The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-08-17
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

A lodge of Masons is soon to be established
at Billings, Montana.
Silver Bow County expects to show So
| 600 600 assessment roll this year.
| 1t Is said newspaper is soon to be started
at Clendenin by Prof. Mortsan.
| James McDevitt, of Benton, has bought
the race horse Sorrel Pete, for S525,
1t is asserted at Miles City that Council
man Charles G. Cox Is soon to be reinstated
in the army.
The restaurant of Ellis 6 Lee, Walker
vile, burned Monday morning. Loss 81, 800,
insurance 81 200.
Lightning broke pane Of glass in II. G.
Valiton's house Sunday and just missed a
visiting young lady.
General Manager Dodge of the Denver Il
Rio Grande, says that the road will be ex-
tended into Montana.
| McBurney & Haas have the contract TO
build the round house at Helena. George"
is liable to strike it rich yet.
Hugh M.Quaid has returned to Helena
after brief trip east One ticket, no trunks;
case absolutely hopeless now.
Schwab & Zimmerman, Helena, are put
ting two more stories on the Cosmopolitan
Hotel, at an expense of $4,000.
J. \. Leggat's planning MILL Butte, burned
last Saturday night. Loss, $1,000; insurance,
IS, 600 The origin of the fire is unknown
BY the falling of scaffolding in Bozeman
tunnel Sunday three men had their legs
broken. One of the number had both legs
broken.
Since the Bozeman Coal Company began
| work they have taken out of their mines
som" 300 tons of good quality Of bitumin-
| Gus fuel.
| There is a big herd of eastern editors run
| ming around wild in the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park, and the game limits were out
yesterday.
S H. Crounse. Esq, of Helena, and Miss
Kate Stuart BRAY were married at the resi-
deuce of VIM. Mulcahy, Sun River, bv Rev.
Mr.. Mills, on the evening of the Sth inst.
A Park tourist says the only outrage on
the trip to or through the Park is a charge of
| twenty-five cents per mile for stage convey
| ance from the end of track TO Mammoth Hot
Springs.
The Waterman hotel project has fzzled'
| and the check for the first months to Wal
lace Brown IN advance has been relurned
from Evanston unpaid. Thus ends the first
| chapter.-Heraid, 18th.
YES, he was in here the night before last
| He just came in and registered on a towel.
| and went west" Thi, was apoIite way of
| saying a railroad man had come in and
washed his face.-Bozeman Chronicle.
Matt Carroll, with his partners, W II
Buck and Ira Myers, have sold their large
herd of cattle and their Teton ranch. corrals,
and improvements, for $685. Captain C.
p. Higgins, of Missoula, is the purcha, er.
The President has appointed Henry
Thompson and John l.. Davenport of New
York City, and Garrett Smith, of G -neva
n. Y, commission to examine and report
upon fifty miles Of completed Northern Pa
citic railroad in Montana.
Carl J. Adolphson, sentenced on the 25th
day of June, 1888, by the Judge of the First
Judicial District ut Bozeman to DO hanged
| on next Friday, has been respited until
Thursday, the eth day of February, 1885.
The reason for the respite by Acting Cover
nor McCutcheon is that the appeal cannot be
heard at the present term of the Supreme
Court on account of the absence of one
Judge.
We have before us Il Northern Pacific spe-
cial cattle tariff. for the season of 1888. Civ
Ing rates per car load upon cattle, loaded
| and unloaded by the owners, from points be-
tween Bozeman and Mandan to st. Paul or
Minneapolis and Chicago The rate from
Glendive to st. Paul or Minneapolis per car
load is 800 and to Chicago S130.-Giendivs
Times.
On last Wednesday the Red Rock
tion-Salmon City coach was stopped by two
masked men on the Montana side of the
Main Range and robbed There were no
passenger on board that day. The driver,
'Eed" Mcdonald, was held up aud robbed
of S3O-all the money he had with him. 1t
is not known at this writing whether the
hlghwaymrn secured any additional money
or valuables.-Niner.
Mrs. Scott, late of Rapid City, Dakota, and
for several years manager of the Northern
Pacific Hotel ut Bozsman, has decided to To-
cate in Livingston, and will soon be prepared
to let furnished rooms, either singly or en-
suite. Having leased the entire upper floors
of the French block, on Main street, Mrs.
Scott will have them all elegantly furnished
and ready for occupancy by the first of next
wrek.-LiviRqston Tribune.
On visit to Bozrmau Pass tunnel we
found work progressing very rapidly, n pro.
gress of 2l2 feet having been made in the
month of July in the east end. The west end
10 feet which as yet has to be timbrred, but
indications point TO reaching solid rock
soon. The east end had penetrated the
mountain ,5O2 feet Sunday last. and the west
end 100 feet, so that there remains about
400 feet yet to be driven. Mr.. Muir thinks
he can complete the tunnel within the pres
ent year.-Chronicle, sth.
Chandler s. Chatter, who purchased the
ranch Of Charles Roth at the Big Falls of
the Missouri. propose to put in a paper mill
by the middle of September, and utilize the
power OF the falls for running 1t. They will
build hume to conduct the water. Mr..
Chandler is now in the east, and Mr.. Chatter
is at Tacoma, Washington Territory. They
viii shortly return to complete the purchase.
AA shSiucsE from new OrK mas Deen at the
Falls making a survey of the property
Record.
Another bank, with n capital of $50 900,
has been organized, to BE- called the FIRST
National Bank of White Sulphur Springs. |
The stockholders are mostly made up of the
"solid" men Of Meagher county, together
with l.. II. Hcrshfeld and Aaron HershfieId,
bankers Of Helena, and John II. Moe, late
Register of the U. s. Land Office at Helena.
1t Is understood that Mr. Moe will be the
cashier, who every member of his acauaint-
ance will say is worthily entitled to the i'm. |
rortant position.
The Northern Pacific Company should |
whisper gently in the sun burned ear of |
Davis, the publisher of the Raii,cay Journal, |
that such towns ~ Butte, Virginia City, Dill |
Ion, and Deer Lodge, are not to be ignored |
In even so great publication as he is .'Gen'l |
Man'r" of.-Auant Courier. I'VE do not /
know that Mr.. Davis's omission of these
towns will affect them very disastrously, but
1t was somewhat notable omission, espe-
cially as he visited Butte.)
A large quantity of railroad building ma
al l,a. Tn t,a