The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-08-19
Minor Items.
(Frc.n Sundays Daily

(Frcm Sundays Daily.
The Boardman claim sends lS tons Of ore
per day to the Dexter.
Asa Samples is Oh the way to Butte FROM
Helena with five Of his hest horses
This being the third Sunday of the month,
the Rev. Mr.. Ricgin will hold morning and
evening s. rvices at School Hall.
J. +. Eeins has leased his Deadwood claim
in Deadw God gulch, east Of the Rainbow, -
Leonard Johnson, for one year.
A dispatch for" J. s. Marsellis, wood con-
tractor, near city" is at bhe Butte telegraph
office. There is also one for Simon Black
more.
Hereafter Crawford's line, Butte and Hell
ena direct, will run q coach each way on Sun
day. The Sunday coach will leave Helena
and Butte at the usual hour.
j. V. Long is the Walkerville agent for the
Butte MINER. Our Walkerville subscribers
for the daily will please make setsi~ment Of
their subscriptions to Mr.. Long.
In less than no time: A telegram fled A.
Washington, ID. C., at $3.50 p. IN. yesterday.
was received here at Butte at exactly . qpar-
ter after three Of the same afternoon.
The City Council is to meet next Monday
evening at half past seven in one Of the lever
oons of the Graded School. The city ofi-
GERS, Assessor, etc, are invited by the Mayor
to attend.
Members of the Workingmen's Union will
remember the meeting to take place might
in Owsley Hall. Matters Of Importance are
To be discussed and y full attendance is de-
sired.
a tremendous forest fire was raging yester-
day afternoon, near the mouth IF Basin gulch,
on the other side Of the valley from town.
The flames seemed to stream upward above
the tops Of the trees.
The large pump at the Alice is now in po-
sit,on and the olumn pipe nearly all up. To
morrow the pump will be tested. Ii every
thing is found to work smoothly, the DRIFT to-
tap the ledge will be started at once.
Several teams cane in yesterday, among
them }. b. Meridith's, loaded with salt and
machinery for the Alice mine. Also Eph.
Peren's and Moses Gourdron's trains with
$4,000 pounds of hardware. agricultural i'm
plements, etc, for Dellinger Il Hyde.
Remember the foot races at VAUDEVILLE this
afternoon. Plenty Of fun is promised for all
who attend; besides q chance to make invest
mcnts more or less uncertain. The hackers
of the respective contestants will be on hand
to accommodate all who may feel sportively
inclined.
The Burlington mill has done excellent
work since the new engine was put in, every
stamp Of the battery being kept at work night
and day, with matchmaking facilities sufi-
cient to accommodate them all. The water
supply having become rather light owing to
the lately prevailing drought, a ditch is low
being dug to furnish the mill with water FROM
a spring at the head Of Gimlet gulch.
Driving or riding across the Park street
bridge faster than y walk will cntitle the per
son so doing to the privilege of subscribing
$50 towards the city funds. Thus saith a no
ticc posted Oh either entrance. This bridge
is in need of IL new floor, which should he Of
seasoned lumber, spiked Town with wooden
bolts. 1t also requires to be we'll braced, fol
unless it be stayed up it threatens not to stay
up much longer.
Yesterday afternoon Chris Nissler's team.
attached to his $500 wagon, suddenly took .
notion to run away, and broke for Walker
=, Vile on the dead run. They maintained thi.
pace for about a quarter Of a mile Oh thu
! steep up hill grade when it probably occurret
5 to them that the thermometer was just tlei
: registering OLE in the shade. Influenced b,
:, this reflection they sobered down to walk
r when they were caught by Il waytarer and re
turned to their owner, horses and wagon IN
n injured.
Mrs. and Mrs. W. IL. Young, Of poynetts
5 Columbia County, Wisconsin. have recen.l
| W. IL Young, Of the Burlington mill. Il
k setting out for Montana it was their inte ntioI
e to make but a few weeks stay in the yves
tern wilds,' but upon arriving here thy fin
themselves SO well pleased with the ,a.Ntr
and its climate that they have already ,leck
ed to remain until next spring. ina wcs k,o
two Mr.. Young ST.. will start on ato':r - til
National Park, the stock ranges Of Sun Rive
and other places of Interest in Mont;A,a.
school HAIL.
School Hall has been let for the. AS. tin
for any species of public entertail Iaenl..
will now be divided into two sc!n0l room