The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-04-13
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

There are thirteen prisoners In the Choteau
Jail
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Clark expect to return
to America in June.
i Judge Hiram Knowles was elected trustee
at the school election In Butte.
The Mullan tunnel progressed GA feet last
week -2ls feet west aud 42i west.
Thomas Carleton, an old resident of Bitter
Root valley, died suddenly last week.
An S,lacre tract Of laud just west of the
Bozrman town site has been sold for $4,000.
Tho legal name is now "The City Of Fort
Benton" the Incorporation act being so
worded.
Dillon has skating rink-not very large,
but probably the best small rink in use in the
Territory.
As yet it is impossible to bring Pullman
car over the temporary track across ths range
east Of Bohemian.
Enough steel rails are piled up at Bozsman
to almost lay the track of the Northern
Pacific to Helena.
The are twenty one criminals, who are in
the Jail at Miles City, to be tried at the pres
ent term Of court.
G. W. Wilkinson sold his interest in
the MiSsoula skating rink TO Ar
thur aud Botchere.
The Northern Pacific engineers now say
the locomotive will whistle at Marent's
Gulch by June LIST.
! The remains of William Nowfan, deceased,
were sent to California by direction of his
sister, Mrs j. g. Slavery.
Lieut.. Wm. Gerlach was recently reap.
| pointed quartermast-r mt Fort Missoula, and
is now acting in that capacity.
] The first train moved across tho bridge at
r'third crossing" of Pen dOreille river on
Saturday, April Eth, at'4 p. IN.
Work ut Marents Gulch Is progressing
satisfactorily, and it is thought no delay will
be experienced at that point.-Hissouiian,
The Madisonim publishes long list Of
promising and considerably developed mines
in the immediate vicinity of Virginia City.
The Benton Record says The snow on the
prairie between this point and the MariaS is
said TO be foot deep, and shows no sign OF
melting.
| VI btnUdCk, iaSb week ma tt
II purchase of "a 600 worth Of cattle TO add to
his already large herds on the Lemhi and
Horse Prairie.
The gamblers and saloon men Of Glendal.
are resisting the payment of the increased
license provided for in bill passed by the
late Legislature.
Governor Crosby has appointed Captain
| 4 Il. r,
his staff with the rank of Brigadier General
of Territorial militia.
Passenger trains from the east to west, ria
the Northern Pacific now are composed Of
six to ten coaches, all loaded down with land
and fortune seekers
DULY two days term of court was held at
White Sulphur Springs. Two criminal and
two civil suits were tried, aud number Of
cases were continued.
1t is the opinion of Mr.. Ed. Stone, recent
ly from the scene of railroad building in
Gallatin county, that the track will reach
Helena in about sixty days,
Col. Geo. II. Butler, who ranks with
"Gath' a. one of the best newspaper cores
poudentS in America or ths world, is now
aL II OTt htOgn.
The stock tender A. Bedford station sui.
cidrd by banging Sunday night. Whether It
wa~ the muddy roads or the approach Of the
railroad that induced the act il not known.
Richard Stein, who had leg crushed by
the Utah s. Northern railroad, last fall, -
badly that amputation was necessary. has
brought suit in Beaverhead county for $50 900
damages.
The roads between Bohemian and Helena
are in worse condition than ever before
known. Freighters cannot load their wagons
tn more than one-half there carrying capac
ity.-Courier. e. .--'----.
In the Helena School Trustee election
u vot-s were polled. For Trustee, Richard
Jockey received 60 votes, and there were u
, scattering. For Clerk, d. II. Cuthbert re.
ceived "A votes.
Lowe aud Lay, accused of the murder Of
Irving Hunter, near Bozeman, have been
bound over in tho sum Of $1,000 each to ap-
pear before the grand jury and answer to the
!, charge of murder.
7. E. McCoin, of Missouri valley, who was
standing off the N. z. graders in their at
tempt TO grade on his farm, was served with
aprohibitory order of court last Saturday
and the dirt now flies.
There are hundreds of farmers who make
butter on small scale who do not under.
stand the first principles of butter-making. g.
Husbd"dman. Have mercy on long suffer-
ing public anu tell them howl
A petition, thanking President Arthur for
his action In su>prndng Judge Couger, and
demonstrating against the reinstatement Of
that gentlemen; was circulated and slnged
this week in Bozrman.-Coarier. .a.
A supplementary sheet of the Helena In
dependent containing all the laws of general
nature passed by the Thirteenth Session of
the Montana Legislature, AMI ordered print
Ell by the Board, is published. Price $780,
The loudly proclaimed coal beds near
Livingston have proven to be fiction OF the
boomers imagination, and the Northern
Pacific company announces that 1t will this
season build branch to the Bull Mountains
Silver Bow county's receipts for the year
ending March 1, were si62, 374 43; expendit-
ures, sll0, 4422g. Net balance in the trea, ury
after paying outstanding warrants, sol ,223 IA
One year previous the balance was only
S29,354.
Work Of grading side tracks commenced
on Monday and will be pushed toward, COM
pletion ~ fast as possible. The carpenters
are expected this week, who will commence
the erection Of the depots, ETC., at once
Bozemdn Chronicle 4th.
As the LIST Of April comes on Sunday, how
would it do for Us incorrigibles to play a jok.
on ourselves and 90 10 church once NEW
NORTH WEsT.-lt wouldn't do at all. IL
would be too rough on the parson Hope TO
goodness you didn't do iat-Aadisonian.-
1--WE dIdn'tl .
A Dartmouth graduate writes to know If IL
IL tru" that n life of ease Is to be- hal In Mon.
tana without . great amount of exertion
Not In all cases. A position ~ local
editor, or situation as son.in-law to som.
rich duffer, are the softest jobs we know of
Courier.
A desire has been expressed by many to
have the sentence Of the condemned muir
d-rer, Henry Fuhrmann, commutrd by Gov
ernor Crosby to imprisonment for life, bat
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