The new North-west., 1888-10-05
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

! four stories high.
The city tax of Helena is eight mills.
| which will yield $4,000.
Four car loads of coal are being shipped
daily from the Sand Coulee mines for use on
the Montana Central.
The Great Falls Leader says the fires have
been started at the smelter, and the Company
| are about ready to receive ores.
For eight months, ending Sept. 1, Mon.
| tana mining and milling properties paid
more than s., ,0o0, 900 in dividends.
The coal miners at Sand Coulee receive
$3.50 per day. Outside hands are paid $2,5
Board costs them from So to So per week.
Daniel Bandman. the actor, purchased
some fine Percheron horses while in Europe,
and has them on has Missoula county ranch.
A. A. LaRue, Rimini hotel keeper, has
| assigned all his property to Isaac Greenhood
for the benefit of his creditors Liabilities,
$4,000.
1t is possible that the original plans of
Hearst hotel may be changed so as to provide
for fourth story in the shape of Mansard
-(Revse,o.
Madison county has a Labor ticket in the
field, and they have named nominees for
the Offices Of Probate Judge, Sheriff and As.
SCISSOR.
Supt. Ed. P. Mills says they will be cross
cutting on the Champion by the 10Th of Oct.
There is no change to report in the appear
ance Of ore.
Miss Fannie Ewing arrived from Deer
Lodge Tuesday night and took charge of the
higher grade Of the public schools in Great
Falls.-Great Falls Leader, 29th
Fifteen hundred men are employed on the
Rocky Mountain division of the Northern
Pacific, and the yearly pay roll of that sec
ton is estimated at one million dollars.
The Rocky Mountain Telegraph Co. is
stringing an additional wire between Helena
and Fort Benton and is also putting up the
wire on the Philipsburg and Anaconda route.
Harry Trethowan, Cornish miner, 81 or
80 years of age, committed suicide in Helena
last Friday. by hanging himself with trunk
strap. No cause known. His wife is in
Cornwall.
The 15'stamp quartz mill at Butte, known
as the Margaret Ann, was burned last Friday
morning. 1t was owned by Dennis Driscoll
and P. O'Donnell, and cost So, 1000. Insured
for $4,000.
The assessed valuation of Helena is $8..
853,S90, which it is claimed the supplemental
list will increase to nine millions. The pop
ulation is averaged at 5000, giving general
average of 5000 per capita
The War Department has in view the re-
moval of the remains Of the soldiers massa-
cred by the Sioux near old Fort Phil.
Kearney, Is miles north of Buffalo, from
their present resting place to the spot where
the Custer monument stands.
Charles g. Putnam, whose father is a prom.
inent physician of Minneapolis. and his
sister the wife of an Episcopal minister,
committed suicide in Butte Saturday night
by morphine. He had only arrived from
Bismarck the Thursday preceding. He was
out OF work, broke. and despondent. His
body was shipped East.
About 800 men are now EMPLOYED on the
Rocky Mountain division of the Northern
Pacific Railroad. Missoula is the headouar-
ters OF the division, and all the different de.
partments are under the control of the ofica |
here The monthly pay roll now varies
from 100000 to $4,000 per month, or in the
of $500, 600 per annum.-[M..
soulian.
There were three deaths by violence IN
Lewis & Clark County last Friday. Harry
Trethowan; an old man, name unknown
killed by the overturning Of wagon on the
Rimini road, and Chinaman who WAS shot
In the groin by another celestial in Jefferson
9ulch, Deer Lodge Co., a few days before
had goue to Helena for medical aid. and
lied there.
William s. votaw and Miss Annie NJ.
Baker were married in Helena Wednesday
evening Of last week. The bride is dauoh.
er OF Tom Baker, editor Of the Madisonfon.
It Virginia City, Mont. [1f it were auy one
Use, our friend Baker would doubtless re.
mark anent the above something abont tho
lestinies Of the Republic depending nnon
Is votawsl
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Thomas, of Center-
lille. who lost within seven weeks their
hree sons, aged respectively II, 10 and q
ears, and who were worn out with ceaseless
'igils. have been invited by Drs. Mitchell
MussiRbrod to be their guests at Warm i,
prings until rest and change of scene have
enef1ted them. Tho invitation was crate.
ully accepted.