The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-10-05
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

| erected tnere.
Brickmasons in Missoula get 81 per LAY
for their work.
Last week Butte shipped bullion to the
value of sS6,440
Benton talks of organizing Grand Army
of the Republic post.
The smoke stack for the car shops at Liv-
ingston is 10 feet high.
A maple floor is being laid in Thomas ska
ting amphitheatre at Butte.
The Jay Rial company, now in Eastern
Montana, number II members.
Bishop Brondel is making his Episcopal
! visit through Eastern Montana
Work has commenced on the Northern
Pacific round house ut Bozeman.
The U. S. assay Office, Helena, now has
$4,000 in gold bars in its vaults.
There is talk of converting the Bozeman
skating rink into an opera house.
The Union guards of Butte propose giving
q grand military ball on Oct. 18th.
Dillon people are petitioning for the clos
ing of all business houses on Sunday.
There are $50 pupils enrolled in the public
schools of Butte and suburban towns.
John Wall shot an ibex on the summit OF
Old Badly, near Virginia City, last week.
The 5000 bath house at White Sulphur
Springs, will be completed in a few days.
Nearly 1000 two cent stamps of the new
series were sold at the Helena postoffice Mon
! day.
The placer diggngs at Nine Mile, Mis-
soula county, did not pan out very well this
year.
The first foreman of the Yellowstone Jour
nal is now practicing attorney at Living
! ston.
The county commissioners of Beaverhead
are offering for sale bonds to the amount of
S23,OOO
TT 2. McElrath has retired from the Miles
City Daily Press, leaving Bert. Potter in
charge.
Nelson Story pays taxes on the largest in
dividual assessment in Gallatin county
$50 600.
Butler & Blake, Of Helena, have secured
the agency for Montana for Blaine's Political
History.
Another section of forty lock boxes has
been added to the equipment Of the Helena
postotfiCe.
The assessment of Madison county this
year is 81, All 800, an increase over last year
of S160, 450.
A new bridge across the Missoula river
has just been completed at the city of the
same name.
J. L. Stephens, of the RiUer Press, will
shortly establish a paper at Townsend, Mea-
CHER county.
The boat to navigate the Upper Missouri
has proven failure. 1t is too small, and lily
built beside.
little daughter of Mr.. Thompson, of
Coulson, fell out of a wagon last Friday and
broke her arm.
Harry Horr has discovered q coal mine
near Cinnabar Mountain aud not far from
the Park branch
The Chinaman in Jail at White Sulphur
Springs under sentence of DEATH escaped
last Thursday night.
An alarming type of dysentery prevails
among the Dillon children, though no cases
have yet proved fatal.
Carl Kleinschmidt last week sold his flock
Of 1000 sheep in the Judith valley for $3.50
per head to Hay Bros.
Al Lewis recently shot 4 crane in Beaver
head county, the wings Of which measured
five feet from tip to tip.
Missoulas Chinese leper has been sent 20
Sa Epn piy L., -, 4
Gent funds for the purpose.
Ed. Fridley's safe, at Bozeman. was opened
last "Wednesday night and robbed of $500,
all the money there was in it.
Mrs. L. Kupfer, of Dillon, ACCOMPANIED bv
her son Harry, has gone on an extended visit
to her old home in Germany
Lou. p. Smith, of Butte, drew u gold watch
ratified off at Catholic Fair in Cleveland,
Ohio. He received it last week.
Nellie, wife of T. S. Hamilton. of Butte,
died last Saturday afternoon. She was one
of the pioneer ladies of Montana
Willard has wri item letter to the Benton
people intimating that he will build branch
railroad from that city to Billings.
1t is reported that the Second cavalry is
about to be ordered to Arizona, and that the
Tenth tcolored), will take their place.
DR.. e. Frank, of Helena, fell over an en-
bankment Sunday night, breaking an arm
and receiving number of severe bruises.
M. T. Chaffin, of the Bitter Root, this year
raised fourteen pounds of potatoes from n
single hill-the product of single potato
eye.
The contract for furnishing the calvan-
ICED iron work and the hardware for the
Butte court house has been let to William NJ.
Jack.
The London Daily Ne,cs published col
umn and half of telegraph report of the
last spike ceremonies, the day after they oc-
CURED,
Dr. James Wright, superintendent of In.
dian affairs in NJ ontana from 1879 to 1876 died
at his home in Bloomfield, Iowa, on Septem- |
Der 23rd.
Three car loads of recruits, minus eight
deserters, were last week added to the forces |
Of the United States army at Forts Shaw and |
Missoula.
The Husbdndndn says the church-goipp |
population at the Springs has doubled in six |
months. And is the church crowded vet. |
neighbor? -
DR.. Louis Terry, formerly of Deer Lodge,
has returned to Missoula from the Flathead
Agency, where he has been praeticing for
some time.
young man named WILDER Bess lost his
night arm in thresher near Fort Missoula |
last week. He may die from the effects of |
the injury. ....
People who have lived in the Bitter Root |
valley for fifteen years say that they have
never seen the river and tributary streams SO
low az now.
G. Garwood, a carpenter, fell head first
from scaffolding at Salesville last Friday.
and got his face cut terribly and several teeth
knocked out.
Father Dolls has sent 20 Chicago firm an
order for the stained glass windows for the
new Catholic church at Butte, now approach.
Ing completion.
Thomas Lacy, of the Shonkin, sowed four.
teen bushels of wheat on fourteen acres This
year and secured return Of 600 bushels
Pretty hard to beat.
Hon. +. ID. Cooper, of the northarr -.