The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-12-12
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Court Is likely to continue till Christmas.

Court is likely to continue till Christmas.
The penitentiary building Is almost ready
for the plas terers.
The Territorial Grand Jury returned 10 in
dictments at the present term.
Rev. T. w. Flemming, Of Illinois, will adj
dress union temperance meeting at the
Christian church Sunday evening.
Quite number Of county, district and pre-
cinct officers will be installed on the 18th
inst-the third Monday Of December.
II was supposed this week that counterfeit
silver dollars had gotten into circulation, bu,
subsection to all known tests did not make
out case against any Of them.
A Rhetorical Entertainer mt, participated
In by scholars Of the Public School, will be
given at the school house Friday evening,
December %. The programme will be pub
lished next week.
regular meeting Of George II. Thomas
Post will be held this evening. As 1t is the
stated meeting for the annual election Of Of
fcers it is hoped there will be prompt and
full turn out Of comrades.
treasurer Humber estimates that 30 per
cent, or more, Of the taxes Of Deer Lodge
county, were paid within the specified time
before the additional 10 per cent was to be
added. Those persons who failed to get
there in due season are mostly small tax
payers
MIR. L. G. Larsen bought Of the John W.
Lowell Co., last week, an endless chain
horsepower and circular saw, with frame,
for $3.50. The rig is competent to cut into
stove lengths 10 or 20 cords of wood per day,
and is comfortable piece Of machinery for
a farmer to have.
There will be an Exhibition of work Of
students In the Art Department at the Mon
tana College next Wednesday, December II,
from 10 to 12 q. m. and from to p. m Tho
class, which Is under the instruction Of Miss
Lillian Hudson, will, with their preceptress,
DO pleased to soc all their friends.
The Territorial Grand Jury, just adj surned,
on complaint made to it, indicted the propri-
etor OF the Chinese wash-house on Main
street for maintai ming a nuisance. This will
bring the question Of ability to control the
location Of these dangerous premises to
ISSUE, and it is hoped it will result in their
being isolated.
The attention of stockmen, butchers and |
others is called to the fact that on Dec 22d |
lext an Administrators Sale Of so calves, 90 |
80 cows, and 20 two-ysar- odds, be- |
onging to the estate Of David Austin, de- |
ceased, will take place at his ranch four miles |
below Nissoula. The highest bidders will
axe the cattle. S05-1t
Attention is called to notice of meeting of
tsckhelders of the Philispburg Water Com
'any published in this issue. gentleman
Il that busy burg says Our water scheme is
grand success, pipe all laid and any. quaa-
lty OF water at hand under 20 feet Of verti-
al pressure. We want a telephone line,
ally mail, and the next Democratic county
invention to be perfectly happy.
The Inter-Aountain published an item that
rattlesnake In upper Deer Lodge valley
'hich had crawlsd partly through the eye hole
human skull had been unable to extri-
ate itself, and was dragging the skull around
nth 1t. The Anaconda Reuie,c threw some
iscredit on the statement, whereupon the
M. rsiterates the statement ~ fact. All
'e Rerieao man car do now is to say that he
ever saw the said snake or any one who did
'e 1t, and the I'm. man may respond that
Q did, and people who are we'll informed
Ill say conc man may see snakes where
mother cannot see snakes"
1t is stated the Northern Pacific Railroad
ompany has posted Notices in Orc Elmo
lining District-about the head of Fourth of
uly gulch where Maxwell & Co.'S saw-mill
IS been for some months cutting mining
mbsrs for Butte-warning all persons from ,
lifting timber on railroad lands. A. the
nds are, we believe. unsurveyed, it will be
mewhat difficult to determine which are
70 odd and which the even sections As a
after Of fact, all the timber in the vicinity
likely to be needed for the Orc Elmo mines
I'd We would be glad to hear that these saw
ills had ceased operations in the region.