The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-05-18
LOCAL BREvITIES.

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Helena.
Court proceedings are necessarily omitte'
this week.
See notice of Butte races. Further men
ton next week.
Taylor & Co. are again carrying the mail
between Warm Springs and Philipsburg.
r. Costello, one Of the men injured by tn
falling trestle near Butte, died of his in
juries.
The Butte daily Miner has been enlarged
an evidence of prosperity both in Butte ant
the newspaper.
| Stephen Knowles of Augusta, Me-, ha
succeeded Thos. Mackaness as day clerk a
the McBurney House.
Fifteen emigrants from Dakota bound fol-
Lewistown, Idaho, were registered at tn e
Scott House yesterday.
The written examination of the scholars OF
the Deer Lodge public school will take place
next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Earl +. Warren informs us that William
Foster, an old prospector in this section, fell
dead from his chair in Gable last Monday.
The U. & n. railroad is now being ballasted
to the mouth of Little Blackfoot, and ship.
ments of lumber are being made from that
point.
An interesting case from Mullan Tunnel
was tried before Judge Emerson this week,
the particulars of which we will publish
next week.
1t was apprehended on Sunday last that
a case of smallpox had appeared at the depot
but it bloomed out into measles. The patient
had just arrived from Idaho.
Margaret Robinson, Of Helena, was adj
mitted to the Insane Asylum last Sunday
suffering from acute mania. She was quite
violent but betrayed no particular hobby.
Mr.. Davis has opened large and choice
lot of Oil Paintings and Chromos in the Nit
chel building. He Is selling at reasonable
figures. Drop in and examine them this
evening.
After much circulation on the part of
property owners in Helena, they are finally
informed the N. p. depot is to be on the east
side Of Dry Gulch, about one mile from the
Cosmopolitan Hotel.
Murphy, Higgins & Co., have received
large invoice Of that splendid bibulent known
as Budwiser lager beer. 1t is just the
thing for family use, almost as fine as i'm
ported ales and at purchasable figures.
Second street property owners contemplate
establishing uniform grade on It, rounding
it up, bedding it with gravel where neces-
sary and putting eobble bitches on the Sides
1t would be just too elegant if they would do
it.
The Presbyterian church is undergoing
repairs, and there will be no services or
Sunday School next Sabbath. A strawberry
and ice cream festival will be given in the
church week after next. Further particulars
next week.
Mass will be celebrated at the Catholic
church at am. and 1880 a. m. next Sunday,
Rev. Father Kelleher preaching on the latter
occasion. On Sunday, May 9th, Fathers
Kelleher and DeRyckere will hold services
at Helmville.
The Helena papers notify the public against
bogus nuns who are travelling about the Ter
ritory and obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. It's two to one that Piatt and Walk |
er have mistaken for Sisters of Charity the
two Canadian Indian women in traditional |
who are doing the Montana towns |
selling bead and moccasin work after the |
Niagara Falls style STILL it might be well to |
ook out for bogus nuns.
A three mile race at the skating rink Tues |
lay night between Wright, Of Butte, and Ed. |
Walker, of Deer Lodge, for a purse of $40 |
was the most interesting contest that has yet |
AIKEN place there and was witnessed by a |
arge audience. Each man skated 10 laps, |
which, measured one foot from the inner |
'ope aggregated three miles and 200 feet. |
Walker went first, making the IS laps in Is |
minutes ID 8-5 seconds. Wright covered the |
70 laps in 10 minutes 80 seconds, getting one |
'ail by which he perhaps lost five seconds. |
Wright is probably the swiftest man on |
straight run, but Walker cuts the corners bet |
,er.