The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-11-16
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS

Paris Gibson, Esq, has been elected N,vor
Of Great Falls.
Is. +, Paxon. aged 43 years and 0 months.
died in Butte Nov. Is, of typhoid pneumonia.
1t IS rumored that the Northern pac,i. v;u
soon get control Of the Rocky Fork railroad
and push it to completion.
The new machinery of the Helena Electric
Light Co. has been started up. The improve.
ments put in this year will cost $50 nN
Herman Dowse, a much esteemed man. in
the employ of the Missoula Mercantile ca.
died Monday, aged Al years, of pneumonia,
Fred Van Flick shot fatally, about twelve
O'Clock election night, at Boulder, John Laf.
ferty, who died Thursday. Van Flick es.
capped.
1t is learned indirectly from Maiden that
+. w. Meadow has sold the Spotted Horse
mine to Eastern capitalists for $500, 0oO.-Hu,.
bandnadn.
Patents were recently issued to Anders
Anderson, of Blossburg, Mont, for a steel
brake, and to j. Avon Gutenberg, of Hecla,
Mont, for a wrench.
The q. S. timber cases in Butte were con.
tinued for the term, the United States not
having an important witness present. The
defendants were ready for trial.
The machinery of the hosting works. of
the st. Lawrence mine, Butte, flew to pieces
in some unaccountable way Monday, andi tits
thought it will take a month to restore it,
Nobody was hurt.
Six persons are in Jail at Missoula charged
with illegal voting. The returns Of about
one-third of the precincts were objected to
for irregularities. The Democrats now claim
Bickford's election to the Council.
The Sydney follows suit with the many
other mines which have been reported lately
as making valuable discoveries. Last week
a new vein was struck in this mine which
will greatly add to its value.-Nau.
A fire in Bozeman, Nov. sth, DESTROYED
seven frame buildings. Total loss, $500.
About $1,000 insurance. Those who were
burned out were Topel & Bro, J. F. Davis,
b. F. Hanley, Shay & Co., Monroe and Mrs.
RouDdtree.
Thomas Cruise made a bet of 5000 the
night of election day that Cleveland would
be re elected. The bet was taken by Al.
Seligman, Hugh Kirkendall, NJ. H. Keefe and
Frank Lang, and the money was put up, Mr..
Cruise believes in reducing the surplus.-Hr-
aid.
Rev. George Comfort, formerly of Deer
Lodge, and recently of Bozeman, has taken
up a farm near that place and will remove
his family there and locate permanently. He
had an eye for a good horse, and We
hope will grow great in worldly goods when
he gets where the acres are broad and the
grass grows green.
The Record notes with regret the serious
illness of j. S. Dickerson, late editor of the
who is confined to his room with
dangerous attack of pneumonia. Late last
night he was reported being very low, with
chances for recover slim. The Record, in
Unison with the patients many friends, sin.
'erely hope his time has not ceme.-Recora,
.3th.
A fire in Anaconda last night came near
down the Reuiev office. A stable
light back of it near the corner of Main and
belonging to Morgan Evans, caught
ire. In the north end of it John Cornelius
;ept a span of valuable grey horses, worth
GOO. The stable and contents were a total
oss. The fire companies from the smelter
in time to ex%tinguish the flames be-
ore they spread to adjoining buildings.
Miner, 4h.