The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-02-02
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
Burglars are operating in Helena.


shafer & Jones, grocers Of Glendive. have
failed.
A second lodge of A. o. o. ". Is to be or
ganizel In Helena.
The Parrot Company last year produced
matte valued At 81 100000.
| Peaslee & Silverberg. Wholesale liquor
dealer Of Billings, have failed.
Butte merchants paid taxes last year on
merchandise valued At $3.50, 800.
The residence Of II. Hellinger, Bohemian,
| was burned last week. Loss, 81, 800.
E. H. Robinson, n druggist of Barker. has
failed for 81 800 and skipped the country.
A movement to establish concentrating
works at Alder gulch will probably prove
successful.
Richard Smith, OF Butte, had his left foot
so severely frozen recently that amputation
was necessary.
A sample run Of three tons Of ore from tho
Alameda mine, Madison county, resulted in
net proceeds Of $3.50.
The temporary railroad bridge across the
Yellowstone at Livingston has been swept
away BY an leo gorge.
Gus Bloom. = Niles City crank, laid out
one Of those cold nights and his hands and
feet were badly frozen.
An employee OF Perkins g. Calfee, Boze-
man, killed himself Monday evening by
blowing out his brains.
J. r. & T. A. Steele, of Sun river, have
failed, with liabilities of about S25 900, and
assets Of 81, 900 to sl5, 1000.
j. NJ. Belts had leg broker last week near
Missoula by getting 1t entangied in the ma
chinery Of bay-balng machine.
Mr.. J. Walsh died in Helena Monday from
injuries C. 'sed by rocks falling on him In
Mullan tunnel few days previously.
Felix O'Neal, Of Butte, has sued the Utah
| & Northern railroad company for s25, 900
damages for injuries received while in their
employ.
John Vettsrs saloon, In Virginia City,
caught fire Monday Of last week, but the
flames were extinguished before serious dam
| ago was done.
Mr.. A. Fl. Wells, who lives near Canton,
| has lost three children by diphtheria In the
past two weeks. boy of four years, girl
OF two years and boy Of ten months Of
age.
1t Is report ed that ten or . dozen despera-
does were shot or hung In weeksville and
vicinity last week by the vigilantes. The
town can easily stand such decrease in its
population.
The White Sulphur Springs association has
elected the following officers: Aaron Hersh-
field. president Loais Hoffman, vice presi-
dent; T. K. Collins, treasurer; A. W. Sias,
secretary and general manager.
| The Custer county commissioners did not
meet at Miles City last week as they intend
ed. Railroad trains were all blockaded, and
as the commissioners live IN St. Paul they
could not reach the county seat. ..
The Helena Turn yerein had celebration
last Monday evening in honor Of the 10th
anniversary Of Thomas Paine's birthday
Granville Stuart, NJ sahlinger, and H. c.
Yaeger were among the speakers.
VIM. Lee, lately foreman at the Legal Ten
der works, was few days ago struck on tho
head by gun in the hands Of a man hy the
name Of Rogers. Mr.. Lee was considered In
dangerous condition at last accounts.
| Mrs. John j. Healy, wife Of ex-sheriff
Healy, died in Benton, January 9th, of cere-
bral rheumatism. She lived In the north west
for seventeen years, and her daughter Lillio
VIVA the first white child born In Benton.
Koonsa, the Fiathead Ipdian tried In Deer
Lodge recently for the murder Of Frank Ma
rengo and released, got drunk one night last
week at a ball on the Jocko aud drawing his
knife cut three men before he was secured
and lied
| The Bozeman jail contains one man
charged with tampering with United States
nails, one with murder, four with burglary,
two with grand larceny, two with petit lar
ceny. two with forgery, and two with exhib-
,ting deadly weapons.
John Mckinney, foreman OF a gang Of rail-
road laborers at Rocky Canon, near Boze.
man, was shot and killed. January Goth, by
W. II. Abbott, . snb-contractor. The muir
derer has been arrested. The killing n re-
ported to have been almost causaless.
A band Of about twenty-five lodges of Pie
gan Indians are committing depreda tions ON
Deer Creek, about thirty miles below Fort
Maginnis. The settlers and cattle men are
badly scared, and arc appre extensive of further
trouble, for which they are now on tho alert.
A son OF Chief Arlse, of the Fla,hes.ss,
got full of the white mans fre-w alter the
ether day and tried to send the old chief to
tho happy hunting grounds. The attempt
caused Chief Arlee to put up n job on the
whishy-selfers, whereby they were arrested.
but Missoula Justice let them slip out of
the clutches Of the law. '.'' =
| WIN. Nlrbuhr was found dead at the
Kitchen door of his house, near Clancy,
Monday morning, with several ,bulles holes
in his head and marks Of a severe clubbing,
His son-in-law. . man named Herz6x. who
lived with him, has been arrested for the
murder The whole outfit had been drunk
and fighting the night before
| The Assessor of Silver Bow county. tho
most compact county In the Territory land
consequently the easiest one assessedT receiy-
ed for assessing that county in 1882 mot more
than six months work., S. S1 80. This Is
81 ,06i 30 more than the combined salaries OF
lothe Governor, Auditor and Treasurer, and il
only s733.b0 less than the salaries OF the
above officers together with the salary of the
Secretary.
| "S p'oopcSt'hs VI hHr MOUtdIbp ChurcJlfn "a,
a new religious monthly to he published In
Virginia City, Is out. The paper is designed
to furnish church people with church ne WIS
and church notes, and The bish op OF the do
oeso will make 1t the means of communities.
ton with the Congregations under his
charge" II Is TO be printed In the interests
OF the Protestant Episcopal church, and will
be edited by the Rev E. G. Prout The sub
E'crip'ion price Is enc dollar year.
The Butte City Light Guards were organ.
lied Tuesday evening Of last week with fifty.
FIVE members and a full roster of officers
Tho company will DO increased to 100 mem.
bers, who will be uniformed and under the
instructions of Capt. NJ, Il. Twohig, thorough,
ly drilled in the manual of arms and comnauy
maneuyers. Capt, Twohig was .fosmerly IN
command OF the Virginia Tigers" the
crack company Of Nevada, and is said to DO
nne swordsman and excellent drill master
Articles of incorporation were recently
filed In the Office Of the Territorial Secretary
for the construction and operation of a street
tram way between Butte. and walksryills.
the line to cover q distance of, two miles or
more The plan Is to make IL cable road,
the motive power to be stat onary engines,