The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-03-16
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Twin Bridges Is to have Masonic lodge.
Bozeman Is to have skating rink in st
Lawrence hall.
The Anaconda Is daily shipping four or
five cars of ore.
There are seventeen prisoners in the Cho-
teau county Jail
The Miles City Press is one of the newsiest
dailies in the Territory.
Lewis & Clarke county is about to refund
$4,000 Of its debt at six per cent.
Lexington stock is selling in Paris for $50.
per share, . recent advance Of $40.
Tom O'Hanlon, of Fort Belkpap, has
already purchased over 5000 robes this win
ter.
James Moyn has been Offering s45 per head
for three .year-old steer In Smith River Val
ley.
d.. Stewart, compiler Of "Stewart's His
tory of Montana" is dangerously i'll at Red
Rock.
There will be "a Acts of the Twelfth ses-
sion published in the Independent according
to law.
There are twenty-four prisoners in the
county jail-two murderers among the mum.
ber.-Courier.
The capital stock of the First National
Bank of Helena has been increased from
slOo, 900 to 100000.
P. H. Conger, superintendent of the Ma
tional Park, has returned from the east and
is again at his post of duty.
The hanging of Jessrang, considered as an
economic measure, probably saved Beaver
head county s5,0o0-Tr,bune.
A three-story building is to be erected at
White Sulphur Springs--tte Masons to build,
own and occupy the upper story.
The recent session of the Legislature cost
$3.50, irrespective of the cost Of printing
the laws and journals, which Is yet to be
done.
A number of the residents of Miles. CITY.
fearing food when the ice goes out, have
built boats and are prepared for the threat.
ened emergency.
The Peck line boats-Nellie Peck, General
Meade and General Terry-have been seized
in Nebraska, there being claims against them
for about $4,000.
David P. Lake, a well-known mechanic
and a worthy citizen Of Helena, was found
dead in his bed last Friday. The cause was
tubercular consumption.
The new smelter at Hughesville has been
compelled to shut down on account Of not
being able to secure sufficient friedrich for
the arches. -Husbandn,an.
Thomas B. Quaw sold over $4,000 worth
of Bozeman dirt to Washington capitalists
on Monday of last week, and it. was an of
day for real estate mt that
The Union Pacific has issued instructions
to allow passengers between Omaha and
Montana $50 pounds of baggage instead of
100 pounds only, as heretofore. .
Henry r. Brooks was the first Justice ever
appointed in the Territory of Montana, and
he held the first court aud tried the first case
in the spring of 1862 The case was Tin.Cup
Joe vs. O'Keefe.
1t is rumored that Fort Ellis Is to be made
q fve-company post. Also, that two com.
panies, one cavalry and one infantry, will be
detailed for service in the National Park this
summer.-Courier.
Propositions are now coming from the N.
p. Railroad to locate the Helena depot
quarter of q mile east of Dry Gulch, II land
owners in that vicinity will offer sufficient
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The advance cargoes of this seasons pill
grims are already arriving. A party of seven
came in last week, and another party arrived
this week, straight from Missouri and will
settle in the valley.-Aissoulian,
Lieut.. Cooke and psrty are stationed at
the bridge below the ferry, taking their three
square meals per day and exerting the moral
effact Of their armed presence upon the art
less minds Of the sellers of whisky.
A telegram received ut Bozeman last
Wednesday night says: Citizens of Bis
marck held an indignation meeting last night
against the action of the Northern Pacific In
giving their town the genteel go-bye. =.
At the Episcopal church in Miles City,
Sunday, March 9th, Bishop Brewer con.
firmed class of sixteen persons-the largest
class he ever confirmed in the Territory
Two more were confirmed ut Fort Keogh.
Al. Davidson yesterday sold to 4. W.
Knight his undivided one-fourth interest in
q so-acre tr act on lower Rodney street, west
| Of Montana avenue. Consideration, $1,000
cash, being at the rate of $500 an acre.-Inds-
pendent.
Glendale has record which beats any In
Montana Thirty-four couples have separa-
rated here IN the last FIVE years and eleven
of them in the last eighteen months. A good
record for the size Of the village.-Glendale'
Corr. Herald
In about Ave weeks the Minnesota and
Montana Land and Improvement Company
will receive from the Northern Pacific rail.
road company a clear title to the lands pur,
chased by them, including the TOWNSHIP Of
Billings
| An election will be held the second Mon
day In April In the new County of Yellow
stone for the purpose of electing county
officers. r. H. Foster, j. f. Garrish and
Paul Mccormick are now, by appointment,
acting as commissioners.
The Missoula physicians report that there
are eight or nine cases of scarlet fever In
town. In view Of this, every precaution pos
siblc SHOULD be taken to prevent the spread
/ OF the disease. We believe no action has yet
been taken toward closing the public schools.
Times.
The Bozeman Pass tunnel is progressing
finely, over $50 feet being excavated in the
| eastern end. The western end IL not being
very raidly done, owing to the Temporary
track, trains running over the same Earring
and shaking down the roof of that portion
Of the tunnel already excavated.. Chroniee
We are informed that Indians broke into
the Weeksville pest house last week and
stole the blankets This Is much to be re-
GREETED, as It will have tendency to spread
death and disease over the entire reserve,
unless the culprits are identified immediate.
ly, and isolated from their fellows.-MissOu.
ian.
A recent railing of the Psstoffice Depart.
ment prohibits postmasters from forwarding
mail matter after reaching Its original ad.
dress, except letters on which the full post
age has been paid and newspapers aid
periodicals TO be forwarded to another post
Office in the county In which is located the
postofice to which they are originally ad-
dressed.
The Commissioners Of Silver Bow county
hose annrour;axad 0,a onn