The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-05-29
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

Thirteen Dillonitss want to be City Mar
| shall
Gas has been put in the Helena Opera
House.
There are IA prisoners in the Utah peni-
Tertiary.
| Lewis & Clarke county advsrtises $3.50, 900
| bonds fer sale.
The Cosmopolitan bar, Helena, has drop
| ped its prices to "a bit"
William W. wemmell, a wsod-chopper,
died very suddenly at VAUDEVILLE Sunday
| MOI ming.
A large number of Butte sports are gsing
to the Murphy Harlan fight at Eagle Rock
next Sunday.
well knswn Montana sport, was killed in
| Chicago few days ago.
Missoula celebrated Noatana's Natal Day
in grand style - probably surprising any
ether town in the Territory.
Col. j. r. Brooke commanding the District
of Montana, has been authorized by General
Terry to transfer his headquarters from Hell
eu&, HOut., 10 II OTt ouA", mOnJ.
The Record building will be sold at sheriff
sale on the 10Th Of june under a judgment of
the court in the case Of II. Cannon vs.. w. H.
Buck and J. J. Healey.-Riuer Press, 22d.
An artesian we'll has been sunk at Great
Falls and An unceasing flow of pure water
was obtained at the depth of 30 feet. The
we'll was sunk by Mr.. o. E. Spear, of Mime
apolis, who intends to sink many more in
that vicinity.
Milo Cartwright has bought Of Stempls s.
| Co., the rich gold Ophir lsde, situated q
short distance east Of Gloster, for 5000.
Mr.. Cartwright negotiated the bond fer an
Eastern sy indicate.
w. r. Mcdowell, whs has filed a position
in the postofice very satisfactorily the past
year, goes East tomorrow morning to act as
Private Secretary for Senator Logan. L. I.
Resecrans will Gil the vacancy in the post
office Independent, oath.
We regret the fact that for the present the
steamboat on tho Yellowstone has fallen
| through on account of the government re-
quirements. The parties into it, however,
state that they intend laying for government
contracts, when they will put the scheme in
operatisn.-G lendiue Times.
The Misssula Times says Col. Wheeler,
| amsng other valuable historical matter Sc
cured in Hisssula county for the Historical
| Society, obtained the diaries kept by Major
John Owen for 16 years at Fort Owen. 1t
had bsen feared these valuable records were
lost.
The Medora-Deadwood stage line is in
financial trouble and has been sued on con-
fessed Judgment fer 100000 The Northern
Pacific has stopped selling tickets with ecu
pons over the line. This Company is princi-
pally owned by Marquis de Mores and his
father-in-law, Baron Hoffman, the New York
banker.
On the 18th inst. Messrs. q. d. Mcclure and
A. Lambeth purchased Of Messrs. Sites, nsr-
riman and Dunges, the celebrated Minach
mine, . geld and silver bearing lode, situa-
ted about mile and half northwest from
the Wickes smelter, on the top Of the hill,
opposite the Alta mine, the price paid being
81, 00o. -Independent, ed.
j. B. Shaw, who kept restaurant in Butte
last winter, attempted and probably commit
so0 osASiuo ~ SpcAohS - eAA5y nay iOs 0C
had been followed to Spokane by young
girl whs had been in his employ in Butte,
and was arrested and punished for his treat
nent of her. He then took morphine, and
afterwards shot himself with Q 44-cal. bull
dog pistol.
Posters are hung up in the nuid resorts Of
Dillon announcing that Haman and MUIR
phey, the middle-weight champions Of Idaho
and Montana will fight q prize fight to the
finish at Eagle Rock, Idaho, ON May 81
Sunday. A special train is to be run from
Butte on the occasion to carry people who
do not own certificates Of church member
ship, to the seer Of action-Dillon Tribune.
The last official report of the Union Pacific
Directors said of the Utah b Northern
Remarkable a. the statement appears, IL 10
yet true that two stations 1t its extreme Nor
thern end-Butte and Anaconda, % miles
distant from each other, and about 400
miles distant from Omaha--csllect and re-
ceive annually an amount Of earnings nearly
equal to one-tenth Of the grsss earnings Of
the entire Union Pacific system, so rich is
the surrounding country In mineral wealth.