The new North-west., 1897-04-09

| lie dresser MURDER case mas Deen on
trial in Anaconda this week, jury hav,
ing been secured on Monday last. Dres
ser is now being tried for the murder ol
Sherman Ransom. After eighteen hours
deliberation, at $3.50 p. m. Thursday after.
noon the jury returned verdict of not
guilty.
S. q. Larabie returned from trip to
California and Oregon last week. He
visited Sacramento and Portland, and re-
ports business very dull in the sections
he passed through. The spring is very
backward, with plenty of rain on the side
and crops Of every kind are several weeks
behind time. ...-
Bishop Brewer conducted services in
St. James church last Monday evening
He spoke very feelingly of the death of
Mrs. W. W. Higgins, who, he said, was
one of the ten enrolled in the parish reg
lister when it was opened in 1915, and she
was the only one left of those ten at the
time of her death.
, On Easter Sunday the evening hour of
worship at the Methodist church will be
given up to the Epworth League, which
will render an appropriate and very in
teresting program. All are invited to
come and enjoy the exercises. Sunday
morning the pastor will preach on the
Resurrection of the Body"
Sister Mary Joseph, of st. Joseph's
hospital, left last week for Leavenworth,
Kansas, where she goes in hope of i'm
proving her health by a change of eli
mate. She has been connected with the
Catholic institutions here ever since they
were founded, and her many friends hope
she will soon return restored to health.
NoTICE-Any person desiring assist
ance in organizing or in maintaining a
Sabbath school, or in starting home
classes in his or her community or home,
will do we'll to write to Rev. Edwin M.
Ellis of Helena, Mont, the synodical SUI
perintendent of Sabbath school work for
the synod of Montana. He will gladly
aid in such work
The city election passed off very quietly
last Monday. There was little excite
ment in the second ward during the fore
noon on account Of an Independent can
didate being placed in the field against
Colonel Aylesworth, the regular nominee,
but later in the day the independents
name was withdrawn and the colonel had
smooth sailing thereafter.
| To THE PUBLIC.-Are you contemplate
ing getting a Kodak this summer? If so,
l am prepared to lay down in Deer Lodge
Kodaks from S. to 300 at eastern prices
kodaks repaired, plates or films devel-
oped and pictures printed and finished
Viewing taught in all its branches, al
reasonable rates. Rooms near Preebyte-
rian church. G. 0. REED.
The school election last Saturday re-
suited in the election of the ticket named
at the mass meeting by an almost unani-
nous vote. The tally sheet shows the
vote to have been: Bielenberg 145, Cole.
man 143, Smurr Al, Hoss 143, Mrs. Sher-
man 5, Joslyn 1, Fox I, Reed 1, Toomey
l, Conley 1. The proposition to levy a
special tax was carried by large ma
jority.
The M. J. Connell Co. of Butte an
nounce in today's paper that Mrs. Green
representing that company, will be at the
McBurney house, in this city, on Monday
and Tuesday, April 10 and 10, with a
large and beautiful display of Partisan
trimmed millinery. They invite the
ladies of Deer Lodge and vicinity to call
and see their display on those days.
A communication appears elsewhere
in this issue on the subject of creameries
Several years ago THE New NORTHWEST
devoted considerable time and space to
the project of establishing creamery at
Deer Lodge, but the project was finally
dropped. However, we believe now, as
we did then, that this would be an excel
lent point for creamery, and that in a
few years it would become large and
| tlouIishing institution