The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1896-07-17

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Silver has slightly advanced
July 8 was the hottest day in 16 years
| Crops in the western part of the state are good
Work on the Missouri river dam has been begun
The race meeting at Anaconda closes tomorrow.
| The state military encampment began last
Wednesday.
| A plague of grlsshoppers has struck part Of
| Choteau county.
| The Alice company. Butte, will soon have 60
| stamps dropping.
W. A. Clark received 46 votes for the vice presi-
| dency at Chicago
| G. S. Lewis took his own life at White Sulphur
| Springs last week.
The State Capital commission have received So
plans for a building.
The races at Anaconda have been COZ Quoted
| fairly in all respects.
The Examiner, state organ of the A. P. A. at
Butte, has suspended
Thirty-Six Crees were arrested near Nlssoula
last week and will be deported
Two men were frightfully burned in the B. & NJ.
smelter at Great Falls last week.
Grover Cleveland and W. c. Whitney are owners
| in the Golden Sceptre at Quigey
The government fish hatchery is to be COM
pleted at BOzeman this summer
1t Is reported that the Great Northern proposes
putting on a solid vestibue train.
There is rumor that the management of the
Anaconda refinery will soon change.
The Cheyenne Indians continue to commit out
RACES Oh the ranges in Custer county.
Work on the Hope mine will be resumed at
once and the shaft sunk 200 feet deeper.
Montana produced 927395 tons of coal In 1894
OF this Cascade county yielded 6S per cent.
Jim Powers, a jockey, had his leg broken on the
Anaconda track last week by a fall from Il horse
Some woogrowers i'll the eastern part of the
state are talking Of shipping their clip to Liver
pool
Martin BoWser was found guilty of assault upon
his own daughter, a child of Is, at Kaispel last
week.
j. \. Para, late Of Butte committed suicide on
his wife's grave at Terra Haute Indiana. on
July2
Alex Cameron, one OF the escaped prisoners
from the Bozeman jail. was captured last week
near Ennis.
Inc b. q n. company OF Butte produce copper
cheaper than any plant in the word-less than
five cents pound.
Ihe Anaconda company will sink 5000 feet on
their mines i'll Butte and settle the question us to
the life OF the copper deposits.
The Bloomington Mining company, operating
close to the Royal in Granite county, will have a
l0stamp mill running in GO days
The Eureka Placer Mining company in Granite
county made their first seasons cleanup last
week-$lG, 600 resulting from six days work
The first shipment of beef from the Dakota and
Montana ranges this season brought S3G5 per
cWt, the average weight being given at 1855
pounds.
Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Lewis reached Philips
burg last Friday and were given reception Mr..
Lewis will take charge of the Episcopal church of
that city.
The sixth annual session of the Montana Sun
DAY School association occurred last week at Boze
man. Sixty delegates were present from all parts
OF the state.
The Montana delegation cast four votes for
Bland and two for Blackburn on the first ballot
Later they all voted for Bland and on the last bal
lot all for Bryan.
Edna Gardner the girl burglar of Mlssoula ar
rested some time ago in mems clothes, has been
sent to her mother In Kansas City at the expense
of Missoula county
vigorous campaign Waged on the double issue
OF protection and free coinage would carry every
state in the Union. The gates Of hell itself could
not prevail against them.-Bozeman Courier
Production Of copper by the Anaconda Mining |
company for May was 100000 pounds. This |
copper averages l21 ounces of silver per ton 1t |
averages four cents pound In silver and gold. |
According to the Standards Miles City cores |
pondent the readers OF certain eastern Montana |
newspapers are being treated to editorials roast
Ing congressman, that are written on typeWriters |
and shipped from Helena.-Liyingston Post
Messrs Bielenberg and Cadar have secured an
option on the Elgln mine in the Rochester dis
trct. Machinery will be shipped from Butte this
week and the property extensively worked from
now on. 1t is a very promising claim and shows
up fine ore body of a value that will pay hand
some returns.-Western Mining World.
1t has been several weeks now since the custom
smelter proposition was brought before the peo-
pie, yet there has been no definite action taken
except the donation Of the ground for the site
The committee who have the affair In hand.seem
to have let the proposition 60 by default, and II
this Is the case they should say SO--PhillpSburg