The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1896-07-24
CURRENT TOPICS.
MATTERS OF MOMENT IN ALL PARTS
OF THE COUNTRY.

MATTERS OF MOMENT IN ALL PARTS
OF THE COUNTRY.
what the People Are Doing and What
the Papers Are Saying All Over the
state-News Items and Passing Gossin
Here and There.
six-day cycle race will open in Butte on ,J,7lv
| q.
Bryan silver club has been organized at
Bozeman.
Silver took an upward turn after the Chicapo
/ convention
| VIM, j. Mcnamara; of Butte died on Sunday Of
appendicitis.
Robert Smith is strongly talked of in Helena
for governor.
W. A. Clark has been seriously i'll in Chicago
| with pneumonia.
4. 1. porrance u bicycle dealer, assigned In
Helena last week
The Red Lodge Picket republican. is ont for
Bryan for president
Butte's free silver Bryan club has reached A
membership of3,o0O
Inc 1rult crop outlook i'll the Bitter Root is bet
ter than for many years.
Eva Booth spoke at Butte, Helena and other
places In the state recently
The improvements at the Golden Sceptre mine
at Qugley will reach S3OO0OD
grand lodge of the order of Sons of Hermann
was organized in Helena last Saturday
Col Ell G. Waters is stocking Dot island in the
park with buffalo and mountain sheep.
The Anaconda base ball team defeated the
Phlllpsburgs on Sunday by a score of IS to T.
Ten thousand dollars Of city bonds were sold in
Livingston at par on the Goth to a Chicago house.
A man known as 'Old Pen Parker'' has been
arrested at Billings for running a street skin
game.
The Sunday Bystander the leading nonnlist
organ OF the state is flying the Bryan ana Sewall
coorS.
An lmposter under the name of Father yignon
has been travelling over the state in the gulse of
priest.
Richard Hoback. one of the oldest residents OF
Lewis ana Clarke county, died in California re-
Gently.
ladies' bicycle contest for six days, l2-hour
championship of the world, will begin at Butte on
July ~.
flfe at Bozenan destroyed planning mill on
saturday night, the loss being $4,000. No
| insurance.
Matt Dunn OF Cascade county has taken a con
tract to supply Tiffany with a large number Of
sapphires.
Ihree thousand acres Of placer ground in Emmi-
grant guch has been bonded to ST. Louis parties
for $30 600.
Ihe warehouse OF the Continental Oil company
III Helena was destroyed by fire on Monday night.
Loss $4,000.
strip Of the BIackfeet reservation is to be
opened at an early date. 1t contains valuable
mineral lands
The supreme court has decided that registry
agents cannot open their offices to receive names
Of voters until Oct 49,
| The students of the Columbia School of Mines
who have been taknga practical course at Butte
have returned to the East
| The drills at Camp Davis this wear are of nm
usual excellence new feature was the drill of
| the hospital corps in the field
new process for working gold ores has been
invented by a Frenchman which makes it posi-
Bile to treat the lowest grade rock
The Anaconda races closed on Saturday and the
Butte meeting began on Monday The races
lasted Is days at Anaconda and Will run "a days at
Butte.
An order has been issued obliging railroad COM
panies to pay postage on all business letters car
ried over their own roads, which went into force
Monday.
| Massena Bullard Of Helena and j. R. Faulds OF
Steyensville were elected at Boulder delegates to
the supreme lodge of Good Templars which meets
at Zarich, Switzerland, in June.
| Mrs Ed. Heinbach threw half pint OF vitrol
into the face Of Mrs. Thomas Smelling in Butte,
recently, frightfuly burning the woman and prob
ably destroying one eye The crime was caused
by jealousy.
Madge Chadwick the loyear old daughter Of
Mr.. ami Mrs. Chadwick Of Missoua was drowned
In the Broadwater Natatorlum on Saturday even
ing 1t was supposed to have been the result of
| heart failure
The answer OF the administrator and Henry A.
Root and the John A. Davis heirs to the contest
| late A. j. Davis, was filed on Monday. 1t denies
| the alleged marriage in Arkansas iii 1912.
There is rejoicing in the sporting world at the
return Of j. B. Haggin to the turf. Haggln owns
the Rancho del Paso horse-breedlng farm in Cali
f0rnia, the largest in the world, and the birth
| place of many famous horses, including Maxim,
| Sir Modred, Salvador, Midlothian, Hidago, Ban
| Fox Ben Ali and Tyrant. Haggin was said to have