The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-05-02
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

10 Missoula brass band has been rsor-
gazed.
Assoula has IS applicants for Post Of the
G.. II.
Cal is worth s14 per ton and wood 81 per
corat Benton.
TIE Benton Record is enlarged again to its
forer dimensions.
Tn thousand bushels Of char GAL are being
brned for the A-s""e" furnace.
J. counterfeit one-dollar bills are said to be
| 10 extensive circulation In Benton.
Mr.. WilKennedy is doing industrious aud
successful work as editor OF the Missoulian.
d. II. Weston has sold to Gov. Crosby his
ranch at the head of Prickly Pear valley, for
$4,000 cash.
Mr.. Miles has bought the Stsne ranch, on
Camp creek, consisting of $40 acres He
pad $500.
AMI fifth rates to Delegates in all political
conventions in Montana.
Aman named Muller about 50 years Of age,
was run over by the cars last Wednesday
| night at Miles City and killed.
A messenger Of Wells, Fargo s. Co, while
going into the new mines last week, was
drowned. His name is not stated.
A resident Of Terry, Custer county, was
recently arrested and indicted for stealing
fourteen kegs of nails and stone house.
The Meagher county delegation Of FIVE, to
Bozeman, Is said by the Husbaidnan to be
Tor lot hut mi, frur fnI
Print shops throughout Montana are noti-
| fed that single and double-column stereo-
tipping is done at the Tribune ofiice.-Dalon
| Tribune.
Goggin, alias Kerry Eagle" has been in
dicted at Miles City for the alleged murder
months ago.
| The Lewis and Clarke county Convention
endorsed Arthur's administration with q
reservation covering the appointment Of
lstrangsrs to Office in the Territories.
How badly the mail service of the United
States is managed is eloquently set forth by
the fact that letter directed to &c DDS City
was found in the Miles City mail pouch the
other day.
Bartholomew Kelly was killed by a cave
on the 4OO-foot level of the Bell mine last
Friday. A heavy piece Of rock fell from the
| roof Of the drift, striking the unfortunate
man on the head, causing instant death.
Two parties of typographical surveyors
will be put In tho field by the Northern Pa
cifc about the first Of May. One party will
go to Missoula and the other to Billings
from which points they will leave the road
The Beaverhead Republican Convention
White Of Dillon, James Parfet of Lyon City
and George A. Brown Of Horse Prairie
Thsir Presidential preferences are not ex
pressed.
Madison county sends to the Republican
Territorial Convention Hon. Richard o.
Hickman, Judge Henry N. Blake, Col Jas
L. Galloway and Hon. o. r. Parmeter. 1t Ii
understood the delegation is solid for Ed.
munds.
The first marriage ever celebrated in the
Ceur d'Alene mines was that perform ed by
Rev. W. @. Shipper, of the NJ. e. church, al
Murrayville, April 3, 1884, when Henry John
Scott, a bachelor, was married to Laura
Belle Wright.
Benton evidently contains some hard cases
few weeks ago s. Kennedy imported some
bees from the East-the first in the Territory
and one night last week some wretch stole
all the honey out of the hive, leaving the
bees to rustic for living.
| The Democrats Of Butte, at their city con.
vention last Saturday, nomi nated-for Mayor,
William Owsley; Police Magistrate, j. b.
Wilcox; City Marshal, John Layell; Assessor
and Collector, George w. Newkirk; City
Attorney, Patrick Talent.
Fifty-four car loads of ore and matte were
shipped from Butte on Friday over the U. &
n. railway, twenty-six car loads going to
Garrison, there to be transferred to the N. p,
and the other twenty-eight cars passing south
to connect with the U. P.-Niner.
| The Anaconda machinery plant. the best
and most complete plant in the entire west,
has recently been still further increased by
the addition of the largest rock-breaker In
Montana. Ii was made by the Farrell Manu-
featuring Company, of Ansonia, Conn, and
has capacity Of 80 tons per diem. 1t runs
night and day.
The indictments in the case Of G. G. Cox
and Fl. III. Gerrish, indicted with WV. Car
land on the charge Of conspiring to defraud
| Custer county, were quashsd on technical
| ity. Motion to arrest Judgment in the case
| Of Garland, who has been convicted, was
made, and will probably be granted on the
same ground.-Enterprise
The foot and mouth disease, so far a, cattIe
on the north ranges are concerned, is a myth
and fraud. Cattle are unusually healthy
All OYER Montana ranges-no disease what
ever appearing to check their healthy growth
and natural increase. No other herds in the
United States appear to be in as healthy
condition as Montana cattle.-Bozeman
Courier.
The Glendive Times says: The emigrans
coaches are literally packed with passengers
each day. The popular idea seems to be that
the majority Of these emigrants are bound
for the coast, but 1t IL an error, as we learned
In An interview with q railroad employee in
position to know. He says they begin to
scatter as soon a. they arrive in Montana,
and that they have dwindled down to 4 short
half dozen on reaching Portland, Oregon.
At the close Of the late Constitutional Con-
yention committee of five members, con-
sisting Of Hons. j. X. Toole, j. E. Callaway.
w. Y. Psmberton, WIN. Hunt and Walter
Cooper, was appointed to issue an address to
the people in favor Of the adoption OF the
Constitution. We are informed by men,
Der Of the committee that the address has
been hnished and will be distributed, to-
gether with the Constitution, to tho people
early in May.-Nadisonian
Readers Of Montana newspaper win re-
member the fact Of . lady passenger being
shot In sleeping car near Glendive last
winter by the accidental discharge Of pis-
col that had been given porter to take care
o. The sequel found in the Pioneer Press Is
- follow: In the United States Circuit
Court, yesterday, Minnie Heinrich com.
menced suit against the Northern Pacific
Railroad, asking for Judgment In the sum Of
$4,000, ~ damages for her suffering, occa-
stoned BY the careless discharge Of pistol
BY porter Of the company"
Since the hides taken from the dead cattle
on the ranges In the vicinity or Sun River
have begun to come in, cattle men have con.
cluded the loss will be somewhat larger than
anticipated. Hon. R. s. Ford, who Ia one Of.