The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-02-15
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Judith Basin has 5000 cattle and 10000
| sheep.
Bozeman is having telephone exchange
put in.
Miles City's artesian we'll No. 2 is now 412
feet deep, but has not struck water.
Northern Pacific land sales in January
were q 1888 acres, worth Sal ,03s.
Virginia City has elected d. w. Tilton as
: its mayor. Congratulations, D. w.
The Beaverhead county Jail at Dillon has
received an iron cage, but it is not yet placed
in position.
There is talk of moving the postoffice, now
at X eth, Dawson county, to the adjoining
hamlet of Beaver.
At dinner given at Fort Keogh recently,
| Gen. Brisbin nominated Gen. Nelson A.
Miles for the Presidency.
Helena has almost universally resumed the
true meridian time. The STANDARD time"
dementia was only temporary.
The Townsend TraRchant announces the
Pacific Wagon and Implement Co. is soon to
open branch house there.
badly frozen while under the influence of
liquors, died on Friday Of last week.
j. r. Tracy lost his life near Glendive by
the accidental discharge of gun in the bot
tom of his sleigh, which was discharged by
the jolting
Butte has a lady postoffioe clerk. She has
charge of the general delivery window, and
the beaux of that burg now run to inquire
for letters twenty times per day.
The ten-ssamp mill, engine and other ma.
chinery owned by the Western Star Min.
ing Company, located near Diamond City,
was to be sold on the 14th of February at
sheriffs sale.
On February LIST, Mr.. Courtenay sold in the
neIghborhood of a hundred two ear-old cat
tie at S26 per head. This is regarded as an
exceedingly good figure for two-year-olds at
this season. YELLOWSTONE Journal
1t is reported around town that Noah Arm
! strong, the well known mining operator, has
secured bonds upon eighteen lodes at and
around Summit, and will begin operations
on them at an early day.-Madisonian.
At Billings, last week, in the probate court,
an action was tried which was brought by
| u. s. Tut against the Pullman Car Co.., to
recover the value OF valise and contents
lost on the train. Judgment was given for
plaintiff for 500 and costs.
The Dillon produce market Is quiet, with
no special demand for any article. Point.
| dexter's retail quotations for country prod
ucts are: Eggs, zoe. per dozen; butter, 4Oc to
soc. per pound; oats, si.50 per cwt. -four,
$3.50 per Sales.--future.
Last week Messrs. Snapp s. Metzel, OF
upper Ruby valley, bought Of Con. Kohrs,
OF Deer Lodge, two splendid Shorthorn bulls
Of tho Young Mary tribe, and one Hereford
bull The latter is the first Hereford import.
ed into Madison county.-Madisonian
The home of Peter Martin has been Wis
tied with double affection in the past few
days. Since Friday two of his children have
succambed to the dread disease, diphtheria,
and two more are suffering from the same
fatal complaint.-inter-M Mountain, 12Ht.
Telephone lines have been completed with
In the past few days which connect Helena
with Marysville, Gloster, Gregory, wickes,
Comet and Corbinville, in addition to the
connections already existing with Jefferson
City and Clancy. There are now seventy
telephones included in the Helena telephone
| exchange.
Jack Baronette and Major Pease have
lately purchased the coal mine on Bear
creek, four miles from Gardiner. 1t was
originally located by Baronette, Don L. viii.
lard, j. Trout, and others, in claims aggre-
| eating $40 acres 1t shows several fine veins
Of coal, some Of them being six feet in thick
ness.-Cour,er.
The Missoula Commissioners have author
lied Messrs. Howell & Baker to build toll
road from Belknap to the Ceur d'Alene
mines, and fixed the rates of toll; also con.
tracted for the construction Of q bridge
across the Bitter Root at Pardee's ford, for
s3,695.74, and for the building of bridge
across Lo Lo Fork, for 81 900.
1t is now a sure thing that the Sampline
| Works will be erected at Dillon as early in
the spring as che weather will permit A
dispatch, received on the 7th by Lou O.
Fyhric, from Messrs. Mathews & Webb, OF
Denver, Colorado, settles the question. The
works will be planted at Dillon by that firm
at as early date as practicable. Tribune.
Harrison Jordan recently sold to the high.
est bidder the cattle belonging to the estate
Of Malta Rosenstehl. They were purchased
by 7. O, Power & Bro. for S25,026, being the
highest of nine bids, the second highest be.
ing $4,000. The cattle were a mixed lot,
ranging on the Judith, and were estimated
9. about 700 head-which would make the
price paid about $50 per head.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior Joslyn
says that he knows nothing about the failure
of tine National Park Company. He was
very well aware, however, that the Company
had not made much money during the past
season, and he did not believe that under the
present arrangements 1t would ever succeed.
He thinks the enterprise was on too large a
scale.-Liuingston Enterprise
The Pioneer Press intimates that the Park
Improvement: Company's difficulties are the
result Of game Ct freeze-out between Hatch
and Hobsrt, In which Hatch would have
won long ago had Ii not been for losses In
Northern Pacific stocks. 1t is an open secret
that the two did quarrel at the time Of
| h@eSh vA5ie w tuc Ala ihSt buAAIucT, anu IL
| Is not improbable that Hatch sought TO rid
himself Of one with whom he could not do
business satisfactorily.
The following are the retail prices prevail
ing In Missoula this week: Flour, So 25tds 80
per cwt; oats, sl.50 per cwt; wheat, 75c per
bu; bran, 81 per cwt; beef, lasc per side ;
lautton, 1dc.; pork, l2i@l5c.; bacon. 12lalSc.;
BAN, 1sc.; lard, l5ta2Oc.; butter 35tG50c.; eggs
5oc.; potatoes sl.50 per cwr.; onions $40 per
cwt; cabbage 81 per cwt.; sugar, s1O@s1l 20 ;
coffee 16t922c; tea 35975c.; dried apples,
l2i@aoc.; green apples, $40 per box.--Ais-
soaiaan. sth.
The Madisoniaa says that George Rea, the
guide Of the Utah y Northern surveying ex-
petition, now surveying the National Park
and Gallatin city branch. and who u one or
the most thoroughly posted mountain men
IN the Territory, was In the city this week.
having comr IN - complete the purchase Of