The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-21
Minor Items.
from Fridays Daily.]

lfrOm fridays Dally.J f -!
The Helena school trustees will erect a
new brick scheol-house for the colored school
of that town. 4
A weekly mail was established the first of
the month between Divide and Quartz Hill. |
The mail now goes out on Saturday.
: By the Bismarck Tribune we notice that
Messrs. Clagget q Dixon, two we'll known
lawyers of Montana, lost 50, 500 in the Dead
wood fire.
Butte is connected with Fish Creek by a
weekly instead of a tri-weekly mail line as
some of the papers, the MINER among others,
have lately stated.
After playing at Deer Lodge on Monday
and Tuesday nights the Sawtelle troupe left
for Missoulaon Wednesday,. They will prob
ably be here the latter part of next week.
On the hill towards Walkerville, directly
north of the Late Acquisition shaft house,
MI. Salton Cameron is building a handsome
brick dwelling house, one story and a half
high, cottage style.
The Independent reports an accident hap
pening in the Varieties theatre, Helena,
where a pistol used in the play was loaded
with ball. One of the actors received a flesh
wound in the rm-no serious.
A sewing circle is holding its silent sessions
at Butte, preparatory to a church fair to be
held some time this fall. We had a joke pre-
pared on the subject, but thinking it bore too
close a resemblance to church-fair oyster stew
we have cast it aside.
The Silver City Cornet Band returned last
night from their excursion down the valley
to give the citizens Of Deer Lodge a speci-
men of their music. The boys seem to have
survived the experience all right. Deer
Lodgers not heard from yet.
"Subsoil mining is the expression used
by a Utah miner in describing the mining
operations conducted about Butte, except in
the Alice. He wasn't far wrong, for most of
this "mining" amounts to little more than
an irritation of the surface of the earth.
During his late trip to Helena Mr.. Joseph
Rosenthal, Superintendent of the Gagnon
claim, purchased a No. 6 Knowles pump, to
be used in sinking the main shaft of that
claim as mentioned a couple of weeks ago IN
the MINER. The work of sinking will begin
Immediately.
The overland coach on the line from Butte
to the terminus will hereafter make a slight
detour from the direct route and call at Glen
dale. In consequence of this arrangement,
which went into effect yesterday morning, the
coach for the future, or until further change,
will arrive at Butte at 6 a. m.
A report from a stage driver says that
Thompson, the late hotel keeper of Butte,
took the overland stage at Fish Creek and is
now on his way to Utah and the wide, wide
world. His many inquiring friends will
doubtless be glad to hear of his whereabouts.
We understand that his wife has left town.
The altitude of Butte is $500 feet, that of
Walkerville, $500 feet, just the altitude of
Mt. Washington, which is covered with snow
three fourths of the year. The altitude of
Deer Lodge is 1916 feet, Missoula, 3,31s feet
Boulder, 5000 feet Helena, 1926 feet. Paste
this in your scrap book for reference.
Mr.. W. H. Brown brought into town YES
terday over one thousand ounces of silver,
the proceeds of fourteen days. run of Hale's
arastra at Dewey's Flat. Til arastra has
been temporarily stopped because the men
have nearly all been summoned to testify in
the trial, at Bannack, of Madison for MUIR
der.
Yesterday we witnessed the interesting OPP
Grafton of the casting of two handsome bull
lion bars at the laboratory of NJ. E. Mayer,
the Park street assayer. The bullion came
from Vipond district, part of it from a lode
in which Charley Wunderlich is interested
and which could never before be coaxed to
pay a color to the ton.
The MINER man is not a profane man. In
his early days he regularly attended church
and crooked pins for his brother to sit on
read story books on the sly, and kept the text
in his memory to repeat to the folks at home
but last evening, when anxious to hear the
latest news from Ohio and Iowa, with the
never ceasing cry of the devil for '.copy'' ring
ing in his ears, he waited a half hour in the
telegraph office for a siN-page dispatch, only
to lind that Grant had been Tecepted again.
Then did he feel like taking either an oath
or an affirmation, and he didn't care Il
continental which.
The murdered man whose corpse was lately
found below Deer Lodge, is believed to have
been the cook connected with one of Murphy
Neel & Co.'s trains. Some time last summe
a mule train belonging to that firm pulled
out from Deer Lodge leaving their cook il
town, on a spree. Towards evening the cool
sobered up. rolled up his blankets and started
) after the train, then some miles OH the road