The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-06-29
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

4ILNINA oNlAb G"S
| The Helena townsitc is to DC rcsurvcycd at
n cost of $3.50.
Virginia City is being canvassed for funds
| TO build n Catholic church.
| There are three mercantile houses at Town
send and nearly a dozen saloons.
Helena has 81 100 transfer bus which, on
pinch, will haul forty passengers.
Bennett s. Co. have 400 men employed on
the overhead road at Mullan tunnel.
Ex-sherf Tom Irvine has been appointed
Deputy Assessor Teiiorstone Journal
The contract for building Benton's new
court house has been let to Gus Senieur.
There are GOO men and 1I5 teams in the
Winston outfit on the National Park branch.
Methodist sinners at Dillon are now called
TO prayer by n six-hundred pound Baltimore
bell
Two highwaymen held up Sam Sloan near
Missoula few nights ago and robbed him of
$40.
We regret 10 learn of the severe illness of
Mrs. Benjamin Phillips, of Wolf creek
Husbandnaan, Dist.
Fifteen thousand cattle have already ar
rived in the Yellowstone valley from the
States this spring.
The Fort Magnnis Mining Company took
ont $1,000 in gold, the result of run of
twenty-eight days.
The fire engine and other apparatus pur-
chased by Benton will reach the river me-
tropolis about the LIST of August.
Fred. Robson, recently appointed agency
clerk at Poplar river, was drowned n few davs
ago while bathing in the Missouri.
Mormon bouquets are adorning the tables
of tbs hotels and the bars of the saloons of
Dillon.-Tribune. The nasty things.)
Beaverhead county stations are to sell half
rate tickets TO Dillon and return July 4tb.
The programme Of the day is quite interest.
ing.
Congress having reduced the appropriation
for the next fiscal year, u number of forts
will be discontinued, among them Forts
Keogh and Missoula.-Miner
Miss Salie +. Hosmer gave two entertain
ments in Helena last week and was assisted |
highly spoken of by the press.
Paris Gibson will drive 800 weshers to |
the Canadian Pacific soon for sale to the |
contractors and others. That ought to be a |
good market for fat Montana mutton.
The Inter-Mountdin says that about Sun
day, July sth, and each Sunday thereafter,
regular excursion trains will be run from
Butte to Warm Springs and return. Fare SO.
Mr.. G. r. LaRue, master mechanic of the
Billings and Weeksville division, informs
the Herald the n. =. Co. will put repair
shops in Helena and employ about 300 men
there.
Gardiner Mammoth City, in the Yellow
stone country, has fifty buildings-log cabins,
slab shacks, and canvas tents. Half of the
structures are saloons. There is population
Of about go.
The Bozeman grand jury failed to find an
Indictment in the case of the Territory vs.
Nathan G. Lay and George A. Lowe, charged
with the killing of Irving Hunter, there be-
ing no evidence to sustain the charge.
The Fargo Republican remarks: Eighteen
carloads of young stock passed west over the
Northern Pacific road Saturday. Bound for
VI ontana-just going up there for their
health. They'll return when they get fat"
The estate of Rolla Butcher was sold by the
yesterday. The prices brought
we're generally satisfactory. The Broadway
property, which at the previous sale brought
'nly $4,000, WAS sold for S2,GO0-Miner, 2Sd.
Dr. A. Lamme mourns the loss of $3.50. left |
n narrow gauge sleeper ut Deer Lodge. He
md Dr. Chambliss are forming a medical
club. No person who has not
ost over $500 will he admitted to member
2lst.
Friday morning last some one concealed
n stable shot Mrs. Dennis Shea, of the ,
fisseuri valley, striking her with nine shot ;
t Is feared the wound will prove mortal. ,
ohm Lynch, one Of the neighbors, has been |
rrested on suspicion. and 1t is feared will be 8
1nched should Mrs. Shea die. -UusbaDdDlon |
Francis Pope, Seer etary of the Territorial l
air Association, is in receipt of letter c
'om General Freight Agent p p. Shelby, Of i
ne Union Pacific, stating that his road will | $
etnrn, free of charge, all articles and live S
,ock exhibited at the fair, to any poin: in a
lontana along the line of the road from fl
hich they may have been shipped v
Mr.. Bent, who has charge of the conStruc-
on train on the Park branch Of the North
m Pacific, was in Livingston Thursday. He
'ys tracklaying has new fairly begun and
i'll proceed at the rate of about half a mile
er day, and more rapidly as the work ad-
ances The grade through the lower canon
Ill be completed, he said, in u day or two, a,
I'D the tracklaying force with meet with h
tile delay at that point. The contractors h
'pe to get the road completed and IN opera -
on before the season closes. -