The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-01-11

Kerns blacksmith shop, at Corvallis, burn
ed New Years eve.
The diphtheria has quite or almost disap-
peared from Butte.
"Lord Raglan" Noah Armstrong; famous
race horse, is dead.
Diphtheria, in mild form, has made its
appearance in Dillon.
Charles, Chief of the Flatheads, expects to
60 to Washington soon.
The Missoula County Commissio ners levied
q tar Of Dot mills for this year.
1t Is expected that the next general assess
ment of Montana will reach SIC, 100000.
The tax levy in Silver Bow county this
year is Is mills-the same as last year.
| Halvorson, who was injured in the Alice
mill recently, has had his arm amputated.
The tax levy in Lewis and Clarke county
this year is IL mills, as against Is mills last
| year.
The delinquent tax list in Madison county
for the year 1888 contained only fifteen
| names.
1t is reported that the Homestake mine
IN Ciarke's Fork district. has been sold for
100000.
The Dillon Tribune has begun its fourth
year 1t Is q creditable exemplifcation of
multum in paruo.
John Slack, one of the first settlers of Bit
ter Root valley, died of pneumonia on the
Goth of December.
The Livingston Enterprise announces that
General Ticket Agent Barnes, Of the North
ern Pacific, has resigned.
A good many Helena eitizena are letting
loose on bogus railroad time and setting
their clocks to true solar time.
Fifty-two thousand dollars was paid out to
the employees OF the Hecla Consolidated
Mining Company last week.
Billings and Glendale have been made
Presidential post offices, with salaries of
81 900 and ST 900 respectively.
Since starting in the cigar manufacturing
business in Helena, six months ago, Teitien
Bros. have made 100000 cigars.
c. w. Savage s. Sons, of Miles City, pub
lish card in which they assert that their as
Sales of passenger tickets at the Dillon
Office of the Utah & Northern Railway,
amounted to s45,O25.45 for the year 1888.
During the past year 413 miles of railroad
were constructed in Montana, which is more
than was built in any other State or Terri
tory.
The Courier suggests return to the buck
ing broncho as n means of expediting the
mail service along the line of the Northern
Pacific.
The Miner estimates the gold, silver and
copper output of Summit Valley district, for
1888, at $50, as against s6, OO, 900 for the
year 1882.
1t is understood that about $40 900 is due |
w. +. Tierney & Co., of Townsend, (who |
made an assignment) from ranch
men in til ut section.
Shaughnesseys new hotel, near the depot |
in Missoula, was blown down in the storm |
one night last week. 1t had not been COM
pleted; loss $500 to $780,
Bob Bell, the colored man who took an &C
dose of croton oil, at Benton, some |
months ago, died from the indirect effects of |
the dose, on the Sd inst.
The Pine Tree lode at Marysvlle, for
which Tommy Cruise recently paid 5000,
was jumped on New Years and relocated,
ON the ground of insufficient representa-
ton.
We learn from reliable source that the
assets of Savage s. Sons, of Miles City, who
uIa ha a.,
$50 600. Their liabilities are about S70,0O8.-
The output of the mines of Beaverhead
county for the year 1888 il estimated at
about si,25O,0O0. OF this sum the Hecla
Company, at Glendale, is credited with
VI ,000, 900.
Talk about invading the reservation is not
10 brisk as it has been. A number of the
oudest agitators have gone to the promised
and, and those who would like to 90 lack
eader just now.-Benton Record.
$50 abroad TO hear the news" An Eastern
says: "More diamonds continue to
,e brought into Helena, M. T., the result of
attentive searching in the placer claims since
he diamond excitement broke out"
A force of about twenty men are employed
n setting the machinery in position at the
abroad shops. As the shops will not be put
n operation until the spring, the present
orce is all that is required at present to get
hem in eadiness.-Liuingston Enterprise.
The Benton River Press reporter makes a
nan fro m our town tell some stories too
.ood to be true. One is that the Collar had
aid off, and the other that an immense
mount of machinery was received by the
daginnis Mining Company for their mill.
The facts are, the first is entirely wrong, and
he second In error as regards machinery.
I was butter.-Maiden argus.