The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-08-24
o NEWS.

The Gazette says H. NJ. Ogden is hard at
work putting the electric light plant in Mis-
soula.
Alex Wood was hanged at Blackfoot,
Idaho, last Friday, for the murder Of his
wife in March, 1887.
John A. Logan Camp No. 5, Sons of Vete.
rams, was mustered in at Anaconda Saturday
evening with thirty members.
There is a project on foot 70 sin an arte-
sian we'll in Bozeman. Machinery has been
ordered capable of sinking 1000 feet.
Rocky Mountain Telegraph Manager l.. 0.
Leonard. of Anaconda, has gone to Mon
treal and New York on telegraph business.
Mr.. E. Becker, formerly of Miles City, but
recently proprietor of the Big Horn Sentinel,
Wyoming, has purchased the Billings Ga
zette.
Daniel Mccormick and James McCarty
were injured by a premature explosion in the
Elkhorn mine Monday. McCarty is not ex-
| pected to 1--we.
Maj. Geo. o. Eaton is confined to his bed
at his home in Bear Gulch from an injury to
one of his legs caused by a tree falling on it.
-Avant Courier.
John Barry, of the firm of Dryer & Barry,
stone work contractors at Anaconda, was
drowned in the plunge bath at Gregson's
Springs Tuesday evening.
The Salt Lake base ball team which came
up and played the Helenas three games
walked off with all of them In great shape.
They are hard ones to down.
VL..-..-r yYo.k 49, 18Th I.-.-- NJ
tana Union conductor, Is taking a thirty
days lay off, and his run is being handled in
the mean time by Murray Miles.-Reuiew.
There we're 5000 to 1000 people at the
Miners Union Picnic at Columbia Gardens
near Butte last Sunday, and the net profits
resulting to the Union was at least 81, 900.
Mrs. Annie Wicker, a widow of Butte, and
her child were on the ship Geiser which was
sunk off the coast of Nova Scotia, and were
lost. Wrs. w. had started to visit relatives
in Norway.
Henry Letter, who has a garden and ranch
three or four miles southwest of Stuart, was
thrown from his wagon while returning from
Butte a few days ago and very seriously, if
not fatally, injured.
The Baptism Educational Society of the
United States has offered, If Dillon will ex-
pend $3.50 0 in College buildings, the Bap-
lists will take them and run the school ten
years on condition that they are then to be-
long to the Society. The Tribune thinks
favorably of the project.
DR.. Dade, who came in from the agency
Friday, informed the Missoulian that the
body Of a Chinaman was found in the Jocko
Friday morning. Three gashes were found
on his head. 1t is supposed he was muir
dered by Indians. He is supposed to be the
Chinaman who went along the road recently
buying hogs.-Missoulian.
A telegram was received from Prof. Leroy
to-day announcing that he would be here
promptly on time Sept. 1st to make his great
walk of ], 900 feet across the Missouri river
on a steel cable wire stretched IS feet above
water. He will also make his parachute
leap from the top of the tower 105 feet to the
ground.-River Press.
At Nanoyes' saw mill in the Centennial
Valley, in Madison County, last Saturday,
the 18th, William Higgins committed sui
eide. He used a rifle and shot himself
through the right temple. The cause for
committing the deed is not known. Justice
Bailey, of Spring Hill, acting as coroner,
held an inquest, and the jury returned a YER
dict that Higgins cam to his death BY his
W hands. The deceased was not very we'll
known, and he had no papers or property
from which to tell where he came from or
where his relatives live.-DiNon Tribune.
Efforts for the formation of a military
company in our city ave met with complete
success. A meeting was held last night by
all those most deeply interested in the
scheme, and an organization perfected. The
officers chosen were the following:
Captain-Prof. Cannon.
LIST Lieutenant-E. S. Maxwell.
I'd Lieutenant-C. NJ. Parr.
LIST Sergeant-J. NJ. Moore.
2d Sergeant-G. s.. Bartlett.
81 Sergeant-W. C. Converse.
LIST Corporal-James Chambers.
I'd Corporal-C. T. w. Cress.
Sd Corporal-R. Fl. Paxson. |
anaconda Revieac.
Angus Mackay, engineer of construction
OF mining machinery for the great firm of
Fraser u Chalmers, Chicago, paid the Mail
a call on Monday afternoon. Mr.. Mackay
has the construction of the 9O-stamp mill Of
the Granite Mountain company in charge.
and also the 40-stamp plant of the Bi. Metal-
TIC company. When the new mill of the
Granite shall have been completed it will az.
l6O stamps, the construction of which
ne has superintendent Tor this company. Mr..
Mackay has recently returned from Hungary,
where he built a 2O.stamp gold mill
Will Frue COMMENTATORS, and says that his
company has built five mills In South Africa
or English companies, to say nothing of
hose constructed in Central and South