The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-02-17
Minor Items.

lrTOIn IueSuayS Dally.J
The hotels are full.
There were no arrests yesterday.
Virginia City has organized a rifle club.
The Chinaman recently assaulted by a !
Helena hoodlum is not dead as reported.
Copper stocks on the Eastern market are
active and steady with an inclination to rise.
The first fly of the season, the harbineer of
spring, visited the MINER sanctum yesterday.
Call again.
The expenses of running the Territory last
year were $42, 197. 9S. The estimate for 1880
is $42, $50. 10.
We acknowledge the receipt of the pre-
MUM list in pamphlet form, of the Eleventh
Annual Fair of the Montana Agricultural,
Mineral and Mechanical Association for 1880.
The cigars contributed by Messrs. Brown
u Frank, for the benefit of the Irish relief
fund, were auctioned off on Sunday afternoon
by Mr.. Fred. Taylor. The sum realized was
SAT.
some fine music was dlscourseG by the
Butte String Band at Loeber's hall last even
ing. We can promise excellent music for the
grand mask ball if last nights practice may
be taken as a sample.
Within the past week a number of prospects
have been leased to different parties. Own
ers OF small claims experience little diff.
Guilty in leasing them to others who have the
means to prosecute development, and in a
vast majority of cases the leases result profit
ably to all parties concerned.
moose was turned loose on Main street
yesterday which occasioned a good deal of
sport for the boys, who didn't know whether
it was a dromedary or a kangaroo. Several
ladies were really frightened by the uncouth
and u~ngainly appearance of the animal, but
as it Is the intention of the owner to break it
to work in harness, the general horror con-
sequent upon its first appearance will soon
disappear.
From Wednesdays Daily.1
Bedrock has been reached in Yog0 gulch.
The Police Court was as quiet as the tomb
yesterday.
Mr.. VIM. Rank, of the Northwestern For.
warding Co., is in Helena.
The masquerade ball, given in Helena on
Monday evening, is pronounced a grand sue.
cess.
1t is said that a coal mine only twenty-six
miles from Fort Benton, has recently beer
discovered, which shows a t~our-foot vein o.
an excellent quality.
A miner named Pat O'Neil, employed al
the Alice, slightly crushed his foot between
the cage and timbels yesterday morning. The
accident was painful but not dangerous.
The prisoners OF the Lewis and Clarke
county Jail are employed Oh the public work:
of Helena. Can not some plan be devised tc
utilize the muscle of the Deer Lodge count,
convicts:?
The lot recently purchased by Messrs
Parchen 4 D'Acheul and DR.. Horgh, fol
building purposes, adjoins the Centennia
hotel on the east, not an the south, as som.
supposed.
Ma. F. r. Mcdonnell, special agent of thu
Union Pacific Railroad Company, arrived il
Helena on Monday and will visit Butte in thu
course of a few days to make contracts will
our merchants for spring and summer freight
The Chinese celebration of New Years ha
been in progress several days. and has afforded
almost as much amusement to Christians a
to the heathens. Yesterday several partle
of ladies' and gentlemen visited the Chimes
quarter to view the sights, and were in al
cases Hospitality entertained by the knights c
the tub.