The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1896-01-17
ALL OVER THE STATE

ALL OVER THE STATE
PASSING COMMENT UPON EVENTS
OF SEVEN DAYS.
Good, Bad and Indifferent, all Classes ~
PEOPLE Find Mention In These Columna
# They Succeed in Doing Anvt,,t,..
Really Worth Mentioning.
Montana's output Of murders for 1895
set people thinking. Tax the deadly six-
shooter till it rusts in peace.
The taxpayers Of Bozeman have voted
Il special tax in order that the public
schools of that city may be kept open the
remainder of the year
A patent has been granted to the
Northern Pacific railroad for 53,786 acres
OF land, all of which is in Dawson county,
Montana, and in the indemnity strip.
"Snowshoe" johnson, who was tried IN
l5utte last week on u charge of killing
Elk, was acquitted, and has returned to
tne upper Madison in very happy frame
of mind.
Agent Montague sent five tickets ID
ltosebud, this week, the same for the use
OF five Cheyenne boys who 90 to Carlisle.
"a, to attend the Indian school there
Miles City Journal.
The Helena officials have mt them
selves On record as against glove contests.
A big sparrng exhibition was announced
TO be held in that city the other night, but
the city marshal and the county attorney
interposed with Il veto.
The war department has issued call
for bids for the erection of five brick
buildings at Fort Assinaboine. They are
to take the place Of the wooden buildings
there that have outlived their usefulness.
The bids will be opened Feb /.
Panl Mccormick has recently pur-
chased half dozen thoroug ghbred hounds
from parties at Merino and is arranging
Tor grand wolf and coyote hunt on the
reservation. He expects to invite fifteen
or twenty of his friends, mount and arm
them with Winchesters and put in
week exterminating the svarmints.'--
Billings Gazette.
There is an opening in Clancy for
hrst-class drug store, hardware store, a
bank, a dry goods house, butcher shop
barber and several other kinds of busi-
ness. To those who are looking for
site we will say that they cannot afford
to miss the opportunities which Clancy
now offers, not alone in the particular
lines here mentioned, but in others which
60 to make up busy and lively commu-
nity.-Clancy Miner
A decision was handed down by the
supreme court Monday in the case of the
State ex rel, Mrs. A. G. Wilhelm, relator,
VS.. Third Judicial District Court, re-
spondent, Deer Lodge county Peti-
TONER obtained from the supreme court
a writ OF certiorari to review the action
OF the district court in adjud ging her in
sane. Her contention is that the lower
court acted without jurisdiction. The
supreme court decided that it did and
dismissed the writ.
The annual report OF the inspector
general of the National Guards of Mon
tana for the year ending Dec. 81, 1896,
submitted to Governor Richards Monday
shows the strength Of the same to be as
follows: Commissioned officers, 27; nom
commissioned officers, 81; musicians, IA;
privates, 327; total, 452. Total strength
of militia: General staff and aides, 13;
medical department, 4; regimental field
staff, Z; chaplain department., / non
commissioned staff, 4; regimental line,
4s1; total strength, 500.
Judge Blake of Helena has decided
that Mrs. J oseph Horsky, jr, shall have
the custody of her two little girls The
decision ends the litigation between Mr..
and Mrs. Horsky, which commenced with
the divorce suit recently tried. The de
cree will give the children authority to
choose their own guardian when they
become IA years Of age. Mr.. Horsky
may visit the children as often as he
cares to and even take them out with
him. BY other terms Of the decree Mrs.
Horsky forfeits the right to keep the
children if she marries again or moves
out of the state.
Hon. Alex Metzel has return ed from an
extended eastern trip. He sold train
load of cattle in Omaha, and while east
boughta car load of thoroughbred short
horn bulls, which he expects in Dillon
Sunday. The load includes two pure