The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-04-25
LOCAL BREvITIES.

The walls and towers Of the Christian
church are going up rapidly.
Advices from the Lower Warm Springs
placer mines are rather unfavorable this
week.
| Foster, Estes & Co., Anaconda, are pre-.
pared to supply the upper valley with flower
and garden seeds and onion sets.
Eddie O'Neili Is in fair way to recover
from his attack Of diphthsria, and the child
, Of Mr.. and Mrs. Hereford is convalescing
Mr.. George 8. Miller has negotiated for
and, we believe, purchased the house and
house.
There will be regular meeting Of Geo. II.
Thomas Post, G. A. R., this evening. Bust
/ ness Of interest. All comrades should be
present.
The Rock Creek Ditch has been put in Or
der for the seasons work at Yam Hill and
Pioneer, and the water Is in, but the ground
is not vet thawed out enough for work in the
hydraulic mines.
Mr. o. b. O'Bannon made a quick trip to
Butte Monday-left here at 2:4s p. m, trans.
acted his business In Butte, had supper
there, and was back In Deer Lodge at 1910
the same evening.
We are indebted to Treasurer Weston and
Auditor Woolman for copies of their Re-
ports Of the Territorial and county finances,
Just published, which We will be glad to
avail ourselves Of in due course.
In the United States Land Office on Mon.
day, Conrad Kohrs made final entry Of 600
acres of desert land. Mrs Kohrs made final
entry of 2o0 acres, and N. w. Bielenberg
20 acres. 1t is all situated near Deer
| Lodge, -Independeat
Mr. Price, a gentleman from Chicago, IL
LIMOS, has in transit a newspaper Office,
which will be located at Anaconda 1t is the
most promising field We know Of in the Ter
ritory. Mr.. P. has complete outfit and will
publish five-column quarto paper.
The Herald says that DR.. H. b. Barkley, a
resident of Radersburg, and known to the
press as "Tice Of Radersburg," q local wea-
Their prophet, WAS shot from ambush a nd
killed while out riding last Monday. He
was man of violent temper and had many
| enemies.
Judge Galbraith has been on the partially
crippled list this week, having wrenched a
leg working on his ranch. A couple ofjury-
| men who expected to get excused on the
ground of rheumatism weakened when they
| saw him come into court, aud are serving
their country without murmur
Sheriff Berry this week brought up Edward
! Cunningham, an ex-railroad employee, who
got crazy and made things interesting with
gun and pistol at H. H. Smiths house, near
Wallace few days before. He was assigned
| to sojourn in the asylum, but 1t is thought
he will get his mind rs he gets whisky out Of
him.
Mr.. T. d. Spencer, in from Ovando, says
no mail service has yet been ordered on the
route from Helmvills to that place. ovando
| is 10 miles beyond Helmville, in what is
known as "the Moatour Country" and 70
persons have no closer postoffice facilities,
| although Mr.. Ovando Hoyt has had his COM
| mission and keys As P. NJ. for several months.
| There should be service on the route.
Conductor Heart informs US that after
thorough consideration OF the whole matter
| the o. p. and q. & n. officials will not make
| any radical change in time or trains on the
q. & n. They will run nearly as they do
now. The Express trains will probably leave
Ogden and Garrison an hour earlier than at
present and run, a. they do now, directly
| through. 1t has been decided not to put on
| the Butte and Garrison passenger.
One Of our upper valley rauchers, Mr..
| George johnson, was in decidedly bad luck
| last Saturday. His team ran away Ia town,
| overturned and tore away from the spring
wagon down by the river and lit out for
home. p. s. The decidedly" bad luck part
was that the wagon was loaded with eggs. II
| La fortunate for him eggs are very low at
| present He would have been much heavier
| loser had the accident occurred two months
| ago