The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-06-29
LOCAL BREvITIES.
Hot, hotter, roast.
Batterton delivers ice daily.


Book beer at Van Gundy's the Fourth.
The seven year locusts have appeare,
here.
Great spirit of all the Salamanders, give u
n rest.
"Heme Again" was pleasant serenade
Thanks.
See John O'Neill's lads" this week. Fl,
means business.
1t is expected two home built boats will b,
put OH the Lake by the 9TH.
There are just 800 bridges on the Utah and
Northern between Ogden and Mouth OF
Blackfoot.
What has become of the Pumpelly Eco
nomic Surveys that were to be prosecuted
this summer?
There appears no move 10 have any form.
al celebration of the Fourth of July in
Deer Lodge this year.
The examination Of the scholars of ST.
Mary's Academy took place last evening loo
late for mention this week
There will be n service of song at the Pres
byterian church next Sunday evening at 8
O'Clock. All are cordially invited.
"a drive to irvine Lake." is quite the
thing now and there will be treble as many
people going when the boats are on.
McDole & Tetrault have opened a black
smith shop at the old stand on Second street,
and will be thankful for n share of public
patronage.
The U. & n. is now delivering the +. L..
! Bonner & Co. n. p. ties from the upper val
ley ut Little Blackfoot. 1t is cheaper to
haul than to float them.
MASTER, has been made a distributing Office
for mail for Blackfoot, Washington Gulch
and acknowledgements
The Utah &, Northern agents have been in
structed TO issue tickets to Butte from all
stations between Deer Lodge and Dillon at
half rates for the Fourth of July.
The excursion train to Blackfoot Sunday
carried seventy-three persons beside the
band. 1t was nice ride but t-riffic hot
day.
Dan CASTILLO brought the first circus to Mon
tana in II. He showed at various Territorial
towns and the admission price was two dol
lars.-Independeat. isn't there some mistake
about that statement)
All the indications point TO a successful
and interesting series of races at Butte next
week. As visitors can also take in the
Fourth of July Celebration there will doubt
less be full attendance.
Anaconda is booming; $40, 900 worth of lots
oil hall & ~.
four groceries, six boarding houses, two
clothing and variety shops and two black
smith shops week ago. So says 80. j."
Several of our contemporaries fall into the
error of referring the Marent trestle (226 feet
10 inches) as the highest in the country. The
Portage bridge, spanning the Genesee river,
New York, is 23i feet high and Is built on
wooden piers.
From the Butte papers it appears that the
smallpox has disappeared from that city.
The most of the cases under quarantine de-
veloped as measles. The three cases of small
pox or varioloid were light and the patients
are all convalescing.
Mr.. S. p. Hauschild leaves to-day as the
duly accredited agent of the NEW NORTH
WEST and will first visit southeastern Mon
tana. We commend him to the courtesy of
our patrons and trust they will make him
glad with the festive greenback.
We thought DIR. Mussigbrod was enthusi-
astic in pronouncing Salt Lake City a para
disc, but Homer Hewins is credited with the
statement that he would rather be a box-elder
tree in the streets of Salt Lake than to own
a herd of buffalo in the Northwest Territory.
The intense heat this week so expanded
the rails at the Mullan Siding and Blackfoot
switches that they could not be worked with
the levers and had to be driven over with
sledges after bending rails. Not anticipating
so great expansion, they were not cut down
in time.
Sheriff Irvine brought to the Asylum at
Warm Springs, Tuesday, Mrs. Chas. O'Neil, |
of Butte, adiudged insane. She has n hus-
band and a number of children. She has
been insane for a number Of years and has |
been cared for at home, but has latterly be- |
come quite violent necessitating the course |
taken.
Mr.. Pat. O'Neil, who had the contract for |
grading sixty-two stations on the n. p, in |
GLIDING the cut in front of Keene's station, |
finished his job few days ago. 1t was the |
most expensive mile on the division, the cut |
being at some parts fourteen feet deep. The |
grade is now complete between the French |
womans and Missoula.
On Wednesday Sheriff Blakely. of Gala
tin county, delivered to Warden Botkin |
George Bell, sentenced to fifteen years for |
robbery, and Joseph Lane, sentenced to five |
years for robbery. Deputy u. S. Marshal
Hathaway also delivered Philip Miller, a
United Ststes prisoner, sentenced to one
y ear for larceny. There are now eighty
eight convIcts in the prison.
Superintendent W. p. P. St Clair was here
Tuesday and went to Little Blackfoot. He
IL arranging for better facilities for handling
the increased quantity of freight coming to
Stuart. The new timetable will also make
a change in the eating stations on the line,
and among other things the company will at
once erect large dining station al Melrose.
The Lindsay Dramatic Company was bill
ell for season Of four nights In Deer Lodge
TO play standard dramas, commencing We'd
nesday evening. On Tuesday, Miss Dunbar,
the leading lady, while romping with Miss
Anderson Of the same company at the Gen.
,ennial Hotel, ran against a decreasing and
fractured her collar bone. 1t will be amonth
before she can resume her place on the stage
The Deer Lodge engagement is therefore
,ff leading lady has been sent for to Salt
Lake and an effort will he made to fill the
Helena dates.
This is the very hottest term on record.
Mr.. Thomas Morgan, United States Signal
officer, reports the maximum temperature on
Sunday last go above zero; Monday, o.;
Tuesday, 1922, and Wednesday, 1902. The
exposure of the thermometer was in regrla-
ion form except that IL was to the west in
stead of north. The operator ut Missoula
,elegraphs 1t was 100 there Tuesday. This
reading has never been equalled here that
we know of One day, that of the total
eclipse in 1859 or 20. the thermometer reached
a3', but the spell was not protracted.
How does it come everybody has about 5000
with them TO lose. Last fall one freighter
ost 500 between Deer Lodge and Pioneer;
mother lost 5000 In fight at New Chicago;
he other day DIR. Lamme, of Bozeman, left
$50 In Pullman sleeper at Deer Lodge, and
asst week John b. Read had 5000 in his
tocking when the road agents held up the
nauldar aaaab 70. 1