The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-10-10
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

j. Solomon, of Missoula, has resumed bus
mess.
The Butte District school bonds, 5000,
were sold at par.
Beaverhead county is going to organize a
Pioneers Association.
At Ainsworth 1t is necessary to guard the
town against incendiaries.
The tramps scattered ever the Territories
are going to California to winter.
A Harvest Home" service was held in st.
James Episcopal church, Dillon, last Sunday.
A Teachers Institute for Jefferson county,
NJ. T., will be held in Boulder on the 22d,
2ad and oath days Of October, 1884.
1t is said that forty of the former employees
Of the Parrot company left yesterday for the
Little Rocky country.-Inter-M Mountain, 7U.
Cattle thieves, who are supposed to kill
the cattle, cut them up and carry them away,
leaving no trace but the blood, are operating
along the Bitter Root river.
Ex-senator Nesmith, who has been con-
fined in the the Oregon State Insane Asylum,
is recovering his reason, and hopes of his ul-
| innate recovery are entertained.
A couple of Frank Woody's childre nlhave
been down with the scarlet fever several
days, the infant daughter dying yesterday
afternoon at 5 o'clock.-Ais,oulidn, Sd.
Mr.. Wright, engineer Of tho yard engine
| in Anaconda, says that three leads of ore are
about all his 3S-ton engine can push up the
hill to the ore house. The grade is 225 feet.
| -Reuie1c.
A New York Times special says that Hag-
gin & Tevis expect to be able, when the new
smelter now building at Anaconda, Montana,
| is completed, TO lay down copper in Liver-
pool at 3 cents per pound.
Col Geo. L. Shoup, of Salmon City, Idaho
Commissioner to the New Orleans EXPOSE
ton, passed through Dillon last Saturday en-
route to the Cgur dAlene country, where he
will stir up the mineral exhibit business
| Dillon Tribune.
A duel took place near Waitsburg, w. T.,
| one day last week, between Marse Fairchild
| and Frank Moor, of Walla WalIa. Several
shots were exchanged when Fairchild fell,
shot in three places, and begged for IN ercy.
| Fairchild has since died.
Captain John Mullan who built the NJ ul-
| Ian road from Fort Benton to Walla Walla
early in the fifties, is expected to make an
| official visit to st. Ignatius Mission about
the middle of this month. and will stop
| day or two in DISQUALIFICATION.
Judge Lippincot, of Ulida, is reported to
have caught mountain eel weighing IS
pounds and II ounces. He has preserved the
skin, which he will have stuffed, and will
send it to the New Orleans Exposition as
represe NATIVE of Montana's fisheries.
The Secretary of War has directed that
| proposals be invited for the sinking of an ar
tesian we'll at Fott Keogh. Such Official
| action as this would seem 10 indicate most
| plainly that there is not going to be any
abandonment of this important military
post
Another attempt was made to fire
Missoula Thursday night OF last week by
| an incendiary starting fire under tho
| kitchen Of the Delmonico. An arrest was
| made but sufficient evidence could not be
had to warrant detention.
The Celsstials of Dillon, laboring under
| the delusion that their heather brethren in
the Flowsry Kingdom are getting away with
| the French, have erected pole and unfurled
"yaller" flag. The flag looks war-like, and
it resembles faded pstticoat in color
Dillon Tribune.
David Ross, Helena and Heron baggage
agent, was held in $500 bond last week for
robbing baggage on the n. p. railroad. He
was run down by a detective. One Of his
otfeuses was nipping gold watch and chain
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Capt. Miller, of Post C9ur d'Aleue.
The west half Of the machinery in the con-
centrator buildi Nc was turned Tuesday In the
presence Of a number of spectators, inclu-
ding Rerie,o reporter. Everything works
nicely. After bearings are adjusted and the
ragged edges" worn off the machinery, pom
dersus a. it is, will work with less noise than
locomotive engine.-ReUie,c.
Ten large steam threshers are in active OPP
Grafton within a radius OF ten miles Of Boze-
man, and yet some of the farmers are CON-
planning of vexatious delays in getting their
crops threshed. The quality of the grain
generally Is reported to be excellent, and the
yield shows about an average crop.-Boze-
man Courier.
w. C. Kingsbury goes East in a few days
on his way to the New Orleans Exposition.
There he will have charge of +. j. Haynes
exhibit. consisting Of great collection of
fine views of the Park, a cabinet Of speci-
mems and a revolving stereoscopic panorama
of scenery in that region. He will also sell
Haynes views.-Enterprise.
DIR. Charles r. Greenleaf, Surgeon U. S. A,
who made an examination OF the condition
of Alex. III. Beattie last Friday, recon nend
ed than an operation be performed upon the
gunshot wound in his breast at once, and it
is learned that DR.. Lesser, Steele and Morris
will perform the operatisn.-Heratd,5 9Th. The
operation has since been successfully per-
formed.
Captain rhilo Clark, ID cavalry, who was
attached to General Shsrdan's staff, died in
Washington recently. For dozen years ,,
Captain Clark served on the frontier, mostly
at Fort Keogh, doing good service in the
Nez Perces and Sitting Bull campaigns. He
mastered the Indian sign language, and left
the manuscript of dictionary OF the Ian
guage which will soon be published.
Accompanied by full force of employees,
Mr.. S. A. Marney, the proprietor of the
Stock Growers Journal, arrived in the city |
yesterday. He has purchased an extensive
printing establishment in the East, and it Is ,
his intention to Issue his paper early the |
coming month. He'll be assisted in the edi- |
torial work by R. N. Hathaway, Esq. Ex-
tensive encouragement has been extended to |
the new enterprise.-Haes C,ty Journal.
So far as reports have been received from |
farmers in the valley, experiments in the |
cultivation of Fife wheat this season have
been decidedly successful. The berry is lar
ger and plumper than the seed, which was
raised last year in the Red River valley. and
the yield 10 reported to be from IS up to so
bushels per acre The Touring qualities of
the wheat have not yet been fully tested in
Gallatin county.-Bozeman Courier.
Thursday Of last week at Glendive, Judge
Joseph Miller died from the effects Of an
overdose of morphine, taken accidentally.
The deceased was we'll known on the Pacific
slope, having been a California pioneer in
40, practitioner at Yrska, County Judge in
Siskiysu county in 1858. In 1862 he removed