The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-04-04
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Fort Benton's new school house will cost
s32,sis.
There are several cases of scarlet fever In
Butte.
The Butte Electric Co. Is to add 90 more
Jets on its circuit.
The Helena artesian well borers have
struck a soap mine.
H.G. Hank Walton has sold out his liv-
cry business in Butte to his partners.
Bullion shipments from Butte for the week
ending March % aggregated s79,676.9.
1t is stated there is a strong probability of
reduction works being built at White Sui
phur Springs.
A printing outfit, from the Helena hide
pendent office is en- route to Eagle City
GlcndiUe Times.
Mrs. NJ. A. Meyendorff has infammatory
rheumatism quite badly, and is at st. Johns
Hospital, Helena.
r. s. Price has sold his handsome residence
at White sulphur Springs to John Potter, of
Meagher county, for $3.50.
We learn there has been considerable dis
ease among cattle in the Missouri valley,
causing some to -Husbandnan.
The Anaconda smelter, the largest rednc.
ton works of the kind in the world, will be
fred up about the LIST of September.
Grass is beginning to grow near Glendive,
and in places is over two inches high. Plow'
ing ard seeding is going on actively.
1t is announced that Dillon will be sup
piled with Methodist minister soon. The
reverend gentleman is to come from Indiana.
John B. Wilson has been nominated by the
Republicans for the mayoralty Of Helena, in
place of Henry M. Parchen, who declined
| the nomination.
Fort Benton will hold special schoo
election on the 18th, to decide upon the issue
of $4,000 in bonds, with which to complete
| the school house. ..
Richard Caswell, of Ruby valley, finished
sowing his wheat crop of fifty acres Wednes
day-the first crop sown in the valley this
season.--Madisonian 10th.
| The reduction works at Virginia City have
started up again, and John NJ. Couch is go
ing to reduce 90 tons of ore from his Pedro
mine In Ramshorn gulch
w. 8. Smoot, of Montana, is at Mankato
Minnesota, where he has purchased 4,5oo o
5000 head of cattle, which he proposes II
bring to Montana this spring
1t is rumored that Col. Mcclure, of th
Philadelphia Times, has offered "X." Biedle
$4,000 and royalty on the book for his au
photography. There's your chance, ak;
take it,
J. T. Parker, of Twin Bridges, suicides
with morphine at Butte Tuesday. He ha
ssld horse belonging to j. III. Dillabaug
and spent the money for drink, and became
desperate.
According to the Roadmaster's report
a, $40 head of cattle were imported into tn
Yellowstone valley In 1885, The exports /
the same year were 1888, showing the q,
cess of exports over the imports to be s,9e
head.
We understand that the coking ovens hav
arrived, and viii be put in place rs soon
possible. When this is done and all prove
satisfactory, business will commence in ea
nest.-Bozemaa Chronicle.
Freight on crude copper ore from Butte
Liverpool now Is SD per ton. The forms
rate to Baltimore alone was s4S Thus ii
difference In transportation charges goes Fl
toward eqnalixing the depreciation In u
market price of copper.--Inter-M Mountain.
Hon. j. G. Coburn, Of Indianapolis. Il
newly appointed Associate Justice for Mo-
tana, arrived last evening via the Unio
Pacific, Oregon Short Line and Utah
Northern, and at present Ia the guest Of
Sharpe, cashier OF the Montana Nation
Bank.-Herald, 18th.
Messrs. Sanford & Evans, whose millda
: WAS rucent.y washed out by the Prickly Pc
, foods, pfcnpss, we understand, to erect
large roller pfossss Touring mill, with III u
modern improvens~ats near the depot