The new North-west., 1888-09-21
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.


this year amounts to $12 ,O00, 900.
The Castle Ne,cs has been compelled to sus-
pend publication for want Of patronage.
The largest shipment of coal ever made to
Montana was received by Davenport &
McCabe, fuel dealers Of Helena, It consisted
of a train load eighteen cars) of Pennsyl-
vania anthracite coal, and came direct from
the hands of the Ohio Coal Company.
Few people if there are any, realize the
amount of cattle that have been shipped
from this section or going to be shipped.
According to the bulletin 152 Street cars will
be loaded at this station between the 10th and
23rd of this month.-Yello,cston Journal.
The body of man was found on the 10Th,
in Bloody Dick Creek, Horse Prairie, in
been in the creek for several months and it
was decomposed beyond recognition. The
frame would indicate man nearly six feet
tall and aged about forty five years.
The Recky Mountain telegraph line which
is being built from Anaconda to Philipsburg,
is completed to point a short distance this
side of Gable, 1t is expected that this line
will be complete inside of month, thus Civ
ing another line of telegraphic communica-
ton with the outer world.-Mail, 18Th.
James Weed stole two horses, harness and
wagon from John Morton in the Big Hole
Basin. Weed was pursued and overtaken
eight miles beyond Salmon City at which
place he is lodged in Jail awaiting requisi-
tion papers, when he will be brought to
Dillon. Weed is a bad weed-Tribune
The Missoula & Bitter Root Valley Rail-
road Company are fencing their road the en-
tire distance from Grantsdale to Missoula.
They have at present about fifteen miles
completed from the former place. The posts
are set every eight feet, with three strands
of wire and two eight-inch planks, making a
substantial barrier to stock, which has
caused them no little trouble already.
Word comes from Minneapolis that the
finest wheat on display at the exposition is
that grown on the highest bench lands in the
vicinity Of Great Falls, about three miles
from this city. It is so pronounced by ex-
perts who have examined it. This wheat
is shown both in the grain and in the sheaf
and its merit is the subject of general com
ment.-Great Falls Tribune.
Hanging on our desk is bunch of grapes
taken from the vines on the ranch of Wm
Kennedy. Although not ripe the fruit is a
positive demonstration that such fruit can
be grown to perfection in this part of Mon
tana. Mr.. Kennedy has a vineyard on his
ranch and by the time frost come will have
gathered quite harvest of this most delic
ious fruit.-Missoula Euening Item.
A woman named Berdan has appeared be.
fore the Probate Court at Butte to protest
the will of James Matthews, deceased. The
will gives the estate to Matthews sister
brother and the Sisters Hospital. The wo
man claims to be the daughter of Matthews
| by Shasta Indian woman whom he lived
| with in California for five years and tt
whom, under the laws of that state, he would
be thereby legally married.
| by James McDonel, was stolen from Rains
pasture last Saturday night. Mr.. McDonel
offers reward of SIS for the recovery of the
horse and conviction of the thief. Letters
| have been sent to sherifs all over this part
| of the country, and as the horse is quite IA
nous in Montana az race horse, it is hard
| ~ probable that the thief will be able to ge
away with him.-Mal.
A rather serious misfortune befell one o
the Yellowstone ranchmen, Mr.. William
Dillick, who resides about two miles west o
Park Station. While working his thresh-
| ing machine hot box was discovered by
one of the men on the machine proper. In
tending to cool it off, oil was restored to
which through some cause or other set fir
| to the whole seasons harvest of hay, whea
and oats, besides destroying the barn.
Missoula is to have another Nationa
Bank Among those who have subscribed
literally to the stock are G. A. Wolf, Fred
Kennett and J. H. T. Ryman. The capita
will be not less than 100000 The old Dick
inson postoffice building on the corner OF
Main street and Higgins avenue is to be tori
down at once, and on the ground will be
erected one of the finest buildings in the
Territory. 1t will be two stories high, front
ing q feet ON the avenue and 50 on Main.
It is encouraging to know that our town i:
advancing in religious point of view az
we'll as in many other things, but the mos
humiliating feature in regard to the ques
ton of the religious proclivities of our
people is the fact that this is the Oldest towr
of the same population on the continent
without church. While at the same time
we have two under way, the foundation:
have been completed for SO long time that
sage brush and moss have almost secretet
| them frcm view.-Philipsburg Mail.
Tangletop Ted, very prime article o
cowboy and ranger Of the Juniper Cattle
Company in Gallatin Valley, while recently
monkeying with a scrub oak tree slipped of
a lower limb Of the same and fractured hi!
medulla oblongata. He got tangled in rope
some way, and an unfortunate knot caugh
him in the rear of the right ear and twisted
his tongue out like cows tail. His obse
quios were attended with due military cere-