The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-04-06
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.


Good milk cows are worth $40 to $50 in
Bozeman.
Bozrman voted for incorporation by rs
for to Is against.
The eass end of the Mullan tunnel is in
1851 feet; west end 425 feet.
John White, n barber at Pony, has been
arrested az insane at Virginia City.
Silver Bow County has purchased lots for
It's county buildings paying $4,000 therefor
Snow fell at Corvallis, during the recent
storm. to a depth of thirteen and one-half
inches.
The Theatre Comique, in Bate, has been
rebuilt and reopened with Gordon & Raymer
as managers.
President Willard, Of the Northern Pacific,
expects to visit Montana next month. He
will come from the West
Madison county has a net Indebtedness of
SI2,90S2l, being decrease of 81 ,5S0.1I during
the year ending March l, 1885.
French Levy, it is reported, lost two thou
sand dollars at Bozrman the other night
while bucking against hard run of luck.
Real estate business in this market is lively.
During the month of March there were
twenty-nine transactions, involving $50, 610-
Miner,
Ames Armstrong was shot twice by David
Kennedy Mt Mammoth Hot Springs a few
evenings since, while engaged in a drunken
quarrel
The smallpox cost Custer county S15,61344.
IL is fearrful to contemplate what might re-
suit If a case of measles were to break out
| Courier.
1t is rumored that Billings numbers among
her inhabitants two of the JOG badge men
the old guard.-Iadependem Are you sure it
isn't 81 II?
! The HuSbaRdraan, the pioneer agricultural
! paper of Montana has been mude the otfici-
ii! organ Of the Montana Wool Growers
! Association.
Dick Eddy, of Missona, thinks If the n.
| r. track reaches Missoula from the West by
July LIST, the contractors will have to rustic
| around lively.
A number of the defendants in the surface
title suits at Butte, have settled with the
mining companies.
ID. j. Stewart, who has been engaged for a
number of months past in collecting data for
"Stewart's History OF Montana" died ut Red
Rock, Montana, March 9th, from pneumo,
MA.
The advance sheets of West Shore for
March, containing several pages of ltho.
| IN, b,,;t H.,
reached that city and are spoken of approx
ingly.
The Bozeman city election resulted as fol
lows; j. V. Bogert, Mayor; Jacob Oakwocd
City Marshal; T. j. Dawes, Police Magis
trate; j. Is. Davidson, City Assessor; j. j
Davis, City Attorney.
Invitations are out for the wedding of Mis-,
Theresa Sands, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A
Sands, to Mr.. Moe j.. Apple. The ceremony
will take place at the Windsor Hotel, Den
yer, OH the evening of Wednesday, April IL
at 3 O'Clock.
The Miles City Press in mentioning IN,
stealing of some horses mentioned the nam,
of the owner ~ one of the persons arrested
for the theft. The editor kindly says he de
. | SlItS 10 reCtlly the error.
La>t>M onday morning the lifeless body 0
Frank Mckenzie, an inmate of the Gallatli
county hospital, was found lying near tn
hospital. Disease Of the heart is supposed
TO have been the cause of death.
The trip from Benton to Billings is nov
made by stage in less than three days. TIL
distance by the route now travelled is abou
2ci miles. 1t will not be many months unit
D there is daily service on the line.
Massena Billiard, Grand Master of tn
!. Grand Lodge of Montana Odd Fellows, ha
: issued an order to all Odd Fellows, in III
C Territory 10 observe the Goth day of April
. the sixty-ffth anniversary of Odd Fellow
'.'fship in America in proper manner
e Montana with her valleys and mountain
g covered with bunch. grass has 5000 squar
s miles of grazing land; Idaho, 81 200, Color;
!. do, 10000; Wyoming, 7S,0O0; Washington
$4,000; Eastern Oregon, 50 600, and Nebraska
50,00o-a total of Az, 900 square miles of Ian
capable Of producing beef and mutton
Jim Finlay, a halfbreed on the reserv,
shot and killed himself on Tuesday of las
week. His family say he had been drinking
and came in, took his gun, and deliberatel
committed suicide before their eyes. TIL
incident is remarkable, as it is probably th
. first case on record OF an Indian taking hi
own lifs.-Missoulian "
A drunken Indian took u shot at Lien
Cooke on the reserve, not long since, will
y out doing any especial harm. II seems h
o was with party of other Indians, and su,
d denly espied the soldierly form of the lie,
= tenant Slipping off his horse, and befor
y his intention was OWNED, he cracked loos,
e with, rs above stated, no effect. His con
A panions Immediately disarmed the bellige,
ent buck and rode off, allowing him to 70
lew on foot at bis leisure. Lieut.. Cooke ais
=, took in the situation, and quietly walked o
about his business Nissouliaa.
: We learn, from a reliable source, that tn
Clendennin Smelling company have tw
, stacks and machinery for FIVE reverbrator
Q furnaces en- route from Chicago. They wi
9 be added to their works early this spring, an
!, when completed will increase the capacity
y the smelter from four to twenty -fuor tor
daily, and enable them to keep the blast fu
a mace in operation continually. The eompan
a already has lumber and brick on the groun,
:. and will proceed with the erection iinmed
: ately on the arrival Of the machinery. TIL
: is good news for the Barker Countrywide
u bdndman.