The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-08-31
LOCAL BREvITIES.


day at 7.3O p. IN.
Block 30 is being cleared and stone deliv-
cred for the school house foundations.
There are four prisoners in the Bozeman
Jail charged with the crime of murder.
The opening of the public school has been
deferred until Monday, September 10th.
The bar privilege at the Territorial Fair
sold for 81 800 and the fruit privilege for
$50.
Rev. w. A. Shannon will preach in New
Chicago Sunday, September I'd at II a. m
and 8 p. m.
Farmers are generally harvesting now with
all the speed that approved implements and
machinery will permit.
The Moss Minstrels, with Bessie Louise
King, will appear in Deer Lodge Monday
| evening, September 10th.
Prof Cole is beginning to get ready for
| lighting Main street, Helena, during fair
week with the U. S. Company's are electric
| light.
The Utah & Northern engines on this di-
vision are draped in mourning for firemen
Sears and Cullen, killed at Feeley's and Apex
within the past few days.
Fifteen thousand head of cattle, divided
into herds convenient for driving, are en-
route from Lost River, Idaho, TO the Yellow
stone and Musselshell ranges.
Secretary McCutcheon has the thanks of
this Office for a copy of the General and
Special Laws enacted at the Thirteenth reg
ular session of the Montana Legislature.
The local railroad rates OF fare are about
eight cents mile; through rates about three
and half cents per mile. The local rates
are too high relatively and in the abstract.
The recent smashups ought to convince the
managers of the U. & n. that it would be
much cheaper to fence the road than to pay
for such heavy repairs on broken rolling
stock.-TTibuRe
Persons Interested will please notice that
another days races has been included IN
the Butte programme for September, and
that the dates have been changed so that the
races begin day earlier.
The Skating Pavilion will open for the
ensuing season next Monday night. The
cornet band will be in attendance. Hunt up
the wheels The time of the year is coming,
my dear, for bump on the skating rink
floor.
The shipments of ore and matter from
Butte, for the week ending August 18th, were
as follows: 50 cars ore, 1881 $50 pounds; 50
cars matte, 4S4 $40 pounds, making total of
Il8 cars and $50 pounds Inter Noun
tam, 18th.
fnancier has computed that Beecher
mad. lust So per minute during his lectures
at Helena, Butte and Deer Lodge.-Husbdhd-
man.
Major Pond pays Mr.. Beecher $3.50 per
night for his lectures.
We published rumor recently that Judge
II. n. Mcguire was TO become proprietor OF
the Livingston Tribune. The proprietors of
the Tribune say that was the first intimation
they had of the matter, so we were probably
misinformed
We have two educational associations in
council in Deer Lodge to day-the County
Teachers Institute aud the Territorial Teach
ers' Association. One holds its session in
the morning and the other afternoon and
evening, at the school house.
C. s. Warren, with his son Wesley, were
passengers on the south bound train yester-
day. After leaving his son at a Salt Lake
school, Judge Warren will visit his old home
in Missouri. Miner, 30tt. The cracker on
that lash Is worthy of Warren himself.
The name of the Station at Mouth of Little
Blackfoot has been officially designated by
the Utah and Northern company a. Garri-
son. The Northern Pacific ais" calls its sta
ton, mile and half below, Garrison. This
is now the largest Garrison in Montana.
4 child was actually born last " eek on the
He'll Gate, but the family physician not be-
ing present, the birth was formally postponed
some three weeks. until he could arrive. In
| the meantime. any functions OF nature in
| dulged in by the child, like Rip Van Win
kle's drink, don't count
Postmaster Stackpole yesterday received
| telegraphic advices from Washington that
the mai route between Deer Lodge and Hell
ena would be discontinued September 81, and
| the route between Missoula and Deer Lodge
will end from the west at New Chicago. Al
| ter that date all mails will be carried by rail.
b. NJ. DuReli & Co, who have for some
! months had branch of their Butte fish and
/ grocery store in Deer Lodge, assigned this
week in favor of the First National Bank of
Butte The Butte house has also assigned.
| We have not heard the amount of liabilities.
\ Ii IL said the house here has steadily made
/ money.
Messrs. o. b. OBannon, commissioner,
and G. A. Kellogg, surveyor, will leave Sat
/ urday morning with portion of the party to
1 Join Commissioner Cave and his party land
/ begin the Missoula-Deer Lodge boundary
4 survey at Medicine Tree Hill. The party has
4 a rough line to establish and will go with
1 pack train and equipment adequate to the
CASE.
The Nortlt-W etcs. of Portland, has the
through passengers telrgraphed to 1t from
| Missoula, after the manner Of the San Fran.
cisco papers in getting passenger lists from
| Carlin, Nevada. 1t is like the small boy sit
| ting on the front steps and yelling back 70
/ the kitchen: "Ho, Ma-a-a, ere comes Bill
Jones and his wife to stay for supper"
i To parties who have requested to see our
/ invitation to be present at the driving OF the
golden spike, we can make but one reply
i Through some inadvertence on the part OF
/ the U. g. Postofice Department, 10 has never
been delivered to NJ, and we do not like 10
shock the sensibiliiies of the Northern Pa
cifc Company by mentioning it. Where's
yours?
4 piece of shafting, with wheels shrunk on
and weighing 42,OOa pounds, has been lying
/ at the u. s. n. depot for amonih. No wagon
in the country can carryit. Its destined for
the Drum Lummon mine and will be taken on
the cars to Garrison and transferred to the
| Northern Pacific byswhich it will be carried
to Helena or some point nearer the'mine and
thence be drawn on skids to the works.
At last the monument to mark the Big
1 Hole battle ground il on Its way 10 destina
ton. Mr. j. s. Wilson, of Glendale, has the
contract for hauling il. IL was loaded on
4 three stout wagons and hauled by ten yoke o.
4 oxen The whole monument weighs 22,oOt
pounds Mr.. Wilson gets $500 for the job
l Dillon Tribune.
Mr. James Bailey offered to transport the
above monument from Silver Bow TO Big
| Hole battle ground last October and erect Il
| for 81 200. Quartermaster Robinson conclu
/ Sied to defer the work. 1t does not appear
/ the government secured much better rates
| The only thing the Moss Mimtrels did thai
was really deserving of capital punishment
twas In singing parody on Scotch Lassts