The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-05-30
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

The Gallatin Jail contains IS prisoners.
Herman, the pedestrian, is walking In
Butte.
A Post Of tho G. A. r. Is applying for q
charter at Billings.
A Catholic church, 4ox1OO feet, Is being
built at Frsnchtown.
A melting room addition is being built to
the Helena assay Office.
Walter Uhl was accidentally shot and
killed by his brother julie, at Glsndive, last
week.
During the past week Butte shipped sixty
three bars of bullion, valued at little over
200.
Dominic Toneatti, an Italian, aged "a
years, was killed by falling 60 feet in winze
in the Lexington mine, Monday night.
Three hundred and fifty Oregon horses
were driven through Livingston last Thurs
day, on the way to market farther east.
Narent's trestls Is to DO renewed and i'm
proved Immediately, the railroad company
not considering it Is safe As 1t should be-
Index.
The Big Hole Cattle Co. rounded up this
spring between 5000 and 7 900 head Of cattle
and drove them into the Big Hole Basin for
tho summer.
The Mary had a-little-lamb season Is now
over. sheepmen are feeling decidedly good
over tho healthy increase in their focks.-
Dillon Tribune.
Homer M. Hill, Of the Independent, was
married during his recent Eastern trip to
Miss Carrie NJ. Lowell, At Nevada, Iowa.
Congratulations.
The present OF chrome il offered by the
Sun River Sun to any citizen Of that town
who will swear he Is not interested in any
way in . coal mine.
Freight rates between Ogden and Stuart
have been reduced 80 cents per hundred
pounds on first class freights, such a. fruits,
fresh vegetables, etc.
Only eight poles were used in tho construc-
ton Of tho telegraph line from Bolknap to
Eagle, the wires being strung on tho trees all
the rest Of the distance.
1t is stated that efforts are being made to
merge this prsprietorship Of the Dillon Trio
une into stock company, with view to its
enlare
Nelson Bennett, Of Bennett Bros, has pur-
chased the main part Of the lot on the south
east corner Of Higgins avenue and Front
street for 81, 000.-Nissoula Times.
Work is to be resumed on the Billings ar
tssian WELL 1t il now down s75 feet, and the
company that IL boring it intend to strike
knror
Contrary to reports, the smelter at Barker
IL still running, with no signs Of stopping for
some time. 1t is turning out As high as 800
bars Of bullion per day.-Trdnchant
John 8. Cough, tho veteran temperance
lecturer, appeared in Salt Lake City last FRI
day evening, and tho temperance society,
under whose auspices he lectured, lost 500.
The Nissoulian has entered upon Its twelfth
volume. 1t Is the best illustration We have
in Montana Of how much news San be put In
small space by intelligent industrious edit
ing.
An 1sOO-pouud English draft stallion, be-
longing to Mr.. White, Of White Sulphur
Springs, died Of pneumonia last Friday at
Livingston. The animal cost 81 800 In the
East.
The Moulton Mining Company declared
its first dividend on the ed Of Ave cents per
share. aggregatinE $4,000. The dividends
are payable At the Office Of J. N. More 4 Co.,
New York.
George Berry has planted about / 200 forest
trees this spring. Four or i've hundred Of
them are ash, mulberry, maple aud white
willow, and the remainder are native trees
Husbandnan.
Noah Armstrong, one Of the best known
turfmen in the Territory, is anxious to con-
tribute $3.50 toward $500 free for all purse
(runningl, at the Butte races next fall, II
there should be any. -
Doubtless enc Of the largest cattle drives
ever made to eastern Montana will Be the
one this season by Messrs. Simpson b
Hughes, Of tho Belle Fourche, who have
new on the trail from Texas 10000 head
Press.
The contract for tho erection Of the new
st. Johns Hospital, Helena, has been let to
Nikelaus Monshausen, tho price being $751;
900. The new hospital Is to be Of brick and
stone, will be $3.50 feet, and three stories
high.
Antelope Island, situated in the Great Salt
Lake, was ssld last week to j. e. Doolsy and
Fred. Myers for stock ranch. The price II
said to Be about $4,000. 1t Is rumorsd that
. railway will DO built &C, oss to 1t aud . por-
tion Of it converted into pleasure resort.
We learn that Mr.. W. G. Conrad had an
interview with General Manager Van Horne,
Of the Canadian Pacific, some weeks ago,
and was informed by that oficial that the
company would certainly build the Fort
Benton branch. but not until next SEASON.
River Pres.
The failure Of Donssll, Lawson 8 Simpson
has not disastrously affected any Of the Mon
tana banks, nor, 30 far as reported, any Of
the firms correspondents In the Tcrritery.
The heaviest sufferer in this section 10 Mr..
Noah Armstrong, who had just transferred =
private account Of abont $4,000 from an In
dianapolis bank to the suspended house.