The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-07-17
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

The Butte Topn Talk has only been pub
lished 80 days, and has already enlarged.
Patrick Doran, a we'll known and popular
miner of Butte, died Saturday afternoon.
The report of the United States Bureau
of Statistics credits Montana with 100, 900
cattle.
Several miners lately located mining
claims at the Hump, about four miles east of
Gregson's Springs.
The safe of Dennis Driscoll, VAUDEVILLE,
was drilled aud bowed and robbed of $50
last Thursday night
The telephone line from Helena to White
Sulphur Springs, uia Townsend, will be in
operation in few days.
Mr.. IF. Wilkinson, an old-time newspa-
per man, has succeeded David Marks as
local editor of the Independent.
Editor Zeigenfuss, of the Miner, and editor
Rivers, of the To,cn Talk, were both con-
fined to their rooms by illness this week.
The Miles City Stock Growers' Journal says
all the grasses on the Montana ranges have
seeded this year, the first time in FIVE years.
Parties from the upper Madison state that
most of the travel, thus far, into the National
Park, has been by way of the Union Paci fic
and Utah and Northern INTERPRETATION
ian.
Severance & Co., the prominent wool
growers of Okla, recently shipped 400 head
of wethers East and sold them at st. Paul for
1915 per hundred weight, the band netting
them IS per head.
Thos. Matthews, live stock inspector at
Horse Plains, Missoula county, has inspect
ed 81 900 head of cattle and horses so far this
wear. He found not a single case OF infec
tious or contagious disease among them.
The specimens of alfalfa seen on the Smith
river valley indicate that bench lands Of
this valley are admirably adapted to the
growth of this plant. We believe 1t vii
prove a complete success here.-Hus6dnd'
man.
Sheriff Howell, of Meagher, is reported
seriously i'll of brain disease which assumes
an insanity type. His advanced age Il
against the recovery of a mind growing rap
| idly more irrational, and 1t Is thought h
| will soon become fit subject for the asylum
| Herald
Frank Kannis, of Bear Gulch, was bru
| tally murdered in his cabin on Pine creek, u
tributary of Bear Gulch creek) on Monda.
morning, July @, between and o'clock q
| m, by Jack Stevenson, a miner who hvet
about $50 yards from the Kannis cabin
| Bozeman Courier.
| Messrs. Lee Mantle, manager of the Inter
Mountain and Charles s. Warren, Clerk o
| the District Court have formed q co-partner
ship in Butte, and will, in few days, opel
business as insurance agents and real estat
and mining brokers.
Wilbur E. Sanders, son of Col Sanders, re
turned home Saturday from the Cclumbi
School of Mines, at New York, from whic
institution he has just graduated. He vii
establish himself here as M. L. with
fellow graduate, Mr.. Geo. B. Lee.-HeTald.
To induce local travel to the Yellowston
National Park, the passenger department Q
the Northern Pacific has issued circular t
agents from Glendive to Townsend, inclr
sive, instructing them to issue return ticket
to Livingstone at one fare, provided the pal
ties purchasing the same also buy round tri
tickets from Livingston to the Park.-Ente'
prise.
Mr.. T. j. Demers has ordered five-stam
mill for the J. b. lode on Quartz creek, an
will receive bids until next Monday fo
freighting 1t in. Recent assays of ore fror
the j. B. show it to be very rich in gold, an
the owners are confident the lead will prov
bonanza. We certainly hope so, and ths
q good camp will be developed there whic
will give the Missoula county farmers
market for their extra produce.-h,ssoulia'
John Longmaid has purchased the oil
Penobscot property, near Marysville, ft
$4,000. This is the property that once mad
Nate vestal wealthy, and which sold IL
$500, 900. All our readers will remember Thu
the mine "petered out" as it is called, an
the works were closed down some years ag'
Now that Mr.. Longmaid has taken hold OF
we may expect some new developments fro'
the renowned Penobscot.-Herald.