The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-08-28
LOCAL BREVITIES.

re-opened his Office at the McBurney House
The pay-car run the U. & n route Tue.
day. Superintendent Blickensderfer was O
board.
"Only Woman's Heart" was icing playe
at O'Neill's Theatre as our forms closed las
evening.
Jno. w. Steele received the contract TO
painting the school house roof, and the worl
is in progress.
The public schools will open Monday
Sept. 7th. 1t is expected there will be min
months's term.
There were 40 men in the county Jail thi
week. Nearly all, except the convicts, ar
| from Anaconda.
Mr.. j. ii. Eardley, of Butte, who has beer
doing some excellent photograph work here
returned home Monday.
There have been showers nearly every day
the past week. The forest fires are somewha
discouraged, but still in the woods.
Rev. j. L. Phoenix, Of Anaconda, will ex
change pulpits with Rev. Galen Wood next
Sunday. Services morning and evening.
The q. & N. Office here Is selling round.
trip ticket to Helena, until tomorrow, TO,
one fare. They are good to return on until
next Monday.
The water-works project is dragging. 1t /.
time 1t was in progress now. Whatever /,
going to be done, should be done without
delay. This is the season of the year to put
1t in.
Under Sheriff Ward, who arrived from
Philipsburg Wednesday, informs us the
daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Of that
place, aged nine years, died Of diphtherla on
Monday.
WANrED-A situation by a first-class and
experienced lady cook, in small hotel or
boarding house. Address
MRS. ELIZA SHEEHAN,
$40 ct pd Deer Lodge P.o.
One of the finest trips in Montana is that
to Flathead Lake. A staunch and pleasant
little steamer has now been placed thereon,
and tourists can enjoy the delights of navi-
eating its beautiful waters.
Landlord Mcfarland, In driving buggy
from Anaconda Monday evening, was over
turned near Race Track, but escaped with a
slight bruise. The buggy axle was broken
and the top very much demoralized.
Messrs. Sam Maturin, Charley Cummings
and Antoine Normandin started with their
own conveyance for Sweet Grass Hills last
Friday. Owing to unfavorable reports, Mr..
Cummings returned from Helena. 1t is pre-
sumed the others continued on.
DR.. Chas. +. Mussigbrod was in town this
week, and has gone to the Fair. He informs
MS the Warm Springs Hotel is crowded with
guests and applicants have to register sew
eral days ahead. No wonder. 1t is the most
elegantly conducted hotel in Montana.
Probably the most thoroughly "sardined"
car that has run between Garrison and Hell
ena was pulled over last Sunday, when the
"Press Convention" editors returned home.
Every seat and both platforms were crowded
like Broadway bus, and some were on top
of the caboose.
The Liederkranz Society expedition, some
thirty In number with Col. Fred. Loeber as
commander-in-chief, were in town last FRI
day, en- route to the National Park, and gave
very enjoyable concert and ball at the rink
that evening. Saturday morning they de-
parted on their joyful journey.
Mr.. VIM. Fisher is an artist. His crayon
portrait work, done after but short term of
instruction, is very promising. He has made
portraits of Messrs. d. II. Mcfarland and
w. N. Aylesworth that are excellent, Mr..
Netherlands especially, being one of the best
crayon portraits we have seen.
A petition, very numerously signed, has
been forwarded for the establishment of q
postof1ice at Buffalo Gulch, ten miles this
side of Helmville. From what we learn 1t is
necessary for the convenience Of the people
and should be established. As it is on the
Avon and Helmville route, 1t would reeuire
no additional service.
There has never before been such an exc
dus OF our people ON "outing" parties rs the
present week-and 1t wasn't very good
week for it either. 1t is the rational recrea-
ton towns people need once a year, and We
are glad to see 1t come into such universal
favor. 1t makes it mighty lonesome for the
stay-at-home people, though.
The matter of uniforming the guards at the
u. s. Prison, which was projected but not
perfected last year, is now being consum-
mated, and the uniforms are expected next
week. The style selected is navy blue, with
lots of ~. s. P" brass buttons, and the boys
will look as handsome as railroad conduc-
tors when they get the "togs" on.
Mr.. John Gilbert will pull out to-day with
Gilbert, Mason & Elliott's threshing outfit
q 12-horse engine and Belleviile separator,
agitator and vibrator combined-and knock
the kernels from the chat till the season
ends. Last year they threshed O., 9i7 bushels
of grain, and did quick, clean, satisfactory
work. Their capacity is 3, 200 bushels Of oats
per day.
Hunters complain that game birds are
scarce. Oliver Barnes, who is perhaps the
best authority, says that when the heavy
snow fell in June many of the birds were
Matching; that they abandoned their nests
during the storm and did not return 10 them.
He found many nests after the snow melted
with weeds and grass bent down In the nests
and the eggs untouched.
Wing, a Chinaman, under life sentence in
the "Pen," who was locked up for insubor-
dinatlon, tried to suicide Tuesday by attach
ing his handkerchief to his neck and the top
bar Of the door, and then kicking the stool
out from under his feet. Dislocation did not
"set in" but his choking attracted attention,
and he was cut down and resuscitated. After
an interview with the officers he concluded
to abide by the rules and try to enjoy life.
The indications for the coming College
year are quite fiattering. President McMil-
Ian informs US the applications are very graf
ifyingly numerous. Rooms and tuition are
being sought for pupils from all over Mon
tana and neighboring Territories, and the
term will open with large enrolment
With the excellent accommodations, instruc-
tors and management, there Is assurance of
splendid success and entire satisfaction to
parents and pupils.
During the past few days Marshal Kelley
and Warden McTague have had constructed
In the penitentiary grounds large self-feed-
ing cistern, which now has nine feet OF wa
ter, designed rs suction supply for the fire
engine in case of fire at the u. s. Prison.
A graded road is built down the bluff so the