The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-02-10
NEWS.

NE1GHBORHOOD NEWS.
DIR. A. H. Hersey has located in Helena as
representative of the Northeast Magazine.
The boarding houses of J. H. Wall and
Mr.. Reese, at Walkerville, burned Monday
night. Loss 81 1000 to 5000.
1t is stated Mr.. Geo. D.. Eastin, now on the
staff of the st. Paul Globe, is soon to take the
editorship of the Independent.
The Husbandman publishes a number of
paragraphs about the Castle Mountain
mines-all of a very favorable character.
The boilers of the Woolston water works
at Helena were shipped on the 2Sth ult., and
the pumps are expected to be soon on the
way.
The ice is rapidly going out OF the Yellow
break-ups known in the history of the val
ley.-Bulings Gazette.
Contractor Monroe, of the Montana Gen.
trail, died at his camp, twenty miles out of
Butte, Saturday. The cause of death was
some heart trouble. The remains were taken
to Helena for burial.
The County Commissioner were in session
yesterday passing the monthly batch of &C
counts. They have arranged for the pest
house to be prepared in case Of any fresh
cases of small-pox-Miner.
An unknown man vas found dead, Friday,
two miles west of Silver Bow, by Ed Wright.
He had been dead weeks, or perhaps months,
and is supposed to be a wood chopper from
Norton's gulch, going to Glendale.
A gentleman from Melrose informs us of
the sad affection which has come to Amos
Purdum Of that place-an old and highly
respected resident of Montana. He has be-
come totally blind.-Inter- Mountain, 9Th.
N bills paid on the first of the month"
reads a placard in one of the business offices,
and to-day the reverse side of the placard
will call attention to the fact that emo bills
are paid after the frst"-Maes City Journal.
Park county has discharged in full her OBJ
legations to Gallatin county. The amount
paid was $27 ZOO, which sum, together with
$500 paid some time ago, completes the
$335. 600 stipulated in the bill creating the
county of Park.
Oscar Carlson, a timer, employed on one
of the new smelter buildings at Anaconda,
fell from a platform above a root, Tuesday,
10 feet, slid down the roof bead-foremost Is
feet, and then fell perpendicular 80 feet.
HIS injuries were fatal.
MI. L. Mollinelli has retired from the local
editorship of the Independent and is succeeded
by MI. Phil. A. Julian. The former is en-.
gaging in an incorporation known as the
"Recofd Publishing Co.," which will issue
the Sunday Record and do general printing.
The water supply in Butte has failed, even
with the pumps running 40 strokes per min.
ute, while the ordinary stroke is 20. 1t was
thought the supply might be short, bnt after
turning Blacktail creek into the well, and
pumping six hours, water could not be forced
to. Quartz street. The inference is, one of
the mains is broken.
W. G. SWEET, a we'll known and wealthy
cattle owner of Chestnut valley, died in st.
Paul of pneumonia, after three days illness.
Feb. Sd. He was about to erect a fine resi-
dence in Helena, and had gone east with Mr.
NJ. Mcconnell to purchase materials for 1t
He came to Alder Gulch in 1868. His estate
is valued up to 100000.
Governor Leslie has pardoned from the
Penitentiary at Deer Lodge one Lincoln Lee,
sent up for three years at the March term of
the District Court of Custer county in 1886,
on a charge of grand larceny. It is under.
stood that the pardon was issued on the
ground that the man could not live many
months lo~nger.-Herald.
Henry Lumphry, a French half breed
living near Stevensville, was found dead or
the wagon road between Stevensville anG
Victor Wednesday morning. Up to the time
Of going to press we could not ascertain the
cause of the mans death. 1t is claimed ht
left Victor drunk in company with one Bot
Dobbins.-CoruoNis Ne,g Idea.
George Morris, Jesse r. Beckwith aud j,
j. Weikel have been arrested at Lewiston
Fergus county, says the Argus, as silver COLI
counterfe1ters. The bail of the first two wa:
placed at $1,000 each and Of the latter a
$500. The "out6t," consisting of a frying
pan, babbit metal, solder, and plaster-of
Paris blocks, with dies for casting, was cap
tured. They had been "shoving the queer
money.
Colonel Wall, who was in Helena from tn,
Judith country last Saturday. reports the
winter In that section pretty much the sam.
as elsewhere in Montana. The cold weather
and snow we're formidable while they lasted
but the chinook had banished both, and lift
ed the embargo on herds. Stock losses 81
far would not foot up to the usual winter
average, and focks and herds were in goo(
condition. " &
Yesterday Henry Imkamp turned over te
O'Mara & Maloney the saloon on the corne
of Broadway and Montgomery street, which
for more than II years he has maintained tt
, the satisfaction of his patrons and to the in
) crease of his bank account. Mr.. Imkaml
expects shortly to mak an extended pleasure
trip east or west, or probably both, but HI
will return to the tow where he has beer
!, successful, as he rightly considers it hi:
home Phi1ipsburg Mail, LIST.
A private letter from Great Falls states
that all the building material in the tow1
> has been bought up by the smelter p
and other parties intending to build vii
have to import from outside points. The
smelter is to be built below the Giant Spring
, at a point about four miles from the town
It is said that Sane Coulee coal is to BE- sup.
piled to the smelter at 50 cents per ton. TIL
= company will have to get very cheap labor
= to produce it at that figure. In the mean
time the people of Great Falls are being
: taxed to make up the difference, as the com
pany charges them 50 a ton for the coal
though the mines are only eight or ten miles
ont of town. In the summer, when it was
possible to get wood by river, the same Goa
was offered at Sc so per ton, and paid a hand
some profit at that.-Miner.
/ stop That Cough.
Great danger often results from neglected
coughs, and it will not do to experimen,
} with medicines doomed by imported testimo
malls of parties whose very existence is ques