The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-18

On thursday night, q HeWF WluulaSs, III
tended for the Sunny Side mine, was stolen
from the residenc ofMr.Rowand, who will en-
davor to make it interesting for the thief if
caught. The windlass was quite an expensive
one, with a finely-tnrned roller, and the guilty
party will find it difficult to escape detection.
Mr.. Rowand is now expecting some one to
steal the Sunny Side shaft.
We are pleased to receive a note from Mr.
Randall II. Kemp in which the writer says
he is recovering as rapidly as could be ex-
pected from the painful operation of having
an eye taken out. Mr.. Kemp submitted to
this operation a short time ago, under the
skilful hands of DR.. Leavit, in consequence
of an injury received in the Silver Creek
District. He is still at Glendale, and still in
charge of his physician.
(From Sundays Dally)
The street-sprinkler has gone into winter
quarters.
Mr.. G. G. Thurston, of FISH Greek, has this
spring lost 400 lambs, owing to the extraordi-
nary backwardness of the season. Three
hundred were killed by one storm about three
weeks ago. "....@. ..r
Michael O'Connor returned from Yogo a
few days ago. He did not find anything there
that justified his putting in the season. How
ever, as to the richness of the mines he could
say nothing, as no sluices had, at the time he
left, been set, and only the Cameron Co.'S
drain was on bedrock.-1ndependent, 1Ah.
We commend to our readers attention the
well written communication of Professor
Hassell concerning the urgent necessity of All
increase in Butte's educational facilities. We
shall have something to say on the same sub
ject in our next issue.
The handsome new fire engine is stored in
= small building on West Broadway, opposite
the dwelling house lately sold by Mr.. e. A.
B. Halvorson. From its present place OF
keeping the engine can easily be run out Of
town and beyond danger in case of fire.
Mr.. John Cannovan, of Glendale, has
brought with him to Butte his daughter Kitty,
the little girl whose hand was so frightfully
l~acerated a few months ago by the explosion
OF a giant powder cap. The poor hand is
sadly mutilated, the index and second fingers
being entirely gone and the third drawn
/ partly shut by shortening of the tendons.
Our dispatches to-day contain a very full
account of the destruction of Milton, a
thriving little Pennsylvania town. In reflect.
ing upon SO appalling a calamity as that OF
G Milton it is comforting to think that the wind
never blows in this neighborhood, and that
none of the Butte houses are built of wood
or other combustible material. If it were
not for those fortunate circumstances Butte
, would be liable to be wiped out some day a
:. completely and speedily as was Milton.
+. We have received a couple of communica
tons from Phillpsburg for publication, bu
IN their statements and general tenor are SO con
H. Trajectory that their appearance side by side il
he print could only serve to increase the confus
of ION already c~onfoundmg the minds of thos
te who have tried to follow the ms and outs q
the Philipsburg mine seizure. For this, an
the further reason that the matter has no
advanced beyond the stage Of discussion, tn
nd articles in question, although well write
ed and interesting to quite an uncommon degre'
are respectfully declined.