The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-03-30
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

The Billings Herald is to be daily.
The Virginia City school term ends April
seventh.
Benton will vote on the question Of incor-
poration next Monday.
1t is expected the population of Judith
Valley will be doubled this summer.
Superintendent Conger has applied for a
force of ten policemen for service in the Ma
tional Park.
Sloans tie boom above Misssoula broke q
few days ago and large number of ties went
down the river
Smith river, Meagher county, will cult
vate more than double the acreage this year
that IL did last
4 number of eastern capitalists have re-
Gently made purchases of Bozemau property
at good figures.
The passenger fare from Helena to st. Paul
has been fixed at s6s, and To New York IL
will be about 500.
General Sherman, Chief Justice Waite and
Justice Gray are expected to visit Montana
the coming summer.
Hon. d. B. Batten, late member of the
Legislature from Missoula, has left for the
Pacific coast and may not return.
10 Is reported that company will be or
ganized at Helena this spring to manu- factur-
cement drain, tile and water pipes
Cheyenne capitalist wants to supply
Hel.na with gas works and desires an exclu.
sivs privilege for ten or fifteen years.
Missoula accepted the incorporation act
by an almost unanimous vote. The election
of city officers will take place April 9th.
The Miles City theatre has new star ac-
tress who put an immense head on the stage
manager the first day Of her engagement.
David Lindsey, an eccentric genius who
was occupying his time making flying ma
chine, died in Bate of pneumonia recently.
There are nineteen hundred and twenty
acres Of land within the limits of the city of
Bozeman, IS prescribed by the Incorpora-
ton act
The big trestle over Marents Gulch il now
over 100 feet high, but delay is occasiened
by scarcity Of rope and tackle. II is to be
2z7 feet high.
A Helena correspondent of the Inter Noun
taia intimstes that the lynching Of Coembs
and Smith was not warranted by evidences
of their gait.
Helena Is having built a skating pavilion
s5xlee feet, with gall cries surrounding it on
all sides. lin Deer Lodge the gallery is all
over the houss)
A change Of venue has been taken In seve-
raj Of the pending suits, involving the sur
face title to large portion of the Butte
A mammoth 14e-horse power Cerliss-R ey-
nokls engine and a complete quartz crushing
outfit arrived at Livingston last week for the
Clarke's Fork mine.
Sam Hauser contemplates the erection of q
fine residence this spriRg in the city. The
plan will be drawn by celebrated architect
in the east.-Herald.
James w. Whitlatch, the old quartz finder,
to whom Montana owes much OF its early
day prosperity, Is in Butte and may invest In
mining properties there.
The Benton Bar Associations requires and
will see to it that each professional man be-
fore practicing Is such in that county shall
pay license OF SD per annum.
1t is not likely that the electric light will
shine again until the return of Mr.. w. A.
CIa-k. who is the heaviest stakeholder in the
electric light company.--Iater Mountain.
Its probable that the next Stopping place
of the Northern Pacific win be at Antoine's
Ferry; Then at the Agency, the end Of
Clarkes Fork Division, and next at Missoula.
Rezin Anderson. who was under treat
ment for rheumatism at White Sulphur
Springs, has returned to his home. The
Husoandma,s does NOT say whether he was
cured or not
Mail Tor Helena paw comes through from
Bismarck In foar days, papers Of that city,
dated March 2Ah having been received at
this Office iast plght- The 18th -Iadepe~denf
That makes ave days.
X. Biedler has shown us tho thanks which
he received from the Legislature. They are
fine large thanks-in fact we have never seen
. better article. X. Is going to have them
uffed.-Beafon Record.
Charley Lynch, Of Horse Plains, came up
on Tuesday night. He reports the Plains -
just now shout tt3 livlieat place In the coun-
y, It being the tsansfsr ktation for rail and
stage Missouiion.
After passing the Pen d'OreilIe river rail-
way progress viii be very rapid to Marsnt's
gulch. and II IL altogether probable that by