The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-30
MINOR ITEMS.

from Tuesdays Daily.]
| Old Sol yesterday fractured the spinal YER
bra of King winter.
A heavy mining sale is likely to be consum.
ated in a few days.
lis reported that Helena has given up the
lea Of securing the railroad. b
1t is said that a street car line will soon
bnnect Butte and Walkerville.
The Algonquin company yesterday shipped
lie bars of bullion valued at $1,000.
Real estate property is rapidly approaching
! value and rents are exorbitantly high.
No eastern mail yesterday. The sudden
law has doubtless rendered the roads almost
npassable.
Salisbury is to have a newspaper. Why not?
has a stage station and a hotel, and would
Import a paper in good style.
The warm weather has put an end to the
~arrying epidemic which ragged here with
kch virulence during the winter months.
Eight pounds and a half of cherub yester-
Nv arrived at Mr.. McMurphey's residence.
Is a little girl, and the gentleman is highly
ated.
All the Helena mercantile houses having
Fanches in this city are forced tothe acknowl-
kement that the Butte establishments are
bing the greater business. Herald please
bpy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bailey, for some time resi-
knts of this city, boarded the southern coach
Sunday without previous consultation with
er numerous creditors, and left for Salt
AXE City, their former home.
TFrom Wednesdays Daily.l
Helena is said to be overrun with old
aids.
Developments in the Gagnon continue to
very encouraging.
The hot whisky boom has died out and ice
team will soon be on the market.
A large number of mercantile musicians,
Bmetimes called drummers, are in Butte
terviewing our merchants.
Butte has the gem puzzle disease very bad.
is worse than the h~ydrophobia.
Few grangers were in the city yesterday
hing to the condition of the roads.
Within the past few weeks lead has de-
eciated in value thirteen dollars per ton.
The Yankee Fork Herald is now publish
on tinted straw paper, and comes on the
If shell.
Mr.. Frank Brown, of the Horn Silver
,tah) Company, left for the south on yester-
fy's coach.
I What have the Helena papers to say con-
rning a paragraph in the New York Mining
ecord about the Penobscot ?
The Capital is now regarded as the repre-
~ntative Republican paper of Helana. The
|eratd is merely a Blaine organ.
Mr.. Rouhiem, OF the Montana Copper Com
my, reports a great deal of inquiry
the East regarding the mining prospects of
lis district.
A gentleman was fined ten dollars and costs
3sterday for o~rnamenting the c~ountenance
one of his employees whose negligence had
riously retarded his business.
Representative gentlemen of the Deer
Odge county Republicans held an informal
ucus yesterday, but did little besides discuss
merits Of the several Presidential candi-
ktes.
From Thursdays Daily.)
The police court was quiet as the tomb yes
rday.
The snow has entirely disappeared from
e streets.
Donnell, Clark & Larabie shipped $1,000
orth of bullion yesterday.
The long-distance riders are making active
operations for the Forthcoming contest.
The Utah and Northern trains now run
Rteen miles beyond Beaver Canon to Pine
uttes. On the completion of the ware
buses at that point freight at Beaver Canon
IL be removed and the new terminus will
established.
Alice Mining