The new North-west., 1888-10-12
NE1GHBoRHooD NEWS.

The Livingston Enterprise says 1t Is rumored
Biedler will write his book this winter.
John Brantman OF Livingston, Is insane
| and has boen placed in the Warm Springs
Asylum.
| The Virginia City court house was on fire
week or two ago. but was exttnguished
without much damage.
Fergus county, at this writing, has not q
prisoner in Jail nor . county charge in the
poorhouse.-Arqus,4 4h
The Anaconda Revie,0 has purchased
| new steam engine and q large amount OF new
material. Congratulations.
! A. e. Mayhem, Esq, was nominated oy
the Democrats at Wardner, Idaho, October .,
| for Joint Councilman Of Shoshone and Koo-
tenai counties.
George Schmidt, recently of Marritta, O.,
was thrown from bucking horse last Fri
day at Saltwater, Mont, and his neck broken.
He was general favorite.
A Miners Union has been organized at
Granite, which will include in its jurisdic-
tion all that portion of the county. 1t has
about 200 charter members.
1t is estimated that III 600 head of cattle
have been turned on the Montana range this
year, being brought mostly. from southerly
direction.-[0 0Vendive- Independent.
The Helen&Live Stock Journal says the
loss of his boy killed the first day Of the
Helena races, has done Dan Blevins up. He
has sold, his fast horses and has retired from
racing.
Henry Hontheo brutally, and without prov
location, murdered George,T. Price, a Mary
lander, aged 80 years, at Todd's saloon, be-
tween Wardner and Wardner junction.
Idaho. A reward Of $1,000 is offered for
|: Hontheo's arrest. *
|; Colonel Hickman organized lodge of
Good Templars at Drummond during his
stay there. He said there were more saloons
in Montana, according to population, tlan
in any other State in the Union.-Ma.l.
eter Shemmals, who has lived in Helena
since 1864, who for many years kept the sal
DON known as s'Peter's Place" and was finan-
cially we'll fixed, shot and killed himself with
rife while crazy with liquor. He leaves a
wife and three children.
At a meeting of the trustees of the Granite
Mountain mining company, held at St. Louis
last Wednesday, the regular monthly divi-
dend Of so cents share, or 100000, was de-
clared. The total dividend since April,
1885, amounts to $500, ,000-Man.
The new fue and chimney of the upper
works at Anaconda, built to carry fumes and
smoke clear Of town, will require one mill
lion brick in its construction The sloping
aue viii be 400 feet long and the chimney
stack $50 feet high. So says the Review.
A sheep owner had rather severe expert
ence in Bozeman this week. During the
night lot Of town dogs cut out bunch
from the herd of 4 200 and drove them over
bluff, killing $50 head. Not content with
this, the city authorities made him pay S35
for burying the carcasses. The way of the
sheepman is hard-Ltvinqston Enterprise
An Association of the Ministers of Butte,
Of whom Rev. Galen Wood is President and
Rev. Geo. NJ. Ryder IS Secretary, have for.
mally declared a person styling himself
"Colonel Hawkins, who has been posing
as Temperance Lecturer" as entirely un-
worthy tue confidence Of any intelligent
community. Hawkins has been getting it |
from press and people wherever he has been |
and this last lick will probably knock him |
out !
During a thunder and hail storm on the |
afternoon of October 4th lightning struck |
the schoolhouse at Terry, near Miles City,
where Miss Annie Howard aud some twenty
pupils were congregated. Miss Howard was
struck on the head by a fragment knocked |
from the chimney, and some of the scholars
knocked insensible. A horse, tied in the
rear of the schoolhouse was killed by the
bolt. A lightning storm at this season is
marvellous.
By reference to another column it will be
seen that the banking house of Joseph A.
Hyde and f. G. Freyschlag has been incor-
porated under the laws cf the Territory, and
that hencefofth-it will be known as the
:" Joseph A. Hyde Banking Company" The
change will take effect immediately The
officers of the new incorporation are Presi.
dent, Joseph A. Hyde; Vice President, j. NJ.
Merrell, and cashier E. G. Fleyschlag The
company will move into its new quarters as
soon as they are completed, and will be as
we'll equipped as any in the northwest -
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