The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-10-16

The total valuation of assessable property
in Montana last year was 81, 746, 1881,
against "a, 696, 461. % for the previous year.
The boiler in the Glostsr company's saw
mill exploded few days ago. Some damage
was done to the mill, but no one was hurt.
Noah Gee, Of Reese creek. Gallstin valley,
threshed out $50 bushels Of oats from three
acres Of sod ground. Can any one beat this
record?
VIM. WEIGH experimental with one bushel
Of Saskatchewan Fife wheat, and the yield
was 79t bushels Of welLmasured grain.-Ba-
lings Gazette.
| At the teacher institute In Dillon last
| week there were nine specimens Of the genus
school-marm present, and only one mascu-
line pedagogue.
| The statement Of the First National Bank,
Butte, shows over 81 zoe, 900 in deposits and
an undivided profit Of $4,000. Rather
solid institution.
Bozeman boasts of a monster white turnip,
grown in that vicinity, that weighs seven.
teen pounds and measures thirty-six inches
| in circumference.
u Amos Beach, aged 10 years, died of diph-
ther,a at the residence of his father, Calvin
Beach, in the valley, yesterday afternoon.-
Helena Herald, 14th.
| Mike Eukes, of Reese creek, Gallatin
valley, raised 2,l94 bushels Of oats on %
acres. Charles Holmes, near Bozeman,
raised 5000 bushels on 80 acres.
| Miss Helen P. Clarke, Of Helena, Superin-
L r rz~ Shnvn to
is preparing for the stage. Tragedy, we be-
lieve, is the line selected.-Inter- Mountain.
The depot assembly Of the Knights of La
Dor and the Brotherhoods of Locomotive
Engineers aud Firemen contemplate uniting
in building a hall fer lodge purposes in
Butte.
| A man named Louis Middlested was sem
fenced to ninety days in the county Jail, Sat-
urday, by Justice French, for stealing lot
Of clothes from the Centennial Hotel, In
Butte.
Der Montana Argus, German Weekly pa
per of Helena, has suspended publication,
the editor and proprietor leaving for st.
Paul to take charge Of the composing rooms
Of the St. Paul Volkszeitun0.
| by the Butte-bound passenger train by rea.
son of the snow and frost on the heavy up
grades below Spring Hill. The snow was in
some places four inches deep.
The N. P. and U. P. railroads have given
reduced rates for all members Of the Grand
Lodge Of Good Templars. Members will
pay full fare coming to Helena and one-fifth
full fare returning-Herald.
Tom LaForge, who has large band OF
horses on the Crow reservation at Pryor
creek, has entered into . treaty with the
Piegans, by which they are bound to steal
no more from him than he does from them.
The Crow Indian leadership has been
awarded to Democratic patriot Of the Old
Dominion. Southern carpet baggers are
swooping down upon Montana like swarm
of buzzards upon the carcass of dead horse.
Herald.
We learn that the Northern Pacific Rail
road Company are, without solicitation,
raising the wages Of their train men, the en-
gineers having just received an advance oil
twenty cents per 100 miles, and the firemeu
ten cents.-Independeat
One day last week Fort Assinaboine was
visited by violent wind storm, which car
ried the prairie fires onward to the fort with
such strides that the soldiers were ordered to
be In readiness to fight Ere, but fortunately
1t did not cross Milk river.
Bapt!ste Ducharme, citizen Of Missouls
county, whose Autograph appears In the
History Of Montana. now being distributed
to subscribers in Helena, is 105 years of age
and at last accounts was engaged shinglinf
his house with his own hands.
Hon. w. II. Hunt Montanas Attorney
General, arr we'd from Benton Saturday eve
ming, accompanied by his wife and family
~ u"nt has come to take up his residence
In Helena, ana Tor the present has secured
rooms at Miss Sankeys.-He' uss, 49,,
Four men started for Bismarck few day
ago in boat Of their own construction
They were all carpenters and put up daisy
craft. The only impeachment to clear sailing
is Great Falls, but the boat will be trans
ported around them.-Helena Independent.
Henry Devoe, of Livingston, Mont, is the
youngest soldier and member of the G. A. r
in the United States. He enlisted at the az,
l VI IL years 6uu uOutu5, oCIOoci AoDcs IL
Company B, Fourteenth U. s. Infantry, ant
served until the close of the war.-Erchange
1t is probable that the Benton forgery cas-
will be settled. This Is case in which thre
men found check Tor draft for $500, forge,
its Endorsement, got the money and went oil
, big sp-ee. The condition Of settlement |
. that the money shall be paid back to tn
bank.
Col. j. T. Dodge, formerly chief enginee
Of the Rocky Mountain division of the Nor
thern Pacific Railroad, has been commits
stoned by the Duluth railroad management
to take charge of their terminal work at Dt
luth and Lake Superior. The appointment
is an excellent one.
Burglars gained an entrance to Ig. Miller
saloon last Monday night and robbed th
, place of $40 worth Of liquors and cigars an
S. worth Of nickels. Entrance was game
, through q rear window, and the thieve
helped themselves to the best they coul
fnd.-Inter-M Mountain.
Yesterday William B. Webb, the newly
: appoi nted Secretary for Montana, took tn
oath of Office before G. G. Reynolds, deput
| CicTh VI tuo Cuptc"c SOuIb lou
goes to Billings to-day, and will return In tn
course Of q week and take charge of his ofiic,
-Independent. 18th.
The case Of Elmer Cannon, who was tried
, for the murder Of the Chinaman "Opiur
JIM" and which has attracted more tina
= ordinary attention, was concluded Monday
after the jury had been out forty-fve hour.
the result being verdict of murder in tn
second degree.-Miner.
A travelling man named Charles Fl. Tate
Of Viola, Wis, shot himself in the Head
quarters Hotel, at Billings, Thursday morn
ing Of last week. He thought officers wer
: hunting him for some crime, and under thi
: delusion, or whatever 1t was, shot himself
while in the bath room.
Judge Lily, Of Paradise valley, placed or
| our table . few punches of ripe Catawb
grapes, grown by him from . vine Of thi
years growth. This We believe to be tn
first experiment in viniculture made in tn
Yellowstone valley, and the result is YER
fattering .-Liuingston Enterprise.
: Half.breeds ffom the Northwest Territory
Saskatchewan country, pass through Bento