The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-18
MINOR ITEMS. b,
From Fridays Dally.J

in shipping' ore, bullion and copper matte,
averages $4,000. "
The road between Butte and Philipsburg is
still impossible for teams. Tn mail is car
ried by pony express. =#i . -#
Butte has . heavier export trade than all
other towns of Montana taken together and
it is only just beginning. a
The repairing of the water mains is still
going on. All The Main street pipes have
been or will be taken up. --. H..
The Algonquin company for the present is
shipping its bullion via Deer Lodge. The
mill is in very successful operation.
Marshal Warfeld has a force Of men &C.
lively employed in clearing from the streets
the accumulated debris of the past? ? winter.
The ravines and gulches in the valley in
front of Butte are not yet clear of snow.
They are considerably below the level of the
town, too.
The telegraph Office is to be removed i'm
mediately<to the building lately occupied by
the Y. NJ. G. A. reading room, next door to
the MINER office.
Lee W. Foster & Co. intend soon to put
up a telephone line etween the main store
in Butte and the branch house at Silver Bow.
The wire has been ordered from The East.
The sidewalks leading south from the
Western brewery are in a f~earfully dilapidated
condition. The rotten and broken planks
should DO at once taken up and new ones
supplied.
The Rev. F. A. Riggin, of the M. E. church
will hold religious services in Butte on the
fourth Sunday of May, the 23d instance. Mr..
Higgins large circle of friends will rejoice on
learning that he has recovered from his late
illness.
Mr.. Halvorson's brick dwelling house was
sold by auction at noon yesterday according
to announcement. Mr.. julius Levy was the
purchaser at the price of 50, $50, cash down.
A pretty good figure, even for so lively a
own as Butte.
Helena must number a fair number OF
!, German Catholics among her citizens. The
. Herald of the 7th contains a notice in Hock
e Deutsch informing the public that on Sunday
g evening, May 9th, and on each evening oftht
week following, a sermon in the German Ian
guage would be preached in the Catholi,
# church, by the Rev. Father Camp.
81 A letter for publication reaches us from
70 Philipsburg, but-fatal onision-the write
u has failed to attach his signature thereto
I'll Now the statements which a writer is unwill
ing to attest with his own name are surely ir
- vested with an ali of doubt, to say the leas'
=. so authors of anonymous communicated
=, need feel neither surprised nor aggrieved if a
editor does not choose to assume the respoI
sibility of what they themselves appear to
ashamed of. 1t was for the accommodation
letters of this class that the sanctum was
basket was invented.
I'm
hn From Saturdays Daily
ost In the police court yesterday John Doe al
Richard Roe, strange names, were each tint
five dollars and costs for pugilism.
M as sool as teams can be secured, the Mo
'A tana Copper company will ship east for
,ei~ duction about 1900 tons of ore. Some of tt
ic amount will be treated at PhnniXville, p
o"- and the remainder at Baltimore, Nd.
A gentlemen who arrived from the Boult
l.. yesterday brought information of a very +
- strike made in a mine a few miles this s
of Cataract, near the stage road. The
runs very high in silver and gold.
!, IF In Judge Irvine's court, on Thursday mig
ling a man named llehy' VINO was at'es'eu
,ritt Camp creek by officer Rains for horse steali
free was brought up for preliminary hearing. l
yitb prisoner waived examination and was bou
over in the sum of $500 to appear sn the /
a trict court.
four Main street was the scene OF 4 lively I'll
,ga- way yesterday. A pair of horses with a il
rack became alarmed and dashed with terri
speed toward Mantle and Owsleys stall
Inc Turning the corner, they continued their II
ny course down Park street, demolished
IL IS harness-maker's sign and had neared the l.
l 10 ington mill when the driver, who on the S
had lost his balance ana lay helplessly
tangled in the bottom OF the rack, mana
to e~xtricate himself and bring the team
NV halt. One corner Of the rack was broke
vel ,.
splinters.
1t of Whit IL / S' '''he " I A"'''" ~ w.
III. our promise to report, rerbottH1, the mir
the suit of Murray & Durfee VS.. the Algonq
outs Co. of Phillpsburg. The case is expected
,ha occupy about ten days, and a rerbotim rel
.vo1 of a ten days trial would more than fill
,cl' MINERS broad pages, to the exclusion of
idle other mater. For a condensation a pho
the graphic report would not be required; he
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as the liShthihS sciloe Vi lie " VIM
in jot down the winged shafts of sarcasm,
cod golden pinioned creations of the magma;
he as they take their flight III the fore