The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-10-31
DEER LODGE co. DEMOCRATIC TIcksl
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Land slides along the Yellowstone are de.
laying N. r. trains.
The Lexington Company, Butte, will send
abou: 600 pounds of ore to the Now Orleans
exhibit.
DR.. E. d. Leavitt and family have returned
from California, and ars now stopping at
Glendale.
| Work on the Sun river canal has been sus-
pended for the winter. Three and half
miles have been completed.
s. H. Crounse has purchased W. B. Nickle's
half interest in the printing establishment
and book bindsry of Boos Il Co., Helena.
| The fare for the round trip from st. Paul
to New Orleans and return, from the LIST of
December to the LIST Of May, has bsen fixed
at 5000.
Flour. We are informed, is selling at the
| mills at s1.75 per Ssh. sack. This IL too low
figure for farmers to make much money at.
--Madisonian.
Frank Boswsrth, the old-time Montana
actor, left for the East recently to join the
Katie Putnam Company at Chicago for
winters engagement.
1t is reported that after its next trip the
pay car on the Utah & Northern will be
abolished, and Division ntsndents will
be appointed paymasters Of their respective
divisions on the Union Pacific and branches.
The Aasons, Odd Fellows and knights
Templar turned out in an imposing parade
on the occasion Of lying the corner stone of
the new Odd Fellows Hall at Butte last Sat-
urday.
The "bad lands" Of Dakota, west of the
Missouri river, are turning out to be splsn-
did pasturage fer cattle. The country fur
nishes ample shelter, and not above two per
cent. Of the stock has been lost from all
causes.-C Chronicle.
A change Of venue was granted Ia the Ed
mundson cases from Boulder to Helena The
"boys" were returned under q guard Of Il
men who discovered evidences that another
rescue was contemplated at the same place
as attempted before, but the strong guard
awed them.
The Pioneer Press says: Hillhouss Ray
mond owns the best horse ranch in Montana.
He has $50 head of blooded horses. His
fences enclose 10000 acres of pasture land,
and he is now making preparations to en-
close 10, 900 acres more.
A boy named Foley, aged six years, had An
arm badly mangled by two cars on the Ana
conda branch road, near Butte, Saturday. A
party Of young boys had loosened the brakes
on the cars, which were standing on steep
grade, and set them in motion.
A. Z. West, proprietor of boarding house
at Cable, and who was also employed in the
Gable mine, met his death Tuesday by being
overcome by the gas in prospecting tunnel
West was about 40 years of age. He leaves
wife and enc child in Gable. His remains
were inferred there on last wednesday.-Re-
Uiep.
The Ave horse thieves arrested . few days
ago near Miles City, arc to be taken to Re-
gina, in the Canadian Northwest. They
stole sl2, 900 worth Of horses from the Bell
farm, near there. The officers Of Custer
county will take them to the Canadian
boundary and deliver them to the mounted
police.
The Little Rocky boom has "bus:ed," and
the back track is being taken by nearly all
who can get out Of the camp. A number of
these parties passed through this valley dur
ing the last week, most of them coming by
way Of Duck Creek, and all have the same
opinion to express-"no good. "-Townsend
TrdRchdnt.
A. j. Seligman has ordered of G. G. Ruth
rauff, representing the Brush Electric Light
Company, an incandescent outfit for lighting
his rooms in Browns block. BY means Of
new invention known as q resistance box,
the current for these little burners can be
supplied by the wire which supplies the arc
lizhts.-Hcrald.
Whether to hold wool just now is a ques-
ton somewhat difficult to determine, but We
are Of the opinion that nothing would be lost
by so doisg. The terrible loss by drouth in
Australia will undoubtedly lessen the amount
Of shipments to this country, and when bus
mess revives we may expect more active
demand and better Observation-Disclosures.
A ranchman Of Boulder valley named Pat
Fsnton was held up last Thursday by two
masked highwaymen on the Boulder road at
the same place the coach was arrested = few
days before. They got only four dollars from
him and let him 60. He had 81 800 concealed
in his boots. Sheriff McDermott arrested
man named William Spence As one of the
robbers and he 10 in the Helena Jail.
Subject to notice, the citizens Of Bitter
Root Valley assembled at Stevensville, ON
October Is, 1884, for the purpose Of taking
steps to raise funds to erect monument to
the memory Of the late departed Father ka-
valli. r.. A. Wells was elected chairman,
Henry Buck treasurer, and Gust. Moser Sec
rotary. 1t was decided to circulate subscrip-
ton lists At once and receive all sums, large
and small
The assessment Of Beaverhead county for
tho year 1884 foots up s2,s4s, 1914. This is an
increase over 1889 Of over $4,000 The in
crease for the past year is mainly due to
property in Dillon, and to the increase in
value Of the property Of the Hecla Consoli-
dated Mining Company at Glendale. The
increase In the assessment roll Of tho county
within the past two years has been 1854 sos,
which fact gees to show that Assessor Willis
has performed his duty faithfully.-Dalon
Tribune.