The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1896-01-10


ALL OVER THE STATE
PASSING COMMENT UPON EVENTS
OF SEVEN DAYS.
Good, Bad and Indifferent, all Glasses
People Find Mention in These Columns
1t They Succeed in Doing ANYTHING
Really Worth Mentioning.
The Butte public are taking a great IN
terest in the subject Of railway construc-
tion for 1896. It is confidently believed
here that the Burlington will start work
early IN the season and reach Butte as II
soon as possible.-Railway Review.
A Gallatin county weather prophet
predicts mild winter for this year. We
hope this prediction will come true.#
This locality has already had as much
snow and winter weather as we ordina-
rily get during an entire stason.-Dillon
Examiner.
The bridge over the Yellowstone. near
Carters ranch, about five miles south Of
Livingston, was completely wrecked
Friday evening of last week BY a wind
storm which prevailed in that locality.
The bridge cost Park county $1,997. It
will be rebuilt
The editor OF the Examiner accepts
with becoming modesty his new honor
as winner of the prize pig at the Macca
bee ball This may be a horse-or
rather pig--on him, providing he can
locate the porker's present whereabouts
Dillon Examiner.
The city Of Bozeman has passed an or
dinance which positively and absolutely
prohibits all kinds of gambling after
February /, 1896. The penalty is a fine
of not less than 300 or more than $500
and imprisonment not less than 80 nor
more than 80 days, and the Law and Or
der league Of that city is going to see
that the ordinance is enforced.
Attorney H. j. Miller received letter
few days ago from Lawisch the forger,
who is now in the penitentiary. Lawisch
says he is having a splendid time in Deer
Lodge aud could not ask for better
treatment anywhere. The people whom
ne victimized in this city will undoubt-
edly be pleased to hear that hesis happy
in his new surroundings as they are
equally contented III the knowledge that
he is behind the bars and only regret
that Deer Lodge will only know him for
a year.-Livingston Post.
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| Banker c. s. Hefferlin received a letter
recently from the acting assistant United
States treasurer at Chicago informing
him that the shipment Of $4,000 in gold
sent to the treasury at Chicago by Mr..
Hetferlin to help keep up the gold re-
serve had been received. The letter fur
ther states $1,2S5 fell below the least
current weight, being light a total Of 285
grains, in consequence Of which the de-
posit had been discounted $1l.4O This
loss Mr.. Hetferlin has to stand as a levy
upon his patriotism.-Livings gston Post.
A man by the name of Tracey stole
turkey from Chris Anderson, at Horr,
Thursday Of last week, and when Ander-
son went to Tracey's house for the tur-
key, the latter and a woman living with
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beating Anderson finally got away from
his assailants and made his way to his
own house, which was next door, and
was eating his dinner, when Tracey, who
had gone to neighbor's and got a pistol,
returned and shot Anderson twice, kill
ing him. Tracey is in jail awaiting trial..
Perrin Irvine, Butte's ex.city clerk, is
not in hiding down in the mountains Of
Idaho as many citizens might be led to-
infer from the fact that the chase by the
officers so ing gloriously ended near Glib
bonsville. Mr.. Irvine is in Shan nghai,
China, and in letter to a Butte friend
he gives glowing; description Of that
Mongolian metropolis. "We do things
different here" he Interestingly writes to-
his friend, and then encloses an illustra-
tion from a Chinese paper showing a.
Chinaman who had embezzled 100 taels,
in the act Of being beheaded by the Off
GERS of the imperial guard. Mr.. Irvine
also gives an interesting account of his
movements after leaving Butte. He
made no attempt to disguise himself and
met a large number Of Butte men in
Idaho with whom he had jolly good
time.-Inter Mountain.
Mr.. Frank r. Miles has secured con-