The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-11-28
LOCAL BREvITIES.
District Court and the County Commission.
srs convene next Monday.

A ~h1 1AN- 1ESo.
District Court and the County Commission
srs convene next Monday.
There win be no service ut the Christian
church on Sunday evening next, ewing to
the absence Of Rev. Wood from town.
Potomac, the new postofice In Deer Lodge
Tor Missoula) county is situated at Camas
Prairie, IL miles from Wallace station.
The tickets being sold in Montana to the
New Orleans Exposition and return give the
purchaser the choice Of % different routes.
Monday next, Dec. /, closes out the oppor-
tunity to pay taxes at the face Of the levy.
After that ten per cent. pM be added to pour
taxes.
On and after Monday next Wells Fargo g.
Cos Express will run cars between Portland
and st. Paul. John O'Neill is appointed
agent Of W., r. & Co. at Garrison.
miners meeting was held last Sunday in
oro Fiso District at which important action
reported to have taken place, but we have
not yet received copy of the proceedings.
The Utah & Northern railroad employees
were paid of this week by checks issued by
the Company on LEGAL banks, the pay-car sys-
tenn having been abolished as expensive and
unnecessary.
The Independent seems to Be fuller of exul-
tation ever the Democratic success than any
other paper in Montana. About the next
break 1t will make will be to claim this fine
weather is all owing to the election of Clsve-
land.
Thanksgiving Day was very generally cell
ebrated In Deer Lodge BY suspension OF BUSH
ness, Union Services by the churches and the
family reunions and festivities that through.
out the land make it nationally the happisst
and most sacred Of all the Holidays.
The Dempsey Creek people have lots of
nerve They built good school house this
year and tackled the entire payment right
out OF hand, instead of issuing bonds The
special school levy in the district Is therefore
IL mills.
1t has been decided in the courts that IL a
partner Of dissolved firm negiscts to give
notice through the newspapers Of dissolu-
ton of partnership, he is equally liable with
his partner for all debts contracted after dis
solution. This is something worth remsm-
bering.-Ainer.
Our readers will find on the first page an
interesting chapter Of rough trip ten years
ago, by a valued contributor, and on the
third page the translation from the French |
OF an odd monograph, by = well known Mon
tanian, whose identity is not clearly indica- |
ted by the nom de plume.
Mr.. Isaac d. Huntoon, who has been pros.
pecting some weeks In the Orc Elmo District, |
returned to town Tuesday. He says in for |
nation, abundance Of prospects, apparent |
strength Of leads and other favorable charac- |
tsristics, 1t is one Of the most promising |
quartz camps he has seen. With the work |
that will be done this winter the camp prom |
ises to become an important one next season |
on its merits.
The passenger train going West now Ar
rives at Garrison at $40 p. m, and going East
at 535 a. m. The Utah & Northern is expsc-
ted to change time next Sunday, when the |
passenger train will reach Garrison frsm the |
South about noon, lay As minutes and return |
South. Doubtless the accommodation train |
from Butte will be run to connect with the |
Northern Pacific trains. We hays not re-
ceivsd the new tims-card yet
The Anaconda Reuieu mentions discrspan-
cies in the notices Of amounts of taxes due,
later notices being greater than those previ-
ously received. We are informed the cause
is, as mentioned last week, the receipt with
in the past few days by the County Treasurer
Of the lists for special school leviss, which
had to be added TO the original levy, and
while the tax payers are the ones who have
to put up, the person most seriously incon-
venisnced and warmest in the collar is the
County Treasurer.
The huge sky-pisrcing backbone Of the
Rocky mountains lying between the heads Of
Dry Cottonwood and Fourth Of July gulches,
and which is the mineral center of Orc Elmo
district, has been named Gospel Mountain"
This name il believed to have been applied
to 1t by that Patriarch Of the Hills, who has
made IL his home for the last dozen years,
Ben Franklin-aad it's "true as gospel" his
many friends hspe he will yet make for
tune from the rich veins that rib it, and in
which he has done so much faithful work.
At the recent term of Court at Missoula
Thos. r. Mckinney, Henry Miller and VIM.
Zipf were found guilty Of stealing cattle and
sentenced to pay costs Of prosecution and
eighteen months imprisonment in the peni-
Tertiary. Sheriff Berry brought up the pris-
snsrs a few days ago, but under the instruc-
tons from the Department, published re-
Gently, Marshal Botkin declined to receive
them, and they were taken back to Missoula.
We unds rstand Judge G albraith, who stopped
over fer few days hunt at Wallace ,!says no
official notice of the instructions reached
him. We knew 1t was sent to him, and must
have mscarried In the mails.
During fierce gale Of wind that began
little before 3 e'clsck a. IN. Wednesday and
continued an hour or two, one of those ever
burning out chinneys In the Kleinschmidt
building started up column of blaze, and
the wind whirlsd the fakes Of burning SCOT
a half block. The alarm was pr omptly given
by Henry p. Mcfarland, night Waterman,
and the fire company quickly had their appa-
ratus at the scene. No damage was done,
but owing to the gale the night alarm occa-
stoned much nervousness. The gale had star
tod the draft in . smouldsring fire in DIR.
Owings Office.
Montana has made = heavy draft on the
Boise valley orchards this season, and it is q
benefit all around. Excellent apples are now
sold here at $3.50 per box, as against 81
charged preceding years, and still leaving,
owing to their coming through exceptionally
sound, a nice margin OF profit for dealers.
On the other hand the Boise farmers have q
cash market at fair rates for their fruit, and
the Idaho Democrat Of the 23d says: "Not-
the prolific crop, there will be
but few left in Boise valley by January. l."
Speaking of apples at $3.50 per box, which
Is about cents per pound, reminds IN that
xbsn Hon w " Pemberton was married in |
Helena, in 1866, each wedding gusst-thirty
In all, was presented with m apple-all there
we're In Helena. The price paid for them
was 81 each, In gold.