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MURDER IN MEAGHER.
A killing with Probably History Hidden
From lie River Press.

From tie River Press.
A letter from Clendenin, March oath, says:
A terrible affair took place at the house OF
George n. Nelson, Oh Lone Tree creek, three
miles north of Wolf butte, about o'clock on
the evening of March I'D.
1t seems that George n. Nelson (the de-
ceased) had been TO the mountains after
wood, arriving back at the house about five
o'clock. His wife was preparing supper at
the time. He said he had lost his coat some
where, and was going back to find it, at the
same time opening his pocket knife to eat.
His wife told him to wait minute, rs sup
per was nearly ready, and they would all eat
together. He got sulky at these words, and
while she was putting the dishes on the table
his passion seemed to increase. Finally he
made remark to the effect that he would
finish her, at the same time darting toward
her with the knife. She rushed out OF the
door. He then turned toward Hanna. who
was standing near the window, calling him a
-, and saying he would
finish him. Joe Hanna told him to stop, but
he did not do it, and Hanna raised his revolt
YER and fired. This shot did not stagger him
anu uauud bttu "hSh %'SA'NA AN''
dead on the floor. Hanna Immediately after
gave himself up as prisoner to Mr.. Frank
Balm. The deceased, George n. Nelson, is
an old-timer, well known. He formerly lived
in the Gallatin valley, afterwards on the
Shonkin, near Benton, when he removed to
his present residence. John w. Hauna, who
did the shooting, is we'll known around Fort
Benton and Barker, having been about the
Belt Mountain district for the last eight years
or more.
Jw. Hanna, or "Toe-string Joe," who
murdered G. N. Nelson, waived an examina-
ton and has been committed to Jail at White
Sulphur Springs to await trial. The bullet
that killed poor Nelson entered ut the back
of the head, so that the first account pub
lshsd, or the theory told by Hanna. does not
seem to coincide with the facts brought out
at the investigation. We are Informed that
the general feeling in the neighborhood Is to
the effect that 1t was cold-blooded murder,
instead of killing in self-defense, but OF
this the evidence brought cut at the trial
| will better show. A crowd Of men, so the
report goes, gathered to lynch Hanna, and
were only deferred by Mr.. Frank BAN, who
| is nephew of the deceased, and who ap,
pealed to the men to let the law take its
| course. --RiUer Press.
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NEW TODAY
NO. 1884.
Application for Patent,
U. s. LAND OFFICE,
Helena, n. T. March Is, 1884.


Notice lie hereby given that William Kioeden,
whose postoffice address 10 Helena, Lewis Clarke
county, Montana Territory has this day filed hs APP
plication for patent for--near feet Of the Placer
mine, bearing gold with .r.! surface ground.
district county of Deer Lodge and Territory Of MON
tana, and designated by the field notes and official
plat on file in this Office Lot No. a In Township 10
N, Range CIV, of the Principal Meridian for Montana,
said Lot No. a being as follows, to-wit-
Beginning at corner No. Of survey No. e20, Lot
No, %, In T No. ION. Of Range No. W, which 10 a
granite stone marked 80 C, 43. also marked l. p.
for the initial point OF surveys In this district Along
inches marked 1-1444 for corner No, !, running
thence 80 degs 80 min 100 feet: thence rs degs
ID min sos feet thence 81 dogs Is min 800 fcet
thence II deg ii min e 70 fee thence s3 dogs IL
min 500 feet: thence II degs 05 min 7O9l feet:
thence 81 degs 80 min $50 feet, thence 81 dogs
w s63 feet; thence "a dogs ~ min w $3.50 feet,
thence IS degs 80 min X ITO feet, thence 70 degs
X 124s feet, thence N SO dogs 90 min Il 1919 feet,
$50 feet, thence 10 degs 40 feet, thence %
degs 10 min X l423feet, thence ~ dogs $50 feet
thence ~ dogs SO min E 1871 . feet. thence IL
1114 feet, thence N 81 dogs W 1900 feet, thence
thence so degs W $40 feet, thence II dogs W ss5
feet, thence 30 dogs 30 min l144 feet thence N
70 dees 200 feet, thence 81 dogs 45 1911 feet.
thence 80 dogs W 1900 feet. thence So oegs w x7
feet, thence Ga dees W $50 feet, thence q dogs
IS min $50 feet thence 80 degs 700 feet thence
40 degs 81 min Il 1859 feet, thence IS dogs W
49, feet, to corner No and place OF beginning en-
bracng area Of 1879 acres. Magnetic variation
% degrees Is minutes East.
The location of this mine is recorded In the Re
corders office OF Deer Lodge county, N. T., In
Book ~" of Miscellaneous Records, page 165.
The adjoining claimants are placer claim of William
=. Atkinson, Register.
RUDOLF IN ToBEL, JR., Atty for Claimant.
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GENERAL JAIL DELIVERY.
The Prisoners at Missoula Take French
Leave.
Inissoulidn, March 29th.

NiSsoulidn, March 29H.
The prisoners in the county Jail in Mis-
soula took French leave Wednesday even
ng-about five o'clock, the only one remain
ing being John Vincent, the Stevensville
Indian charged with burning Chinamans
honse. He could have gone, but preferred
staying. The others were Martin Fitschen
and John Beck, the Stevensville highway
men, Ralph Artingstall, who swindled peo-
pie in the Wallace district, and Jas. Bailey,
charged with attempting to pick pocket in
Missoula. They made their escape by dig
cling through the stone wall Immediately I'M
der the south window of the corridor, the
implement used being the poker of the cor
ridor stove. The escape was made shortly
after the prisoners had had dinner, and when
there was no one except the cook at the Jail.
The escape was not discovered until about
half past six o'clock, just previous to the
usual time of locking the prisoners In their
cells. Dispatches were Immediately sent to
all points on the railroad, and men are out
in search, but up to the time of our going to
press no trace of the prisoners had been dis
covered.
John Beck, one of the Stevensville rob-
bers who escaped from the Missoula Jail was
recaptured in Bntte by officers Smith and
Venable last Monday night. Martin Fits
chen was still at large ut last accounts.
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ARCHBISHOP SEEKERS.
A Remarkable Act of seif-Abnera,,on

-
Very many Of our people will remember
kindly Archbishop seghers. who, four or
Ave years since, travelled through Montana
He was formerly Bishop of the diocese ~
Vancouver Island, but being appointed
Archbishop of Oregon, he removed TO Port
land. and was succeeded at Vancouver by
Bishop Brondel, who was recently appointed
Bishop of Helena. This left Vancouver with
out Bishop, and the field is very interest
ing one, including rs IL does Alaska, where
there are n yet few missions. IL was offered
n the Very Rev. Father Jonckau, but he de.
cliued. ewing to III health, and there seems
20 have been much difficulty in securing
proper head for the church there. Arch
Bishop seghers had reported the condition
AZ the Alaskans TO Rome, and the Church ap
proving the scheme OF cvAngciizing tna'
ns.nle. entreatsd several religious orders tt
take charge OF the task. They all declined
Titan Archbishop Segherx wrote 10 Cardina
c,,,.oni aEcce ego; mite me-. Behold me
..rd ,nap The Cardinal accepted the gen
.rous offer. the Pope approved it, and Arch
bishop eeghcrs, leaving place OF confor
..,d onn,ence. returned TO Vancouver, 70 be
come again the Bishop Of Vancouver AMI
A,.sL.-- retaining, however, his rank =
ArchhI.hgo. His people In Oregon wer
,a,ch attached 20 him, but he elected to re
turn 10 his arduons missionary work IN IN
far porth. Zeal and devotion sueh - Uni
~ rare. and invfts the admiration % eve
those who believe not IN Rome nor ~
teachings.
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Mr.. Phil L. Evans, Deputy Assessor OF
Deer Lodge county, desiring to ascertain at
what rates cattle were assessed at In the sew
sral counties, addressed inquiries to the as
SCISSORS, and has already had responses from
several In Lewis and Clarke county horned
stock In assessed at s2S and sheep at $3.50;
in Silver Bow, horned stock cattle s35, milk
cows $50; in Beavsrhead, horned stock, from
yearlings up, so, and stock horses s25 to $40.
Mr.. Evans has so Tar rated stock cattle, from
ysarlings up, at s23, and milk cows AZ $50,
which Is lower than the average reported.
Stock horses vary from $50 TO $50 per head,
and work horses from $50 TO 500. We are
inf formed also that In the upper end OF the
valley he rates firstclass hay lands ut ~ per
acre, and firstclass agricultural at $50, bas'
ing valuations we presume largely upon the
netearning values Of the lands.
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DIR. Mcmillan and His Work.
Salt Lake Tribune, LIST.

SAT- LAKE ITtOuHcs lSL.
Rev. ID. j. Mcmillan, President Of the Col
lege of Montana, located at Deer Lodge,
Montana, goes East tomorrow for the pur-
pose of arranging for the enlargement of the
College buildings, and to further the inter-
ests of the institution. Mr.. Mcmillan was
honored few months ago by being chosen
10 preside over this College. and with his
we'll known zeal and energy he has entered
upon his duties with the determination of
making the College one of the best in the
West. Already 1t is meeting with so much
patronage that more room Is required, and
Mr.. Mcmillan hopes to arrange while East
for erecting an addition to the present build
ings, to cost about So, 600 He will be absent
Ave weeks, and upon his return will remove
his family from this city, where they have
so long resided, and take up their permanent
residence at Deer Lodge, one of the prettiest
towns In the Great West. As a citizen and
worker in the cause of education, we regret
to lose Mr.. Mcmillan, but our best wishes 60
with him.
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A Railroad Rumor
Salt Lake Chronicle.

1t Is rumored in railroad circles that the
Utah & Northern, from Ogden to Pocatello,
is to have a third rail and is to become a
standard gauge, so that the cars running
over the Uai on Pacific can reach the Oregon
Short Line via Ogden. Heavily laden freight
cars can be run with less engine power in
that direction than over the divide at the
head of Hams Fork, via the Short Line.
Also cars coming over the Central Pacific
from San Francisco can reach Boise valley
and further west from Ogden without going
around via Granger. We would not be sur
prised should they change the grade Of the
Utah & Northern as far as Garrison to a
standard gauge, in which case freights can
be taken to the northwestern country by the
Northern Pacific
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FROM ANACONDA.
The Business and Population at Present.

Special Correspondence Ne,o North West
Our town is beginning to have
THE SPRING BOOM.
Quite number of new houses are going
up and improvements are being made on
others. Mr.. VIM. Copinus has built new
house on the corner of Main and Second
street, for clothing store, and he will open
out In few days, Mrs. f. Schultz is erect
ing a building, 50x75, near the Grand Central
Hotel, to be used by the Centennial Brewery
ISchmidt & Gamer for q beer depot. Mr..
Lee w. Foster is here to have a new brick
building erected, 25xlOs, joining their gro
Gerry store, wherein they will open out q
large stock of clothing. Besides those here
named there are several other new buildings
going up, and probably would be more If it
wasn't for the scarcity of lumber in the mar
ket
THE POPULATION
OF this town is estimated at from 400 to 700,
of which there are about ninety at work for
the Anaconda Company, which force will
soon be increased. The Montana X. r. Co.
employs seventy men near the town and
about as many more at the camp on Mill
Creek. Besides these the X. II. Co. will start
two more camps between Anaconda and
Stuart.
BUSINESS HOUSES AND HOTELS.
We have three grocery stores in town
Lee w. Foster & Co, ID. Cohen and j. Ham,
ilton. The first two are mixed, groceries ard
clothing. There are two hardware stores,
two butcher shops and one drug store, which
are all apparently doing thriving business.
We have the small number of twenty saloons,
each and all of which are full at night and
Sunday. We have fourteen boarding houses
and hotels, and it appears they are all doing
well. VIM. Mather, who keeps restaurant
on Main street, has from fifty to seventy five
regular boarders; Mrs. Schultz, of the Grand
Central IA three.story frame building, newly
reftted,) has seventy regular boarders, and,
by the way, said lady erected on the 3lst ult
the first Liberty pole of this burg. Charles
DuBey says that he has $50 dodgers and prob.
ably as many boarders. He is refitting his
hotel, to make it first-class. There are many
others doing quite az well in this line Of bus
mess We have but few idlers in town all
appears to be life and business.
Anaconda, April 2. w.
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PERSONAL.

Mr.. Lou. p. Smith, Of Butte, was In Deer
Lodge yesterday.
Mrs. George w. Irwin and daughter were
in town last Saturday.
Messrs. p. Brogan aud NJ. McKevitt, Elk
Creek, have been in town the past day or
two.
Mr.. James Stevens, who trained two years
ago for Mr.. Larabie, returned from Kentucky
Wednesday, and will train Ranchero for Mr.
Scott this season.
Warden Creel and Under Sheriff McTague
returned within the past few days, having
safely landed mike" in the Fenitentiary al
Anamosa. The boys stopped in Denver
day on their return, and took in the big
storm.
Joaquin Abascal, Esq, returned Wednes-
day from California, where he has been
couple of months with his family. Ali we're
well and enjoying life when ne left. Mr.. A.
will leave for "the classic shades of Be@'
to-day.
We notice among the Continental Hotel
arrivals at Salt Lake, March 3lst, Mrs. j. g.
Slavery, Cable; Miss CapIice, +. w. Caplice,
and l.. @. johnson, Butte; and DIR A. II.
Mitchell and G. p. ii. Bielenberg and family,
Deer Lodge.
Mr.. Finlayson, late in the employ Of Il. l..
Bonner e. Co., was here few days this
week, and has returned to Murrayville, C9ur
d Alene, to open general store. Mr.. II. A.
Smurr, of Deer Lodge, has gone with him to
assist in the business. They have . good
stock in transit
Mrs. Martha Carr, of Dempsey creek, eN
poets to start next week for Runcon, Che
shire, England, her old home, which she left
| 80 years ago. She came to Alder Gulch in
| "a, was afterwards in Blackfoot, and at Gold
| creek, in the dairy business, and has latterly
lived on Dempsey. She has prospered In the
world by industry and thrift, and now goe:
to old England to enjoy years well earned
visit with her friends. We wish her SAFE
voyage and pleasant visit.
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Bozeman Nominations.

Bohemian had red-hot time last Monday
night nominating city officers. 1t had been
decided to do so In mass meeting convention
about as unsatisfactory way as could well
be suggested. Mr.. s. w. Langhorne, about
as good parliamentarian as there Is in Mon
tana, was elected chairman, but the conven-
ton piled up motions on him until he was
nearly swamped, and the meeting does not
appear TO have been in the mood TO dispose
of them In parliamentary order. Finally, on
the adoption Of a motion to reconsider, which
che chairman held left the convention moth
ing more to do, the convention dissolved,
and Immediately reorganized with DR.
Lamme in the chair. The following ticket
was then nominated:
Nv. Bogert for mayor by reclamation.
RIP. vivion for city clerk and attorney BY
acclamation.
George Budd for city assessor and treasurer
by reclamation.
Jacob lakewood for city marshal.
I'll. Dawes for police magistrate.
Aldermen are to be nominated this even
ing In the several wards. tn Chronacle say
1T was one OF the most stormy I'D excited
meetings ever seen In Bozeman.'
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THE GOLD FIELDS.

You who intend to seek your fortunes iu
the new gold diggings will avoid inconveni'
ence and extortionate prices by purchasing
your outfits before starting. We have the
largest stock of Tents, Wagon Sheets, Blan
kets, Quilts, Clothing, Valises, ETC., In the
Territory, and our prices are the lowest.
Mail orders will receive prompt and care
full attention. SANDS & BOYCE,
763tf Butte City, Montana.
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A Good Paper,

The "earliest and best daily exchange that
comes to our table is the Minneapolis Tribune,
of which the Farmers Tribune is the weekly
edition. 1t is only few years since General
Nettleton, formerly connected with jay
Cooke when he was building the Northern
Pacific Railroad, and late an officer OF the
Northwest Company at Philipsburg, took
hold Of the Tribune, ard began It's develop
ment into the able, influential and magnif-
cent sheet It now is. It Is now the restless
rival of the Pioneer Press, with q fine corps
Of editors, reporters and correspondents, and
its own special telegraph line connecting
with Washington and other Eastern cities.
Only few days age its old presses and type,
which were inadequate to its great business,
we're discarded and new machinery and out
1T put IN. 1t is now very handsome eight
page paper, and one OF the most desirable
our people can take. The weekly Is Sill
psr year; the daily 50 per year. Send for
sample COMES M
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Lumber = SHINGLES = LATH
A Complete Line of Building Material of
Superior Quality will be on Sale at our Deer
Lodge Lumber Yard AFTER APRIL lST
PRICES REASONABLE.
The Montana Improvement Co, dimiteD.
E. L. BONNER, President.
Helena. The mill will have capacity of one
hundred barrels of -four per day


hundred barrels of flour per day.
A man about forty years of age attempted
suicide near Bozeman last Tuesday week by
shooting himself in the head A memoran-
DUN book which was found in his pocket
contained the following: "Whoever finds
this, know that find life too hard to bear
Send a few lines to Fred SchiPlin, st. Cloud,
Minnesota"
From reliable source it is learned to-day
that Mr.. ID. o. Clark, Superintendent of the
coal department of the Union Pacific, who
spent several days in Butte last week, has
gone to the Bozeman Companys mines, in
Gallatin county, for the purpose of superin-
tending the erection of 70 or 100 ovens, in
which to coke the product of the Mines
Inter- Mountain.
Miss Mary league, of Schullsburg, Wis, q
niece of Hugh McQuaid, of the Helena hide
pendent, is soon to take charge Of n school at
Townsend. The residents of that burg are
to be congratulated on the addition to their
social circle of NJ intelligent and sensible q
young lady as Miss league, and we hope her
new home may be both pleasant and profita-
BILE to her.-Courier.
VIM. Grimes, the claimant of the old town.
site of Miles City, is accredited with having
agreed to share his claim with Tom Irvine
and DR.. Burleigh, provided they secure per-
feet title for the same. The land is now in
litigation, the railroad company having con-
tested Grimes title, and Tom and the Doctor
will have earned their share in it If they
make It stick-Courier.
Sheriff Blakeley has returned from Living
ston, where he has been to sell the Savage
stock of goods. BY consent of plaintiffs at
torney and judgment debtors the stock was
sold in bulk and realized the sum of $500.
The purchaser was VIM. Herman, who it is
said was the first man to start Mr.. Savage in
business. He turned the stock over to Mr..
Bozemaa Chronicle.
Major Roman spent the most Of the past
week among the Flatheads Of the Bitter
Root valley, endeavoring to persuade them
to remove to the reservation. He succeeded
in gaining the consent Of about % families
to the removal, among them being Francois,
about the wealthiest man among the tribe.
The Major, acting under the Instructions of
the Interior Department, promised all who
would move to the reservation 100 acres of
land, house, agricultural implements, and
other help necessary to start farm. Those
who remain in the valley will be assisted
with agricultural implements and so forth.
There are about ninety families in all in the
Bitter Root valley.-Mssoulian, 10Th.
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During the Bankrupt Sale we will sell Cloth
ing, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps. and Fur
nishing Goods, at Cost. Compare OUR Cost
Price with the Bankrupt prices, aLd Jou will
buy Of us. We have several other lines of goods
tina, we are selling on close margins; and having
full force of gentienaniy clerks, we don't pro-
pose to have them standing around doing moth
ng. We will not be undersold FOR CASH
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. overcoats way-down.
Some new Dry Goods just received.
764-lt A. kLEINScHMIDT 6Co
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The Republicans Of Deer Lodge county
are requested to meet in the several pre-
cincts herein designated on SATURDAY,
APRIL 10, 1884, between the hours OF and 8
q. ~, to nominate delegates and alternate
delegates to attend a Republican county con-
yention, TO be held at Deer Lodge on Thurs
day, April oath, 1884, at IL o'clock A. m, TO
elect delegates and alternates to the Terrific
rial convention, TO be held ut BOzeman on
the ID day Of May, 1884.
The several precincts will be entitled to
represe ntation in the county convention, as
folio VS. to-wit:
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Ranch For Sale.

offer for sale ranch Of 500 acres Of excel
lent land under fence. 1--WE miles from Edwards
Wills, the line Of the N. p. r r. Very produe-
tive. Cuts 100 tons Of hay. One four room
dwelling. stable, ccrrnls. ngricultuyai imgle-
sssy terms. MIS- SUSAN MANTQ III =.
732n EdwaFdsviiIe. July II. 1883
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Last Call,

All accounts on the books of Peter Lansing
must be settled before the first day of May,
1884 After that date, all accounts unpaid
will be placed in the hands Of an attorney
for immediats collection.
Deer Lodge, NJ. T.. March %, 1884.
7GS-4t r S. KELLEY, Assignee.
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Proposals for Military Supplies.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF DAKOTA,
OrYICu CnIKr QUARrEEMAsrKR,
Rnu~ Qsvryrpa MINI March "a IN


OrYIcs CaIKr QUARrEHnAsrEas
FoRr SMELLING. MIMI, March Is, 1854.
cEALRD PROPOSALS. in triplicate, subject to the
- usual conditions. will be received at this once
or 1t the oces OF the ut the follow
ing named posts, and at Bismarck, ID. T., and Hell
ens n. T., until u o'clock noon. on the Ist day OF
May, 1884, at which time and place they win &c
opened In the Of bidders Tor furnishing and
delivery Of military supplies during the fiscal ytR
commencing July ], 1884 N follows;
Wood, Coal, Hay, Straw. Corn, Oats, Bran
and Charcoal,
or such OF said supplies a. may be required Of Saint
Paui and Fort Smelling, MINI, Post and Hcadqusr-
tiers OF Department., Forts Pcmbina Sisseton, Tot
ten, Buford. Abraham Lincoln, Meade. Yates, Ben
nett. Randall, Huily and Bismarck D. T., tQnarter-
master's Depot. Furts Keogh, Custer, Eir, Shaw,
Missoula Assinaboine, Maginnis and Camp Poplar
River. N. T.
Prsfersncs giver to articles Of domestic prodac-
ton and manufactufe, conditions Of price and Quaty
being equal, and such pseferencs gvca TO articles Of
American production ard menufacsure prodaced on
the Pacific coast TO the extent u the consumption
required By the public service there.
The Government reserves the right 70 reject any or
all prOpoaala
Blank forms and fnll iasaructions % 10 bidding.
etc., nay - had on application 70 this Once o. 70
the Quartermasters atthe various posts named.
JAMk1 ~. MOORE,
Deputy Quartermaster General, u. 3. A..
16a-4t Chief Quartermasfer.
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Notice to Creditors.
Dwelling House to Rent.

.Aezaa TO LET-A Six-room Brick Dwelling
mi House on Main ST., Deer Lodge.
nu Sunny rooms, good cellar, stable and
corral four garden lots enclosed and
very desir able. Possession April l0th. Apply
to E. s. Stackpoie ut Post Once. 76eu