The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-03-14

LOCAL BREvITIES.


Patrick's Day.
Iron gratings are being placed on the Jail
windows this week.
Our wholesale merchants are doing good
iobbing business this spring, and are selling
goods ut very low figures.
George II. Thomas Post, G. A. r.. will
meet at their Hall this evening at 7:3O. Com
rades will please fall In promptly.
The election of school trustees in the sew.
eral districts will, under the new law, take
place Saturday, the 9th of April, this year.
A man named William Sullivan, who came
here from abroad, destitute and sick, year
ago, and has since been a patient at the
county hospital, died last Saturday.
Persons having Touring mills and contem-
plating improvements, or those designing to
establish such industries, will find it to their
interest to write to f. d. Reynolds, Butte
See advertisement.
The John w. Lowell Company has an i'm
mense shipment of agricultural machinery,
implements, wagons, etc, on hand or in
transit, and calls attention to some special
ties in the business locals this week.
The Nellie Boyd Company is playing in
Washington Territory The Dalles Noun
tGineer speaks well of them, but the Walla
Walla Waterman turns them over on a red
hot griddle Of well phrazed criticism.
Mr.. Harry Peterson, postmaster at Helm
VILE, having removed to Deer Lodge, the
citizens of Nevada valley have petitioned
90 tha
cum in his stead, and the same has been rec
Commended by Gov. Crosby.
Mr.. William Bennett, of the Butte Reform
Club, has been holding temperance meetings
the Deer Lodge court house this week We
are in receipt of a letter in relation thereto
which, not being accompanied by the name
of the writer, Is declined under the rules.
The Phosa McAllister Company detained
by the railroad wash-out did not reach here
to fulfill their engagement. They are playing
in Butte this week, and will be here March
81 and April l. Miss McAllister is pro-
nounced by press and public the best actress
that has been in Montana for years.
The Utah & Northern trains were delayed
from three TO twelve hours each day for sew
eral days the past week at Box Elder Lake,
near Brigham City, Utah. The track was
knocked out for several hundred yards, and
the transfer was very long and tedious
Trains are getting close upon time again.
Superintendent St. Clair, of the Utah &
Northern, was in town yesterday. He will
have a side track laid at once on A street, be-
tween First and Second, to unload lumber
for the Montana Improvement Company,
which will have yard located there. Mr.
Bonner has already sent in the order for lum-
Der.
The Salt Lake Chronicle, which pitched
into the Rentz-Santley show, has a letter
from Manager Leavitt, who has the original,
Simon-pure Rentz-Santley combination, say
ing that he leased the use of the name to the
present combination on the condition that 1t
was TO be equal to the original; that he saw
it in January and the condition was filled,
and that If it has since let down the use of
the name is forfeited.
Letters received by business man here
this week indicate that the Thompson's Falls,
instead ofthe Belknap route, is the most favor
able one to reach the C9ur d'Alene mines
Belknap has had all the booming, but the
other Is believed to be the more desirable
route. There are over 100 pack horses wait
ing at Thompson's Falls to move in loaded
as soon AZ the trail is practicable for them,
which il is believed it will be in few days.
Superintendent st. Clair informs US that
the trouble at Box Elder Lake Is occasioned
principally by high winds driving the broken
up ice against the railroad fill and knocking
the track OFF or out of line. That trouble IL
now ended for this season, but nv there IL
more snow in the mountains Of Northern
Utah and Southern Idaho than has been
known for years, very high waters are antici.
pated soon. The snow there has pretty gen.
orally gone from the low lands.
Mr. Plat Burr, of the C0ur dAlene Enter
prtse, laid over here yesterday, en- route from
Butte to Missoula. He says the Belknap
boom is exhausted, and the wagon road from
that point abandoned. He and Col. Botkin
will publish one number at Thompson's
Falls, and then issue the paper at Eagle City
The press has already been cut up and with
the other material sent forward on tobog-
gans, reserving out press and materials for
the Thompson's Falls number. Mr.. Burr
speaks intelligently and conservatively Of
the c. IA. placers.
The assertion of Mr.. Lesson to the indie
pendent that the publication of the History Of
Montana would probably be abandoned, is
empbaticaliy contradicted by telegram from
Mr.. +. L. Brown, one OF the company now
in Cheyenne. Since our mention of the mat
ter last week we are Informed the projectors
Of the book collected So each-one-third-on
their subscriptions, claiming that percentage
was necessary to enable them to go on with
the work. This appears to have been their
scheme everywhere, although we had not be-
fore been advised of it. If they are honest
and have the means to fulfill their promises,
no harm will be done, but the public will be
solicitous now until the work is delivered or
responsible assurances given.
1t having come TO the editor of this paper
that certain persons believe or assert he
suggested TO and advised the Commissioners
of Deer Lodge county to enter into the pres.
ent court house project, he begs leave to dis
claim that honor. He was never consulted
by the Commissioners or any one else on the
subject; never talked, Consulted or advised
with the Commissioners or any one else in
any way whafeVrr concerning the matter,
and did not even know the project was under
consideration uatil the Board had considered,
acted upon j., and adjourned. We should
certainly not make this abatement unless 1t
were fact, and those who may have hereto
fore been under miSapprehension being ad-
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except rs n deliberate falsehOod.
INSPECTOR COLES REPORT.