The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-08-29
NEIGHBoRHoOD NEWS.

Ground is broken for the Butte Opera
House.
Dillon Republicans have erected pole 100
feet high.
Col A. NJ. Voolfolk, of the Independent,
returned to Helena last Friday.
The steel cells Of the Helena Jail, now
completed, will accommodate 4s prisoners.
1tsnowed twenty hours at Lion City and
Hecla, commencing on the eve. OF the 18th.
Forty tons Of hay Belonging to NJ. Biel-
enburg was burned Thursday last south of
Butte. Loss about 81 900.
Now is the time to put screens in bitches
to prevent the wholesale destruction of fish
that occurs every fall-Husbandman
The Buttes beat the Salt Lakers In the
base ball games Saturday and Sunday. The
tally was, Saturday, 36 to l6; Sunday, 10 to 4.
1t is estimated that there are now in Mon
tana, including calves, upward of million
cattle, besides horses and sheep.-Indepen.
dent
Three locomotives, formerly in use on the
Denver and South Park narrow gauge rail-
way, are now doing service ON the Utah and
Northern.
The Yellowstone Journal thinks that Is, 900
head of beeves will be shipped east this
month from stations between Miles City and
100 milest east.
The "wild beasts" referred to which "near-
ly dcvoured lady" in the National Park
were mosquitoes, and the article was intended
as a witticism.
The U. & N. R'y Co. is now delivering car
load lots of goods for Butte merchants at the
Parrot mine, when desired, on payment of
switching fees.
| Rev. Father Kelleher, who writes very en-
tertainingly, is contributing letters to the
| Madisonian during his travels. His first Is
from Niagara Falls.
The mountains in the vicinity of Butte are |
covered with fresh fall of snow. Thank |
| the Lord the Tom and Jerry season is ap.
roaching.-Enter- Mountain.
1t is stated that the mavericks on the Mu,- |
selshell roundup this year sold for 5000, |
leaving over $500 surplus after paying the |
entire cost of the roundup
1t is learned from the Eagle Rock Reqister
that W. 2. T. st. Clair, the popular superin-
tendent of the U. & N. Railway, is the proud
father of twins-a boy and girl
Thirty horses were stolen the past week
from John Smiths herd on Alkali creek, in
the Billings region. Twenty were also sto-
len from the herd of Mr.. Fields.
Mambrino Diamond, purchased of Mr.. 8.
Z. Larabie by Governor Crosby, injured
leg in training last week, and will not be
able to take part in the Fair races this sea-
son.
John Mathey, employed at the Colorado
smelter, was shot a few days ago by a stray
ball fired by some men practicing with rifles
near the Centennial Brewery, a half mile
away.
In conversation with q gentleman pretty
we'll informed as to the polti cal proclivites
of the voters here, 1t was ascertained that
the parties are pretty evenly dIvided.-An-
aconda ReUie,o.
Five new engines and fifty new dump cars
for transporting ore between the Anaconda
mine and smelter have been ordered. Sew
eral cars have already arrived at Butte.-An-
dcondd ReUie,o. ,
Louis Reeder, a we'll known Cld-timer of
Helena, fell from a house that he was con-
structing this morning, and was carried to |
the Sisters Hospital with a broken back, and
Of course cannot live.-Heraid, 18th.
A swrde girl named Bette Jonson, en-
ployed at the Denver Hotel, near the Hele ma
depot, threw her young child in privy,
where it was found alive, rescued by DR..
Steele and taken to the hospital, but after.
wards died
During the coming week Mr.. w. A. Clark
will leave for the East with the purpose in
view Of purchasing the plant necessary for !
the manufacture of gas in this city. 1t is ex-
pscted the works will be operating by next
spring.-Aine-, 23d.
Col P. w. Norris, ex-Superntendent of |
the National Park, has been for some time {
past lying dangerously i'll at the Mammoth
Hot Springs. At one time his life was de- I
SPARED Of, but the last reports from there say {
that he is convaescing. /
The Miner reports that owing to the in
creased business of the U. s. n. railroad, Mr.. e
now chief train-dispatcher at Eagle
Rock, will be transferred to Silver Bow t
Junction. A train-dispatcher will also be ;
stationed at Spring Hill. 1
The raid on the horse thieves from first to
last has resulted in the shooting nd hanging i.
Of two on the Musselshell, 2 at Lewiston, 2
near Fort Maginnis, Eat Claggett, 3 at Rocky :
Point, and at the mouth of the Musselshell,
making IS in all.-Husbdndman.
The spectacle of a band of seventy or
eighty Indians swimming the Yellowstone
1T Junction City, was recently witnessed by :
passengers from the windows of a Northern
Pacific train. The Indians with their ponies =
seemed To experience but little difficulty in 3
getting across.
The corn crop of Gallatin valley is COM
Darative failurs-a peculiar and hitherto un- =
snown worm or caterpillar having attacked
It in the milk. As the cultivation of corn in
Montana Is not an important industry, the
caterpillar pest will not be felt as a serious
G. d. Joslyn, Cor. Tnglehart, Ed. and VIM
D'Neill, Mrs. John O'Neill and Miss Mamie
B. and Lee Kelley, all of Deer Lodge, halted
1t the Madison House Thursday, bourd for
the geysers or bust" They won't bust-un-
ess they do so laughing at Joslyn's irresisti-
Die witticisms and fearfully constructed j
Next Saturday Major Howell. Major War
en and Major wilkins, of the militia, act
ng under orders Of Adjutant General Full =,
er, will proceed to Butte to muster the
smmet Guards, new company and inspect
he Union Guards and issue the proper arms
o the new company.-Independent.
Messrs. John Fl. Wood & Co., the Chicago
onsignees Of Wood and vosburgh, of Miles A
lily, sold on Thursday for Ferdon & Biddle
wenty-one car loads of cattle at s465 per
W.T. This was the best sale of Montana cat
10 effected this week, as those of Carpenter =
Robertson brought only s435 and those of
colt & Co. s4.40.-Miles City Record, sd.
A st. Paul paper says There are large
movements of stock from Kansas, Colorado,
1ebraska and Wyoming into Montana, the r
stimated drive for this year being SOC, 900
cad. Montana is regarded as better re-
ion for stock raising than the stock dis n
riots of Colorado New Mexico Kansas | =