The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-09-07
ST: DEER LODGE, MONTANA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER z 1888.
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Samuel Fletcher, aged eignty-one years,
died at Pony on Saturday, August 18th.
8. j. Cline has been elected chief fire mar
shall and Tom Heaiy city marshal Of Ben
ton.
The first cotton ever raised in Montana is
now growing in Fred Helms garden in Dry
gulch. Helena.
Sc. James's church, at Bohemian, has been
made present Of a 500 pound bell by Mrs.
|, j. w. Beall, of that place.
Jack Killaiy, better known as Captain
Jack, died suddenly on the night Of August
rs, at Hughesville, in Barker district.
Benton will build q brick fire engine houss
60 feet long, % feet wide and II feet high.
The contract has been let to J. r. Wilton for
s1,71O.
County Commissioner Ed Brearcliff was
married last Sunday evening week to Miss
Maggie Letter, n sister of Mrs. Frank Tudor.
-Missoulian.
The Billings Herald thinks fax can be
grown as well in Montana rs in Washington
and Idaho, where the product is large and of
very fine fiber.
VIM. Quirk, of Missouri valley, fI-year
old boy, was arrested few days ago on q
charge of horse stealing. He has been re-
leased on $1,000 bail.
There in q poisonous weed in Gallatin
county which is death to sheep, for when
they eat it they become crazy, leave the ba nd
and run headlong into the water.
Three hundred and thirty six guests COM
pose the Willard party. None of them will
be at any personal expense while the guest
of the president of the Northern Pacific.
John Mcguire has engaged the celebrated
prima donna, Miss Emma Thursby, to give
eleven concerts in Montana, and guarantees
81 900 and expenses for herself and troupe
Dillon Tribune.
The ridge-pole of the building in Virginia
City, on which Boone Helm and his four
pals executed their memorable dance upon
nothing, Is receiving new covering of
hingles.-NadisonIdR.
Butte had a grand "last spike" celebration
on the completion of sidewalk the other
day and the same night some rascal stole the
spike. 1t was a magnificent creation of art
by John Jolley and had tin foil all over it.
Con. Sullivan, q miner employed by the
Bell Silver and Copper Mining Company, of
Butte, died last Friday afternoon from inju-
ries received while at work in the west drift
of the 4OO-foot level the day before, a body of
ore falling upon and crushing him.
The separation of man and wife in Meagher
county is easily accomplished. The Argus
says that six or more divorces were secured
in Junction City last week, the females tax
ing the cases in their own hands, acting as
attorneys, and Skipping
George Fletcher, who shot w. Springate,
the telegraph operator at Spring Hill last
week, was released from Jail on $500 bail to
appear before the grand jury next month.
Mr.. Springate is improving rapidly under the
care Of DIR. G. L. Sanders, and says that the
shooting was standardization Tribune.
The Montana Improvement Company have
purchased the John Fredline property, just
above Rattlesnake creek, and intend putting
up mammoth sawmlll at that point in the
near future. Meantime, Mr.. Hammond in
forms us that he has immediate employment
for from one to two hundred axemen.-Mis-
soulian.
By the separation of the Northern Pacific
into two divisions, making Helena the divi-
ding line, the eastern division will comprise
,649 miles, and the western division 1895
miles. Tue latter includes the lines of the
Oregon Railway s. Navigation Company
and the Oregon & California railroad.
Bill Burmeister died at Stevensville on the
10Th inst. Mr. Burmeistar was another of the
old timers of Misseula county. In the early
days of Helena he mined In Last Chance
gulch, and took out considerable money at
that point. In 1868 he was resident of Mis-
soala county, and at one time, before there
were any bridges at Missoula, Mr. Burmeis-
ter operated ferry across the river at point
just above the mouth of Rattlesnake creek.
Like SO many of the old timers, he has spent
many years in prospecting for gold, but in
late years with but little success. He was a
man of iron nerve, and on two occasions
proved it at the mouth of the pistol, shooting
his man after being himself wounded, though
In both instances he was accredited with act
ing strictly In self defense.