The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1896-09-04
CURRENT TOPICS.
MATTERS OF MOMENT IN ALL PARTS
OF THE COUNTRY.

'Wh VI tle nigh DFe lulne lit Basin Is
progressing.
The ColuSa Parrot property has closed down
for several days.
lie'elli is now connected by telephone with sun
River ana Chote;l s
Mrs. W. L. Hoge. wife Of the banker died in
Anaconda last week.
About 5000 people attended the closing day of
the races at Helena
The College OF Agriculture ana Mechanic Arts
will open on Sept lG
After midnight Aug. 81, the n P will take the
name OF the N. p Railway
It is doubtful whether the Granite Mountain
mine now closed viii resume.
The Catholic Knights of America 500 stronghold
q picnic at Anaconda ON Sunday
work on the rebuilding OF the Katie concentra-
'or Ht Basin Is progressing favorably.
Judge Knowles opened the fall term of the
United states court in Butte on Tuesday
NJ. IL BRYAN, editor OF the Philipsburg Nail was
married last week to Miss Minnie Bartlett
AneW and rich vein Of ore 7 feet wide has been
struck in the Cook mine near Virginia City
One hundred ana thirty thousand dollars pass
ed through the pool boxes at Helena during the
races.
'i!endive Miles City and Billings republicans
send Mckinley delegates to the republican con
YentiOn
nugget valued at Sl2n50 was picked up in the
Young and Brckley placer mine northeast Of
Missoula
Anapparatus is being built by Great Fails parties
TO dredge the bars OF the Missouri river for tile
gold they contain.
Not more than 25 grand army veterans are in
attendance at the q, a. R. national encamplnent
at St Paul this week.
Chas S. Hartman and others are planning to
put upa reduction plantin the Natural Bridge
district in Park county.
VIII sutherIin OF the Rocky Mountain husband
man viii take charge Of the agricultural display
at the Minnesota state fair
The excavation for the school of Mines building
Ill Butte has been completed and maSons have
gone to work on the foundation
The n. p offers S65 round trip fare from st.
Paul to the National Park III September The
number of tourists will be large
The placers of Gold Greek near Pioneer have in
| some instances paid from Sl2 to SO per day to
the man during the present season.
! Martin Olney dropped fire from his pipe in the
Last Chance mine at Winston and blew OF his
head by exploding the powder magazine.
The 400horse power hoist being built by the
| Edward P. AIlis company OF Milwaukee for w A.
~ is IN ,,e chi,
The base of gambling has been transferred
from Butte to Centeryille where open games are
running but less patronzed than in the city
Harry N Wing, the young man who robbed the
State Savings bank in Butte while employed in
the institution, plead guilty before Judge Speer.
Rev. j. Wesley Hill formerly widely known in
Montana is attracting much attention in Mime
sofa. He has been again compelled to resign
his pastorate.
Representative C. H. Brown Of the Montana
legislature was killed last week on the Montana
| railroad of which he was master mecha c, while
switching cars.
William Mcmillan 4 ranchman at Priests
Crossing, Cascade county has been arrested on Il
charge of criminal assault upon Mary Augustine,
Il child of years.
One hundred and twenty-five miners are in the
| employ of the Eastern mine near Sheridan, Madi-
son county. thirty-ton concentratOr will be
completed in about three weeks.
The republicans of the 7th judicial district.
consisting Of Yellowstone and Dawson counties,
prefer to hold separate convention for the
| nomination of a Judge for that district
Judge Knowles has decided the dscriminatve
liscense law taxing Cinnamon $50 per man for
| each man employed in laundries to be unconstitu-
tiOnal. Common sense had so decided long ago.
The Mckinley republicans We're showed under
| in the Bozeman primaries by Il vote Of 100 to So.
The fight was between the Hartman liver club
and the Mckinley and Hobart club The Mckin-
leytes did not elect a delegate.
Jockeys Cairns and p Il. Clancy were injured in
a hurdle race on the Helena track last week. the
first 1t may be fatally, the second suffering brok
en- leg The horse Sleeping Child received III
juries which required him to be shot.
Agitato, who won from Felfare in two great
3year old PAGER of the world. He won the title at
Woodland, Californiaast week, taking the third
heat against all aged horses III 2:O9l4.
The estimated output of American copper mines
Tor the year Is put at 800 tons; that of other
countries $1,000 tons. The consumption Of
countries outside of the United States shows an
increase for the first six months of this year of 2s
per cent, that of the United States falling Off 5
per cent for the same time