The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-12-11
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS,


man has been appointed deputy sheriff
owen Evans and John Ludwig, Of Butte,
were seut to the Insane Asylum thi, week
A. j. Davidson was elected President, ami
A. NJ. Hotter V. j.. of the Helena Board of
Trade last Tuesday evening.
IL is rumored that the thirty stamps Of the
Lexington MILL now lying idle, will start IN
in "A few days on custom ore.
General Traffic Manager kimhal and
General Freight Agent +. p. Shelby, of the
Union Pacific are in Butte thts week
The Helena Mining and Stock Exchange
was formally. opened on the evening of Dec.
81, and the ceremonies concluded with a
grand banquet.
News reached town "Wednesday evening
of the death that morning at Stcvensv,ll,
after o brief illness Of Harvey Lent, father of
County Clerk and Recorder ALVIN Lieut.
-Mssoulia,l, 4M.
VIM. Wallace, Of Deer Lodge county, who
has a herd of cattle in the MuSselShell coun.
try, has recently received eighty.o head Of
young bulls, Shorthorns and Grloways.
They were shipped from Montexuma, Iowa
Gazette, 9TH.
Walter Dole, an insane tramp, attempted
to throw himself in front of a tea train AT the
depot Tuesday but fell on the pilot and was
not injured. a lunatico inquirendo being
held he was adjudged insane and was
taken to the insane asylum yesterday Mis-
soulidn, 4M.
ha far of hn
office from its past incumbent, General Har.
ris, to the new appointee, Col Greene, took
place to-day. The morning was occupied In
the examination of accounts and the formal
surrender of the office TRANSFERRED this after.
uoon.-Herdid, 7h.
The Portland Ne,CS says: "Prof. j. L. Clay.
ton, of Salt Lake, proposes leaving thai city
next month and will take up his residence
in Portland. The Professor is a mining en-.
gneer and expert of national reputation.
and he recognizes the fact that Portland is
operations"
The Grand Army Post at Missoua elected
the following officers for 1886: Post Com.
mander, John l.. Sloane; Senior Vice Com.
mander, A. p. Eddy; Junior Vice Comman.
der, George b. Hartmann Chaplain, w. E.
Bancroft, Surgeon, G.. Nemer; Officer of The
Day, James Young Officer of tile Guard
James d. Waldrip, Quartermaster, Will.
Kennedy.
Auctioneer Capt. Williams tells US that
the sale of grain, stock, etc. at John Adams
ranch was we'll attended, and good prices
were realized for everything exceptthe hogs.
Wheat sold for 80 cents per buShcl; oats
81 IA per 100 lbs, and potatoes IS cents per
100 lbs. The cattle also sold for good prices
The amount of the sale was something over
$1,000 Mad.soRtdn.
The following officers have been elected
for the ensuing year by Lincoln Post G. A.
r., Butte: Post Commander, II. G.. KeSsler;
Senior Vice Commander, j. ID. jerks; JuniOr
Vice Commander, Foster Il. Vincent; Sur.
geon, l.. E. Holmes; QuartermaSter, Simon
Hauswirth Adjutant, j. J. York; Officer of
the Day, L. F. Page; Chaplain, John Raby;
Officer of the Guard, j. II. Jackson.
Platt Burr, recently discharged on bal!
while charged with burglary in Butte, has
been again arrested in Idaho for obtaining
money under false pretenses. Burr was In
Murray, Idaho; drew 500 draft on the
FIRST National Bank, Butte, and had three
friends endorse it so he could get the money
III Murray. The draft was dishonOred and
one of the endorscrs had Burr arrested
r. NJ. Hough and NJ. II. Dustin, of Lincoln,
H., are in the Territory for the purpose Of
selecting location mt some point In the
Yellowstone valley for n slaughter house
with "A capacity OF 20,G00 beeves per season
On fixing upon location the gentlemen
will erect ice houses and put up a supply Of
that commodity this winter and begin work
on the slaughter house early in the spring
Enterprise
The Montana Improvement Company shut
down its saw-mll this week and the ST. utting
down OF others is contemplated, rs the man
ayers feel they cannot furnish lumber at the
present low prices and take the chances Of
being compelled to pay the Government
stumpage and be troubled with lawsuits be
sides. Should all the mills be closed, several
hundred men in the canyon would be thrown
oul of employment-MiSs0ui
A Bozeman item OF December 4th says
Last night ii. w. Foster, the newly elected
mayor, appeared at the meeting of the COM
mon council! to take his seat. He was re-
fused on the ground that he was not eligible
TO office, not having been taxpayer at the
time of his election. His wife decided hlma
piece of ground the day after his election,
and on this ground he claims the office. A
special meeting of the council will be held
to morrow night to finally settle the matter.
A. w. McCunc, of Caplice & McCune, Is
down on the Bravrrhrad, working his CON
tract on the Helena branch. He took down
hundred teams aud has about five hundred
men at work. This large force was rendered
necessary from the fact that the firm Is
bound by the terms of their agreement to
complete the first eight miles of the roadbed
in seventeen days, and they intend 10 do So
The aggregate of their contract is kept Pri'
vate, but it is understood TO be very large
Miner, 9Th.
The railroad company are preparing 10
replace the principal wooden treStlcs on this
division with iron bridges: We are Informed
that this step cannot be delayed at O'keeie
gulch and at the chasm just east of Mullh
Tunnel longer than until spring. There are
ah"uy hcss'SS oh "l'''''
aud the work of replacing them with iron
bridges is an undertaking of no small magnf-
tude, and will entail vast outlay of money
The small gulches will be filled in with dirt
-Missoula Times.
The residents of Boulder and vicinity were
thrown into state of excitement last week
over the death of VIM Pitts, who was shot q
10y Jack Hart on the 9TH of last month, the
circumstances of which were noted at the
time in the Tranchaat A post mortem ex'
animation showed that death was caused by
the wound received from Hart. The whole
camp of Elkhorn turned out to the funera,
and serious threats of lynching were indnIgeu
in, but the sheriff and others talked them oa1
Of It, and Hart was left to be dealt with "
law.-TraneAaLt. ..
The dramatizat:on of Guy Mannerihg wa
presented in Helena wo successive evenings
last week by an amateur organization COM
posed OF some of Heena's bestpeople MFs
Helen Clarke, laughter of Malcolm Clark,
took the character of. Neg AerrileS, one u
the most diiiicult aud exacting characters III
the whole range of the drama, ard whica
years ago Charlotte Cushman, the queen 0,
the stage, made a specially and alternate"
with Juliet and other frst.claSs characters