The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-12-28
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

lENRl ORlAL II END.
Henry Gilbert has commenced rebuilding
his brewery at Virginia City.
Lewis and Clarke county apportioned
s25 $40 for school fund last week.
Emigrant time by the Northern Pacific be
tween st. Paul and Portland is days.
The phantom carnival ut Butte Thursday |
night was attended by about 700 people.
Treasurer Gilbert, Of Madison county, had |
,759 on hand when he settled last week.
The Supreme Court will meet in Helena |
January 7th. Only Judges Wade and Gal |
braith will be present
Hon. w. w. Morris left Virginia City for
Kansas City Tuesday. He will spend the
winter there with his family.
Lewis and Clarke county received $1,000 |
for commercial travellers licenses for the
three months ending Dec. l.
There are now over 900 head of cattle
grazing within a radius of twenty miles of
Maiden, which are valued at over 81, 100000.
1t is learned from Mr.. J. +. Stevens that
the first number of his projected paper, to
be published ut Townsend, will appear JAN
uary LIST.
A bill has been introduced in the House to
reduce the price of Government lands within
the limits of railroad grants from $3.50 per
acre to Sl.25
The champion hog was raised by Schwab
and Zimmerman, at their ranch in the val
ley, near Helena. 1t weighs Gil pounds,
dressed. 1t was pea-fed.
EN- Harwood has been appointed deputy
district attorney for Yellowstone county by
Andrew f. Burleigh, District Attorney for
the First Judi cial District.
On account of the non-arrival of tubing
and additional machinery, the Helena Arte-
sian Well Company has decided to suspend
work on the we'll until spring.
The Commissioners of Madison county
have notified the sheriff "that an excessive
amount of soap is used in the Jail" That
comes pretty near being joke.
The will of the late Nicholas Millen, which
has been filed in court for probate, gives all
his estate, real, personal and mixed, to his
wife, and appoints her his sole executrix.
cold Man-Afraid-o of N othing" Is the name
of recently civilized Indian in Montana
but as ne has since married a white woman,
he thinks of sending in a petition to have
his name changed.
1t is said that some 1000 of the Collar
mills checks are floating around Maiden and
vicinity, which makes money scarce, as they
cannot be oashed here in Montana, but are
made payable in St Paul.
E. U. briggs, ex-Mayor of Virginia City,
died on Wednesday morning. He was for
merly prosperous merchant of this place;
but of late years has been in reduced circum-
stances, and died We ry poer.-Madisonian.
The Northern Pacific has paid the tax in
this county assessed on the rolling stock, but
that on its roadbed and right of way, aggre-
eating $1,000, has not been paid, and will be
contested at law. -Licingston Enterprise.
Jno. b. Wilson returned home from the
East last night. He has been in Pittsburg,
Pa, for the past two months, settling up the
co-partnership existing between himself and
brother, who died last spring .-Herald, oath.
A large party of surveyors, sent out by the
Union Pacific, are surveying a route up the
Madison, and have orders to stay out all win
ter. They gave it as their opinion that the
road would finally be located up the West
Gallatin.
The Marquis of Waterbury, otherwise
known as Larry Welsh, returned to Marys-
vile yesterday, having spent land been
robbed 90 $500 out of the $1,000 received
by him in the Pine Tree mine compromise
Independent, sd.
At the new court house the lathing is pro-
crossing rapidly, and the windows are being
placed in position Stoves have been put up
in various parts of the building, so that plas-
tering can proceed without reference to the
character of the weather.-Miner.
Capt. James II. Mills. editor of the New
NORTH WEST, received n more valuable
+; Christmas gift than any other newspaper
: man IN the Territory. 1t was son.-Inde-
pendent. That's what 1 thought all the time,
e.. Piatt, but didn't like to say sony
They have reversed the old order of things
down at Maiden. The Mineral Argus tells OF
a man being arraigned in n court of justice,
and net being able to prove his innocence of
the charge against him, was bound oyer to
await the action of the grand jury.
Y. Beidler, who went to hear Col. Ilges
lecture on the Apaches, says that Col. Ilges
gave such vivid description of the strocious
character of the Apaches, that eld-time Mon
tanian and Indian fighter though he is, he
was afraid to take off his hat for fear he'd be
scalped.
Mr. Lee Mantle, business manager of the
4 Inter- Mountain, was the victim of an acct.
dent Sunday by the explosion of gas in a
coal stove His face and forehead were
painfully, but not seriously burned, and the
injuries will confine Mr.. Mantle to his room
for n few days. He is to be congratulated OIL
his providential escape from more serious
injury.
n A child was born last week on one of the
west bound passenger trains of the Northern
7 Pacific, a few miles east of Glendive. The
mother was one of party of emigrants who
It were bound for the Pacific coast. The mo
Their did not leave the train, but kept on hel
n journey westward with the young passenge
as If nothing had occurred to mar the even
}. ness of her journey.
The Rirer Press says: The fun has ecm
IT menced on the Indian reservation. Majo
9 Klein, commanding officer at Fort Assina
boine, has issued an order, we are informed
| outsiuCio eh'ii PicoChSc ~ ho 'ohSS
required or desired in that country. A de
1t tachment of troops has been sent out to expe
those intruders and is probably securing thu
|, country by this time, gobbling up the poo
D. unfortunate white men who are so unluck,
Il as to need home or ranch.
o D. b. Berry, a prominent cattle man from
x Colorado, drove up 800 head of cattle from
Colorado to the Little Missouri river, in Da
a kota this year. He says the so-called ba'
lands are the finest stock ranges he has seen
10 He will bring up next spring 1900 hea'
more of cattle. He anticipates an exten
J. sive movement of cattle from Colorado AM
D. New Mexico to Eastern Montana and West
IN ern Dakota, and claims that the larges
II stock men will all desire to purchase and owl
> their ranches.