The new North-west., 1896-04-10

CURRENT TOPICS.
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 Gossip
Here and There.
A man named Wilsey has been con
victed of selling horse meat as beef at
Great Falls and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for one year. .-=..5....5. ~
The price of shearing has been fixed at
seven cents d head in Wyoming. Wool
commission men are offering to advance
but five cents per pound.
The force on the Drum Lummon
mine at Marysville has been very greatly
reduced, at least 200 men having been
laid off in the last few weeks.
Phil. Harrington from the Zosel dis
trct is in the city and reports that there
is the beginning Of boom in mining in
terests there.-Western Mining World.
A colony Of 1G families arrived at Big
Timber last week. They will settle on
farming lands adjacent to the town and
covered by the irriguting canal that has
lately been constructed.
Fhn foth I'd rf ,tlor OF
Butte on Tuesday to examine applicants
for admission to the practice of the apoth-
ecarys art. Some 30 candidates APP
peared before the board. .=
Montana leads all other states in the
number of sheep within her borders.
On January i, 1896, there were 3,0G1,-
502 sheep in the state, or about one
twelfth of the total number in the United
States. ...z.. +. .-.:...#-.. ..5.u*
A new roncentratOr is to be built at the
Hope mine at Basin, as the present one
has not sufficient capacity The shaft Of
the mine is down 800 feet and the work
of sinking 200 feet more is to begin at
once. .&
The new packing house at Bozeman is
slaughtering about 200 hogs per week.
Large quantities of meat have already
been packed, and the quantity will be
greatly increased as soon as better facli-
ties can be secured.
Considerable excitement has resulted
at Livingston over the reported discov-
cry of gold mines in the hills Just west
of town. A large number Of claims have
been taken on a railroad section which
was classified by the commissioners as
non mineral.
It is worthy Of remark that, as gen
eral rule, whenever a man concludes to
abandon the Democratic party he joins
the populists; and whenever he gets
tired of the populistic vagaries he back
slides into democratic absurdities.--
Avant Courier.
The supreme court handed down its
decision in the license law case, on Mon
day, the opinion being written by Judge
Dewitt, in which the constitutionality of
the law is affirmed The opinion is a
long one going very thoroughly into the
question and a synopsis cannot we'll be
given. ".E
1t is said that ex-President Harrison is
to be married Monday to Mrs. Mary
Lord Dimmick the lady with whom his
name has been linked by rumor these
many months. 1t is to be presumed that
Prince Russell, late of Montana, has
given his unqualified permission.-Ma
isonian.
So confusing are the party lines in
Butte that no man can guess which OF
our excited contemporaries in that city
will tell how much was paid to the
Thompson council in bribes to settle the
Simon Jacobs claim and which of the al
dermen are alleged to have been bribed
Standard.
Wcrk on the Parrot smelter is going or
at rapid rate and the new town of Gay
lord will undoubtedly become the scene
of great activity during the summer. Tht
Parrot plant will probably be the larges
Of its kind in the world when completed
and will include all the latest improved
processes for ore reduction.
The celebrated Davis will case seem
to be perennial source Of wealth for th'
legal fraternity. AS soon as the claim