The new North-west., 1883-01-05
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
A gymnasium is TO he started at Butte.


Prime hay is worth at Butte from s23 to 500
per ton.
n 100000 railroad depot is TO be erected at
Billings.
There are 500 children of school age in
Missoula county.
An encampmeat of Odd Fellows has been
instituted at Missoula-
Hon. Daniel Searles, of the Nj er, has
gone on a trip to the States.
! Ben Arthur, of Butte, has challenged Dave
Cussick to fight for 500 and gate money.
Thugs, footpads, robbers, murderers, etc,
are invited to bid Bezeman hasty coed
bye.
Wolves of the cay ote kind are making havoc
among the sheep in portions of Beaverhead
county.
The Miles City Press published list of the
Xmas presents received by the waiter girls in
the hotels.
There was furious snow storm at Billings
on Christmas day. BoZeman also had about
foot of snew.
Mr.. John Broughall, engineer at the Lex
ington, Butte, had his leg accidentally broken
Monday week.
Chapman, Hudnutt s. Co, civil and min
made assignment.
Keats and Davis, the feather-weight fight
ers, will meet again at Butte, on Sunday,
January 14th, 1888.
Sunday morning the thermometer at Park
station, between Boulder and Butte:registered
forty degrees below zero.
A Benton water-hauler delivered TO each
Of his patrons a few days ago n barrel of wa
ter as a Christmas present
In Salt Lake on Christmas Eve, Mr.. viii
Glassman, of Helena, and Miss Irene Pascoe,
of Salt Lake, were married.
While unloading goods at Butte one day
last week Allen Hale slipped and fell on the
walk, breaking his right arm.
Major Shepherd, Of the Royal Engineers of
the English army, recently rode through from
Deadwood to Miles City in eight days
1t is stated that Gallatin, Custer, Dawson
and Meagher counties will demand division
during the coming session of the Legislature.
The Northern Pacific Company offers re-
ward of $500 for the apprehension of Homer
s. Michaels, the abSconding express messen-
| ger.
Negotiations are in progress at Butte for
the purpose Of placing four 2,O00-candle pow
er electric lamps on top Of the school house
| flagstaff.
npa ia, 1aut
| lots in Roosevelts addition to Benton. He
paid on an average $50 per lot, aggregating
in all $780,
Mssoula claims the boss bobsled lin size)
in the country. The runners are seven feet
apart, and the sled's length and strength are
in proportion.
Robert n. Wing, of Dillon, has been ap-
pointed deputy clerk of the district court for
Beaverhead, the previous deputy, AL. E.
Greater, having resigned.
On the morning Of Christmas, at Billings,
a man named Pat Devine shot and killed
Jerry Conkley. Devine was arrested, COM
mitted for trial, and taken to Miles City.
Alex. McCrae, while at work with an
edger at sawmill in OKeefes canon, MIS-
sonia county, last week, was so unfortunate
a. 70 sever three fingers from his right hand.
Silver was quoted in New York on the 2lst
inst. at Sl.0SI. Lead took II jump of 81 per
ton, being quoted in New York at $40 per
100 pounds, and in Salt Lake City at $40 to
| S45 per ton.
William Mart and Alfred Johns had a
wrestling match in Butte, Christmas, for 500
a side and gate money, and also for the
championship of the Territory. Martin came
out winner
Joseph Hart we'll, of Basin City, shot him
self through the head last Monday morning,
| in the presenea of his wife and children. No
cause but temporary insanity can be assigned
| for the deed
| The Helena Herald has reduced the sub
scription price of its daily edition to city
subscribers from So per month 10 Sl.50; by
mail sl2 per year. The independent has adopt
| ed the same rates.
There were exactly 21,4Sl ,lIl pounds of
freight brought up the Missouri last season.
| or this vast amount the Benton "p" Line
transported 10, ,SJO, ,OOO pounds, besides about
i,VSupupu IouLht~ Vi way iItiSHb.
Peter Hansen was instantly killed in Null
Ian tunnel, last Saturday week, by mass Of
rock, from the roof of the tunnel, falling
upon him. Deceased was Il Swede, or n Nor
wegan, and about twenty-five years old.
Custer county, Montana, is the largest
county in the United States. Its area is 36, ,OOJ
square miles. 1t is larger than the States of
| Vermont, Massachusetts,, New Hampshire,
| Connecticut, Delaware, and Rhode Island,
| all combined.
Corkin, who was tried and acquitted in
| Huntley last spring on charge of highw ay
robbery, turned up at the same profession at
Livingston, but could not make it stick. He
was hung by n party of masked men in that
town several nights ago.
The gamblers of Benton find the license
required heavy tax on them, and they are
forming joint stock gambling association
and will carry on all the gambling at one
place, thus saving several hundreds each
month heretofore paid for license.
A. Zeehandelaar, of Utah, intends to rep
resent that Territory at the approaching
Worlds Exposition at Amsterdam, and in
vites the miners of all the Territories to con-
tribute specimens of their ores, which may
be addressed TO him ut Salt Lake.
Some years ago Celestial settled in
Beaverhead county. The Chinaman cut off
his cue and commenced living after the
fashion of Americans. He went into the
stock-raising business and is now rich enough
to pay s1s5 taxes this year.-Dillon Tribune.
Frozen water in the cylinder of hosting
engine at the Anaconda, Christmas morning,
caused the bursting Of the cylinder head and
disabled the engine. About forty men who
were at work in the mine were obliged to
climb TO the surface on the ladders in the
pump compartment.
| J.C. Jones was driving a team near the
Butte depot last Friday, when passing loco
motive frightened the horses, and they ran
away. The wagon struck some obstruction,
nearly upsetting it, throwing Jones headlong
from his seat. He sustained a serious frac-
ture ef the right leg between the ankle and
knee joint,
| The New York World Of the Goth ult. says:
Colonel Schuyler Crosby, who has recently
resigned his position as United States Con-
sui at Florence to accept the appointment as
Governor of the Territory of Montana, and
who has been passing the last two or three