The new North-west., 1883-11-30

TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Ben Hogan is still evargelizing in Butte.
Malcom McCtsh has been sent from Butte
to the lnsanc Asylum.
The Alice Company has shipped $4,000
since the 9Th of November.
The total cost of the Collar mill, at Maiden,
including its machinery, was $4,000.
The Miles City Artesian Well Company
has decided to bore another well immedi-
ately. ~
The Madissnian stated last Saturday that
the Virginia City Reduction Works would
start up this week.
Mr.. Stone reports that the sales of lots in
this date to about $55 ,000
The Fargo Foundry Company offer to re-
move their works to Livingston, IL land for
sites and cash bonus are given.
The Northern Pacific has issued an order
that'all employees on trains and at stations
over the line must appear in uniform.
Forty-three steam hoists are actively en-
gagged raising the precious metals from the
bowels of the earth in Summit Valley Dis
trict
The last train load of Montana cattle de-
livered in Chicago averaged 1894 pounds
each, and they sold at the top figures The
steers averaged s625 per hundred pounds,
and the others So.
Milton G. Church, clerk in the Land De-
partment of the N. p. r. r. Co. at Helena,
suicided in Helena Tuesday by pistol shot.
He had been for some time suffering from an
affection of the throat.
Katie Putnam is being crowned with hon
ors. While in the South she was elected an
honorary member of fire company, and n
st. Louis post of the G. A. r. has recently
conferred upon her a similar honor.
A Salt Lake mule kicked the local editor
| of the Herald on the jaw few days ago and
the owner of the quadruped has brought suit
against the proprietors of that newsy sheet
for ST. to pay for reshoeing the mule.-Inter-
Mountain.
The machinery for the new plant of the
Helena Electric Light and Power Company
has arrived, and will he placed in position at
the new water works. The new plant will
have three new dynamos, with 4O.light
capacity each.
A hunter just in from the range reports a
herd of buffalo numbering about 70, 900 in the
vicinity Of the Belle Fourche, and also that
about forty lodges Of Gros Ventres are hunt,
ing them, besides large number of Milk
River half f-breeds.-Miles City Journal.
The Livingston Enterprise says it is re-
ported case of smallpox developed at q
boarding house in Bozeman last Monday
The house where the patient was was quar-
antined, but some of the inmates got away
and went east ON the train, some stopping o.
Livingston.
Editor Pierce, of the Challis Qdaho) Mes
senger, who went to Anaconda q week ago t.
see what show there was for starting news
paper Mt that town, went back home Sunda,
morning, completely cured of his notion. II,
thinks the field already well filed by tn
Butte and Deer Lodge papers, D lion Trib
une.
The Marquis de Mores has bought seve
lots of Messrs Cannon, Hoback & Fisk, pay
ing for them $1,000. The property is in tn
vicinity of the depot grounds and next to tn
railroad. De Mores, who is president of th
Northern Pacific Refrigerator Car Company
will erect warehouses for his company upo
the ground purchased Independent.
1t is now stated that Ed. Stone, as repre-
senting the Northern Pacific, has secured tn
title to the town site of Gardiner, which ha
been so long in dispute. Cutler, or Bucl
skin Jim," who was the adverse claiman
admits that he has lost his claim, and say
that Ed. Stone has the patent to the land.
The Miles City Journal is glad of the pro-
pect of Wells, Fargo & Co. putting in an e,
press on the N. P. road, with a consequer
reduction of rates. As an instance of how
works now, 1t says: "A box of oysters b
express from Chicago to st. Paul costs
cents, and the same box costs over sS froI
st. Paul to this city, not quite twice the di
tauce."
The drill in the artesian we'll seems to hav
penetrated to the bottom of the slate form:
tion at depth of 775 feet At that depth
hard limestone rock has been struck, appa
emily in the form of boulders. Those VIII
are skilled in such matters look upon this q
an indication that the artesian reservoir wi
speedily be tapped, and certainly any chang
is desirable that rids us of the tiresome slat
formation which has lasted so long.-BiHins
Herald.
The Western Unien has adopted the ne'
standard time, and has issued circular d
recting all managers of Offices to observe tn
time in use in their respective belts or zone
in transmitting business. Montana is /
what is known as the Mountain division q
zone, and the standard meridian Is the on
hundred and fifth, which passes throug
Denver and crosses the Yellowstone at
point about midway between Glendive an
Miles City.
Nick j. BeIleuberg, of Butte and Dee
Lodge, has recently purchased all the su
plus beef cattle on Horse Prairie, in th
county, estimated at 800 to 1000 head. A
extensive slaughter house will be establishe
, at some convenient point on the Prairie, an
rs soon as the cold weather will permit, th
cattle will be killed and the meat permitte
to freeze, in which condition It will be shiI
ped to the markets for which it Is intende,
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