The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-01-27
NEWS.

at Fort Shaw January 20, of erysipelas.
- Herald special of the Goth says the Elk
horn Mining Co.'s Office burned that morn
ing. The Company's books were saved.
"volapuk" is the literary craze in Virginia
now, and a club will probably be organized
in a few days for the study of the new Ian
guage.-Madisonian. -
The dry goods firm of Raleigh, Clarke &
Edwards has dissolved partnership, MI.
Edwards retiring. The business will hence
forth be conducted by Messrs. Raleigh &
Clarke.-Her0d.
= The new fire engine, ordered for the town
of Anaconda by the Anaconda Smelling Co.,
from Philadelphia, was shipped on Dec. 81,
and is expected to arrive in a day or two.
It is of the Silsby pattern.
Hon. Morrow P. Lowry, a brother of the
late Thos. j. Lowry, of Helena, died of
pneumonia at that place Friday. He came
to Montana with the Fisk expedition of
1866 and was a member of the Legislature
from Choteau.
Up to Jan. goth the Independents report
from Miles City said the cattle loss would
not exceed 1 per cent. Cattle had drifted
some, but were in excellent condition, and
in many places the ranges were bare with
plenty of feed.
Daniel B. Jordan was caught by a belt in
the Silver Bow mill last Friday and instantly
carried to the wheel overhead and killed.
He was a young man without family or rela-
tives here, and had worked in the mill five
years. It was dark, and he had set down his
lantern and fell on the belt.
St. Paul Pioneer Press representatives have
been in Butte this week writing up the camp
for publication in the p. P. with illustra-
tions. They do not charge for these write
ups, but expect to get their returns in TO-
creased circulation in the Northwestern
country, which they have now pretty well
covered. -
The search for Gust Sanders, who got lost
in the big snow storm while out deer hunting
near Georgetown three weeks ago, has at
last been given up. Every cabin in the
mountains in which he could possibly have
found shelter has been visited, but he had
not been to any Of them. 1t is conceded that
there is no possibility for him to have es-
capped death. The section of country in
which he was lost is all but inaccessible,
even in the summer time, and there is little
probability that even his bones will ever be
~found.-Inter Mountain. -
Bozeman had its third recent fire last
week. The Chronicle says: The fire started
In Fransham's wholesale and retail liquor
store and destroyed that building and con-
tents, besides badly damaging two adjoining
structures. The buildings were owned by
W. H. Tracy, who sustains a total loss, as
the buildings were uninsured. Fransham's
stock was insured for $1,000, and his loss is
about 1900. His father and brother, who
had some personal effects in the building,
zero when the fire occurred. How he blaze
originated is not known.
Aldermen Lavell and Loeber explain their
opposition to granting the Butte Street Rail.
way permission to run their steam motor
along West Park Street by stating the city
would the!n be liable for any damages to per-
sons or property resultant therefrom, and,
although the company is willing to give in.
Identifying bonds, $50 900, we b~elieve,) that
the city would first have to defend against
the action for damages, and, being beaten,
then become plaintiffs IN a suit against the
railroad company to recover; also that the
Council desires to see the motor operated
first on the Meaderville line, and therefrom
determine the advisability of admitting it on
the streets. From Mr.. Bennett we learn that
the petition that the motor be allowed to run
on Park Street, which was recently rejected
by the Council, was not solicited by the
Railroad Company or any member of it, and
they did not wen know such a movement
was in contemplation until they saw account
of it in the newspapers. 1t was entirely the
act of citizens living on Park Street who
desired the motor line extended there.