The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-03-07
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The skating rink proprietors have set apart
onday of each week as Exclusively ladies'

The skating rink proprietors have set apart
Monday of each week as Exclusively ladies'
day"
The Independent says the Drum Lummon
lead has been struck by the Maskelyne tunnel
and all indications are good.
"The John w. Lowell Wagon Company"
has condensed its corporate name tc John
w. Lowell Co" which IL better.
Rev. DIR. ID. j. Mcmillan, President Of the
Montana College, is supplying the Presbyts-
rian church, Butte, each Sunday since the
resignation of Rev. j. Il. Russell.
The dIphtheria which developed in Mr..
Wilson's family last week has affected three
of the children, but it has been Of n very
mild form, and one has already recovered.
The Montana College received by rail this
week a splendid new piano-a Chickering
Grand Square. of superb tone. The College
has now two pianos and an orgrn for the
mHslc classes.
Desert land patents have been received at
the Helena land Office for the following per-
sons in Deer Lodge county: Geo. w. Irwin,
Lars. Olsen, Victor Hory, Eph. Staffenson
and Eli Dezourdi.
We notice our territorial contemporaries
copy but few items with credit from what is
esteemed by large proportion of cur people
one of the best and most reliable newspapers
of the Territory. 1t is published IN Helena.
An item in the kilograms gives a glowing
account of the Black Hills tin mines. We
understand Mr.. A J. Simmons, formerly of
Montana, is appointment owner in the mines.
If as represented, Jack" will be million
aire.
The gentleman who has favored us with an
advertisement requesting the announcement
of his name as Republican candidate for
Delegate from Montana" is respectfully in
formed that such announcements are payable
in advance: SO from this date until the
Convention meets.
Dispatches say the President has nomi-
mated VIM. n. Bum for Governor of Idaho.
Would it be proper to remark that in
gubernatorial way Idado takes the cake?
And as he has also nominated Norman Buck
Associate Justice of Idaho, we rise to in
quire If il Is Buck-wheat cake? First Of
Tense for years leniency implored)
The Utah s; Northern is now running two
freight trains daily each way between Butte
anu Garrison. This is required by the heavy
and increasing business in ore, bullion, lum-
Der, grain and general merchandise, and will
doubtless continue. Each train has a COM
Portable passenger caboose, so that passen-
gers have their choice of three trains a day
each way now.
The Montana Improvement Company has
decided, where it can be satisfactorily ar
ranged, 20 sell lumber to dealers on the line
of the U. & n, in preference to establishing
yards. Mr.. Peterson is now down the road
on this business. The company Is now sup
plying large establishment in Logan, Utah,
which heretofore procured its lumber from
Truckee, New. Mr. Bonner informs us the
company will have yard at Deer Lodge.
The Livingston Enterprise of March LIST
comes TO us in a 20-page edition, containing
much statistical and historical matter, and
accompanied by handsome photographic
view of the Junction City. The Enterprise
is an excellently edited paper, and evidences
in its advertising columns we'll deserved
prosperity We congratulate its enterpris-
ing publishers, and if good fortune should
permit us to revisit the camping ground of
eighteen years ago, we would be glad to see
the city SO handsomely depicted on paper.
Daniel Lloyd, well known citizen of the
! upper valley, aged about 60 years, was fatally
injured last Saturday, and lived only three
hours. He was deepening his well and work
! ing at the bottom. The ascending bucket
! became detached, and falling considerable
distance, struck him on the head, crushing
the skull. Mr.. l.. was a native of Wales, and
came to Montana in 1864. He was an excel
lent citizen, and had accumulated considera-
BILE property by industry and thrift. He was
| buried ut Anaconda.
| The travel over the Utah * Northern from
| the south has been tremendous the past week
| requiring, six, eight, and we heard seen As
| high as thirteen, passenger aud baggage carr
| daily on the express train, to accommodate
| IL. The trains have been pulled by two and
three locomotives, and even then at times
have been delayed. The bulk of the travel
| Is Cnur d'Alene bound, ard a large proper
ton of IL IL from Southern Idaho. The
drainage appears general though from all the
old mining countries, and is at full tide now
We are in receipt, from Steele & Co, Hell
ena, of a copy Of the Montana Advertising
Directory, IL being compilation OF the lists
of taxpayers in each county, with their p. o
address and occupation as certified from the
tax rolls by the clerks of the several coun
ties 1t Is doubtless correct as far rs these
lists were made up TO the time OF the clerks
certifying them, but rs some of the lists were
copied early in October and listing contin
ued until Nov. 30, they do not furnish cor,
ple,e list of the taxpayers of Montana a.
stated on the title page. The Directory is a
valuable one In some respects, and can b'
had by addressing the publishers.
NJ. A. Lesson left for Chicago last night
| His visit to Montana was for the purpose Of
| a,certaining what had become of his formeI
partners n the Montana history. Mr.. Lee
| son stated to a reporter yesterday that he hat
| every reason to believe that the project o
publishing the book had been abandoned
and that those who had paid money in ad
| vance upon the work would never receiv'
| any return for -Tndepsndeiit, I'd.
While we eould never see where the pub
fishers were likely to be compensated for tn
/ expensive work they were preparing, boil
Mr.. Lesson and Mr.. Wilkinson stated to u
4 that the financial success OF the work wa
assured. We never heard OF their collecting
any money in advances, and they certaini!
expended great deal in collecting material
Mr.. Wilkinson recently informed us be ha'
boupht out Mr. Lessons Interest. IL will b
| a matter of serious loss to Montana II tn
pu blicaton liz abandoned, as a great deal o
valuable statistical and historical matter i,a
been collected. Will not Mr. w. rise an
explain9
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