The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-10-05
LOCAL BREVITIES.

: Lake last Sunday.
Oats are downto J.! cents per pound an
hay is up to sl4 per ton.
Mr.. Phil. +. Evans is building large bar
on his ranch on lineup Joe.
1t began raining last Monday morning an
the weather since has been broken.
II. S-Neal is building him neat and com
Portable log house on upper Main street.
The County Commissioners meet on mex
Monday week as Board of Equalization.
The Butte term OF court viii close thi
week. The Dillon term begins Monday next
The rains of the past week may fill the
wells somewhat, which were rapidly going
dry.
None of the new two-cent stamps have
been received as yet at the Deer Lodge post
office.
A social ball at O'Neilps Theater, Tuesday
night, was largely attended and very. enjoy
| able affair.
E. L. Bonner & Co. have new advertise.
ment to-day, which may prove of interest to
our readers.
The U. & n. Co put in a telegraph station
at Garrison on Sunday, the Office being tenn
porarily in a car.
W. S. Childs is opening abusiness house at
Gold Creek station, and says 1t is the boss
town in that section.
Alex. &. Botkin, United States Marshal for
Montana, advertises for proposals to furnish
penitentiary supplies.
The Pritchard creek mines are beginning
TO be advertised again. 1t is not an inviting
field to prospect at this season.
Good pictures in cloudy weather guaran-
teed, or no charge. Come before it is too
late to j. L. Allison's photograph car.
The steam-heating apparatus put in the
Collegiate Institute by James Renshaw, of
Butte, is now in successful operation.
The Pacific Wagon and Implement Com
pany advertise to-day large stock of wag-
ons, carriages, buggies, agricultural imple-
ments, etc.
Road Supervisor Foster has laid new
floor on the Third street bridge over the Deer
Lodge river and evened up the approaches
with gravel
The U. p ties, heretofore being distributed
for the three-rail track, are now being
delivered at Stuart, presumably for the Ana
conda branch.
Some of our citizens are talking up n new
court house. The chief reason for the agita-
ton seems TO be the lack of room for the
county records.
The Inter Mountain says: "At the close of
the late race meeting w. J. Palmer bought |
The pretty little running mare Gilt, paying |
therefor $780,"
Miss Bessie Louise King has our thanks for |
l splendid set of character photographs,
aiken by Abel, of Portland. May she live
ong and sing here every year.
Miss Mary J. McAndrews celebrated the
Tuesday evening by very pleasant little
'arty at the residence of her parents.
Several ladies and gentlemen of Deer Lodge
contemplate the study of German this winter
lnder the instruction of Prof L. j. Greene
'eld, Of the Collegiate Institute sehr gsa.
Some of Butte's crack skaters are cutting
heir curleques on the floor of the Deer
lodge rink. They are probably laying for
hallenge. Our boys should give them a
ace.
Forty-four of the new postal notes were
ssued from the Deer Lodge postoffice during
he month of September. They ranged in
alue from eleven cents to S4.99, the total
mount being s99.13
Persons wanting a first-class rifle, standard
makes, can find it at Coleman & Co.'s. They
ave made great reductions in this class of
GODS, so any one may have fine rife at a
cry reasonable figure.
The stockholders of the Montana Improve
lent Company are called to meet at the Office
f. l.. Bonner & Co, on Tuesday, October
9Th, for the purpose of choosing a Board Of
'rustees for the ensuing year.
Attention is called to the advertisement of
he Pacific Wagon and Implement Co., in
mis- issue. Everything needed by farmers
'ill be found in their stock, and ut prices
nat will repay parties giving them trial
There are LAG civil and criminal cases al
sady on the docket for trial at the next term
{ the Deer Lodge District Court with n
ouple of months yet to hear from. The
ocket will be the heaviest for some time
asst
The Republican county convention to NOM
tate Delegates to the Constitutional Con-
ention, is called to meet in Deer Lodge Oct.
ith, next Tuesday week. The Democratic
,unty convention will meet Oct. Goth, two
eeks from tomorrow, the primaries being
cid week earlier. If
Even rs clever literary editor as the
Uerldnd Monthly has gets picked up once in
while. The October number contained a
oem entitled Kate contributed ostensibly by
Innis Montague. The publishers SUISSE
uently thought it worth while TO send out a
srd stating the poem was by James Russell
DWELL
james Estill, Ward & Lodge, James Bee
IN and John O'Neill have put in bids for
srrying the United States mails between the
eer Lodge postoifice and the Utah & North
n depot. The bids have been forwarded to
he Postoffice Department at Washington,
nd the award will be made i'm about two
eeks.
The Government il shipping 10000 pounds ,
vegetables, including 60,00O pounds of .
otatoes, from Ogden, Utah, to Fort
iaw, Montana, at cost at the latter
ace of five cents a pound. The potatoes :,
'uld probably be bought in this Territory
Id laid down at Fort Shaw at a cent and -
If or two cents pound.
The U. & N. Co. issued new time card,
king effect Sunday, September 3oth. The {
incipal change is in extending the card to y
Q northern terminus and putting trains on \
lime" from here north. The mixed train Il
w arrives from Butte at 4.15 p. m. leaves {
450, arriving there at 9 p. m. Returning, Il
reaches here at 7.25 p. m. and leaves for Z
ute at 8.25. The express train runs as !
The negotiations long pending between
r. John Edwards, Of the old town of Ed
and the Northern Pacific COM
my, were adjusted satisfactorily this week,
ID titles passed, Mr.. Ed. Stone, general !
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