The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-09-26
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Bennett Bros. are paying ninety cents per
hundred for oats. They are already ship
ping west four carloads a week. The grain
is for Nelson Benefits construction work on
the Northern Pacific. -Missoula Times.
The new bank building has been designed
by T. w. Longstaff, and the contract given
for its erection to John Mcdonald, for s2,ss5,
be 30x6S feet in size, with iron columns and
cornice in front.-Aissoulidn.
1t is said that Nelson Storys shipment of
beef steers to Eastern markets this year will
amount to about 1900. The balance OF the
herd Of 1900 cattle is now being removed as
fast as rounded up from Yellowstone county
to ranges in Northern Wyoming.-Enter-
prise.
A very good showing appears from the
lists Of the County Assessor, Geo. A. Carpen.
ter, who will return altogether over 81 800, 900
Of property in Custer county subject to taxa
ton this year, aside from 81 ,625, 600 assessed
against the Northern Pacific - Yellowstone
Journal.
The following order has been promulgated
clerks or deputy clerks Of the District Court
at the time of calling for motions by the
Court shall call the roll of attorneys authori-
zed to practice at the bar of their respective
counties
The Republican central committee met
Wednesday evening, according to call. The
declination Of Dwieh hit Harding nominee for
member Of the Territorial council, was re-
ceived and accepted, and Will Kennedy, OF
Missoula, was chosen to fill the vacancy
Missoulidn.
The Misseula county Jail is apt to become
as celebrated as the famous house in Arkan-
sas. During Sundays rain a prisoner in the
iron cell would likely have been drowned
had he not been removed. Tho roof answ
the purpose for which it was intended in dry
weather-Ti lines.
The Northern Pacific company has Just
completed hospital at Missoula which is
by far the best institution Of the kind on
their road, with the exception OF that at
Brainerd. II cost $50, 900. Its two wards
will accommodate eighteen patients each and
besides it has ten rooms for private patients.
From those who are well posted on the
sheep business We learn that the importation
Of sheep into Montana this year will be at
least 1O0, 900 At this rate there will be sosn
an urgent demand for wooden mill. Tho
quality of the sheep are Of the highest order.
1t will not be long ere this industry will
equal the cattle interest.-Bozcman Chron-
icie.
Yoakum, an ex-solder, living with Rev.
Father Bszeell about 60 miles up the Tongue
river, received a visit from the regulators Of
that region last Monday night They didn't
exactly hang him, but they came very near
it. He has bsen living with the Cheyennes,
and his influence was considered inmical to
the settlers Of that region. The regulators
admonished Mr.. Yoacum that if they were
Obliged TO call again they would make a sure
job Of 1t.
The "sure thing" gamblers who have been
operating on the n. p. west Of here are in
trouble at last. Four of then swindlsd a
man out Of s1,1oo few days ago, and two
were Immediately arrested, the other tive
here, and yesterday some friends of the
thieves were trying to get the victim out of
town, but the officers were on the alert. The
railroad company, through Supt. Gable, is
taking active measures to arrest and pu nish
all such swi ndlers.-MiSsoulidn
On Monday last Messrs. Bush & Meyers
deposited with Messrs. Hall, Harrington &
Co, bankers, 200 ounces of gold bullion for
shipment, the result from "a tons Of ore
taken from their Bell mine, on the north
fork Of Mill creek, above Sheridan. Tho
bullion is Of high grade, worth about s14 per
ounce. The ore from which this nice clean
up was made was taken from the mine by
one man within the past three months, while
two others were employed portion Of this
time hauling it to and running it through the
arastra. They have enough ore uncovered
for several more such runs, and should the
weather prove favorable, will mako another
this fall. The boys won't go TO the Little
Rockies for a while yet.-Madtsonian.