
some plan arranged which will rid the coun-
try of the four-foCted pests. Several voting
parties are now out
An eastern paper says that cable dispatch
brings the following bit of news from Am
sterdam: "The diploma of honor of the
highest award for the best collection of |
mineral specimens has been given BY the
Amsterdam exhibition to the proprietor of
the Zeehandelaar specimens, which comprise
400 different minerals, from the mines of
Montana, Utah and Idaho
The Livingston Enterprise describes pc
culiar mineral curiosity brought into Liv-
ingston by Dan Edwards. 1t consists of the
root of small tree coated over with copper
to the depth of several inches. It was taken
from spring in the upper part of Emigrant
Gulch. The waters are heavily impregnated
with copper, any substance thrown into it
being quickly stained green.
In the Claws of Montana Territory" re-
Gently published in pamphlet form, occurs
an omission of some importance to county
school superintendent. 1t occurs in section
11O2 in can act to amend the Montana school
law" and is as follows: land said superin-
tendent shall lie allowed by said commission
ers his reasonable travelling and postage ex-
penses not to exceed four dollars per school
district, to be paid out of the county school
Tribune.
DR.. A. j. Hunter, in a letter to the Indepen-
dent, mentioned the fact that he was men,
Der of Montana's first constitutional conven-
ton. The convention was called together
in 1866 by Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher
acting Governor, in response to petitions
from all parts of the Territory. DR.. Hunter
was one Of the members from Gallatin coun-
ty, and is, as he says, the only one of that
county's delegation still alive.
Last week the body of a young man was
found in the Beayerhead river, near Dillon,
q bullet hole in the center of the forehead
and the skull mashed in over the right eve in |
dicating that he bad been fouIiy dealt with
The remains were not identified. The Tri5-
lne says this is the third corpse found near
there under similar circumstances within q
year and half, and thinks there should be
some sort Of an investigation. ,
The Messrs. Jameson, who left this town
about month ago on a hunting expedi ton,
returned yesterday. Sam Elwell, of White | {
Sulphur Springs, acted as their guide He !
reports that the trip was a successful one,
quantity of large game of /,
various kinds, including bear, elk and big
horn, having fallen beneath their rifles , ,
The hunting was principally done in the G
Water country and the Clarke's
Fork mountains. Tomorrow they will dis
pose of their outfit by auction and leave for :
home.-Bilinos Herald.
The bench excavation in Mullen tunnel !
was completed yesterday evening, and the '
full dimensions of the great bore extended :
rom end to end. To finish up the work pre- 9
paratory to laying the track through, drains
IN either side of the tunnel to carry off the 7
wafer nnyt n no 1un ThiS tlo l y
mall amount Of timbering required will be
'ut of the way shortly. 1t is probable that c
rains will commence to pass Through the q
unnel by the last of the present or the first of
lext month.-Heraid, 18th. i
The Grand Army posts of Utah, Idaho, =
nd Montana have been organized into the =
department. of Utah, with the following of
cers: Department Commander, DIR. George
}. Douglass, Salt Lake; senior vice -depart-
nent commander, P. r. Delmau, Butte; iun-
Or vice-department commander, Phil Girls
ey, Lewiston, Idaho; medical director, NJ.
4. Balne, Salt Lake; chaplain, Rev. T. C. t.
lift, Salt Lake; council of administration, U
sansford Smith and L. Il. Stevens, Ogden, .
!. Il. Bradley, Bellevue, FL. G. Kessler, Butte, e
nd L. Sells, Salt Lake; assistant quarter
faster seherai, Charies ). Warren, Butte. II
David I. Luc9s, of Stockwell, Indiana, f
nd Luther Lucfs, of the same place, are a
mong the arrivals last evening, and are Il
topping at the Merchants. David was II
mong the early prospecters that worked I
Ilder Gulch in 1864, and had placer claims q
n the Elk Horn. He came there with /
rother William, who got tired of mining Y
nd went to farming on Mill Creek, about "
miles from Virginia City, where he culti- O
ated, among other things, ten acres of po-
ltoes, which he sold at a dollar per pound "a
'aiizing $1,000 out of his ten acre farm in
sS5. Mr. David Lucas left Montana in 1868
la Fort Benton, where he took passage on =
'e steamer Tom Stevens, which had just
JADE the trip from Benton up to the great
Ills of the Missouri. Mr.. Lucas and his
rother have returned here to look after the
fects of a brother noyv daaI Us.ory | an