The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-01-23
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Fl. Ellis musters LAG men, all told.


Fit. Ellis musters 146 men, all told.
There were 9S,219 head of cattle shipped
into Montana the past season.
The Treasurer of Yellowstone county is
required to give $4,000 bond.
The N. p. Elevator Co. at Missoula has adj.
vanced the price of wheat to 40 cts.
1t is estimated there are 100000 head of
sheep within radius of 40 miles of Maiden.
During 1884 the Helena U. s. assay office
handled $685., 81 in gold and s19,747.62 in
silver.
James Hunt, of the firm of Hunt g. Crane,
Choteau county, has been arrested on the
charge of cattle stealing.
Joe Keeney, of Bozeman, has invented a
shotgun shell, for the patent of which he
has been offered 81 900 and a royalty.
w. A. Hensley, of Deer Lodge valley, will
leave early this week, with DR.. Beal and
family, for New Orleans.-Miner, 18Th.
On the 9th inst. an appropriation of &c.,
900 for the support of destitute Montana In
dams passed the Lower House of Congress.
The Missoula skating rink has become the
property of VIM. Kennedy, of the Wind
sor Hotel, with Mrs. Cora Lancaster as Man
ager.
The Helena gas company sends to Duluth
for coal, it having been demonstrated that
Montana coal is a failure for the manufacture
of gas.
The city Of Missoula will ask for a new
charter, reducing the number of officers and
giving the corporation more extended au-
thority.
invited the Legislature as body to visit ST.
Paul, and take in the sights of the Capital
city.--Independent.
The longest stage line in the United States
is the Wyoming line, operated between
Rock Creek and Junction City, Montana, q
distance Of 40 miles.
Nelson Story is having stone delivered on
the ground, prepar atory to the erection of a
$4,000 residence in the city the coming sum
mer.-4ozenan Courier.
The sessions of the q. S. Court for the First
Judicial District of Montana are to be held
hereafter at Miles City, it having been so
ordered by the Supreme Court.
The Hanuer Smelter Works, seven miles
south of Salt Lake City, burned last Friday
night, originating from the overturning of a
slag-pot. Loss $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
w. Fl. Tongue, of Yuma, has the only ba-
mamma grove in Arizona Territory. He star
ted the grove with nine plants five years
ago, and now he has In full bearing 105
plants.
Mr.. Thomas, the conductor of the railroad
dining car who was so severely injured last
Saturday week near Bedford, after the car in
which he was in charge was found to be on
fire, died at st. Paul.
1t is claimed that the best apples to be had
on this coast, and as good as there are in the
world, are raised on the western slope of the
Sierra Nevada mountains, at an altitude of
from 1000 to 5000 feet.
Miss Dean, sister of Mrs. s. S. Huntley,
and Mrs. III. w. Child, expects to practice
medicine in this city. Miss Dean is an ac-
scholar in medicine, having been
educated in this country and Europe.-Inde-
pendent.
Frederick and Samantha Hainin were be-
fore Justice Mead and held to answer to the
grand jury at Dillon for incest. They are
married, but are first cousins, a degree of
held by the laws of this Terri
tory to be incestuous.
The Benton Record outfit, recently closed
out by long waiting mortgage creditor,
realized 81 400. Mr.. A. j. Samuel, the high.
est bidder, is now owner of the machinery
and material Of the defunct concern. The
RiUer Press says Mr.. Samuel has something
Of white elephant on his hands, and is I'M
decided what to do with it.
For ejectment from train last month
James Howell, of Bozeman, has instituted a !
suit against the Northern Pacific r. r. Co., |
damages in the sum of So, goo. |
Howell claims to have had $500 on his person |
vt the time, and that the only excuse the |
had fer putting him off the train
was the fact that he was drunk when he en-
cred the cars.
Yesterday was a field day in the U. s. Land
Office. One law firm, Messrs. Billiard &
Barbour, filed applications covering nearly
1000 acres of desert land. The rush was
by the repeal of the desert land
aw, and applicants desired to secure the
and before the act Of Congress received the
Signature of the President.-Iadependcat 18Th.
The Independent says that the Board of Di-
ectors of the Fair Association met and de-
cided that the next Territorial Fair shall
commence at Helena on August "a, and con-
lnue SIX days. This Is much earlier than
Fairs have been held heretofore, and the
eason assigned is that the Directors say they {
re tired Of holding shows in snow and mud,
nd wearing buffalo overcoats
The will of the late Alexander H. Beattie
sas left among his private papers. He
ames as executors his brothers George ID
nd Edward ID. Beattie, and Mrs. Margaret
Ieattie, executrix. The will is said to divide
Is estate equally between his brothers and
is sisters and his wife-The wife-getting the
esiduary half and the brothers and sisters
bout $50 00-Herdld