The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-06-22
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

LOCAL BREvITIEs.
Ane college excavationis going rapidly on
viewing. copying and enlarging done q
Hamiltonis. aeo -.
MI. Joseph a. Hyde has LIT the contract
'"1 sne basement story Of his residence.
The Water Works line is being extended
on second Street from Main toward til,
depot.
Remember Hamilton will be here but
snort time; call and have your pictures take.
oelote II 10 too late. $50 1t
Mr.. f. h. Roberts, late Of the Butte Office
VIII take charge of the Rocky Mountain
Telegraph Office here today.
Rev. A. X. Bayard, Superintendent Of
Missions, will occupy the Presbyterian pull.
pit next Sunday morning and evening.
The Deer Lodge Race Track and buildings
are being put in splendid condition for the
races commencing Wednesday, July 18th.
The exhibition of St. Mary's Academy will
take place ct Cottonwood Hall next Wednes.
day evening. Invitations are to be presented
at the door.
Assessor j. J. King estimates the tax roll
OF Deer Lodge County this year will be one
million dollars higher than last year. The
County prospers.
Pioneer will celebrate the Fourth with .
ball at. Bed Rock Hall and invites all the
n%eiRhbors in to enjoy the National Holiday
evening. See "adv." -m..o ""@=" INV
Mrs. Lump has heard nothing yet from
her boy. Advices have been sent every
where along the N. P. Railroad and she will
probably get tidings soon.
Mr.. s. c. R. Hamilton, the artistic Boze-
man photographer, has erected q tent on
Third Street near the McBurney House and
Is doing sorae excellent work.
Mr.. James Kinney, formerly of Stuart,
has established . store at Race Track Sta
ton. We are informed Mr.. p. Hoyt has
resigned the Postmastership there in Mr..
Kinney's favor. @"MM .~ "M." 4.m"
Surveyor II. B. Davis has contracts to sur
! vey one township in the vicinity of Helm
| vile and n IN Rock Creek west Of Philips
burg, cut of the amounts recently a%ppropri-
ated to Montana, and work on them will
occupy the next two or three months.
At the Christian Church next Sunday
morning Mr.. Dunlap will discuss the service
of song. The churches will have . Union
Temperance meeting at the same church
Sunday evening sermon by Rev. John
Moore.
The use of the Mullan Tunnel was resumed
last Saturday and trains have been running
through it regularly since. The carpenters
were discharged Tuesday of this week. This
would be a good time to begin arching it il
+ it is intended to make it q permanently
| secure highway. . ... .- .M...
Mr.. N. j. Bielenberg has 4 1000 head Of
sheep in Montana, $1,000 of which are in this
County, and he has beside shipped several
train loads east. By way Of variety he
bought 500 head Of cattle before breakfast
Wednesday from a drover and turned them
back toward Big Hole. @@M
Frank and James Conley, Harry Sheads.
Jos. Hamburg and q. W. Wolfe, of the Deer
Lodge Rod g. Gun Club, went up to Butte
this week and are taking q hand in the Shot
Gun Tournament in progress there. The
boys are doing themselves credit, but have
some good shooters to 60 against.
There were brought down from Butte this
week and put in tho "pen" Chas. Clayton,
for the murder of Maddux, Is years; Harry
| Stewart, forgery, 3 years; Walter Searcy, for
burglary, 2 years; Jack O'Connell, assault on
Lavelle, l year; VIM. Keith, assault with in.
tent to kill, l year. Clayton also pays costs
of suit-$2,5O0.
Cattle and horses up the valley got a Sc
we're humping in Monday evenings hail
| storm. and stampeded wildly before the
| pelting fakes. Some casualties are reported.
Peter johnson, of Race Track, says the hail
| storm broke glass in every house in his
| neiehborhood, and that it is estimated crops
/ were damaged one-ffth unless grain shall
| start out again from the roots.
Marshal r. S. Kelley states there are now
1862 c~onvicts in the penitentiary, the largest
| number ever confined there. There are only
| cell accommodations for 40, so cells in the
! corridors have been brought into requisition
temporarily. The terms Of q number expire
shortly, and it is not improbable that the
terms of some will be shortened by pardon
/ and restoration to citizenship where they
have nearly expired, their prison character
is certified as good aud their crimes are not
Of the heinous type. "~""@""
Ole Oleson, aged nearly IS years, who re-
I sided near his son, Lars Oleson, . few miles
| from town, was found dead in q lot near his
| house yesterday: He had evidently gone out
! with a hand axe and a bucket of nails to re-
pair a fence, as those things were found near
him, where he lay with his face on the
ground. There were no marks Of violence.
He had evidently fallen dead on Tuesday.
| He was the father of Mrs. George johnson,
of Race Track, and Mrs. Neiis Peterson. The
funeral will take place at l p. m. Saturday.
Some time since John G.. Foster received
an injury to his foot from which he has been
unable to attend to his usual avocation-ln
fact, has been unable to do anything. He is
a member of the Order Of the Iron Hall, and
rs he has . 81 900 certificate in that Order he
is entitled to disability benefits of s25 per
! week. Mr.. Foster while still very badly
! crippled sent in his proofs for eleven weeks
| benefits and this week received q draft for
s275O0. MI. Adolph Gutenberg also has a
broken leg and will get SOS per week during
his disability.
There is talk that the climate is changing
because there happens to be some wet
weather this year. Has the rainfall been
any greater than in 1868? Was our IS deg
below zere last winter q proof of more mod.
crate winters, or the succeeding warm
weather an unparalleled event? It will re-
quire = meteorological exhibit to establish
the fact. Granville Stuart, Esq, can show
up the record in Deer Lodge for the twenty
years beginning in 1861 if ANYBODY can fur
nish the data since. Our opinion is hat the
weather in Montana is pretty much as il
comes.
Last Thursday morning John Batterton,
aged IA, a son Of Judge Batterton' Deer
Lodge, left home riding his " horse. and
saddle and has not returned. A letter was
received by his mother from him dated al
Helena, Friday evening, saying he had beer
hired to work by a man named Rotter and
was going to St. Paul. Judge Batterton wen