The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-12-21
NEWS.

A six pound trout was caught in the yell
lowstone, near Livingston, q few days ago.
The Chinaman All Heu, who was under
arrest in Butte for killing John Braden, was
found not to be the man wanted, and set
free.
John q. vanvoast, = Missouri valley far
mer, has been awarded the first prize OF sou
for early Puritan potatoes by Peter Hender-
son s. Co., the seedmen.
Up to two weeks ago the Montana Union
folks had q hard time of II. For ten consec.
utives weeks there was an average derali-
ment of three engines per day.-Revte'o.
Buck Shelton, q bright young lad who
worked for the N. P. Engineer Corps in lS02,
and has since been a we'll known cowboy in
the Yellowstone valley, was sent to the in
sane asylum q few days ago.
Mr.. Baker of the Madisonidn has now been
PROSTATE seven weeks. The disease is an
affection of the muscles of the lower limbs
rendering locomotion impossible. "Tom'
has our wishes for speedy restoration to
health. ."=-. y,
The branch of the Philipsburg and Drum
mond Railroad from Philipsburg to Rumsey
has been completed entirely and was last
week formally turned over to the operating
department by the construction department.
Mail.
The Montana Hotel Association, with the
object of building aud furnishing the Ana
conda Hotel, has been incorporated with
capital stock of 500, 900. Marcns DAILY, w.
L. Hoge, s.. A. Estes, d. D. Walker, N. A.
Snyder, E. NJ. Trask and VIM. NJ. Thornton.
are the incorporators. -
A severe shock of earthquake is reported
to have occurred in the National Park on
the evening of Nov. 49,. and was followed
about two minutes later by one of lesser
force. Both were distinctly felt at all the
hotels from the upper geyser basin to the
Mammoth Hot Springs -Madisonian.
R. A. Eddy received intelligence recently
of the death of his father in Oregon, aged
nearly eighty-five years. He received q dis
patch Friday announcing the death of Mrs.
Geo. Sill, who resided here a short time
soon after her marriage to Mr.. Sill. She was
a cousin of Mrs. Eddy.-Missoulian.
MI. Harry Horr has sold his sixth interest
in the Horr coal mines to Messrs. Brown &
Pingston. The price paid was $40 900. These
gentlemen have a Is year lease from the bal
ance of the owners and this purchase gives
them absolute control of this valuable prop
erty for a long period of time.-Livinqston
Enterprise.
Thompson, the man stabbed recently by
Maher at Rumsey, has recovered sufficiently
to be out on our streets. Maher is still con-
fined in Jail at Deer Lodge and will probably
have to remain in Jail until next May. 1t
looks now as though bail might be accepted
for his appearance, as his victim Is out of
danger.-Man.
At noon, Tuesday, DR.. Leavitt was called
to see a sick man who had just arrived at
Butte from Denver and stopped at a hotel.
pronounced the disease smallpox, and
called in another physician, who verified the
diagnosis. The mar was at once removed
to the pest house, and no spread of the dis
ease is apprehended. "".>
A special telegram to Bradstreet's from
Missoula, yesterday, brought the intelligence
that the Ferris Mercantile Company had
attached by the Simmons Hardware
of st. Louis, for the sun of s., $50.
E. F. Ferris, the head of the Company, it is
has but a small interest in the
Missoula concern. He is we'll known in
from his former connection with,
The Sebree, Ferris & White Company.
Godas told. Sheriff Hathaway that after
1iggi ng out of the Helena Jail, Sunday morn
.ng July 18th, he struck out up Dry Gulch,
Kept south until he struck the main range,
md then followed it west and north 20 Cad
'ttes Pass, near which he met two Indians
Who gave him food and a horse. He went to
! Flathead camp, then to the Fiegan Agency
aud thence north across the line. Near Ed
nonton he was captured by the mounted
lnlice. -. 60 -