The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-10-19
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

; Billings has literary society.
A tannery is called for al Bozen.an.
The ANIMAL bear stories are beginning.
Bnt1e has an alpha chautaqua. sociesy
Helena now has eight men on liz police
force.
Il The Has5andmaa promises to enlarge in
another month.
The taxable property In Benton amounts &c
nearly 81, 100000.
4 Much snow has fallen on the East Side q.
ring the past week or two. FL
The bicyclists at the recent Bozeman races
made the best mile IN 525.
I. NJ. Carr, a Forty-niuer, died at Butte
hospital Tuesday of pneumonia.
Charles schlessinger, liquor dealer, of
Butte, has made an assignment.
The Helena Passenger depot is nearly fin
ished and is a very neat building.
The wife of DIR. Thomas II. Carroll died at
Bozeman last week in childbirth.
The AUat Courier urges the reorganization
OF the Bozeman Library Association.
Large quantities of base bullion from Barker
are being shipped east by way of Billings
VIM. Carter, on the shonkin, had a valua-
BILE horse killed last week by huge grizzly.
Charles Douglass has been appointed dep
uty clerk of the district court at Miles City
Custer countys assessment foets I'D So, $780,
1S2, to which the railroad contributes 81 ,Ol6,-
$50. 81
The Ardnt Courier suggests that a mineral
exhibition be established in the National
Park zee II l ~. .
Rev. NJ. i. streator, of Ravenna, Ohio, has
become pastor of the Christian church at
Helena. 49,. ...
A Sun River cattle herder has been VIC
timizing Benton merchants by means of forg-
ed orders.
No court win be held at Boulder this fall,
on account of the non-completion OF the
court house.
A shower of half-grown frogs fell during a
rain recently at Alkai station, fifteen miles
from Billings.
The wealth of the Crow Indians, valuing
their land at one dollar per acre, Is estimated
at 800 each.
An effort il being made to build Catholic
church in Billings. Four lots have been do
mated for a site.
The cost of constructing the Northern Pa
cific is said to have been an average of about
$4,000 per mile.
A car load of hops from Washington Ter
ritory went east a few days since over the
Northern Pacific.
A band OF twenty mountain sheep were
seen last week near the rhnch OF ID. y. Riggs
In Choteau county.
The Marquis de Mores has fully decided to
erect his slaughtering and canning establish
ment at Miles City.
While in Bozeman the Jay Rial eombina-
ton lost one of their trained bloodhounds, it
is believed by poison.
The woman connected with the robbery of
the Teller trunks at Livingston is known as
"Scar-Faced Charley"
John D. Read Montana's Commissioner to
the Denver Exposition, arrived home In
Butte last Monday morning.
An effort is being made to establish uni
versity in Bozeman. The Methodists are the
principal movers in the scheme.
Dir. Longmaid, of Butte, has been appoint
ed Superintendent of the Helena Mining |
and Reduction Company at WIckes.
On the last day of Butte's recent term of |
court Daniel Morrison was granted decree |
Of divorce from Margaret Morrison
The young men OF Butte are trying to Or
ganiZe gymnasium and talk of renting the |
Pavilion skating rink for the purpose
Governor Crosby has been Joined by his |
wife and children Ia son and daughterl, who
will take up their residence in Helena.
The grain crops upon the various ranches
in which Ex-Governor Potts is Interested |
are estimated this year at lO,000 bushels.
The work of the 'ad" hand on the Ardnt
Courier has set half the printers in the Ter
ritory to spelling brass rule, leaders, etc.
A 1000 candle power electric lamp
has been placed in position in Paynter
& Comstock's new drug store at Helena.
The capacity of the slaughter house to be
built at Miles City by the Marquise de
Mores, will, it is said, be $50 head per day.
Read is only twenty-five years old. How
sad! So young and yetiso bad.-Independent.
Col. w. B. Hundley, of Helena, has enter
ed his fllies, Australoid and Glendalia, in
the coming race for two year. Odds, in Chica-
GO.
John Lippard, who owns ranch near
Benton, raised 2,l3l bushels of grain this
iytu /
ton.
The Sisters Hospital at Butte took fire
Tuesday evening, but the blaze was put
out before any considerable damage was
done.
The Miles City First National hank claims
the handsomest counter IN the west 1t is of
cherry with beveled plate giass the entire
length.
1t Is expected that the Democrats and Re-
publicans of Cboteau county will compro-
mise on Delegates to the Constitute nal Con-
vention.
Mr.. Frederick Billings has subscribed 81, OCO
toward $4,000 public school house in Bill
ngs, the rest Of the money TO DO raised by
taxation.
A man named Ed. Lyons, of Gloster, shot
himself through the heart on Prickly Pear
asst week. Domestic infelicity was the cause
Of the deed. .,.....t-. |,
A cay Use kicked the four-y ear-old son of
Morris Powers, Butte in the face one day
asst week, producing compound fracture of
he iawbons. "a -.... -.s
j. ID. Deckert, aged thirty five, who has
,een In the west about fifteen years, died ]
uddcnly of heart disease at Miles City one
lay last week.
Geo. L. and Willy Carpenter, of Deep
'reek, Missouri valley, raised 5000 pounds
" inangl wurzele beets on rs rods of ground
he past season.
The refreshing news comes from Living
ton that Chinaman of that town has had
il his chickens stolen. This is prosaic JUS
ts
Calfee has improved and enlarged his :
Wonderland panorama, and Judge III. N.
Mcguire hiss agreed to become lecturer for
he entertainment.
Chester Weirick, a ffteen-year-o bow of /,
lilies City, is a promising hunter. He re-
emily shot wolf, q bison and black tailed
eer, in aday's hunt.
w. b. Nickles has become associated with !,
ieo-ge Z. Boos in the printing and book !.