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

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SIC, 200, and Getchell s. Co.'s q, 600.
It Is said the project of building a brancl
railroad from Billings to the Bull Mountain
MS been abandoned, and that the road viii
be built from Pompey's Pillar instead.
The BENTON Record says there are 1so pu
pils In the public schools Of that city an,
emily two teachers ''to handle them.a /
wants another teacher or two engaged.
A COW boy named Cal vanderpool, Will,
attempting to cut calf cut of band nea
the Triangle ranch, on Tongue river, recentl,
was thrown from his horse and fatally in
jured.
The body Of A. G. Towner, better known
in Benton as Godfrey, was recently found or
the first island below the mouth of the Ma
rias. The man was drowned at Benton July
Sd last. -
ID. b. Howe, of Helena, is preparing fol
shipment to the President of the United
States $50 silk buffalo robe, which liberia
gentleman of Helena is presenting to Mr.
Arthur.
John Mitchell was nearly buried by a slide
in the level in which he was working in the
collar mine at Maiden. When extricated
Nc was found to be seriously but not fatally
injured.
one hundred and thirty of the prominent
men OF Miles City have petitioned Judge
Galbraith to come down there and hold o
term OF court, as otherwise they must &c
without.
L. E. Manning, of Butte, was adirdged en-.
titled to four hundred dollars damages by the
Butte court, for certain slanderous things
said of him by j. d. Thomas, a prominent
merchant.
A large warehouse on the Park branch
near Livingston, was burned Monday even.
ing with all its contents. Two freight cars
near by were also burned. The loss is esti.
mated at $1,000.
Jack Baronette, the famous guide and
scout of the Yellowstone and National Park,
after many years sojourn in the western
wilds, will rusticate in Europe during the
coming winter.
The Madisonian complains of mail irregu-
larities on the Northern Pacific and irrev-
erently attributes the defective service to
"the jamboree lately INDUCED IN by Hank
and the Hessians."
1t is stated that j. Wesley Hilbert, the alb
sconding Northern Pacific railroad telegraph
operator, who was at Townsend this summer,
is now in California making lots of money
specializing in stocks.
During recent hunting excursion In the
Bad Lands, in which the Marquise de Mores
her husband, she shot three
deer with as much dexterity as though she
was an expert at the business.
The Republicans Of Gallatin county have
nominated W. W. Anderson, c. Il. Cobb,
Edwards, F. D. Pease and George
o. Eaton as their candidates for Delegates to
the Constitutional Convention.
A letter received by H. L. Frank to-day
from B. e. Kingsbury, states that Gilt and
Thady got left in the Denver races and that
some of the Montana men wish they had
not played the favorites.-Miner.
The first term of court at Billings had six
divorce cases on the docket. Mary NJ. Means
secured divorce from her husband Francis,
and Andrew Monroe from his wife Dora.
The other cases were continued.
The Republican and Democratic central
committees of Silver Bow county were
to meet in joint council and place
N nomination six candidates for delegates
% the constitutional convention.
Il. Deschamp, of Frenchtown, in Missoula
county, was leaning on his gun, the muzzle
being under his right arm, when IL was dis
charged and the charge of shot entered his
body. He will probably recover.
While cattle train was loading at Custer
he other day, the engineer turned the whis-
lie loose, and in about second the corrals
we're a wreck and the cattle scattered over
he prairie. That was an engineers joke.
Hon. w. o. P. Hays, of Bozeman, who
lbs been at the Eureka Springs, Arkansas,
or several months past, is reported to have
another change for the worse,
md his recovery is regarded as very doubt.
ul.
The total length of the Muir City tunnel
will be $500 feet, of which 1851 feet have
'een taken out, leaving $50 feet to be bored.
t will be completed in about two months,
nd trains will be running through it by
January LIST.
Monday morning in a cabin at Helena
Theodore Bach struck Jack Hardy with an
xe and otherwise beat him up, and it is
cared the victim will die. Neither party
GEMS to be able to give a clear account of
he difficulty.
Stephen T. Ashworth, a young man of
was found dead in bed in his
abin on Horse Prairie on the 8th inst. The
oroners jury concluded he died of heart |
isease. He came from Schuyler county,
TO-, last year.
p. A. Largey, who recently purchased the |
lutte electric light plant, is preparing to |
AXE down the wire between Butte city and |
he old Burlington mill. When the hight is |
tarted up again the power will be located |
within the city.
Harry Horn has organized company for
he development of his coal veins on the |
Gardiner river, to be known as the ''Coal
lining and Coke Company" The coal is
aid to be of superior quality and the veins
re of great extent.
A correspondent who has been inspecting
Testern cities says: "Helena the capital of
Iontana, is accented, orally and morally,
n the first syllable. 1t is probably the rich
st and wickedest city of its size in the
ountry."-N. Y. Sun.
Colonel A. +. Moore committed suicide by
,ooting himself through the head at juno
on City last Friday. He was from Mexico
nd was on his way to Vaudeville to SUPER
tend the Collar mining works. No cause
II the deed is known. ~
One of the I6-mule ore teams recently
luled j, 900 sacks of ore, weighing $1,000
FUNDS, from the concentration at Greenwood
the smelter at Glendale. This is proba-
v the biggest load ever hauled, by the same
nd of team, in the Territory.
For some months past E. s. Topping has
zen publishing in the Bozeman Chronicle
ries of articles entitled Chronicles of the
ellowstone. Their publication in this form
now concluded, and they win appear re-
sed, extended and corrected in book form.
At o meeting in Benton last week to dis
is the building of Touring mill, the
rmers present agreed to plant 873 acres in
heat next year if the mill was assured, and
were appointed to canvass for
rther guarantees in the country tributary
Benton.
of last week Butte had fire on