The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-09-30
Minor

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School books for all classes taught In the
Butte graded school can be found at the store
of l.. Marks & Son.
Officer Smith came in yesterday with the
Camp Greek man who is to answer to-day to
the charge of wife beating.
Mr.. Heits, who broke his ankle some six
weeks ago IN a wagon accident below Silver
Bow, is about the streets on clutches.
Arrangements have been made according to
which Presbyterian services will hereafter and
until further notice, be conducted in the Good
Templar's nall.
Yesterday the Lexington foundry turned
out the last castings needed for Leggat's mill
at Vipond. The mill will be running by
steam within few days.
After several days neglect Of that branch of
his business,t the clerk ofthe weather favored Us
yesterday with a choice sample Of sand storm.
Favors of that kind, if not thankfully re-
ceived, 60 a long way.
His Grace Archbishop Seghers left Butte
yesterday morning for Bannack city ria
Browns bridge. From Bannack he will pro-
coed by way of Horse Prairie to the Salmon
river country in Idaho.
Spreading orators who would like to have
their mammoth thoughts rescued from the
Office a phonographer capable of reporting
correctly a speech delivered at the rate of 260
words per Tinute.
William Rice, convicted of larceny two or
three days ago, goes below this morning to
seek retirement for the space of three months,
in the sylvan retreat on the banks of the
Cottonwood. In other words, Mr.. Rice is
sent up for 80 days.
improvement in its march has reached
Chinatown, where new porches, o~ut-houses
and repairs IF different kinds in preparation
for cold weather are to be observed. A new
store about centrally located in the Chinese
quarter has lately been opened by an enter
prising Celestial. ...
Black & Jolley have enlarged their black
smith shop, corner of Main aud Park, by a
16-foot addition to the west end. They have
now a number-one shooting floor; and Jack
Jolley is the boy who can do a No. 1 job OF
shoeing, too; and don't you forget it, when
you have a barefooted cayuse.
The other evening IN OK fell into the shall.
low shaft on lower Main street and was res
cued with some difficulty. One benefit al
least we have derived from city government,
With its organization the practice of digging
holes in the streets, under the pretence OF
prospecting, very suddenly played out.
The other day tine master wheel of a thresh
ing machine, the largest cog-wheel ever cas-
in Montana, was turned from the mould a
the Lexington foundry, and a first-class jot
made of it, too. The wheel, which weighed
SIX hundred pounds, was for the %threshing ma
chine of Mr.. John Fifer, living in the valley
below Warm Springs.
J. A. Moss & Co., at their warehouse Oh
east Park street, have a large lot of hay pu
up in bundles by their new press and baler
The bales average 100 pounds in weight an
are formed of successive layers sothat, withou
the use of the hay-knife, any desired amour
can be removed as easily as separate leave
could be taken from a pile of paper. Fac
little bale is strongly bound with three band
of stout wire. Next week the press will b
taken to the lower valley, below Deer Lodge
where abundant work awaits it..
Mr.. W. NJ. Allison will open his new mea
market tomorrow, in the building lately oc
cupied by Mr.. Charles Rumley, West Par
street, near Main. Mr.. A., who has had
thorough training in the business, intend
to keep a market that Will commend itself
the best class of Butte observation-disclosures VIII
pay for what they get and want to get wha
they pay for. A fine assortment of meats {
all kinds will be Oh display tomorrow morn
ing.
Room No. ) of the Butte graded school vii
be opened next Monday morning. The open
ing of this room at so early a date will entat
some discomfort upon the little pupils to al
tend it, since only straightforward seats can b
had until the arrival of the school furnitur
now on the way from Chicago. 1t was not til
intention to open room No. 5 until the furn
ture should have arrived, but owing to tn
overcrowding of the other departments thi
plan must be changed. Yesterday IS pupil
were enrolled in Miss Searles' room and 6
in Miss Crossman's; altogether too many fo
the good of teacher or scholars.
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