The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1896-03-27
ALL OVER THE STATE
PASSING COMMENT UPON EVENTS
OF SEVEN DAYS.

PASSING COMMENT UPON EVENTS
OF SEVEN DAYS.
Good, BAD and Indifferent, all Glasses Of
People Find Mention in These Columns
If They Succeed in Doing Anything
Really Worth Mentioning.
Inc Helena Transcript an independ~
ent Sunday paper published at Helena
py a. II. Hersey, has ceased publication.
The Red Lodge Picket says the ranch
men have contracted their oats to the
shoshone Ditch company for $1.50 per
cwt., delivered.
Senator Ramsdell Of Kalispell, popu-
list member Of the last legislature. has
started newspaper in that city and
christened it The Call.
d, E. Sanders, president of the Kansas
Normal school at Fort Scott, Kansas. has
applied for the position of principal of
the State Normal school at Dillon.
The shortage Of the Cuban sugar crop
this year promises to reach the enormous
figure of 100000 TONS Where is Mon
tana's sugar beet crop? Echo answers
where.-Independent.
4 provision has been discovered in the
new codes which says it shall be the duty
OF the school board to visit every school
IN their district at least once each term
and to examine carefully into its man
appl;tfn,, y M
clause applies to each Of the trustees.
Like Jack in storm, who pitied the
poor folks on shore, we, who are wading
IN sunshine up to our necks and wiping
the perspiration from our more or less
noble brows, extend sympathy to the
people of the East who have to trudge
through snow foot deep and wear ear
muffs.--N1issoulian
The Helena Herald has also been sued
for libel Alderman Edwards thinks
$4,000 would prove a balm for his lace
rated feelings. Which goes to prove that
9 good paper cannot avoid treading on
somebody's toes occasionally. Will the
proprletors Of the Herald join us in No
Mans Land?-Fergus County Argus.
It has been suggested that three of the
Montana delegation to St. Louis be Sen
ators Carter and Mantle and Congressman
Hartman. The presence of these valiant
advocates of silver on the delegation
would not only prove that Montana is
proud Of their action, but would do much
to strengthen the cause Of silver in the
nveution.-MissoulaR Republican.
A practical joker played mean trick
on the Fergus county officials few days
ago by reporting the discovery Of dead
man some distance from Lewiston. The
sheriff, coroner and other officials went
out to the scene of the alleged tragedy,
and found a dummy stuffed with hay
lying in pool Of red paint The sell
was intended for an April fool joke, but
its perpetrators could not hold them
selves down after ''conceiving the idea"
River Press.
The state supreme court on Monday
confirmed the judgment of death that has
been passed upon William Gay. The
court views the points Of the exceptions
of the defense and the evidence as a
whole, and says that it has been unable
to find any error in the proceedings The
sentence Of death will be passed again as
soon as the remittitur has come down
from the upper court. That may be in
about q week. At any rate there will not
be double hanging in the county jail.
The sentence Of Biggerstaff will have
been executed before the date of the
prospective execution of Gay.
Articles of incorporation Of the Flor
ence Crittenton mission of Butte were
filed with the county recorder, says the
Inter Mountain. The object of the mis-
sion, as set forth in the incorporation ar
ticles, are to s'uplift and reclaim fallen
men and women and the establishment
and maintenance of home for the pur-
pose of caring for aud recIaiming fallen
girls and women.' There are seven
trustees and those for the first three
months are A. Fl. Barret, George Steven
son, II. NJ. Patterson, E. j. Groenevald,
James H. Spencer, James Davidson, and
Octavius Hight. The annual election is
to take place in October. The term of
existence of the mission is given at 20
years.
The Discovery Saved His Life.