The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-09-19
LOCAL BREVITIES.

| Inc champion ore assays SOU In silver.
The Anaconda mine has commenced ship
ping ore to the Anaconda smelter.
T. P. Perry Aspling, formerly Of Deer
Lodge, is candidate for Sheriff Of Choteau
county.
| Chas. s. Warren, Esq, favors us with the
Butte court calendar. There are I51 cases on
| the docket.
Territorial Treasurer Weston advertises
money on hand to pay all warrants registered
prior to July "A, 1884.
KennoH g. Zenor, with NJ. Trask in charge
Of tile job. are putting the tin roof on the
new school house this week.
DIR. A. II. Mitchell bought of Messrs. Potts
| & Harrison fine Jersey COW and heIfer calf
during the Fair, and they arrived in good
condition this week.
BY the way, there hasn't been any new an.
nouncement concerning Stewards History of
Montana for the past few weeks. Does this
account for the cold weather?
The italian Band arrived in Deer Lodge
Wednesday. and Social Ball, at which they
were 70 furnish music, was announced for
last evening. They are fine musicians.
The Board of Equalization-Messrs Bat
terton, Helm and Evans present-sat last
Monday, but no applications for abatement
were made. The Board will meet again Oct.
6th.
Mr.. j. M. Goodwin, at Butte, was tele-
graphed from Salt Lake, Wednesday even
ing, that the body Of his son, Will B. had
heen found and c;rcpmst q N cas iudi cotad ami
eide. His father doubts this.
Bob Harris, who runs the street sprinkling
apparatus, was asked the other day what he
was going to do with the sprinkler If the
rain continued? "Plug up the holes and
make an Ark Of It," WIS the rejoinder.
While the cold wave was rolling over Mon
tana lest week New Workers were having the
hottest weather ever experienced there. The
general average may have been all right, but
the extremes were aboninable.
The pioneers" had it all their own way
last week. BY and by they'll thin out, and in
after years Admission Day" as State will
be the limits of Pioneerism. Till then We
Pilgrims hope to wait with patience.
A find of decompsssd quartz that yields
one and half ounces to the ton, and from
which the gold is separated by washing, is
reported from the head of Little Blackfoot.
Some Deer Lodge parties expect to 20 out in
a few days.
Last Thursday the Northern Pacific let
contract to Nelson Bennett for the compile
by the LIST of December. This contract will
make big demand for men, teams and pro-
Wdlld Union, Sept. Is.
Messrs. Herzog and Reed, convicts in the
write that they have some val
liable inventions studied out and desire COM
petent parties to investigate them. They
hold that the inventions would be considera- |
ton for their restoration to liberty.
Messrs. Kohrs & BieleRberg were getting
their horses together this week and expect |
to start them to-day to Sun River, whence |
they will soon commence driving cattle to |
Billings and Custer for shipment to Chicago. |
The number they will market this year hs, |
not been determined yet.
Messrs. Z. P. Mills, James Curn and John |
commenced this week sinking
6fty-foot shaft on the Champion lode, in Gro
Elmo district, about 10 miles from town.
They have a seven-foot shaft in ore without
showing wall rock, and have about IS inches
IF silver ore that blisters very favorably.
The railroad time schedule was changed on
he U. Il N. last Sunday. The new table will
Do found at the head of the editorial page.
Il gives travellers to and from Helena
chance for six hours sleep at O'Neill's hotel,
Garrison. The hours for local travel are
much more convenient, and It enables ex-
'ress matter to 60 through without missing
train at Garrison.
The Miner says the impression that rate
# one cent per mile would be given from
to the New Orleans Exposition, is
probably incorrect, as it has interviewed the
J. p. asd N. P. local ticket agents, and they
az no such rate has been authorized over
heir roads, nor is it likely to be. The state
nent of the one cent per mile rate was &C.
redited to Commissioner Harris.
The contract for delivering 1000 perch of
,aribou rock for tho penitentiary was let to
ieorge L. Gushing at So 96 per perch Of 1851
ubic feet. He has ten mon aud seven g.
lsrse teams already at work and will hsye
|
Weather prevents. 1t is now probable tho
main building will be let and put up this fall,
he delay In obtaining a new copy of the
pecifcations, the original copy used in the
obstruction of the present wing having
'een lost, accounts for the call for proposals
lot being already published.
As an exceptional eccentricity Of the
Veather. we had a quite brilliant and noisy
hunder storm, with heavy rain, list Satur-
az evening, although ali the mountains
.ound were snow-capped. The past summer,
T we may SO refer to the receding season,
an besn full of strange freaks of weather.
abundant harvests have been
he result; bat An sld-f?shioped autumn
ne of the glorious autumns of Montana,
nth only an occTaional short flaw until the
olidays, is now most earnestly hoped for.
Mr. A. J. Dusseau, Of Butte, whom we
ave considered for several years by odds the
est portrait photographer in Montana, and
tho has BY talent and industrious applica-
on continually improved in his pursuit, has
,ceutly procured a camera with appliances
u pictures. With this he can take infants
ictures much better and more satisfactorily
ian before. Now IL the time to run in the
tile kids on CAL" He always was the most
atisnt and best-natured photographer in
Torth America, and now that the great
gony has gone out Of his life, we expect him
grow not only rich, but corpulent.