The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-08-08
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

died on the morning of the Goth ult.
The Sisters, at Missoula, contemplate the
erection of three-and- a half story hospital.
Lizzie Andrews, fallen Utah girl, sui
cided by morphine, in Butte, Monday night
The Montana Cattle Company obtained
ninety per cent. of colts from their mares
this spring
Barney McArdle, an old miner, was found
dead in his cabin on Silver Creek, near Hell
ena, Sunday.
Assessor Tut, of Benton, thinks the assess
able property of Benton will this year list at
about a million.
Capt. Andy Johnson, an old Missouri river
steamboat pilot and captain, died IN Bismarck
July Goth of heart disease.
About 1000 people are in the National
Park, paying S. per day for hotel accommo-
dations and having lots of fun.
About seventy-nve men are employed in
the Drum Lummon mine.
Lawrence Barrett will soon be billed for
the Montana theatrical circuit.
The old Bohm-Seligman furnace, at Ar
genta. is to be remodeled and started up.
The Northern Pacific now has 1864 miles
of main line and 53s miles of branch lines in
operation now, with 1873 miles under con-
struction.
The extraction of ore from the Stevens will
soon be resumed, and the product will be
worked In the Silver Bow mill, now owned
by Judge Davis.
Z. V. Smalley, Esq, has returned to St.
Paul from his Western trip, which extended
to Puget Sound. He expects to revisit Mon
tana in September.
1t is stated that the new strike recently
made in the Trapper mine, at Lion City, is
now yielding between $1,000 and $1,000 per
day.-Inter- Mountain.
Messrs Farrell & Varney sold, this week,
tive hundred head of cattle to Brown &
Dovepspeck of the Musselshell The price
paid was $50. % per head.-Madison.an
Hugh McQuaids contemplated trip to Eu-
rope is in the interest of Nessrs. Healy,
Hamilton and others interested in mining
property in the Northwest Territory.
Press.
Mr.. Medhurst, who left Bate last week on
manager of the Lexington, Mr.. Relevey oc-
cupying that position temporarily.-Iater-
Mountain, 9Th.
Shaw's Silver Plate Circus collapsed at
Salt Lake City, and is in the hands of the
sheriff. The claims are $500; property val
ued at 81 800. 1t was organized at Bellevue,
Idaho, last fall.
Joe A. Browns grain fields, on the Big
Hole, suffered severely from the recent hail
storm. He lost about one hundred acres of
growing grain, which was destroyed, ex-
cept for the purpose of feed for stock, by the
hail.
We learn from reliable sources that Dutch
LOUIE" who has a ranch on Crooked creek,
on the Rocky Point road, was hung one night
last week By party of men, on the charge of
keeping a rendezvous for horse thieves
Mineral Argus.
The Alline mine, the property Of w. Dun.
ton, Fred. France, R. Herpich, f. Gendren
and James Millikin, was bonded last week
to A. M. Esler for the sum of 81, 900 till April
LIST, 1885. Miners will be put to work at once
getting out ore.-Maiden Argus.
Maginnis, have brought suit against the
Lion Insurance Company for 5000, alleged
to be due on plaintiffs store burned at Fort
Maginnis last year. The insurance company
says the policy was Cancelled.
Owing to the shortage Of irrigating water,
the crops in Gallatin valley will not be as
large this year as was anticipated. As
remedy project is now afoot to carry for
ward the long talked of work on the Boze-
man and West Gallatin canal
The Moulton Mining Company declared
dividend mo. p to-day of n cents per share,
aggregating $50 600. 1t is an honest divi-
dend, lsgltimately earned, and not figured on
the 1893 basis. The company is out of
debt, and still has handsome reserve on
hand.-Inter- Mountain.
A Testament was received at the Northern
Pacific station, Miles City, last Saturday
morning. 1t had been started from Livings-
ton with the following written on fly leaf
"Bob Ingersoll preached last night. No use
for the little book any more. We give 1t to
the sinful ones in Billings"
J. P. Foster suicided at Billings last Sun
was Of German birth, about forty years of
age, and was well known along the line of
the Northern Pacific, having kept restaurants
at every important town from Bismarck to
Billings.
VIM. Shields, Northern Pacific employee,
was run over by freight train at Miles City
on Saturday, was killed and horribly man.
gled by being dragged along on the track.
He was in the habit Of getting drunk, and it
Is believed that at the time of the fatality he
was in that condition and lying asleep on the
crack.
George Pearson was executed at HALEY,
Idaho, last Friday, for the murder of John
I. Hall, alias Johnny Behind the Rocks"
Pearson made statement on the gallows,
protesting that the killing was done IN self
mt IT. m r.