The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-09-21
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
Wood is $3.50 per cord in Virginia City.
Benton talks of building $4,000 schoo

Lieut.. Col. George Gibson has taken com.
mand ut Fort Missoula.
The wool crop of Meagher county this year
Is said TO be worth S70,0O0.
Beaverhead county has cash to the amount
of 81, 297.S4 in her treasury.
The first oats of the season were sold at
Benton for SO 30 per bushel.
The artesian we'll borers at Billings aver.
age about twelve feet per day.
The Alice bullion shipments for this month
to date amount to Sol ,422.sl.-Miner, 10TH.
There are q prisoners IN the Gallatin
county Jail, six of the number being murder.
ers.
Schwab & Zimmerman are entitled to the
credit of building the first four-story brick
in Helena.
The 81 100 omnibus of which Bozeman has
been proud was almost totally demolished in
runaway recently.
Harvesting is almost over in Beaverhead
valley, and much of the grain is already
threshed and shipped.
Eastern Montana exchanges report veni-
son, elk, mountain sheep, and other wild
game plentiful in the markets.
The contract for building the new school
house in Billings, has been awarded to Mel
son, Crow & Cagnon, Cor sl0,929.
One hundred cattle belonging to Otto
Franc stampeded over precipice on the
Stinkingwater last week and were killed.
Terry Hughes, whose forehead was crushed
in by the windlass at the Calgary mine, is
doing WELL and his recovery is now assured.
1t rs understood that. the White Sulphur
Springs Association has changed its mind
and will not rent the springs, as at first men,
toned.
Thomas Clark, a Bismarck hotel cook has
fallen heir TO $50, 200 by the death of his IA
ther in Callao, Peru. He left his home some
years ago.
Boulis has been sold by J. p. woolman to
Colonel w. b. Hundley. Mr.. Woolman has
also sold Columbia, Otto Peterson being the
purchaser.
A special election to fl the offices of city
attorney and alderman, made vacant by the
death of Judge aSpeyre, will be held at Butte
next Saturday, 22d inst.
Bishop Brewer has gone to Philadelphia to
attend the tfiennial council of the Episcopal
church, which will take place in that city the
latter part of the month.
The new brick building being erected on
Jackson street. in Helena, for the hdepehd-
ent, is now completed to the second story,
and the joists are in place.
When the Willard party get back to Miles
City barbecue will be given in their honor.
A pony race by Cheyenne Indians will be
one feature of the pow-wow.
The total receipts at the late Territorial
Fair were $4,000; gate money, $500. The
losses of last year were made good and bal.
ance left in the treasury. of the Association.
Mr.. Higley, of Maiden, tried the expert .
ment of drying giant powder caps upon his
stove. The kitchen and Mr.. HIgley can be
repaired, but the stove cannot.-Independen
The application for the pardon of John
Dolan, who is under sentence for murder and
undergoing Imprisonment in the Deer Lodge
penitentiary, has been refused by Governor
Crosby.
Bell, the Benton brunette, who took dose
of croton oil internally instead of applying
it externally, as Instructed by the doctor, had
hard struggle with death, but got through
all right.
Frank Carly and man named Kelley got
into fight at Muir City, at the Bozeman
tunnel, Monday, when the former beat the
other to death. Carly was captured at Lie-
ingston.-Ricer Press.
The Mullan tunnel ON Saturday had just
$40 feet of bench to remove, which viii give
way under the drill and dynamite ut the rate
of ten feet per day, or a completion of the
work by the 10Th of October.
Work has commenced on the foundation
of two-story brick building 5l!x234 feet on
lower Main street. WI Mccormick and
w. X. Sloane are the parties who put up the
money for its decentralization.
A waterfall two hundred feet In height has
been found in the Crazy Mountains, near
Hunters Hot Springs. There Is also chain
of summit lakes. The highest point of these,
mountains is IL ,1Si feet above sea level
The commissioners of Gallatin county have
notified Col. Clough, in his capacity of engin.
Ger of the Park branch, that the wagon road
up the Yellowstone must be put in as good
condition as IL was before the construction o (
the railway.
Col. Muir says that the Mallan tunnel will
be finished within thirty days, and that the
cars will probably be running through It by
the 18th of October. Only about $50 feet of
bench work remains to be taken out, and It Is
being removed rapidly. Bozeman tunnel
will be finished early in December, If there
should be no unexpected delays.-Indepen.
dent.
The Glendive Times thus grimly records
the net results of the recent term Of court
held there: The first session of the District
Court has been held In this county, and the
fruits thereof were one decree OF divorce
granted, Judgment of the lower court in q
matter of ninety dollars sustained, and two
thousand dollars added to the county debt as
costs of the session.
In January last lady who was supposed
to be named Glenfeld was adjudged insane
and committed to the asylum. Her little
laughter was taken by Mrs. w. f. Sloan and
kindly provided for. While here last week
Or. Mitchell pronounced the lady cured, and
took her daughter with him. The name of
the lady was ascertained to be Hawkins, and
she will be sent to Idaho, where her father
resides Courier. rs. r. .
The Benton Record of the 18th inst. saws ::
1. G. Baker & Co. commenced to-day to drive
the 100000 worth OF steers recently pur-
chased by them Of Con Kohrs, from Sun
river to Fort Macleod to fill their govern
ment contracts. This is the third drive the
firm has made this season, and another will
be started some time In October. l. G. Baker
& Co. have purchased over s400, 900 worth of
cattle this year, and in addition have $1,000
head on the Marias.
It's our pleasing task to record wedding
which took place in this town this afternoon
that Of A. X. Yerkes, of the Bozeman
Chronicle, to Miss Mary A. Dilworth, daugh-
ter OF j. II. Dilworth. Mr.. Yerkes is one of
the old time residents Of Billings, and was
the founder Of our contemporary, the Post,
which he first published In Coulson. He was
one of our active citizens, and there was a
general feeling of regret when Mr.. Yerkes
concluded to leave this town.-Baliaqs Her.
aid
Tie Little Phil" the first steamboat on
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