The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1892-07-09
WHOLE NO. 1900.
NEWS OF THE STATE.
A WEEKS RESUME OF MONTANA's
MOST NOTABLE EVENTS.


MOST NOTABLE EVENTS.
News, Notes and Gossip Concerning Mat
ters of General Interest-The Doings of
People and the Record OF Affairs Con-
densed for Our Readers.
It is said that Lemuel Eli Quigg is
coming back to Montana to run the
Helena Journal. =-
Jack King defeated W. H. Quinn in
the wrestling match at Butte Sunday
afternoon winning two out Of three falls.
The entire match lasted only nine
minutes.
The first annual meeting of the Dillon
Fair q Racing association convenes july
and continues for four days, closing on
the 18th. W. H. Raymond is president
Of the association, ". A. Jones secretary.
George W. Appleton Of Helena has
been awarded the contract for building
four Indian industrial school buildings
at Fort Peck. The contract involves
about 100000, and the work must be
completed in six months.
The Annual meeting of the Montana
Press Association has been postponed
from July 12 until next October, This
IS due to the fact that nearly all the
editors in the state will attend the Min
ing congress at Helena. that meets
July u.
Mrs. Clara L.McAdow Of Spotted Horse,
Fergus county, has been appointed a
member Of the woman's board Of the
Worlds Fair, in place Of Mrs. James K
Toole, resigned. Mrs. Meadow will
travel over the state in the interest Of the
Montana woman's exhibit.
fatal accident occurred Thursday Of
last week in Adler gulch to a we'll known
resident Of Virginia City, William H.
Bailey, while engaged in mining on the
placer mine of Nathan Parker A bank
caved III on him and killed him in
stantly He leaves wife and three
children. ..5
The report Of the Butte Sanitary de-
partment for the month of June shows
the total number of deaths for the month
to have been AZ. OF these seven were
from pneumonia, five from accident and
two from sutfocation among children.
The number of deaths during une of
last year was 32.
Fred L. King, one Of the pioneers of
the old timers, died at his home in
Helena, July 4, aged 64 years. Mr.. King
was native of Louisiana, and had
IA all -,
Mexico. He came to Montana in 1866,
and has lived in various parts of the
state ever since. His business was that
Of painter and decorator
The seventh annual shooting tourna-
ment closed at the Helena Rod and Gun
club grounds Thursday of last week
There were eleven entries for the in
dividual championship cup. 1t was won
by W. F. Sheard of Livingston. The
scores made were: s Fl. Kennett 10;
Nose Manuel, So; H. P. kennett S4; t.
H. Peasants, 50; J. D. Finn, II; A. J.
Fisk, ss; j. c. Highouse, 80; H. Barbour,
50; w. F. Sheard, 90; A. Harrity, 81;
George Wright, IS. The shoot was at
100 blue rock pigeons to a man with five
traps
The Flathead coal basin recently ex
amined by Herbert Wood shows series
of strata upturned along the mountain
side, 1000 feet in thickness and carrying
fifteen or twenty seams Of coal. The
seams as exposed in the Emerson tunnel
of the Northern Development company
are ten in number, six Of which are work
able seams, one being thirteen and half
feet in thickness. The valley in which
the strata are deposited is about fifteen
miles wide, a plateau valley, through the
center of which the North Fork runs to
join the middle South Fork.
From all indications the Mining con
gress that convenes in Helena July 12
will be the greatest gathering of mining
men that ever occurred in this country.
The delegates will come from every
branch of the mining industry, and will
represent the business in all of its rami-
ticatons. The executive committee of
the congressis desirous that there should
be a full representation from the mining
districts in the state. Credentials have
been sent to nearly every postofice in
NlOnltlna dliu There Supulu Ue a luAA dLQ
complete representation of every mining
district
Ir is said that the Anaconda company
has purchased the school land at Three
Forks and that it will begin the pre-
liminary work on its refinery there this
fall. The authenticity of these rumors
cannot be verified by the company's
agents at Three Forks, but the general
impression at Three Forks and Bozeman
is that something is to be done yet this
year. J. B. Haggin of the Anaconda
company was at Three Forks recently,
personally examining the ground for the
proposed electrical refinery. 1t is