The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-28
Minor Items.
From Tuesdays Daily i

.s-F fFrom Tuesdays Daily j ,
King & Lowry were putting a new floor in
their rooms yesterday. ai s1fa&
The Salt Lake Collegiate Institute has more
pupils now in attendance than at any time
since its organization.-SM Lake Tribune.
The Sioux are troubling the halfbreed set
Element in the Judith Basin and the Benton
Record calls for a military post IN that Sec
ton. ...5 ".' tr.Fa
Two beggars, who live high and ride first
class horses, have been swindling the people
of Missoula. The Muscular says they are
likely to visit Butte.
Down near the Centennial Brewery Messrs.
Schmidt, Gamer g. Specbert are building a %
KOS brick, with stone basement for a ginger
beer, pop and soda water factory.
A. J. Fisk, the once jolly ''Fat Jack'' of the
Herald, has, we are informed, lost his rotun-
dity, and now has his garments made over
Col. Sanders pattern. Jack, have you heard
about the Virginia party who got lost ON the
road to Butte ?-Madisoaidn.
Jack has evidently lost flesh on account of
that hotel register over which he was so happy
in Butte.-ED. MINER.
The MINER and North Vest are still at
loggerheads about Miss Monroe's Evolutionary
powers. From the warmth of the Cotton
wood s'local's'' admiration, we infer he is a
little 'ssweet' on the pretty faced recitation
list. It's lucky for him that she's a Thousand
miles away" or there might be a domestic
equinoctial in his Observation-Disclosures.
The Parker pen sharp is evidently we'll
known over the West. Now the Nevada pa
pers are recalling their reminisc enses of his
doings in that State. 1t is said the genial chap
Las a scrap-book in which he pastes the COM
ments of the press. 1t must be as interesting
as reading tombstones. But he has no thin
skin, md keeps raking in the dollars plenty.
The overland now gets in at from three to
five o'clock, being about 4S hours from the
Terminus, making the extraordinary fast
time of three miles an hour. At this rate
when the next move is made we shall be y
hours frnm the Terminus. A bushwhacker
proposes to run a mule team from the Termi.
nus next month. 1t will catch all the passen-
ger travel.
A valuable discovery was made this morn
ing by Mr.. Alex. Cohen, while out prospect
ing. Strange to say, it was on a wagon road
which had been travelled for years. Before
reaching bedrock he took out 5000 pounds
of Bellefowers, Spitzbergens and Rhode ISL
land Greetings, which lie is dividing among
his friends by the wholesale, at Is cents a
pound. Call and sample.
The greatest strike of later days. according
TO all accounts, is the gold bearing quartz lode
lately discovered on Cataract gulch, a tribu-
tary of the Boulder, and owned by Col. l.. NJ.
Black and others. Thu ledge can be traced
nearly a mile, and is of the average width of
five feet. Regarding its yield it is stated on
uDquestioned authority that a hatful of crop.
pings, pounded to powder between two bout
ders, yielded SIG worth of gold. From this
we would say that if not rich the lode is al
least in easy circumstances.
The long expected furniture for the graded
school arrived yesterday. 1t includes sixty
desks with immovable backs, these being
cheaper and it is thought as good as the Other
kinds. The desks are for the lower grades
The cost, including transportation, was about
$500. The school board has thus far beef
unable to secure the much needed room fol
their pupils. n new school house is mucl
needed, and if the population of the towl
increases as much the next year as this, there
will be no other way.