The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-03-28
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Flowing has begun In the valley.

trict schools will close April 18th.
The attention of school teachers is called
to Superintendent Catlin's notice.
1t is contemplated to begin the cleaning
out Of Rock Creek ditch next week.
The Vest Shore Is improving Ia the charac-
ter Of Its matter, and the engravings are kept
fully up to the standard.
ranging for Fair and Festival, to be held
In Deer Lodge, April 22d.
A social entertainment will be given at the
Presbyterian Church next Thursday evening,
with vocal and instrumental music, refresh
ments, ETC. See notice.
Mr.. Heffernin, of Hobbins & Heffernin,
was in town this week. They have their
band of $500 head of sheep about 16 miles
from Missoula, and expect to shear there.
They only lost 60 head this winter.
| II there is anything in the "preponderance
Of testimony,"o or rather the duplication of it,
that History of Montana" will certainly be
published. The Association is writing to
everybody, and the newspapers, denials of
Lessons remark to the Independent reporter.
Mr. John r. Quigley informs the hdepe,-
dent that it is the general belief at Washing
ton Gulch that Davis was injured by pre-
mature blast in his mining shaft, and that he
managed to get to his cabin, turn out his cat,
fasten his door against wild animals, and
then laid down on his face to die.
We acknowledge receipt OF the First An
nual Bulletin Of the Montana Wool Growers
Association, L. w. Peck, Secretary, Fort
Benton, Montana 1t contains SO pages of
matter relating TO the sheep interest by the
best Informed sheep growers of Montana
| and others, and should be in the hands Of all
| engaged in that industry.
Heartt run his last Sundays north bound
| express on the Utah & Nortnern-an average
five-car train-from Eagle Rock, Idaho, to
Garrison, Montana, in ten hours and fifty
minutes-distance 2sl miles. There are q
stops on the route, including breakfast at
Melrose, and the transfer at Silver Bow
Junction He wants some of the Northern
Pacific trains to size up to that run, which
included crossing the Rockies twice.
There will be two school elections here
next month-one Saturday, April 9th, to
| elect trustee in place of Mr.. Thos. Aspiring,
whose term expires and who declines re-
election, and one Saturday, April 18th, on a
re-submission of the proposition to vote
$40 600 additional for school house bonds
This was voted on unanimously, we believe,
last fall, but some technical defect in the
matter has led the trustees to re-submit the
question. Both elections will be held at the
school house.
Monday last was "big train" day on the
Utah & Northern, the north-bound express
running in two sections, bringing 400 emf
grants, nearly all destined for Washington
Territory. When congregated at Garrison,
the platform there looked, In all save the
foreign aspect, like n scene ut Castle Garden.
A Northern Pacific train was awaiting their
arrival, and probably before this they are
looking for homes and farms in our neigh
boring Territory. They were a fine looking
people, and came mostly from Nebraska
and Kansas. Westward the star of empire
glides.
Nathan Smith lives on the line of the
Northern Pacific, about n halEmile east of
Garrison. The road runs near the house.
One day this week some malicious wretch
while passing on the passenger train fred n
pistol therefrom and seriously, If not fatally,
wounded favorite dog near the house.
Nathan was informed of 1t, fixed himself,
followed it to Garrison, where IL laid longer
than the dog assassin anticipated, and hunt
ed his unknown man by all the forms of in
vitation known to n red.hot belligerent. He
even offered him the odds of the first shot,
but nobody responded. 1t was doubtless
more interesting than agreeable to other
tinid passengers, but 1t IL rather to be regret
ted Smith didn't tind the wretch.
The Ogden Pilot has advices that the Utah
& Northern trains will soon be changed to
leave Ogden in the evening instead Of the
morning, 80 as TO connect with the fast mail
from the east That would bring them here
in the evening agaiu. How they will con-
meet with the Northern Pacific at Garrison
Is an interesting question. The time is TO be
ostensibly shortened up on that road April
9th. As trains are almost invariably behind
on the present schedule, 1t Is mystery how
they will be able to make faster time for the
next two or three months, when the freshets
and frost going out on new road-bed viii! i'm
pede them. Accommodations at Garrison
are poor and limited, but it looks as though
there will be long detentions there.
Matters promise to be pretty lively at Gar |
rison In a few days. Superintendent Cable |
stated few days since the Northern Pacific |
woult ave 100 men at work there after April
1st grad ing in side tracks and yard for the |
joint fret ght depot. The Utah Il Northern |
will also have at least hundred men EN- |
ployed OH the same work and In the erection |
of buildings 1t is stated the N. p. has given |
"notice to vacate" TO those having buildings
between the tracks. John O'NeIll has leased |
a lot on the right of way opposite the depot, |
and Is putting up fwo-stsry hotel; another |
party Is also putting up two-story building |
near by. The town site where permanent |
buildings will be erected has been surveyed |
near the union freight buildings and the U.
g. N. Railroad buildings.
Mr.. Oleson, u car repairer Of the U. & n. |
Co., met with q peculiar and what might |
have been - very serious accident Wednes- |
day. He was lying on his back under car, |
with his feet toward the engine, repairing |
some portion, when the train backed up sud |
denly. He had his knees drawn up at the |
time, and the brake bar striking them, rolled |
him up and over backward, leaving him ~ |
ing on his face, reversed from his former |
position. He was got out as speedily as pos |
sible, brought up on special train, and |
taken to st. Joseph's Hospital, where the |
company's physicians, Drs. Mitchell q Lau- |
rim, are treating him. Ii was feared at first |
there were serious internal LESSONS or bones |
broken, but last evening the physicians were |
satisfied such was not the case, and that his |
injuries arc not dangerous.
Conductor Heart tells an amusing incident |
of the late derailment of his train near Dill |
Ion. A stout Irishman occupied seat In the |
third car, and having imbibed little too |
much whisky was half asleep when the en- |
CINE struck the COW, and with the two follow
ing cars went into the ditch in halfminute.
OF course there was moment Of rush and
confusion among the passengers, and among |
the others that got TO their feet was the |
Emerald Islander, who commenced taking |
Off his coat Is he got up, and grabbing 1t
Heart - he pa1sed, said:
"what the Divils all the row about?"
"Row? Why the trains ditched and some |
az the boys are in the wreck
an, ta that al19 I th0uOht there was n l