The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-02-01
NEW NOR'-wESTERS.

Texas has organized 6S new counties
within the last year.
Sara Bernhard doesn't often swear, but
sometimes she says to herself, "Big ad."
Michigan has the smallest city and the
largest village in the world-Dowagiac and
Kalamazoo.
The editor of the Pierre Recorder advo-
Gates the theory of two wives for Dakotaians,
one to be with her husband, the other to visit
| friends In the East.
| Colorado, the Denver Tribune says, has .
settled population Of 100000, and taxable
valuation of S11e, ,0O0, ,000, representing an
actual property value of 5000, 100000. She
Is traversed by 5000 miles Of railroad.
| At Salt Lake, on the 5th inst, Mary V.
Young, seventeenth wife of the late prophet,
Brigham, died of blood poisoning, In her
10th year. Sixteen mourning widows still
survive the prophet, IA of whom live in Salt
Lake.
| Mrs. Duniway Is a candidate for Governor
of Washington Territory. We will just tell
our dear friend right here that she need not
think because she has henpecked old Duni.
way that she can hsnpeck the whole Of
| Washington Territory.-WdlldJVd JVdttd States
man.
| 1t is feared that Engineer Hogg and five
| survey parties, who have been working In
the House Pass, are lost. The snow up
there Is reported very deep, they had short
allowance of provisions, and no snowshoes.
One relief party was obliged to return an
other has gone out, but has not been heard
from.
| Austin has curfew ordinance, which pro-
vides that all boys under sixteen years OF
age must not be seen on the streets or at any
| public place, unaccompanied by parent or
guardian, after eight O'Clock during the
months of October, November, December,
January, February and March, and $50
| O'Clock during the rest Of the year.
Col. p. Donan, of Dakota, has received a
handsome medal from the mother of w. A.
| C. RYAN. The medal vas presented In rec
ognitlon of Col. Donsn's service in securing
to the Generals family q portion Of the
money which was granted TO the United
States as indemnity for the murder Of Ryan
and others of the steamer Virginius, by the
Spanish government In 1874.
The Peace Indians, the last of the Apache
| repegades from Sonora, surrendered at San
| Carlos last week. The Indians are all con-
tented. General security is felt in the re-
newed confidence in General Crooks control
of Indians in the general revival Of pros
perity over the Territory. The mining out
| look is fattering. Over ST ,00O, 600 has been
invested in producing mines in the last three
months.
| The FIRST Holsters ever canned within the
| limits Of the United States were put up in
| Eastport In 1912, and, with the exception Of
q limited business in Boston at various times,
i Il hnt al ~ ttn in
dastry for the eBtre country. In 1850 none
were canned outside Of the State. The en-
tire lobster catch for the past year is found
| TO be 14,234, 1872 pounds. of which 4,T39, ,s9S
were sold fresh, and 9,304 ,2s4 pounds were
put up by the twenty three canneries located
In different parts of the State.
One of those grand opportunities for get
ting off the joke about editing newspaper
with the scissors, which only presents itself
to the editors friends forty or fifty times In
lifetime, is now at hand. Timothy Grim
can has Just died in Philadelphia hospital
of wounds inflicted on himself with o pair
of scissors. 1t will be suggested that he
mistook himself for an esteemed cotempo-
rary," or that 1t was remorse at having
clipped without giving credit. Exchange
editors of sensitive natures should be pre-
pared for almost anything Of this sort.-De
trst Free Press.
The Boise Statesman says parties who or.
rived at Boise from Welser Monday, and
Others who received letters, say that on last
Saturday night a party of men went to the
iail where Charles Dieterie, the man who
shot and killed young Basil on Christmas
day, was incarcerated, compelled the jailer
to deliver up the keys, went to the cell
where the prisoner was, shot him through
the head aud then dragged him several hun
dred yards through the sage brush TO 9
slaughter pen, and hung the bruised and
mangled body Of the dead man on butch
er's windlass.
With all our boasted progress and civiliza
tion IL has remained for the German theatei
manager TO introduce the notice: "L Lade.
are requested TO take off their bonnets.
There may be some objection among Ameri
can ladies TO pulling Of their bonnets aud
jamming them into their overcoat pockets
or letting the woman in the next seat sit or
them, or putting them under the seat as q
foot mat for the person sitting behind but
no woman with a desire to have her Sc,
put on All equal footing with men folks viii
be Influenced by prejudices Of that sort, ant
the chats of" order will probably become
general.
Mr. Cy. Mulkey, Of this city, and Dir
Walker, of Wood river. are interested In sr
enterprise which promises rich results. The!
have discovered aud prospected q large are,
of rich placer ground on the south side o
Snake river, a short distance below tn
mouth of the Bruneau, and will construct
large canal, taking the water from the Bru
neau about three miles above the mouth o
that stream, for the purpose of operating tn
mines and for irrigating large tract Of soo'
4 r. L. ,uht oh thn al mil
There will be extensive operations In tn
son, as they are attracting unusual attention
-BQise Statesman.
We might reasonably expect that 1t woul,
be cold day when Jack Frost got left, bu
such q thing has happened. 4 physician
with that frigd name engaged James X. Poll
Hill, of Brentwood, Tenn, TO 60 to Nash
willie and escort down a widow to whom
Frost was engaged to be married. He fur
nished Hill with q horse and buggy aud
new hat for the journey, promised him tha
he should be best man when he got back AM
gave him dinner before he started. Hill
went TO Nashville and married the widow
himself. Has earth an instance of NOR
petfdious friendship than this DR.. Johl
Frost thinks not, and he has entered q sui
against Mrs. Hill and the illustrious JAIME
s L. Polk Hill for breach Of contract, fixin
the damages at $40, ,0O0.-DetrOb Free Press
1t Is curious how people Of different coun
tries differ from one another, especially whel
they are visiting foreign lands. The autho
of q recent English novel, "a Matter of Fac
Girl" describes some Of our fellow citizen
In England as "a large party of noisy, loud
talking Americans, the women, as usua
very much over dressed, and far more volu
!, BILE than the men, and all on such equs
terms Of intimacy that the query as to whic
are brothers and sisters or husbands an
wives, or merely friends, or whether the
may not oil belong TO some of the patriarchs
family from Utah, was perpetual and rathe
exciting mystery TO Rerrie," the heroine
What different impression the behavior q
English girls makes In the United States.
San Francisco paper says that "Qn recer
evening during the band playing at the Pa
ace Hotel, two young damsels, who we're ur
pistakably not Americans, attracted th
attention Of oil by The wsy in which the
psraded around the court yard In their ord