The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-01-09

70 amputate one or both Of Cen Corners
feet, which were frozen few days ago while
he was trying to escape from Beaverhead
county officers.
1t is reported that Charley Schaft, formerly
Of Benton, is writing u history Of the Indian
service Of Montana. 1t would probably pay
some Of the agents to have the work sup
pressed.-Independent
The much-dreaded white scale has made
its appearance in the orange orchards around
Los Angeles. 1t threatens to ruin the fruit
growers, and quite q trepidation has been
caused by its discovery.
Superintendent McMasters, of Homestaks
fame, to whose capacity, il net genius, as
miner, the success Of the Black Hills mines
is largely due, died in San Francisco few
days ago in great agony, Of ossiticatioa OF
the spine.
Jerry Murphy, the unfortunate miner en-
ployed by the Ana conda Company, whose
spinal column was broken Dec. IL by fall
from the cage as he was ascending the shaft,
died yesterday at the Sisters Hospital
Miner, 7h.
T ofb Cu8" ID W Dc pEoNiucu WIN ""ecA
works, to cost s10,O 900. Water will be pumped
from Sun river up into a tank GO feet above
the rivers surface, and having a capacity of
40, 900 gallons, whence it will be distributed
through / 100 feet of pipe.
Trains are not allowed to run over miles
an hour through the Mullan tunnel and over
all high bridges and trestles en- the Rocky
Mountain division of the Northern Pacific.
East bound trains are required to come to q
full stop before crossing Marent trestle.
The amount of wosd consumed in Butte
by the various mining, milling and smelling
enterprises, with what is used by business
houses and private families, is about 10000
cords per month, and furnishes employment
to about 1000 choppers.-Inter-Mo Mountain.
An Inter Mountain reporter learned in Og-
den few days since that a railroad compa-
ny, presumably under control of the Denver
& Rio Graude, will organize in Ogden soon
to build a railroad from there to Montana
via Cache valley and the Wood river country
to Beaverhead county.
Probably over two hundred claims have
been jumped within the vicinity of Butte
during the past week. the result Of which, in
many cases, will be decided in our courts Of
law, but in other instances by forcible 'sua-
sion in front of or behind "bull dog
Miner, 4th.
At Bozeman last week Judge Coburn de-
cided that the old Montana printing law is
still in full force and effect, the case at issue
being one in which the Gallatin county Com
II. e &c,
polling them to let the county printing out
by contract
Galbraith, the brakeman who was injured
in the railroad wreck on Feeley hill short
time ago, and whose leg was amputated a
week ago yesterday, Is having very hard
time the physicians were obliged to perform
second amputation yesterday afternoon.
He is now lying at the Sisters Hospital in a
very critical condition-Ainer, 9Th.
Sheriff Jones captured the escaped horse
thief, Con Connors. The thief was caught
on Birch Creek. ConEors left Dillon during
the extreme cold weather, and by the time
he reached Birch Creek, on foot, Connor's
feet were frozen, a Ia Jessrang. Sheriff Jones
brought him to town and he is now securely
confined IN the pen, with feet badly frozen
Dillon Tribune.
Considerable surprise and comment has
been INDUCED in during the past week over
the indictment of J. L. Stats, Bozeman
attorney, for alleged illegal interlineations
on a filed document The plaintiff claims
that Mr.. Stats was employed to prepare a
chattle mortgage, executed by Mr.. Winnie in
| favor Of DR.. Whitfoot; that ne mention was
made of fifty dollars attorneys fees in case
| Of foreclosure, and that this was inserted
after The mortgage was placed on file. On
the other hand Mr.. Stats had no difficulty
in procuring bondsmen and AYERS that the
clause was agreed on and inserted under legal
restrictions. The matter has not come to
trial and probably will not during this SEES
sion.-Bozenaan Chronicle.