The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-31
MINOR ITEMS.


Filling in and. leveling up the streets of
at several points is a noticeable i'm
provement.
Secretary Carl Shurz passed through Mon-
tana in a hurry, Scarcely taking time to ex-
anime anything.
In the Cataract district the number OF lode
claims staked and recorded up to the middle
of August reached 1922.
TIT last quarterly dividend of the Hecla
Mining company, of So per share, was paid
shareholders at Boston on the 10th of the
present month.
The New York Engineering and Mining
Journal says that the following Montana
stocks are listed at the American Stock eA
change: Alta Montana, Alice and Bonanza
Chief.
There is an abundance Of game, deer and
antelope, fat and fattening, OH the hunting
grounds in the territory, from which it is ex-
pected that the markets will be furnished at
low rates.
Quite an excitement was created on Main
street yesterday by a man tumbling through
a saloon window. Whisky TO blame. Man
perfectly innocent, but he paid for the dam
ages all the same.
Our police court room is a model place of
quietness. No cases and, in consequence, no
punishment. Evil doors receive their just
deserts in this court, and are endeavoring to
keep away from it.
The humps and measles are among the
children in the city. These diseases are not
dangerous, but they do cause parents much
anxiety and many nights of sleepless, patient
watching of the little ones afflicted.
One of Butte's sharpest sports writes from
Helena that he will need a freight wagon to
carry all the money he intends TO win during
the week Of fair entertainment Possibly he
may be one of the boys who will walk home
after The services are over.
H. S. Howell, general superintendent of
Gilmer u Salisbury's lines in Montana and a
portion Of Idaho, is now paying Butte a call.
Capt. Ho we'll is just the man to be in charge
of this business, as he commands executive
ability of the highest order.
The noted Broadway mine, gold, in the
Silver Star district, Madison county, is to be
started up again. There is a great deal of
$14 to SIS free-milling gold quartz in this
mine. The yield of the Broadway, during
the last year that it was worked, was over
100000.
The list of delegates and alternates selected
by the democrats Of Beaverhead county to
represent them in the Territorial Convention
is composed of representative democrats.
The Beaverhead delegation, although unin-
strlcted, is composed, almost unanimously,
of strongly-pronounced, antl-ffth term dem
ocrats.
The members of the Butte City Cornet
Band and others, commanded by Mayor
Walton, departed for Lost Creek yesterday.
The party expect to enjoy themselves in trout
fishing. They are armed for all emergencies
or contingencies, being provided with fish
hooks, powder and guns, and a heap Of
whisky.
The Butte party OF Wood River prospect
ors, after spending a number Of weeks il
prospecting in that country. are returning
One Of the party, writing from Bannack, say:
that they would switch off at that place ant
They did not see anything in the Wood Rive
country to tie to.
Mr.. j. E. Hyde. one of the successful
miners Of Alder gulch, when that gulch wa
>,~.-;-r t. -1 D,tt, l,et,;nt n,1 =
astonished at beholding the amount of de
velopment met with. Mr.. Hyde has spen
most of the summer prospecting in Arizona
and is of opinion that Montana presents
better field for the prospector than the no
sand hills of Arizona.
Mr.. A.. Meyer, the commercial travele
from San Francisco who was held on tn
complaint of Mr.. Lew Coleman, county treas
urer, for a violation of the license law, wa
released. Mr.. Coleman was notified that MI
Meyer was held on the grounds alleged in hi
telegraphlc dispatch, and to send up the evi
dence from Deer Lodge. In reply to thi
Meyer, which was accordingly done. MI
Meyer was warm over the proceeding, assert
ing that the charge had no foundation.
From saturdays Daily.
Excavation fortlle cellar for the Trowbridgt
brick block, ON the corner OF Main and Quart
streets, is going en- i'll the solid granite bed
rock.
4 shortcut, straight road is being bui,
from Slnneberger station, Oh the T.. y. raj
road, to the Lemhi, which is on the Salmo
City road.
Herald: The "Stelnmetz badge" shot fo
by the Helena ltille Club, was awarded t
Col. Hundley, who scored G3 out of Il poss
BILE of IS.