The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-01-16
NEIGEBORHOOD NEWS.
Helena has . five-cent soup house.

Helena has five-cent soup house.
Bsaverhead levied tax of 12i mills fer
1885.
Helena expended sss2, 45O in building last
year.
Billings boasts Of building boom of $780,
600 fer 1884,
d. 7. Hauser, of Helena, is moving int
his new 1000 residence.
John X. Galbraith, the fireman injured at
Feeley, died In Butte Jan. 8.
The amount Of wool shipped from Benton
the past season was 7S5, 722 pounds.
The total assessment Of Choteau county
sums up $4,000, go. The total value of stock
{, so1 ,2l6.
Louisa, the youngest daughter of James A.
and Josie L. Talbot, died in Butte JAN 0, of
diphtheria.
No deaths by drowning have been repor-
ted at the Paviisn-the ice is too hard to
break.-Miner, 11th.
The Mineral drgus estimates that there is
loo, 900 head of sheep within a radius of 40
miles of Maiden.
business partnership with VIM. Scallen, q
we'll known Montana lawyer.
The cleanup at the Maginnis mill at Mai
den amounts to $500 per day, with one-half
the crushing capacity at work.
The tax levy for 1885 In Jefferson county is
II mills; in Missoula, "a mills, in GallatIn,
10 mills In Madison II mills.
The coal miners of Timberline, Gallatin
county some 200 in number) are on strike
because of proposed reduction of wages.
Last year it cost Dawson county 81, 900 for
medical attendance upon paupers. Next
year the work will be done for S500.-Miner.
The Texas Comptroller's official report
will show 5,s1S, 524 head of cattle, an increase
the past year of half million. Their value
is placed at ss4, 600 600
GA. Wolf, elected Public Administrator
last November resigned this week, and Pro-
bate Judge Reeves appointed Alfred Cave
his uccessor.-Missoulian
The Gentlemen's club, Helena, has rented
the entire third floor of the Parchen build
ing-the space which is to be occupied by
the Legislature this winter.
Fifty years ago the average weight of beef
cattle was 800 pounds, but now it is 400
pounds This increase Is due to the intro
duction of thoroughbred stock, breeding and
better feeding.
Prominent among Democratic aspirants for
the position of United States Marshal of
Montana under Clevelands administration,
are Chas. D. Curtis, of Helena, J. J. Healy,
Of BENTON, and J. L. Haight, Of Missoula.
The average age of farmers is S5 years,
while that of the printers is SO, which shows
the necessity Of payments TO the latter, so
that they may have the pleasure of handling
their own money during their short sojourn
on this sublunary sphere.-Bozeman Chront-
Gle.
Jack Simmons, at Deadwood, is hobbling
around on crutches after confinement to his
bed for six weeks with broken leg. His
mishap proved more serious than was at first
expected. 1t was the result of fall on
slippery doorstep. May Jacks recovery DO
speedy and complete.-Herald.
John Grant was the first cattle king Of
Montana, furnishing the early day miners
and settlers with bunch grass beef from his
Deer Lodge range. From the small begin
ming Of few hundred head twenty odd
years ago, the cattle interest Of Montana has
grown to immense proportions, the multiply
ing now numbering about 100000 head of
the best cattle in the world.-Herald.
Articles of incorporation were filed Jan
for the Pioneer Stock Company, with 81 ,OO0,-
600 capital. This is formation Of a stock
company of the d. I'll. s. Cattle Company,
near Fort Maginnis, and they have elected
for officers Conrad Kohrs, President; s. T.
Hauser, Vice President; A. j. Seligman, Sec
rotary; Granville Stuart, Assistant Secretary
and Superintendent. The first Board of Di
rectors consists Of the above gentlemen and
p. II. Kennel.