The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-03-23
NEWS.

White Sulphur Springs and Great Falls
| will vote on incorporating those towns on
April 18th.
Attorney J. H. Shober, attending court at
Boulder, was robbed of a watch, chain and
500 last week.
Judge Mcconnell held court at Missoula
last week only two days, and adjourned the
same until the Sd Monday in june.
The Butte City Council has condemned
the water supplied to the city by the Silver
Bow Water Co., and invited proposals for
a new supply.
There is talk of putting on the Philipsburg
and Anaconda stage line again. h uncer-
tainty of connection on the Garrison and
Drummond point is the objection to the rail-
road.
The Hanks Real Estate Agency at Great
Falls sold between $500 and $4,000 worth
of property within 40 days. The Townsite
Company of the same place sold Is lots for
50, 500 in half a day recently.
The committee having charge of the mat
ter of collecting testimony relative to the
lands in Silver Bow County claimed by the
Northern Pacific, forwarded to Helena on
Monday $50 afddavits of a general character,
as to the topography of the County, and Pc
titiens to Congress with 300 signatures.
DR.. Holloway, the Territorial veterinarian,
was in this section on Saturday last, exam
lining into the health of live stock. We I'M
derstand several cases of %glandered horses
were discovered, the animals promptly
killed and buried and measures taken to
prevent the spread of the disease.-Avant
Courier.
Cascade seems to be a growing place, and
gives promise of becoming quite an impor-
tant little town. Several new buildings are
now in course of erection, among the num-
Der a large and attractive depot for the Mon
tana Central. Mr.. Gorham, the owner of
the town site, is selling lots rapidly, and ex-
poets his town to AVE quite a boom this
season.-Great Fails Tribune.
The Fargo Argus publishes a letter from
Los Angeles, California, which says that
President Hill, of the Manitoba, is making
arrangement to enter Southern California,
and that A. A. White, who has had control
Of the town sites along the Manitoba rail.
road, is improving his vacation in California
making desirable contracts on lands. 1t is
| said that from Great Falls the route will be
over the Montana Central to Helena and
| Butte, and thence southwest by the Utah &
/ Northern to its terminus. The remainder of
the line will have to be constructed.
A Glendive special to the Helena hdepen-
dent says: ssThe Grand Jury has indicted A.
| Bickford, T. j. Chestnut and Charles Sterile
g.. o1rn-;~oo~ IN 6oFror1ipn tho Torritnru
| under the bounty law. They were arraigned
and admitted to bail IN the sum of $500 each.
These frauds were committed last fall before
the bounty law was repealed, in the Lower
Yellowstone valley, and the amount secured
by these frauds aggregated about $1,000. The
cases were continued until the next term of
court to secure important witnesses. Several
more parties are implicated in the frauds,
and County Attorney Haskell is doing his
utmost to bring them to Justice.
The sale of the Fort Shaw Hound Clubs
dogs at Cascade March 10th was we'll attend
ed, thus proving that our stockmen appre-
ciate the services of hounds in Kidding the
ranges of wolves and coyotes. The sale
netted the club something like $500, but it is
said that had they given their dogs away
they would still consider themselves ahead
of the game, as the benefits already received
from the introduction Of this one pack have
already been of inestimable value to stock
men. The club claim that they have demon
strated to the satisfaction of range men that
their scheme of Kidding the range of wolves
and coyotes, and that from now on every
stock ranch in Northern Montana will have
it's pack of hounds.-Sun River Sun.