The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-01-18
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

White Sulphur Springs is figuring on q
railroad.
There are but fifteen tax deIinquents in
Madison county.
Gallatin county assesses 10 mills on the
dollar for 1884.
The wires are being strung for Butte's new
electric light plant.
Choteau eounty's tax levy this year is Il
mills on the dollar.
About $50 quartz locations were made in
Madison county in 1888.
Madison county tax levy amounts this year
to IA mills on the dollar.
Miles City invested s1a6, 300 in new build
ings during the past season.
PM. Lafontans and Mrs. M. NJ. Tilman
were married at Stevensville last week.
Mr.. w. Y. Pemberton has returned from
few weeks visit to his family in Missouri.
Foster, Estes & Co. is the name of the new
Anaconda firm which succeeded j. r. Clark
& Co.
/ Custer county has surplus funds in its
treasury to pay OFF $4,000 of its indebted
ness.
August Reinel, boy employed in tho
Inter Mountain Office, at Butte, died Tuesday
| night.
Miles City wants q good Touring mill, and
promises fortune to the man who will
build it.
The Northern Pacific saved about $50, 900
interest by not paying off until after the first
Of the year. %'1
The Glendive Times, after thinking the
matter over for some gears, has hoisted the
Republican flag.
The first floor Offices in the new Butte court
house will be put in readiness for the county
officials this month.
A miners meeting organized Emigrant
Gulch Mining District, and made laws to
regulate its mining affairs.
Mr.. j. Ross Clark has been admitted az q
member of the banking house of Donnell,
Clark g. Larabie in Butte.
Malcolm Morrow, of northern Montana,
has threshed over &C, 900 bushels of grain this
year with his threshing machine.
A petition is being signed in Missoula
county asking that bridge be built over
Bitter Root creek, near Pardees place.
Sullivan says Butte is the best town he has
yet struck. Ii also contains some of the best
men he has yet encountered.-Inter-M Noun
tain.
The river at Benton is so solid that a rail.
Il
loaded outfits are now crossing it at that
point.
Rev. Mr.. Storrs, of Brookline, Mass, has
presented Bishop Brewer, of Montana, with
handsome organ for Saint Paul's Episcopal
church, Livingston.
During the past year Montana exported,
by way of the Missouri river, ,12S 900 pounds
of wool, 800, 900 pounds of bullion, and $780,
900 pounds of hides, furs and peltries.
The interest in Murray district is increas-
ing. Our people are very sanguine in regard
to the leads there, and are confident of the
development of large camp.-Hasbandnan.
The residence of Mr.. Charles Nuss, situa-
ted near the Silver Bow mill, burned with its
contents night before last His loss is only
partially covered by insurance.-Miner, 17h.
Shares in the Drum Lummon mine, the
par value of which is s96S each, have adj
vanced In London to SIS, and it is believed
that within few months they will touch
$50.
Professor Won Rost, Of the University of
Bonn, who visited the Park last summer,
says that at least %, 900 bushels of lime are
Stacked every hour at the Mammoth Hot
Springs.
Notwithstanding the deep snow, severity
of the weather and military interference, a
few prospectors are still in the Bears Paw
country, and others are starting from Benton
every few days.
An opium den was raided in Livingston
that panned out four opium-smoking China
men, a number of pipes, and about 40 pack
ages Of prepared opium. The white men and
women smokers made their escape.
Benny Phillips, of Wolf creek, reports
total of 62, 432 bushels Of grain threshed by
his machine the past fall. The fastest work
of the season was at Joe Cobell's, where
some /, 900 bushels were threshed In one day.
Title is secure. Contract between the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company and the
Yellowstone Land & Colonization Company
completed by a mutual interchange of war
ranty deeds to their respective shares of the
town property.
The buffalo have gone north of Missouri
river on Fourchette creek, and the Indians
are happy. 1t is rumored at Assinaboine
that 900 were slain, and the noble savage
will have plenty of food for the rest of the
winter, besides robes, etc.
A sister of Mrs. Odgers, of Meaderville,
while passing number of boys engaged in
coasting at that place, was run over and
thrown to the ground by one of the sleds,
and in reaching out to catch herself her left
arm was broken.-Miner.
Donald Mitchell is in Jail at Bozeman
awaiting the action Of the grand jury on q
charge of seduction, the victim being
young girl of Livingston. The local papers
publish details, which make 1t one of the
most outrageous cases on record-Miner.
There was cutting affray on Park street
las night in which q Frenchman known as
"Toot loot" had his shoulder cut open with
a pocket knife. His assailant was country
man of the wounded man. The injury is not
regarded rs serious Inter Mountain, 14tt.
The notorious outlaw and cattle thief of
the Powder river country, "Zeb" Steward,
was captured at the Arkansas Hot Springs
lately, just few days before he was to be
married to an estimable young lady Of that
place. He has been taken to Cheyenne for
trial.
of Gallatin county, was put off the train be-
tween Silver Bow and Butte because, having
paid his fare all the way through Ito another
conductor, he refused to duplicate 1t from the
junction to Butte. The officials of the road