The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-08-03
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

one man show.
seamboais leaving Benton nowadays are
we loaded with wool.
J he town Of Terry has been located be-
tw IN Glendive and Miles City.
he name of a new paper to be started at
n den will be the Mineral Argus.
lc Lindsay troupe did not receive as good
p 'onage as il deserved In Helena.
new school house Is in course of erec-
ii, at Laurin. 1t is 30x26 feet in size.
he report that Bobby Graham was killed
RI -ntly at Magnnis is said to be a mis-
he banking house of Nelson Story, Boze-
N. a, will soon be changed into National
bank.
Sheriff Blakely of Gallatin County, and
hi deputies pulled in four horse thieves last
W k.
! The commissioners of Yellowstone county
, have decided to build Jail, to cost 900 or
$4,000.
| 4 new skating rink has just been finished
at Virginia City. The folks there must favor
ho5 baths.
1t is estimated that Montana's wool clip
wi reach 10000, 900 pounds per year in the
next decade.
The Marquis de Mores will establish a
large Strengthening and canning establishment
at Miles City.
Manager Mcguire has leased the "opera
house" at Missoula, which completes his
" st side circuit.
The arteSian well company which was
fo med few DAYS ago NJ Miles CITY has a
ca jtal of S-0,0Oo.
re Miner is running a Sunday school col
III Saul surely must have strayed in
al "mG the prophets.
C. Armltage has been appointed train
d' patcher for the National Park branch of
TIL Northern Pacific.
The land embraced in the old Black foot
Agency has been sold TO various parties at
s1.25 to $3.50 per acre.
Miss Frances f. Willard, the famous tenn.
perance leader, lectured in Ming's Opera
House, Helena last Sunday.
The workmen connected with the Alice
mine and mills have built neat one-story
and half hospital at Walkerville.
A miner named Harvey. employed in the
Gagnon mine, was badly crushed on Wed
ncsday of last week by a falling rock
| A boy named Laroche, of Butte, lost his
thumb and two fingers last Monday bv the
! explosion OF giant powder cap he was play.
ing with.
Upon good authority we give the altitude
of some of our highest mountains: st. Mary's
Peak, 9. 800 feet; McDonald's, 5000; another
IL ountain close TO McDonald's, $780,
A paper over the range wants people to
write their Christian names in full, but 1t
only publishes the initials Of its editor Prac.
tice is better than precspt, neighbor.
a man was found lying on the railroad
track near Missoula Thursday Of last week
with his head severed from his body. It is
supposed he was run over while drunk.
It is believed that the Texas horse disease
which Is now raging in Dakota has made its
| appearance in Helena. several horses being
affected by at least something resembling it.
John Hamlin, Of Helena, who has ranch
on the Teton, had both legs broken at the
latter place one day last week, during run
away of the team with which he was hauling
logs.
1t is believed that the completion of the
| Benton branch of the Northern Pacific will
be the means of taking 10000 settlers into
| the Judith Basin, where there IL vast area
of fine land.
The Independent of July 9th published a
funeral discourse given over the body of NJ ISIS
Ada L. FAINT. in San Francisco, by Mrs. Cora
L. v. Richmond, and which the latter claims
to have delivered by Inspiration.
| First class fare from St. Paul to the Pacific
| Coast points on the Northern Pacific will be
| 500; i'm migrant s45. One hundred pounds
of baggage on each full ticket and fifty lbs.
on half tickets Livingston Enterprise
Three anton boys went fishing last week
One of tlrem caught three fish, another
caught bad cold, and the third caught glory
hallelujah when he got home and exhibited
his wet and muddy elothes.-Eadepende1
| The Miles City people have petitioned the
| Secretary of the Interior to compel the
Crows to stay on their reservation, and the
Cheyennes to quit stealing horses. The right
| of petition was one for which our forefathers
| fit, bled ard died.
Bill Rigney, who was confined in the
| Miles City Jail for threatening to commit
rape, was taken out by mob and used as a
weight for stretching hemp, the railroad
bridge over Tongue River being tied to the
other end of the rope.
The body of man was found In the river
near Missoula last rex and identified ~
that of Dennis Gallagher. who was confined
in the Jail last spring on n charge of burglary
and who on being released got full of bug
juice and disappe ared
A new order of the Postoflce Department
says that postmastsrs ara only required to
keep advertised letters seven days before
sending them TO the Dead Letter Office.
Heretofore postnasters were required to
keep such letters thirty days
White Sulphur Springs has subscribed 81,
600 in stock for a telegraph line TO connect
! that town with the Western Union system
of wires The estimated cost Of the line il
81 900, if strung TO Livingston-a point from
which assistance Is expected.
A party of prospectors started last Tuesday
for the Sage Creek country. following a
"dream" trail toward rich diggings. II they
find any, we shall have more faith In the
shadowy visitations Of the night than has
heretofore found place in our cresd.-Madi-
sonioR.
Sunday evening. July ed, at Barrett sta
ton, on the u. & n, James McAuley, while
attempting to board moving tram, fell be-
tween the cars and was run over and horri-
bly, mutilated, the head being the only part
that escaped. The remains were taken to
Dillon in sack
The suit of l. G. Baker & Co., W.. T. G
Power & Bro, for damages caused by the
Butte slipping off the ways and sinking the
| Col. Macleod, and in which action was
brought for SIT 900 damages, has been decid-
I'D in favor of the plaintiff for ene-half the
/ amount.-Ricer Press.
A heavy fire in Miles City two weeks ago
de stroyed property to the value of over S5l :
900, the heaviest losers being Basinski Bros,
s25 ,00O W Il. Savage & Co., $4,000; II. T..
Wo II, 5000, and r. g. Redd, $500. The
total insurance was SO, 600 The fire is sup
posed to be the result of incendiarism.
One. O'Brien and partner were trapping
at Pirte Butte, on the Madison last fall. The
partne = took their animals TO some ranch-
men tn winter but coptinuad b;s tr;,1 ;,,.o