The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-08-01
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS

Father Kellaher Is en- route to the ala
world. VI"
John Hobbins, of Missoula, will shin ii.
wool to New York.
The Christian Church, at Anaconda w,,
dedicated last Sunday.
The races announced for the Bu,t. c,,,r
commencing Aug. 20, have been inde6pi,.l,,
postponed.
President Harris, of the Northern Pacific
with party OF friends, were In Butte Mon.
day, and remained some three hours.
Il. b. Wallace has sold the hostipg worL,
OF the late Broadway G. NJ. q NJ. Co, at Sill.
yer Star, to Trask & Graves, OF Bannack.
The cattle men of Medora offer a rewar,
Of $3.50 for the apprehension CT any psr.cn
or persons setting fire to the grass in that
section.
There have been quite number of loc,
tions of quartz claims over on the Pipes,ono
They are mostly of silver leads, though Soma
are of gold.
President Harris, OF the Northern Pacis.
and Chief Engi neer Anderson were In Bn,t.
Monday. They visited the principal ,nipss
mills and smelters.
dance house is threatened in Anaconda
and the Reuie,o couples condemnation ~
the nuisance with citation of the law de.
claring such places unlawful.
David Kaacke, OF Burnt Fork. came :,
town on Wednesday with the last Install.
ment of his strawberries, his crop aggregat.
ing this year between 1000 and 5000 boxes
Hissouiidn.
George ID. Patterson has sold So, 900 head Of
sheep to Hon. Fl. NJ. Cochrane, making the
purchases of this gentleman amount to 3, 600
head. This is good starter" in the sheen
business.-Rsuer Press.
The regular per cent, or $4,000 dividend
and an extra dividend of the same amount
was paid by the Hecla Consolidated Miuing
Co, the LIST of the month. Total dividend,
paid this year, $4,000.
The Hecla Company has struck rich or.
and an immense body of it, in old Trainer
mine. 1t is reported that the company is ex-
tracing $1,000 to $1,000 worth of ore daily
from this mine.-Dalon Tribune.
The stock interests of the Territory last
year amounted to about one.thrd of the total
assessed valuation, and will this year DO
largely augmented by the immense number
of horses, cattle and sheep that will be
driven in.
In Montana's various counties this year
there are 127 candidates for sheriff. OF the
number, ia are sure to be disappoin ted, AZ
there are only Is such offices to fill Thew
might, however, get places on the police
force somewhere.
The people Of Billings have begun work In
earnest for their artesian well. They ara
rather encouraged in the work by the fact
that the artesian wells in Miles City are only
about $50 feet deep and were bored at a very
reasonable expense.
Thomas A. Hendricks, nominee for Vice
President, visited Glendale and Butte last
summer, and will be there again this year
He is extensively interested In the Heca
mine, at Glendale, one of the best paving
mines in the Territory.
George o. Shields (''Coquina'Y has an arti.
Gle IN Harper's Monthly. on "Antelope Hunt.
ing in Montana" The article has the merit
of credibility If nothing more worthy. MANY
residents OF the Yellowstone valley have met
him on his hunting trips here.
SurveyorGeneral Harris, who is one of the
Commissioners of the New Orleans Exposi
ton, says the report of the one. cent per mile
railroad fare Is correct. Arrangements have
been made with all railroads in the United
States to issue tickets for the Exposition at
that rate.
Owners of canaries should be careful what
green meats they feed their pets. One day
this week Mrs. Philip Conrey put soma
"pepper grass" between the bars of the oaoes
Of two birds, and In a short time both The
songsters died from the effects of eating IT,
Nddis0ntdn.
Advices from Meagher county are that
seven more horse thieves have gone the way
OF all hemp at the mouth of the Musselshell.
Two OF the dead men are recognized as
powne and Phelix, supposed to be the ring
leaders of band of horse and cattle thieves
in that section.
Charley Van Brocklin, of Madison county,
was badly injured recently by the horse
which he was riding falling with him. He
was for some time in a precarious condition,
but is now progressing toward recovery, al
though some Of his injuries are regarded as
permanent ones.
Joe Fourier tried to surrender himself to
Deputy Sheriff Dickinson at Anaconda a
few days ago, alleging he had seriously dam
aged man who had assaulted him near
town. ADMINISTRATION did not substantiate
his statement that any such collision had
taken place. Dick refused to take possession
Of Fournier's body.
A railroad engineer who made the trip be-
tween Livingston and Helena yesterday.
'aid he saw as many as forty tramps between
The two towns, all coming this way. Yester-
lay morning early, before the residents Of
Helena were astir, he counted over seventy.
'f the same class sleeping in doorways or
lifting along the sidewalk of one block in
Helena.-Liringston Tribune, I'D
Thomas w. Catln, a wide awake and Meas.
Int gentleman, dropped in upon us this week
o taik with our people in behalf of our ex-
'eiient contemporary, the New NORTH
WEST Mr. Catlin is evidently a good rus.
Ter, and his qualities in this line are strength
med oy the fact that he Is representing one
u the best newspapers in the mountains
kddtsonidn. ......
Peter Moran brought to the Madisonian
abinet, Thursday, a portion of n mastodon
ooth, ~hich was unearthed the other day on
rom Halloran's claim, in California gulch.
some portion Of it has been broken off, so
nat 1t can only be copjectured how large it
vas originally. The piece remaining is a
title over eight inches long and four inc hes
Chronicle.
An artesian well has been started on Leigh
On u Garlock's addition, which, when com
lsted, will supply the whole of that portion
the city, IL being situated on the highest
ortion of the tract designated. 1t Is an en-
'rprise that will greatly increase the value
property in that locality, and will amply
'pay the philosophical citizens who are
10 promoters of it-Miies Journal.
A London dispatch announces that on last
riday, 18th inst, two sons Of United States
onsul Piatt (of Queenstown, while boating
4 the bay In front Of that city met with an
resulting In one of them being
'owned, while the other, although rescued,
as hardly expected to survive The unfor-