The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-21
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siln modified as intended, boilers cleaned,
and everything else in apple pie order.
If you wish to do a losing business, adver-
tise on a fence. If you wish to get rich, adj
verts in a respectable newspaper that has a
good circulation among people who buy your
goods.-PhHadelphia Press.
known citizen of Lewis and Clarke county,
arrived at Butte yesterday by private convey
ance, IN a visit to his daughter, Miss May,
teaching in the Butte graded school.
subscribed money for the construction of a
wagon road to lead up the gulch from Bear
mouth to the town, eight miles above, some
thing that ought to have been done as early
as '66.
The Bozeman people have had their school
house investigated by Captain Mcguire, who
reports it safe, but recommends the insertion
of horizontal iron rods running through from
wall to wall through the plane of the joists
and attached to outside anchor plates.
John Smith, of Miles City, whose name at
least is familiar to our readers, passed through
Sherman October 4th with a freight train
loaded with goods, bound for Butte, where he
will establish himself perman emily in bust
ness. So says a Courier correspondent.
1t is rumored that Col. Black will again put
on his line of coaches. According to the re-
port some of the merchants OF Helena and
Butte propose to enter into an agreement to
give the line all their freight and passenger
traffic at specified rates, and with sufficient
inducement the Colonel will put on a good
line. How true the rumor may be we have
not learned. 4t .
The Warden of the Penitentiary, Col.
w. w. Botkin, returns thanks through the
Neo North Vest to the Hon. B. H. Tatem,
of Helena, for a donation of reading matter
for the use of the prisoners in that institution.
Mr.. Tatem's example in this matter should
be followed by all who have books, papers or
magazines of light and cheerful literature to
spare. Charity thus applied is well directed.
The foot race at Philipsburg, between Rush
ohN 10 w Univ I'LL IL
Some well-known sporting men of Butte have
gone over to invest a little on the side. The
chances are that some one will make a clean
up equal to the upper boxes in dollar-to-the
pan d~iggings. All that's necessary is to call
the turn on to-morrow's race and you're a
capitalist without further ado.
Mr.. Mcfarland and lady have been to-day
looking at the St. Nicholas Hotel, probably
with the view Of ascertaining the practicable
iy of opening the hotel again. We do not
know many firms in whose management it
could better be placed than it that of these
parties. The McBurney House is one of the
best in the Territory, and assists materially in
attracting visitors to the own of Deer Lodge.
Like a gossamer thread of scarlet silk the
young moon hung last evening in the western
sky. Over which shoulder did you see it,
maiden fair, your "right white shoulder for
good luck, the left for misfortune, or straight
ahead for hurry and busy occupation The
month through. If there is anything in
moon signs, Luna in her appearance last night
promises a wet month to come. The Indian
could not have come anywhere near changing
his powder horn dry" with any such layout
as that offered last evening.
Roi, the man who broke Taylor's jaw, was
fined 500 and sent to Jail for three months
Taylor's injury was received in a drunken
brawl, with no evidence of malice on the Fart
Of Roi. In the trial of the latter the prose-
L GT1finr affpp,nu onI tho ottNrpny ror tho
prisoner, both pleaded for mercy when SEN
tence was about to be pronounced, the I'M
preston being that the affair was more the
result of accident than anything else. Not
withstanding this Roi received the most severe
sentence within the statute, a lesson which
will teach him to-have influential friends
hereafter.
Mr.. Henry McMurphey is negotiating with
the citizens of a neighhoring town concern.
ing the sale of the steam fire engine, the
City of Butte" standing on Main street.
If the steamer be sold, and if, as certain par
ties assert, the miners and others using the
water of Bull Run gulch succeed in the lega
measures they say they will take to prevent
it from being diverted from its natural chan
mel, in what sort of a position will Butte be
left? Is it a dignified position or the reverse
that Of coming squat to the ground between
two stools of which the choice appeared to be
offered? One thing certain. No more fire
engines on credit. If, after being burnt ou1
two or three times, we at length decide upoI
purchasing a steamer, the cash, we may de
pend upon it, will be called for in advance.
From Sundays Daily
Who says this is not Indian summer?
The Police Court building has lust receive,