The new North-west., 1884-05-23
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

Work is to be resumed on the artesian well
at Billings.
Mr.. H. q. Meyers was elected mayor OF
Missoua Tuesday.
1t cost s5,53493 to run the city government
Of Aissoula last year.
The population Of Miles City, as shown BY
census just taken, is 1,2s3.
Rev. Hugh Duncan is able to ofiiciate
again, but Is still on cru.ches.
Efforts are being made to establish lodge
Of Good Templars in Virginia City.
Edmund n. Murphy, 3 prominent citizen
Of Salt Lake City. died last Saturday.
A rre at Wallace last Friday evening dam
aged j. P. Catching's saw mill building 500
or $500.
Il A s45 600 hotel has been opened at Heron.
1t is owned by the Dining Car Department
Of the N. p. Co.
The Dillon National Bank is numbered
3l73. According to Rory o'More there Is
luck in odd numbers.
M. NJ. Cody, the well known Superintendent
expert Of the Horn silver mine, Utah, died
at Salt Lake last Sunday.
| Louis Strasburger, Of the firm of Stras-
L
burger s. Sperling, Of Bozeman and Cooke,
died at Los Angeles, Cal, May 18th.
WI. Quirk g. Co, general merchants at
. Sand Point aud Heron, have failed for 5000.
The partner representing the company is
Duyall.
Among the departed, or about to depart,
from Helena to the States, are Col. A. II
Bsattie, NJ. A. A. Meyendorff, and Governor
J Crosby.
Spokane Jim, an Indian, was lying drunk.
and asleep on the track near Horse Plains,
Tuesday, and a train ran over and killed
him.-Index.
The distance from Bismarck to Fort Ben
ton, according to the measurements OF the
boat survey, as shown in Captain Quinns
report, Is 816.35 miles.
Tho Husbandnan Is reliably informed that
Bell & Chamberlin owners of the Montana
Belle mine, at NeihArt, have been offered
$500 900 for their property.
, It is likely the Utah & Northern will soon
put on Sunday excursion trains running from
Butte to Deer Lodge and Big Hole, If the
. patronage will justify. Inter Mountain.
, During the past few days death has entered
two happy homes in Butte, Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Woodward and Mr.. and Mrs Samuel
Lewis each losing child.-Lnter- Mountain
Upon the completion Of the railroad to
. Anaconda stage line will be put on to run
from here to Gable, Georgetown, Philips
J burg and intermediate points.-Anaeondd
. Repieo.
A fine brick building, designed for renting
| r,x IL Ia ~ l.
Z ing-is being erected on Ewing street, Hell
q ena, by Messrs. Baker and Schultz. Its cost
d will be about $4,000.
= Mcdonald, the prize fighter. is a member
r Of Jordan Lodge No. 3, 1. o. o. F., Of this
A city, and will probably be expelled from the
=. order on account Of hIs pugilistic proclivi-
:, ties-Sat Lake Tribune.
Commander Galloway, Of Frank Blair Post
No. II, G. A. r has ordered Memorial Ser
vices May 3Oth. An address will bo deliv-
cred At the court house on the evening before
by Comrads Henry N. Blake.
J. Tho daily output Of the group Of mines
IL west Of Livlngs:on-the Chestnut, Maxey,
l. and others adjacsnt-is about 100 tons. The
II entire product 10 taken by the Northern Pa
1t cifc Company for use intheir engines.
= Gleason, the Beiknaper charged with
. shooting Darby some three weeks ago, was
II brought before Justice Sloane, of Missoula,
d on the 10th inst, but waived exanin nation
n and in default of 81 800 bail was committed
n Darby is recovering.
n The corps of railway surveyors who were
camped near Dillon last week received orders
to 90 down on the Oregon Short Line. The
surveyors left. No railway surveying is "a
!. be done In this section of Montana for the
, present-D<lon Tribune
n Tho section hands aud others on the Rocky
Mountain division of the Northern Pacific
are paid sl75 per day, or Sl0.50 per week
At least S. of this has to go for board, so thai
after necessary expenses are paid the men dc
y not have much spare change left.
!" Uncle johnny Good win, . county charge
wintered at the head Of Magpie gulch al
}, alone. He went there through choice, and
n heing supplied with provisions, remained
there alone and without seeing any one foI
% about three months.-Husb andntan.
10 A new company has been formed and
+ called the Fort Shaw Live Stock Company
q. with q capital Of 500, 900. The corporators
!. are Heldt & Co.. Captains Snyder and Jones
A. of the army, and others, who have purchased
the herd and ranch of w. n. Wyatt.
=, A well authenticated report has reached
the Yellowstone Journal that in short time
Forts Custer, Aaginnis, Ellis, and probably
Assinaboine, will be abandoned and the gar
risons concentrated at Fort Keogh, which
To will at once be enlarged to a twenty-four
y company post, and put on permanent basis
1t as such.
Is Tom McTague, under sheriff of Deer Lodge
d county, was in Missoula this week combin
ing little business and pleasure. Tom is q
y good officer and good fellow, and deserves
It the position of sheriff. for which Office he
"a will make = struggle before the next Demo.
!. cratic county convention at Deer Lodge
Missouiian.
John Dough, who was temporarily en-
10 ployed as foreman in this Office, il still hope.
lessly insane at Warm Springs. His malady
V was caused by an effort to carry out the In.
q structions Of the business manager to give
d each Of four advertisements a position i'm.
e mediately following the reading matter in
"A this column.-Inter- Mountain.
,; Alex. Caza, ono of the owners OF the Dream
- Gulch claim, who came IN Long Bros. saddle
. train, Wednesday, took with him SIG 600 in
gold dust He is the company Of the lumber
firm Of Perron, Wall g. Co., Butte, Mont.
The Mr.. Roy who Is another one of the lucky
Dream claim. owners, used to be small har-
Il ness dealer on Park street, Butte.-Frortier
% Index fs
+ Hessrs. Ballard and CorysIl, who lately
v visited the Rock Creek coal fields, say that
il parties in the interest Of the Union Pacific
n Company have bonded or fled upon coal
!. lands there to the amount Of nearly 5000
!. acres. There is apparently An abundance of
!, !, coal there, and Of hne quality. Some of the
veins are being developed, and at least one