The new North-west., 1897-02-19

A colony Of Indiana farmers will come
to Montana next spring and locate in
Teton county.
The many friends of State Senator
Babcock will be glad to learn that he is
rapidly recovering from the pneumonia
An excursion Of three hundred postal
clerks is booked over the Northern Pa
cific early next month on their way to
San Francisco.
The public schools of Grantsdale,
Hamilton, Corvallis and Victor have been
closed on account of diphtheria in the
upper Bitter Root valley. s.-.
An exchange says: r. A. Barnet thinks
it may be worth noting that the high
topped theater hat, like nearly all of
mans troubles, has woman at the bot
tom of it.
The Inter Mountain has won suit
Instituted against the county commits
sioners of Silver Bow county and secured
judgment in the sum of $3,4S9.8O for
work done.
Ed Moore tells the Philipsburg Call
that he is firm in his faith that the Col
den Sceptre people will shortly have
their affairs in shape and that the works
will be finished up.
The largest wolf ever killed in the
northern part of the state was roped and
dragged to death near Nashua, Valley
county, last week and measured seven
feet from tip to tip.
The Northern Pacific has granted a
rate of one and one-fifth fares to the
midwnter meeting of the Fruit Grow
ers' association to meet in Missoula on
the 23d of this month. -.-- r. -..
The Hope Mining company paid div
idend OF 10 cents per share on the first
Of the month, the total amount being
$4,000. This makes the total sum paid
in dividends to date $662,252.
DR.. A. H. Hersey has left for the west,
expecting to stop off at Townsend and
then proceed to Spokane and Portland, in
one of which cities he hopes to make
newspaper Observation-Disclosures.
A bill has been introduced in the Kan
sas legislature to let out all the county
offices to the lowest bidder. This might
work in some communities, but in Deer
Lodge county it ought to read "to the
highest bidder.''-Recorder.
The headless body of Henry Miller, an
old-timer of Virginia City, was found
Saturday in the tunnel of a quartz claim
two miles from Virginia City, Madison
county. 1t is thought he was killed by
the premature explosion of charge Of
giant. 5r-
If the Anaconda people keep their
promise with the Butte populists like
they have other promises made prior to
this, it will be close upon the year 5000
before the city government of Butte will
pass into the hands of that office loving
people.-Call.
Paul A.. Fusz, president of the Bi-
Metallic Mining company, returned from
st. Louis last Saturday, and at once began
the work of pushing the Granite con-
centrator to completion. Mr.. Fusz ex-
poets to have the concentrator ready for
working the ores of the dump by the
first of March.-Philipsbu Call.
In the suit of the Merchants National
bank of Helena against the Ontario
Mining company, Judge McIntire has
ordered John Fitzpatrick, as sheriff of
Deer Lodge county, to pay into the hands
of District Court Clerk Finlay McRae
1915 collected by him from the sale of
personal effects belonging to the COM
pany.
The sheriff last Saturday sold the min
ing property, as directed by the court,
involved in the case of Henrietta
schnepel VS.. H. T. Murray and J. E.
Durfee, and it was bought in by N. B.
Ringeling for the plaintiff, the price
being the amount of the judgment, ag
gregating something like $35,OOO.-Phil-
ipsburg Call.
The Hamilton News is reliably in
formed that little syndicate of respon
sible parties, with the necessary capital,
has been formed to push development in
the Overwhich mining district. A dia-
mond drill and other machinery will be
purchased and holes will be bored at
different points and the district thor
oughly prospected
John W. Nelson, of the Valley Cloth
ing Co., has purchased the stock of the
A. G. M. Co.'S wholesale liquor depart
ment and will conduct the business at
the present stand. He will also continue
in the clothing business. Mr.. Nelson is
a hustling and energetic business man
and is deserving of success in the new
venture.-Hamilton News.
Gov. Smith has sent the following
notice of appointments to Secretary of
State Hogan: 81 have appointed to be
members of the local executive board of
the Montana state college Lester S. Will
son to succeed himself; James f, Martin,