The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-11-04
Minor Items.
From Fridays Daily.]

[From Fridays Daily.]
The man who stopped the horse at the
funeral was fined $40 and costs.
John Noyes is employing men to bring wa
ter into his house. He will have several rods
of pipe to lay from the main pipe.
A man named Savers was shot last Friday
night at Fort Benton, by a soldier of the 18th
Infantry. Savers died Tuesday.
Sheriff Jeffries left Wednesday in company
with Mr.. Hoyt for Helena, having been tele-
graphed to return on account of the Dem
murder case.
A letter from the terminus, received yester-
day, says there is an immense amount of
freight lying there and freighters are getting
high rates in consequence.
A special dispatch from Deer Lodge, re-
ceived last evening, conveys the intelligence
that William Carey was killed by a fall from
a horse near Nevada creek, on the 2eth inst.
The express Office was removed yesterday
to the new building near the stables. The
new Office has been painted and papered, and
our genial agent, Mr.. Mosher, is much pleased
with the change.
Franklin, the commercial traveller, who
was injured by the upsetting of a coach near
Glendale, settled with Gilmer & Salisbury for
1920, his injuries having proved to be not so
great as was at first expected.
The Helena Herald Company received a
new engine the other day which will make
things hum in their establishment. New
rooms have been added to the real of the
their business.
Mr.. Halvorson's horse was frightened at
something the other day, while he was fasten-
ing it to a post. The horse broke loose and
ran away, running over w~oodpiles and rocks
till the carriage was pretty badly smashed.
It was fortunate that no one was in the car
riage at the time.
Mining operations have again commenced
in Unionville. Geo. Kennedy is said to have
procured the finest machinery ever brought
into the Territory. The National Mining
Company, Clarke, Conrad & Curtin and B.
H. Tatem, are all making preparations to start
work again in that region.
At the Coroner's inquest, Wednesday, at
Helena, a witness testified that Stearn had
gone past Dennis store at 5:2O a. m. in the
morning, although Stearn had sworn that he
went by there at 7 a. m. Another witness,
who had been clerk for Dem, testified that
the latter would never admit customers after
he had retired, unless he knew them.
The MINER has received from Mr.. Mea6er a
map of the Mining Region of the Rocky
Mountains North of Salt Lake" The mar
includes Montana and Idaho and portions OF
Wyoming, Utah and Nevada. 1t was com.
piled from authentic surveys by Edward
Wilkes, civil engineer of Salt Lake City. II
is said to be unusually correct and will be
invaluable to miners and those interested il
mines.
His anxious friends in Butte will rejoice te
learn that Thompson has gone East to raist
funds with which to build an elegant hotel il
Butte next year. So at least he announced tt
a fellow traveller on his way to the terminus
He added that he expected his creditors il
Butte would kick about his departure. Blu
little does he know their perfect trust in hi
integrity, or he would not thus misjudg'
them.
The Nellie Boyd troupe will not come tt
Butte next month, as was expected. Mis-
Boyd will go to Chicago and make a com
plete reorganization of the company and will
engage some new stars. Mr.. Hart, who j
now in town, expects to stop in Butte or Dee
Lodge. The remainder of the troupe will
winter in Ogden or Salt Lake, and mex
spring the company will start out again. The
feel fully satisfied with the financial success
of their trip through Montana.