The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1892-10-22

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NEWS OF THE STATE.
A WEEKS RESUME OF MoNTANA's
MOST NOTABLE EVENTS.
News, Notes and Gossip Concerning Mat
People and the Record of Affairs Con-
densed for Our Readers.
Peter Breen has been released on bonds
Of $4,000 to appear and answer to
charges connected with the labor troubles
in Idaho. He is now at Butte
ball at Helena last Wednesday night,
We're 1898, the expenses S139, leaving
net profit for the Lewis and Clarke Co.
lumbian association of $T59.
Missoula county apples, from orchards
in the Bitter Root valley, are selling in
the Helena market for ten cents pound,
retail. The fruit is of the best quality
and finest flavor and the demand is in
advance Of the supply.
Work On the big tunnel from Rumsey
to Granite has been discontinued This
stoppage, which has all the appearance
of being permanent, will cut out about
forty names from the Granite Mountain
Mining company's pay roll.
It is scarcely probable that the work Of
rebuilding the Montana Central through
the Pickly Pear canyon will be concluded
before next spring. Work is progress
ing steadily and trains are running
through all right, but the new roadbed
will be several feet higher than the old
one and will be heavily raped.
Herbert Smith was killed at Granite,
Wednesday, while operating machine
drill il one Of the slopes Of the Bi-
Metallic mine, by the premature dis
charge Of a blast. He leaves a wife and
two children. His partner, working with
him at the time Of the accident, received
some painful cuts about the head, but
was not dangerously hurt
The contract for the building of
bridge across the Mississippi river be-
tween Iron Mountain and Superior has
been awarded to the San Francisco Bridge
company, the cost to be $3.50. The
bridge will consist OF two spans each
225 feet long, tapping II feet on the
banks, and in the center resting on
tubular iron pier. and will be 1G feet in
width.
The ladies of the Columbian Fair asso-
citation of Silver Bow county have passed
an emphatic protest against the model
for the statue to be furnished by Mon |
tana for the Worlds Fair being sought
outside the state. The ladies think |
there are native Montana women who
would make just as beautiful models in |
face and figure as Ada Rehan, the ac-
trcss, who had been proposed as the
model.
Major NJ. I. Ludington, of the Quar-
termasterfs department. [. S. army,
arrived in Helena last Sunday from
Washington. Talking Of his mission,
Major Ludington said he had come TO
Helena under instructions to examine all |
the sites offered for the proposed milf
tary post and to report upon them to the
department.. He expects it will take
him ten days or two weeks to complete
his mission.
Professor Morston, assistant Worlds
Fair commissioner, who has been gather
ing exhibits of minerals, cereals and
grasses for the Worlds Fair, has returned
to Great Falls after an absence Of a
month. He secured a very fine selection
for the mineral display. The collection
weighs about 5000 pounds, and is so
to be worth $4,000,
Thursday morning I.enore Latleur had
his left leg cut off above the ankle, and
his right one at the knee joint, in Ross
saw mill, thirty miles west of Nlissoula.
In hst' RtttltAalitSs VIZ tilS NttlIlslSts liAt
having been warned to get off, was step
ping from it when the belt flew from the
pulley and he was thrown onto the saw.
From the time of the accident until he
arrived ut Missoula there was no medical
attendance, and he nearly bled to death.
His recovery is improbable.
The Helena land office is in receipt of
q decision from the interior department
that IS Of considerable importance to the
citizens of this state. On January 10,
1890, the Helena Brown Stone Quarry
placer claim was entered by T. ]. Shatfer
and others as mineral land entry oO93.
There are 81 acres in the claim, And tho
applicants did not claim that any other
mineral existed in the ground. At that
time such Claims were not subject to
entry as placers, and the entry was de-