The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-06-27
weeks in all, for preliminary preparation.

"oeAs III All, lot preliminary preparation
Belknar San: About all the claims bs-
tween Butte and Curry, on Pritchard Cr.sk
are In litigation, and If no compromises ara
effected the lawyers will derive more benefit
from them in ths courts than tho men who
claim them probably could with pick and
shovel This Is q dark cloud over the Cnpr
dAlenes and will hold tbs country back for
many months.
1t IL said that Receiver Hulme will offer
the employees ut the Park Hotel first mort.
gage bonds on all the Improvement Com.
pany's property, payable in thirty or sixty
days III the men do not accept that promo
sition, negotiations will probably DO OIL.
Such As accept the proposition will be given
work at good wages or free transportation to
st. Paul, as they may prefer.
The prisoners who are now In tho Madison
county jail, awaiting examination, are John
Edmundson, wife, and two children; Henry
Edmundson, his brother, and Neil Murphy.
The two former are SONS of John Edmund
son. Keeper OF the Beaver creek ferry, Mis-
souri, valley, and the latter 10 a. ex-conyict
who was sent up from Madison county for n
similar otfense several ears ago.
Recently, at Silver Star, all that was left
to the Broadway Gold Mining Company
Uimitedl Of London, went up the fium,.
The company had put in" about $500, 900 to
work refractory ore alter an English process,
which proved failure. The remnant OF the
$500, 0C0 outfit, consisting Of tramway hoist
ing works, big pile Of wood, scales, black.
smith and mining tools, and other minor
oil Ena al otyt a.
ders at sheriff's sale.
VIM. II. Armour, long time resident and
highly respected citizen Of Helena, died at
about o'clock yesterday afternoon at the
residence OF his brether-in-law, Mr.. John
Stedman. The complaint, we believe, was
| inflammation of the bowels. He had been
i'll but short time, but not dangerously so,
| 1t was thought, and his death wa entirely
unexpected. Deceased has been resident
Of Helena for the past fifteen or sixteen years,
and for several years past HIS occupied the
position Of clerk in the office of Capt. r. p
Fuller, Internal Revenue Collector hide.
pendent 10th.
Sheriff Berry arrested four of the Cole
show swindlers at Thompson's Falls, and
landed them in the Nissoula Jail, although
| they tried to bride him with $3.50 to secure
their release. Leaving them with Under
Sheriff Lane, he returned TO Thompson's
| Falls. UNDERESTIMATE Bodley went after
them, bat on arriving found that they had
been released, chartered Especial engine and
skipped westward. The Miner says an ex
PLANTATION is in order from Under-Sherif
| Lane, A. Sheriff Irvine had telegraphed him
to hn, k.k
plant filed, and they employed lawyer.
A new concsntrator, with o capacity OF 90
| tons per day, will soon be erected near the
Colusa mine. The Hon. W. A. Clark is at
the head Of the enterprise, which fact is a
| sufficient guarantee that it will be pushed
| through to q successful completion. Tbs
| works were manufactured At Fort Scott,
| Kansas, and include all tho latest improve
ments now used in concs ntratinE ores. The
motive power will be one 6o-horse power en-
CINE and Two tC-horse power boilers Of the
latest patent. There are at the present time
about 10000 tons Of Is per cent. copper ore
| on the dump at the Colusa, which will be
concentrated and smslted here, or shi pped
IS circumstances may determine.-kiner.
The Madison valley il an uncanny region
| for escaping horse thieves, and when the
boys get their blood up, they make things
| mighty warm for this sort OF gentry. The
| chaae of last week, ending in the killing Of
one and the capture Of the rest Of the gang,
recalls to mind similar one in 1879, when
band OF Bozeman horse thieves tried to get
away with their booty over this route. As
In this C: 'e, after the sheriff and his posse
had abandoned pursuit, the lads Of the M adj.
son vsiey took 1t up, and did not return till
they had sent several-thres, II we remem-
Der aright-of the theving gang to the happy
hunting grounds, and taken In the remain
der. Lessons like this ought to teach hsrse
thieves to give this valley wide berth, IL
they would save their scalps and get away
with their Observation-Disclosures