The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-03-09
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Sunday falls on March 25th.

| next Monday.
kilograms appear to indicate change Of
railroad time on the 18th.
A washout on Ross Fork made No 3 three
hours late on Thursday morning.
Business is reviving and railroad ship
ments are materially increasing.
Treasurer Humber has located his Office in
the N Z. corner of the Court house.
Joseph Richards has now received all his
machinery and will have it in operation next
week.
| Farmers on the bench lands in the valley
expect to be blowing next week if the wealth
| er holds fair.
| Now 1t is to be a masquerade on skates
| High Jinks on rollers! Everybody will go
to see or skate.
| VIM. C. Moore having leased the Bratton
ranch and stocked it with dairy cows will
next week commence supplying customers
| See lad"
Dispatches state that the pool contract
| recently made between the q. p. and n. p
| companies is for term Of ten years. This,
of course, might be terminated by mutual
consent
The County Commissioners were in session
| this week. The regular annual settlements
| were made and considerable other business
transacted. Proceedings will be published
next week.
1t j rumored in the Utah papers that the
| U. p company has offered TO sell the U. & n.
| r. r. to the Denver and Rio Grande com
pany. This would make the longest North
and South railroad line on the continent
Miss George Reed, who for the past year
or two has been teaching instrumental music
very successfully in Deer Lodge, proposes to
have a public entertainment in April in
which the music will be rendered exclusively
| by her scholars.
BE prudent about going out in the chill air
after skating. Sit down and cool off. There
| are cases of sickness here doubtless attribu-
| table to disregard of care in this matter, and
one man died Wednesday in Butte of pneu-
| monia contracted in that way.
Thursday mornings passenger train con-
sisted of seven cars with double header loco
motives. The coaches were crowded from
| Ogden north. Express and Baggage Agent
Eewall says it was the heaviest loaded train
he has come north with for year.
Peter Lansing announces to-day the arri-
| val of large stock of clothing, furnishing
goods, hats, etc. and has secured the servi
| ces of +. Z. Mosher, a very competent and
experienced New York salesman. He invites
| inspection of his stock and prices.
! The firm of Holland g. Estill has dissolved.
Mr.. Estill purchasing all of Mr. Hollands
business interests here. We are sorry to
have Mr.. Holland retire, but glad he has the
stake" to do it on. Mr.. Estill will continue
the business as heretofore, aud will be found
"on deck" at the sign of the iron horse.
The Philharmonic Society, Of Butte, con
| sisting of some twenty members, have it in
mind to favor Deer Lodge with one of their
delightful concerts if satisfactory arrange
| ments can be made, and the prospects are
favorable. We would be delighted to have
them come and trust matters will be so
| arranged.
The Third House was revived in Helena
during the recent session of the Legislature,
and some good hits were made at its various
sessions, which Terminated last Saturday
evening. Had the Butte delegation arrived
earlier there would have been more fun and
more fur flying. Irwin and Warren merely
reached there in time to draw their mileage
and the long bow, and hence the Lords were
prorogsed without the assistance of the
police.
The Ogden Pilot of March 9Th has the fol-
lowing interesting notice under the title
Born: Smith-In Ogden, February 10Th,
to the wife of A. L. Smith, son, measuring
twenty -four inches in length, and weighing
fifteen pounds. At this date the child has
six teeth. Mother and child doing well" The
Smiths were numerous enough before, but
now when they commence being born full
grown it is time for the Legislatures to pass
a general law permitting anybody of that
name to change it at discretion.
An excursion train was run from Deer
Lodge to Warm Springs and return Sunday
afternoon and the cars were comfortably &C.
cupied with excursionists. The day was de-
lightful. Girard served an excellent dinner,
and an hour or two was pleasantly spent at
the Springs and hotel The return run was
made in about forty minutes. This makes
very pleasant ride, and when a pavilion is
put up at the springs, as contemplated, and
excursionists can meet there from Butte and
Deer Lodge, it will be the most popular Sun
day resort in Montana. We anticipate the
railroad company will provide for this as
soon as spring sets in.
Among the barbaric splendors that illume
eur "den" the most recent contribution is a
sketch in colors by Elk Head, the Indian
who was convicted at Miles City for being
one of the murderers of Phil Lynch, the
mail carrier, some four years ago. 1t is an
allegorical, bas-relief panorama of Indians,
so 10 speak, much after the style of the sculp-
lures exhumed at Mitylene, but probably
more after scalps and horses. 1t belongs to
the buffalo robe school of outline drawing,
with suggestion of Titan in the colOring,
and of Mast in the off hand freedom of stroke
and cross-hatoheting-If that is the word.
BY the way, Col. Botkin says Elk Head is a
good worker, has taken fancy to white
mems clothes, has learned to speak and write
some English and is altogether a good
prisoner. He has six years yet to serve.
The Dillon Tribune of last Saturday an
nounces that III. Brundage has leased that
paper to +. e. Foote for two years, and j. r.
Wilson retires as local editor. We regret
this. Wilson uses q lunar caustic pencil
sometimes when plumbago would be better,
but he says original things In so quaint way
that one gets to enjoying even the rasp Of the
wire edged blade he wields. Montana has
good newspapers-they are generally conser-
vative and reliable and average very credit
ably. But, if we except the local page of the
LITTER Mountain there is not much reckless
genius evidenced in them and but rarely
, Mther original or profound ideas. There is no
e ditorial page like that Of the Salt Lake Tri-
b. xRe, and no local such as Sam ID. Johns in
d; ,ys of old was wont to astonish the natives
WI tn. Perhaps 1t is better for all of us that
no one carries an inspired pencil. There are
a q cod many of us putting our little sickles
into' limited field Of grain at present and
tryii " to thrive by mediocre industry. If
some fellow would start in with n reaper and
binde we would get left. And so we recon
cile ur self when a brilliant itemizer or a
gifted crtsher says Uale and goes into some
more lucr alive business. Mr.. Foote, who