The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-06-06
LOCAL BREvITIES.

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Depredations from tramps are reported
from different points along the railroads.
Mr.. George Cockrell has purchased the
residence Of Mr.. j. Z. Dickey on Z street.
The ladies of the Christian church cor.
template giving an ice cream festival on the
4th Of July.
Mr. Thos. Stuart having removed to town,
the building he recently sold to Mr. Kohrs
Is for rent See ad.
The three children Of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. III
Trippett have had scarlet fever the past
week. All are recovering.
A copper cartridge, which Mrs. Peter Hartz
was tapping against brick, Monday, eI-
ploded, decorating one Of her hands badly.
Somebody with a taste for good butter
raided the dairy Of Mr.. Con. Kohrs Sunday
night, and decamped with about 30 pounds.
Mr.. yelling Napton in this issue is an
nounced as candidate, before the Democratic
convention, for Assessor OF Deer Lodge
county.
Work on the school house building is pro-
crossing, heavy interior brick walls being
placed in the basement, but not making
much showing yet.
Gentleme n from Anaconda inform us Hoge,
Brownlee & Co, are now paying out 81 900 a
day for freight on material and machinery
for the great smelter.
The Episcopal Society will meet at the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. H. II. Zenor, on
Wednesday evening, June 18th. A cordial
invitation is extended.
The New NORTHWEST acknowledges and
expresses its obligations to Mr.. Langhorne
of the Chronicle, for a report Of the action of
the Democratic Territorial committee.
A picnic party of some twenty or thirty
persons drove cut yesterday to upper Race
Track. Continuous showers somewhat in
terfered with the enjoyment of the day.
Kelley, Irvine s. Co. cleaned up for tho
last two weeks run in Squaw Gulch, S2,100,
from the back part of the 2O0-foot channel
they cut across. They new start another face
across
Owing to the prevalence OF scarlet fever in
the family Of Mr.. Trippett, living within the
school house enclosure, the select schools
being taught in the public school building
were dismissed this week.
Rev. j. w. Bennett, pastor of the Butte
circuit, desires us to announce he will hold
services next Sunday r.: Stuart at II a. m; ut
Warm Springs, 3p. m, and at Anaconda 8
p. IN. All are cordially invited.
An entertainment, consisting of Music,
Declarations, REGULATIONS, etc, will be given
h. Il
ing, June 18th, by the pupils of the Montana
College. We presume programmes will be
printed in due time.
Seems to us the Republicans of this county
are very modest about announcing their dis
position to sacrifice themselves on the altar
of politics. Witness the action of your
brethren at Chicago, boys, and put your
selves in the hands of your friends"
Frank d. Brown, j. p. and ex-officio Coro-
ner, reports TO the District Court that on
June /, at Walters ranch, two miles from
Philipsburg, he summoned coroner's jury
and held an inquest on the body of John
Smith, there lying dead. The occasion of
his death was appoplexy.
William j. Bennett, convicted of grand
larceny at Billings, and sentenced to seven
years in the penitentiary, was committed to
that institution last Friday. 1t appears he
stole checks to the amount OF $500 from Tom
B. Warren. IL Is also stated he subsequently
returned the amount to a man named Mages.
The case attracted considerable attention at
but we have not seen history of it.
Mr. f. ID. Holland was in town from Phil
ipsburg this week, and informs us the San
Francisco lead is developing very satisfac-
toriiy. The tunnel is now lea 5i5 feet and
prosecuting has commenced. The drive,
from four 10 six feet wide, was through
quartz and porphyry, the vein showing
about tive feet of quartz, from which the
best sample assays average up to l75 and 200
ounces of silver. Some of the porphyry car
ries as high as 40 to 60 ounces Of silver, bet
ter in fact than some of the quartz. The por-
phyry had not yet been cut through when
Mr.. III. left
WI. Mccormick, Esq, carries = billiard
cue cane heavily mounted with silver. The
silver was presented to him by Brown Bros,
Of Philipsburg, and was the first ever taken
out in Deer Lodge county. Lewis McMur-
Try, Esq, presented him the billiard cue, and
the silver mounting was done IN Helena. All
this many years ago. We offered our services
IN assisting "W. j." to present the cane to
The Historical Society, but he said he was
abIe-bodied himself when it came to being
,ourte Gus and he would do that presentation
business himself. As he may forget 1t In the
press Of business, we mention this that the
of the Historical Society may jog
his memory.
Mr.. Con Murphy, of Medhurst, who was
IN town Tuesday, informed US the entire
hosting machinery for the Princeton, weigh
ing about thirty tons, had arrived last Satur
lay and will soon be in position. 1t has
to hoist from 1000 feet. For the
present the shaft will be sunk 200 feet and
he mine cross-cut at that depth. Mr.. Thos.
Couch recently Superintendent OF the Horn
Silver Co., Utah, and who has the reputation |
IF being a thorough miner, is Superinten- |
lent of the Princeton workings. The group |
II mines OF which 1t Is the working center Is
owned, we believe, by number OF the same !
gentlemen who compose the Lexington mine |
Il Butte, and are under the general manage
nent Of Superintendent Mcdhurst.
Although the boats have been on Irvine |
AXE only couple of weeks this spring, |
he largest Of the four il already badly |
Ibused and cracked" The seats have
,een torn out and the ribs twisted in |
way that could only have been done
through sheer malice or wanten recklessness.
{ is shameful. The town expended nearly
2 900 in fitting up this pleasure resort and
placing boats upon 1t free to all, and for any
me to destroy any Of the property shows
legree Of depravity we had hardly deemed
The Trustees of the Lake have
,ffered a reward OF $50 for information lead
M to the conviction Of any one guilty OF
destroying any of the property
II the improvements there hereafter, and
hey will be prosecuted TO the fullest extent OF
he law
California Is suffering great depredations
rom the gray cut-worm, and Utah fruit trees
ire being devastated by millions Of cater
.illars. Cut worms are also doing immense
lam age in Deer Lodge valley. Nothing like
heir ravages has ever been known before in |
his vicinity. We noticed recently that
of the San Francisco Bulletin
tated that for forty years he had found soak
ny the seeds before planting) in asolution