The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-12-19
JEST: LODGE MONTANA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1884
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

NEIGHBORHOoD NEWS.
Butte has 3,0A school children.
Anaconda has 292 children of school age.
Several cases Of diphth.ria are reported in
Helena.
Chotsau county has only two organized
to wnships.
The Nevada Legislature meets on the 9th
Of January.
The Riverside, Cal, raisin crop this year is
$4,000 boxes.
There are 326 persons holding federal eff
ces in Montana.
The Dillon Tribune says the cs.p Of whist
parties Is ripe.
Portland, Oregon, has received 20 tons Of
oleomargerins from Chicago.
The assay sfise at the Dexter mill burned
last week loss 81 900 to 81 800.
A. X. Yerkes is now publisher Of the Boze-
man Chronicle, Langhorne's paper.
Hslena's gas is made from coal from the
Northern Pacifc's mines, near Bozemau.
Emierants are said to be settling In South
ern California at the rate of 800 per week.
In the Waite Mentally prize fight at Butte
last Sunday night, Waite was badly whipped
in feur rounds.
The Northern Pacific reports a net cash
balance on the business of the year up to
Dec /, Of $780, 900.
The Madisonian of last week gave list Of
1893 pioneers now residing in Madison county,
none Of whom came there later than ga.
John Edmundson, the horse thief there
was 50 much delay In convicting at Helena,
was sentenced to IL years in the penitentiary.
The Government fish car gave Hundley 81
Prsuitt, Of Helena, 100 carp to put In pond
on their ranch, about seven miles from
town.
1t is stated that George Steel, of Sun River,
will in all probability be able tn pay off all
Indebtedness against him and resume bust
ness.
Col. W. w. DeLacy, of Helena, is going 70
the New Orleans Exposition. He will be an
excellent representative of the Montana pic
neers.
The Review says that at least 70 protest. o nal
were three cases Of theft there in one day re-
Gently.
Henry Phlsger, who came to Banuack in
1862 and lived in Blackfoot in 1865, died in
Helena of erysipslas last Friday night, aged
"a years.
Bennett James, Sheriff Of Napa county,
Cal, died at Napa recently from the effects
IF AL lnI oi iv,h de- nI
which An abscess formed.
OEe Of our colored citizens bought the
handsomest Christmas card ut T. G. Power &
Bros to-day, for which he "loosened up I've
dollars. Talk about hard times !-River Press.
Walla Walla is to have direct railroad con-
nectisn with the Oregon Short Line. Only
IL miles Of railroad remain to be built mex.
spring to make the desired connection.
The Oregon Legislature stands Senate, II
Republicans, Is Democrats ; the House, IS
Republicans and % Democrats. This assures
Republican successor to Senator Slater.
The railway company is unable to trans
port the ore from the Anaconda mine to the
smelter at Anaconda in suffi cient quantities
to allow the smelter to run at full capacity
Miner.
At the request Of the Union Pacific Rail-
way Company, and for the benefit of the
merchants in Butte, We will state that all
special freight rates will expire December 81.
Miner, 10Th.
Hon. j. G. Kerley and John Walker, of
Meagher county, ate SEINE canned corn beef
recently which had drawn poison from the
tin. Both suffered good deal, and Walker
came near dying.
The new $4,000 mill of the Maiden Min.
ing Company was started up on the I'd inst.
It is said to be beauty. A. NJ. Essler is Su-
perintendent, and he Ia confident Of cleaning
mp S25 900 per month.
In a recent issue Of the Tuscarora (Nev0
Times Reuie1 the scarcity Of local news is &C
counted for by the editor, who said that he
was getting his boots half-soled and couldn't
rustic for items barefootsd.
1t is stated that the sliding Yellowstone
bluffs, which have caused so much delay to
Northern Pacific trains are to be partially
out away, and that 100 men will he put to
work on the job in a couple OF weeks.
The only interest in the Comstock mines
At present is how to manage affairs so a. to
get the most out Of the ou.grade ore known
to exist in the upper levels. These must be
got out and worked choaply to be profitable.
A party, thoroughly equipped to battle
with the sand and drouth Of the desert, left
Riverside, Cal, recently to mako . fnal
search for the remains Of Cover, who was lost
while prospecting for the traditional "Peg
Leg" mine.
An election was to be held last Tuesday for
a successor to w. H. Martin, Member of the
House elect from Gallatin county. Colonel
George o. Eaton was nominated by the Re-
publicans, and III. A Pease, formerly of vir-
ginia City, by the Democrats.
The opening of the Oregon Short Line has
made = marked decrease in the Pacific coast
travel by way Of the Utah & Northern, pia
Garrison. On this part of the Utah & Nor
thsrn there has been falling off Of fully 80
per cent. in the past week.-Inter-M Mountain.
An oil poker player Of Idaho City re-
marked the other day, as he was rising from
the table, after session lasting three days
and nights an be etsrnally hons wagglsd
IL can tell whether this is yesterday, to-day,
tomorrow, day before tomorrow, or the day
after yesterday"
Two or three Of the smaller contractors
under Nelson Bennett, are reported to have
thrown up their contracts, and about 800 men
will be thrown out Of employment, of whom
a number will probably 60 to British Column
bia to work on the Canada Pacific road
Walla Walla Onion, 18Th.
The Helena papers having stated that two
Of +. L. p. Lindsay's children had the diph-
liberia, Mr.. Lindsay publishes card In the
Independent stating that he is single, has no
children, and never had any children. Con-
it is inferred that the report of