The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-08-22
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

Thos. II. Irvine is a candidate for sheriff Of
Custer county.
The walls of the new 2O-stamp mill at Phil
ipsburg are going up.
Missoula's assessment roll, it Is thought,
will foot up close to S2,0O0,OOO.
Owing to "bread war" that staple article
of diet Is selling in Butte 20 loaves for 81.
Alexander Campbell was killed in a min
ing accident near Jefferson City last week.
There were 1900 people present at the
Miners Union Picnic, Butte, last Sunday.
John Murphy knocked out the colored
pugilist, Flowers, at Butte the other even
ing.
s. II. Crounse and ohm Motif have bought
the old G. S. & Co. stable lots in Helena, for
5000.
Meagher county's Democratic convention
will be held at White Sulphur Springs Sep
TENDER 20.
The Ketchum branch of the Oregon Short
Line will open on Aug. 25 for the transaction
of business.
The Inter- Mountain and Butte Miner dailies
have been enlarged to accommodate the adj
vertisin business.
The Alice Company has declared dlvi-
dend of twelve and half cents per share,
amounting to $4,000.
The general opinion Of tax payers of Butte
Is that the city is too much in debt to justify
the erection of city hall this year.
- I..t Of
Livingston a few days ago, waived exami-
nation, and was committed to Jail without
bail.
Thompson, one Of our heaviest lum-
bermen, estimates that Butte and the ada
cent mines and mills consume daily 10000
feet of mber.-Inter- Mountain.
The convocation of the Protestant Episco-
nal diocese of Montana will assemble at
Butte on Sunday, August "a, the Rt. Rev. L..
R. Brewer, Bishop of Montana, presiding
General Manager Knippenberg has bought
an undivided one-half interest in the Oneida
claim on Lion Mountain, from J. q. Keppler
aud Messrs. Pease Il Taylor. Consideration
$40 0OO.-Tribune.
Peter Daily has sold his farm at the mouth
of Ramshorn creek, and will engage in mil =
ing pursuits. He he's some fine quartz pros
poets in the Ramshorn Madison
ian.
In the race between Tempest and Ben
Lomond, Jr., at Helena the other day, best
three in FIVE, Lomond made the first heat in
2.28-the best record in the Territory. TEN
pest took the next three heats in 2359, 2.4
and 239.
Here's the way Jud Boyakin, Of the Idaho
Democrat, let's loose his enthusiasm over a
young son:
BoRN-In Boise City, Idaho, Aug. 10, 1884
| to the wife of A j. Beyakin, a son.
Another addition to the Democrats family
| It's girl-with slight variations.
The Calamity Jane-Liver Eating johnson
Grow Indian-Cowboy Combination called
Hardwick's show, busted in Chicago. The
members of the circus were not paid by the
manager, and were forced to sell their ponies
| In order to get back to Montana.-Eater
prise
The first passenger train to mount to the
| Anaconda mine will make the ascent to
morrow, and will run down to Anaconda
This event will indicate the practical com
pletion of the two Utah s. Northern branche.
connecting through the main line the Ana
conda mine and sneltsr.-Inter-M ountsin.
| In our market report this week oats are
quoted at SIPS. In one case we know o.
that price was paid but merchants tell N
that the tendency is downward and that IL
order to compete, Spokane Falls on one sids
or Bozeman on the other, oats for shipping
purposes will have to come down to rs to s5c
-Aissoulidn.
On Saturday last rations were served out l.
the Crow Indians at the old agency on tn
Saltwater for the last time, and the Indian
notified that rations would thereafter be SUP
piled to them at the new agency on the Littl
Horn. All the Indians, except one camp O
about IS souls, have moved to the vicinity O
the new agency.-Biiings Herald, 10th.
Ed. Beeman, the well known conducto
who has run passenger trains on the yellow
stone and Montana divisions, Is about
start for Buenos Ayres in the Argentine RI
public, South America. There he has q
engagement with party Of New York cap
talists who are about to construct railroa
from the city into the interior. Enterprise
The Northern Pacific company will henc'
forth sell It's agricultural lands In qsantitie
not exceeding $40 acres, on ten years tim
to parties who agree to become actual Sc
tiers within one year from date Of purchase
, terms, one-tenth cash down and at the en-
, Of the first year seven per cent. on the ha
T ance, one-tsnth principal and interest AT th
|, end Of each succeeding year.--LiUingston e
t terprse.
The papers are full Of stories about Il