The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-09-14
PERSONAL.


Thos. L. Napton, Esq, went to Butte Mon.
day.
Mr. and Mrs. J. f. Dickey returned from
Jefferson on Tuesday.
day from their trip to Portland.
H.G. Walton, of Butte, was In town this
week, talking horse with Dick Riddle.
Mr.. Will Edgar went to Helena yesterday
to open the Montana Lumber Company's
yard.
President d. j. Mcmillan, of the Collegi.
ate Institute, left for the East on last Tues
days train.
Miss Lizzie Steele, who has been visiting
couple of months at Fort Shaw, returned
home last Sunday.
Mrs. Gilbert, mother of Rev. Mahlon n.
Gilbert, of st. Paul, will arrive tomorrow
frem Butte on visit to Mrs. w. w. Higgins.
Sinclair W. Botkin, Esq, of Minneapolis,
Mimi, brother of W. W. Botkin and A.
G. Botkin, of Montana, arrived yesterday on
visit to the Colonel.
Mr.. John Dawson, recently clerk ut the
McBurney House, has taken the position Of
bookkeeper, under Superintendent Perkins,
for the Granite and Hope Companies.
w. w. Walton, of Helena, former guard
in the penitentiary, has been reappointed to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of George NJ. Root, who we believe has gone
to Chicago.
Mrs. Lydia Irvine, widow of Colonel w.
l.. Irvine, left on Wednesday for Kansas
City, where she expects to spend the winter.
We trust she will have safe journey and
pleasant sojourn.
w. w. Batterton, Esq, clerk of the county
court at Columbia, Mo-, and brother of
Messrs. John Y. and James Batterton, of
this county, arrived from the East wednes-
day, and will remain n few weeks in the Ter
ritory.
Mrs Joaquin Abascal and child, with Miss
Mary Anderson as maid, will leave for Cali
fOrnia tomorrow, expecting to return during
the winter. Mr.. Abascal is in from Bear see
ing the family off, and will join them later
in the season.
Mr.. Thomas +. Ward, our very efficient
and popular County Clerk and Recorder, left
on Wednesday for visit to st. Mary's, Kan
sas, the illness of his mother inducing quick
determination to 60 home. He will DO alb.
sent about month.
Mr.. Duane j. Armstrong, editor and pub
Usher OF the Missoul,an, who has been enjoy
ing the Fair and the Spike, and the rest of
the important events of the past week, was
in town Tuesday on business, and has gone
to Butte. He thinks the outlook for Mis-
soula excellent, and we hope he will prosper
with IL.
One Of the pleasantest of Montana news
paper men, Thomas Baker, of the Madison.
ian who did the Fair and the Spike and is
taking a fortnight's rustication generally,
gave us most agreeable call Sunday. He Is
atrue-blue, loyal Virginian, and offered to
wager column of his "Ripples" against
stIckful of our "Brevities" that Virginia will
have a railroad within twelve months and be
one Of the best mining camps in the Rockies
We took the bet and hope to lose.
Sheriff Peter Becker, of Lake county, Co
dorado, was in town this week with his fam
lily, having returned from the knights
Tempiar Conclave, visited his brother
in Radersburg, and again set face for his
0,200 foot home in Leadville. He is a
Sir knight of the Mount of the Holy Cross
Commandery, which uses for its seal and has
engraved on steel for cards the mountain of
that name. 1t is the handsomest and most
appropriate design we have seen, and the
work is first-class, the knight reverently sa-
lifting the holy emblem of the Order as It is
upifted on the great gray mountain side In
immaculate and perpetual snow.
Charles Besserer, formerly resident of
Boulder valley, Montana, and for several
years past editor aud publisher OF the Walla
Walla Wctchman, few days ago shot and
pretty near, If not entirely, killed brewer
named Ed. Kleber Besserer had advertised
some foreign beer for Kleber, and in men
tioning it locally said 'the man or burg that
can beat Walla Walla beer has to get up and
GO to the mill early" Kleber took offense at
this, and when his advertising bill was sent
in got mad, heeled himself, get drunk, swors
he would kill Besserer, went to Besserer's
office, abused him, and struck him. Besserer
shot him quick and bad. The committing
magistrates after hearing all the evidence de-
clsred Besserer justifable and acquitted him.