The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-07

From Sundays Daily.1
The Walkelville school opens tomorrow.
Nearly a ton and a half OF bullion last week.
Some talk of another dancing club being
organized.
Forty new subscribers this week. Send in
your names and be in the fashion.
Sixteen passengers were booked yesterday
for Crawford's coach from Helena to-day.
The Helena folks pronounce Sawtelle's
new company a great improvement on the old.
Two hundred and ffty-ive pupils were en-
rolled in the Butte public schools last Friday.
The Masons will give a grand ball next
Wednesday evening in Owsley Hall. Tickets
will be issued to Masons only.
Parker, the pen blk, was interviewed at
Helena by Sheriff Jefferis, and made to
disgolge $50, the license required from lottery
schemes of any kind.
Johnny Woodson, a Confederate gulch min
er of early days, and at one time Sheriff of
Meagher county, has returned from Missouri
to make his home in Montana.
On east Park street corner of Galena street,
Mr.. d. L. Batterton is putting up a log
building for a meat market, with a frame
residence to the rear fronting Galena.
The Independent says the rattle of C. E.
Williams thoroughbred mare, Terlulia was
announced to take place last evening at Flow
eree's saloon $50 chances at $40 each.
East of town, on the road leading to the
Silver Bow mill, Mr.. G. c. Vineyard has
lately built a handsome and nicely planned
frame dwelling house, with brick basement.
Montana Commandery No. l of the Knights
Templar, now or the way from Virginia
City to go into e~ncampment, at Butte. are
bringing with them a field tent 24x3O feet,
with eight foot wall.
The furniture for the primary rooms of the
Butte graded school left Milwaukee on the
10th Of last month, and yet no further
intelligence of it has been received at Butte.
1t ought to have been here by this time.
w. S. Parks, the Helena ~tonsorial artist,
who lately opened an emporium or East
Broadway, has sent to Sioux City for his
partner and brother. On his arrival he will
fit up an elegant establishment, and without
doubt will do a sharing business.
Men were at work yesterday grading a
foundation for the fire-proof brick engine
house with which, as a measure OF security,
the Lavell Bros. are about to provide their
planning mill. The brick layers will be set at
work tomorrow.
The absence of rain, and the consequent
dry season, have made it a matter of impera-
tive necessity to open a new saloon and res
taurant in the city. 1t will be opened early
next week, next door west of the Magnolia
saloon OH East Broadway, under the propri-
etorship of Barb Foster.
Messrs. Harlan, Teare & Gipe have just
cleaned up the snug little sum Of 81 ,G19, the
proceeds of 133 tons of ore taken from the
Park lode, near Park City, and crushed at the
Columbia Mining Company's mill at Union
Vile. Silt per ton does not indicate that
quartz mining at the Park is played out.-In-
pendent.
According to the signed articles Rush and
Hammond were to make a second deposit OF
$780, each, tomorrow, for their foot race to
come off in the latter part of next week at
Philipsburg. But Rush has taken time by
the forelock. On his departure for Helena
about a week ago he placed his 500 IN the
hands of Mr.. James Mathews, the depository
of the forfeit money, remarking as he did so
that "he didn't want to take any chances on
losing the first hundled,r from whichit would
appear that Mr.. Rush looks forward to the
race with Hammond as something more of a
"dead thing" than the fleet footed Georges
opponents lave usually found a match with
him to he