The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1896-03-13

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ALL OVER THE STATE,
| PASSING COMMENT UPON EVENTS
OF SEVEN DAYS.
Good, Bad and Indifferent all Glasses Of
| People Find Mention in These Columns
| II They Succeed in Doing Anything
Really Worth Mentioning.
The Bitter Root Times SAYS that Dr..
| browns meetings at Hamilton are "a
| bowling success"
Ed. Simpson, the well known mining
man, is able to be out again after having
been seriously i'll for several weeks
Missoula Republican.
The city council Of Billings has sold to
Farson, Leach & Co., s25 900 worth Of re-
| funding bonds, bearing per cent. inter-
est. The price paid was par.
what's the matter with Cuban bonds
IN exchange for Montana cavalry horses?
lhe Montana mustang is just the animal
Tor the Cuban guerrilla -Madisonian.
1T the recent Photographic discovery
| makes it possible to see through ones
hand, what is to become Of the great
American game Of poker?-Silverte.
Supreme Court Clerk Webster, Of Hell
ena, will print your visiting cards cheap.
lie Will also correct your spelling and
grammar, free Of Charge Bozeman
Chronicle.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs Cobb
OF Cascade, Mont, on February 20. If
the little Cobb lives he can celebrate his
first birthday on February 20, 1904. His
little toes may be covered with corns BY
that time.
The report of State Treasurer Wright
tor the quarter ending February Goth,
shows that the balance on hand Dec 1st,
1895, was .$273,034S6; received during
the quarter Slid, 4,35996; paid out during
the quarter, $685., ,67529; balance on hand,
1901 ,719.54.
Judge Buck of Lewis and Clark county
has given the board of appraisers Of that
county an extension of 80 days in which
to fix values of all real estate for pur-
poses of taxation. Judge Buck holds
that improvements are part Of the real
estate and as such the appraisers must
fix their valuation
Gov. Botkin need expect nothing Of
his party. He is only a party conven-
ience. He is able, ready, earnest, but he
isn't in the ring. He can be lieutenant
governor again, or ill some office that no
one wants, but the plums are "not for
Aleck.n He may as we'll recognize his
place and taxa it.-Helena News,
The supreme court of Montana has
decided the arid land bill tc be constitu-
tional sustaining the action Of the board
IN every particular. This will likely in
sure a market for the state arid land war
rants, in which case it will doubtless per-
NIT the arid land commissioners to pros
ecute the work Of reclaiming arid lands
Of this state vigorously during the COM
ing season.
Ex-Manager Conrad, of the Montana
Coal u Coke company at Horr, is caus-
ing no end Of trouble in that camp He
has melted a lot Of Huns to try and drive
out the new superintendent and get him
self established in that position. # the
miners of Horr knew as much about Con-
rad as the Red Lodge people do, they
will not have anything to do with him.
Red Lodge Picket.
Dr.W. A. Burleigh, who died at Yank
ton, s. d., on March s, was one Of the
most noted pioneers Of the west. He
went to the territory Of Dakota in the
sixties with a commission signed by
President Lincoln in his pocket, was a
delegate in congress from that territory
and repeatedly elected to the legislature.
He came to Montana and settled in Gus
ter county, being elected to the territorial
legislature in 1884. He finally moved
back to South Dakota to spend the re-
mainder of his life among his first asso-
ciates in the west. DR.. Burleigh was IS
years of age and was the father of A. F.
Burleigh, Northern Pacific receiver.
Nine men came down from Mr.. Har