The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-03-28
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.


Alfalfa does well In the vicinity of Benton
Northern Pacific trains will change time
April 6.
There are twenty A. o. U. W. lodges in the
Territory.
Steps are being taken to organize Post of
the G. A. r. at Billings.
Court will open at Glendive on the 3lst
| inst. Judge Coburn will preside.
The total snowfall at Eagle City the past
winter was about twenty feet.
About 800 deer have been killed by the In
dams the past winter at the head Of Depuyer
| creek.
Secretary Tooker and wife have gone East,
| the former for month and the latter till
June.
Henry NJ. Parchen, now in California de-
clines to stand as candidate for Mayor Of
| Helena.
John Beckney, well known in Butte and
Helena, died in Pennsylvania some three
weeks ago.
The Hissoulian suggests the establishment
Of a Post of the Grand Army Of the Republic
| in Missoula. Do it, boys.
The Sun River roundup offers $500 for the
arrest and conviction Of any person skinning
cattle without permission.
1t cost S42, 26l A to run the city Of Helena
| last year, that amount including SIC, 199 of an
cold Fire Department debt.
The Cooke Bank has been established Mt
Cooke City, Gallatin county. ID. L. Fogerty
President; ID. II. Budlong, Cashier.
For the month of January and February
the Northern Pacific earned 81 ,OS3, 800. as
against 1851 $40 for the same period last year.
VIM. Clements, miner employed at the
Gregory, fell down shaft Tuesday night of
last week distance Of seventy feet, and
broke three ribs.
The Bear Paw Mountains will be the next
scene for a stampede. Prospectors are now
organizing to explore that country for golI.-
Bozemda Chronicle.
1t Is runored she creditors, about 30 in
number, are going to resist the attempt of
the receiver to take possession of the Mann
moth Hot Springs Hotel.
The Hasbandn,an, which Is not generally
given to optimistic views, considers til. ont.
| u.
than 1t was three months ago.
Bozernan man, who is now In the CBur
dAlene mines, writes home that men Their.
are glad to get So per day, and out of that
| they pay ~ per week for board
1t is reported Sam Getz, located on the
| Sweetland ranch, near Sun River, has lost 80
per cent of his band Of pilgrim sheep. From
/ m IN fhr.A r.
climated sheep.
| The streets and crossings are in terrible
| condition for city that costs $40, 900 year
| to run. Better lop of an extra policeman
and have a man to shovel the mud from the
crossings.
Two of the horse thieves who broke out of
| the Dillon Jail, and who were, after consid-
cradle trouble captured by Sheriff Reinhardt
and taken to Nevada, have been sentenced
to the penitentiary of that State.
Town lots range from 81, 800 to s., 500 for
good business locations; $3.50 to $500 for resi- :.
| dences. Lumber Is worth from SO for rough
green to $40 for clear dry. Carpenters wages
"a per day; masons' s6-Missoul,an.
1t Is the expressed opinion of many rail-
road men that when the Northern Pacific
puts on its fast train they will experience
many delays and ditchings by reason Of the
condition Of the road-bed. Independent.
Diphtheria has claimed for its victims the
only children Of Mr.. and Mrs David st.
Clair, . little boy and girl, both under six
years of age. The family live in the timber,
about ten miles from Anaconda Miner.
Thar l.. .
disease which has been prevailing among
horses In this section this spring-catarrhaI
fever, the veterinary surgeons called 1t. Only
few eases exist in this vicinity at present.
Independent.
Commencing about April LIST coal will be
used exclusively OH Northern Pacific passsn-
ger locomotives, Rocky Mountain division.
This will save the frequent delays of wood
ing up" on the steep mountain gradus.-Ais.
soula Times.
The Miles City Press says that the Arts-
sian Well Company In that town will shortly
resume work aud sink well No. 2 to a greater
depth, ~ the present supply of water from
their former strike does not sutfic. To SUNNY
the demand.
Doctor Glove, of Portland, Oregon. writ.s
that he intends to bring to Montana next
summer stable Of trotters and one of run.
ners Among them will be Milton Medium.
record 225, the horse that won the stallion
race at Helena last fall
The sale Of emigrant tickets from Missoula
east over the Northern Pacific has be en- dis
continued, and the second GLASS fare has been
reduced to within two or three dollars of the
former smigraut rates. Second elias. fare
from Missoula to Chicago Is s5d75.
The canal to be built by the Sun River
Canal Company will cost $4,000; that by
the Florence Canal Company over $50, 600.
I'D. Mcintyre, 1t one time a resident Of
bozelnan, Is surveyor IN charge Of beth en-
terprises, for which Helena capitalists fur
nish The necessary money.-Coarier.
J. ii Mcknight, OF Fort Shaw. WIN, in,nrpd
In terrible accident to the Chicago and
New York limited express, three miles east
OF Saiein, Ohio, Thursday morning of last
week. The locomotive exploded, killing the
engineer and fireman, and woundiar several
Others. The train ives running 40 miles an
hour, and Il In stated was dsrailed by land
aide.
we mad the pleasure to-day Of witnessing
me process Of eoking some Of the coal from
one o. the mines located near here. An or
nnAIy IRON rstort was used AID the product
vas al that could Be- desired. It Is conf
uen.'y predicted that the quality Of the coke
pfouucsd hsrs will b. fully equal TO that pro-
ducsd anywhere In the Uuitsd States. --Rose.
nsaa Carsnicls.
y q, uaFon sivss " the iptslligencs that
- stooapt told him that be fourd indicar
nons = ~ Attempt "a hurn the hotel q Nam
aaosn NOT spflals. Several boxes Of inf,am-