The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-01-13
NEWS.

1t was 50 deg. below zero at Belgrade,
Gallatin Co., Saturday night.
1t is reported smallpox prevails in some o.
the Bitter Root logging camps.
The Herald says the information that FREQ
Miles had died at Seattle was incorrect.
There have been $50 incapdescent electric
lights put in Helena buildings the pas
month.
Anaconda received 1,207, 14, 845 pounds o
freight in 1887, and shipped 395, 4O7, 45.
pounds.
Thomas Featherstone, formerly a residen,
of Alder Gulch, died in S%helbyville, Ills, !.
few days ago.
Andrew Wilson was found frozen on the
Northern Pacific track, near Buffers station
on Friday last.
Nh. Morely, District Deputy, installed
lodge of the A. O. U. W. with Is members a,
Granite last Friday.
The debt of Missoula county amounted OF
Dec. 1 to $118, 597.6 "a, a decrease since the Isl
of March of IS, 3l0.54.l
"Uncle Daniel Jewett'' died ut St. Peter!
Hospital, Helena, last Sunday, aged 65 years
He came to Montana in 1866, and was 9
prominent Mason.
DR.. Mussigbrod has been appointed BY the
Governor as a member of the Territorial
Arbitration Board, to succeed r. A. Eddy
of Missoula, resigned.
By a vote of 300 to 1872, on Monday last, thu
citizens of Helena declared in favor of issu
ing municipal bonds to the extent of $50, OO(
for putting a complete system of sewerage il
the city.
Col. George O.. Eaton, of Gardiner, has
been appointed Assistant Inspector Genera
for the Department Of Montana on the staff
of COMMANDMENT Chief Rea, Grand Army
of the Republic.
At the first annual meeting of the Victo,
Townsite Company, A. b. Hammond was
chosen President, A. S. Blake Vice Presi
dent, E. A. Winstanley Treasurer, and T. C
Marshall Secretary -Misso Times.
A scheme is on foot to place the real estate
in and about Missoula on the market at rea.
sonable figures and then boom the town
We are in for it. A movement of this kind
would lend additional life to this already
lively town.-Missoulian, 9th.
The examination Of Townsend and Mooney
for the shooting of Doc. Remington, at
Stemple, came up before Probate Judge
Clements this morning. Remington failed
to appear against them and both men were
discharged.-Helena Herald, 4h.
A French Canadian resident says there are
at least 1900 of his countrymen in and around
Butte. Large numbers of them have come
out from time to time to work on Caplice &
McCune's f1ume and in the timber. They
are, as a rule, ~steadyand industrious men,
Miner.
A Christian Church is to be built in Butte
in the spring, the congregation having so
increased since Rev. Galen Wood com.
menced holding services in Odd Fellows
Hall this step has been decided upon. Rev.
Wood has removed from Anaconda to Butte.
He and Rev. Dunlap, of Deer Lodge will
supply Anaconda.
Charles McCannon, a workman in the
Moulton mill, inadvertently stepped into the
hot pulp last Friday, and although mmedi-
ately pulled out by fellow workmen, was so
horribly burned that shreds of flesh and skin
came off with his charred shoes. The pulp
was four or five feet deep, and if he had
struggled he would have sunk in it like
quicksand.
j. NJ. Erskine, business manager of Bach,
Cory & Co., Helena. last Sunday shot MI.
Leo Sutor at Basin City, as a result of an
on some property and a business
The pistol shot entered Sutor's
face, but did not inf1ict a dangerous wound.
says Sutor assaulted and knocked
him down, and went for a pistol before he
shot at him.
Supt. Anderson, of Timberline, was in the
on Monday and informed us that about
100 miners are now at work at the Timber
Inc mines, and that in two months Timber
inc will be getting out as much coal as it |
lid in Its best days-which was about l 1000 |
ons per month. Twelve men per week are
icing put to work, and before long as many
men as at once worked at these mines (25Ol
will be at work. This means well for Boze-
nan, to which the people look for much of
heir supplies. Only one mine is now being
vorked.-B0.eman Chronicle.