The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-30
MINOH ITEMS.
[From Tuesday's Daily.

goes up.
Mr.. A. E. briggs has taken the boarding
house formerly owned by ]. II. butler. IL
will doubtless be run in frst-elass style.
A Virginia City (Npy.) dispatch, received
last night, says tie Consolidated Imperial
mine is On fire in the 2O5O foot level.
Geo. Clendenin has bought a one sixth in
teIest in the Belle Of The West and War Es-
gle lodes, IN the Judith district, for So, 900.
AT the invitation of Mr.. Ruthrauffthe mem
bers OIL city council last night visited the
Alice property to witness the burning of ths
e~lectrict light.
The Independent says ut is reported
that the Miss 'uri river was frozen between
Bismarck and Fl. Buford on the 18th inst.
and that three steamers were imprisoned By
the ice above Bismarck"
Our entei prising cotem., the Herald, will
on the beginning of the new year, enlarge its
weekly issue to the same size as the Weekly
MINER. We are glad TO note that tile Capi-
tai journal proposes to Catch up with the
times.
MIR. John II. Curtiss is erecting q neat and
tasty residence OF the corner of Washington
street and Curtis avenue. Mr.. Curtis is one.
OF the recent arrivals al Butte, and is so inn
pressed with the bright future in store for the
West Side metropolis that he proposes to sstie
to" it for all time.
In the police court yesterday a fellow was
fined $40 and costs f,r breaking the window
OF a house on Park street and maltreatine !
woman. Before Judge Wilcox, acting as ius-
t'ce OF. the peace, a maj named Lingle, whs
was arrested OH a charge Of beating his wife,
was liberated. 1t was shown that he became
enraged and smashed a sewing machine, but
Mrs. Lingle testified that he committed ma
personal violence.
Inc Husbdndfadn is much agitated because
all the whisky in Meagher comfy is being
sold to tile Indians. 1t says that the COM
mander at Fort Maginnis has issued an order
rorbiddihg the sale Of whisky either by the
drink or wholesale, but it is not probable that
this will 'emedy matters, as dealers with the
Indians can get $40 horses for a pint Of whis-
KY The editor of our cotem. says the situa-
ton IS full of danger, and asks what shall be
done. We would advise him to purchase his
supply direct from Helena.
Gt'rom Wednesdays Daily.l
The stage fare to the terminus is SIS.
Electric lights will be used for the ilI,lmipa
ton of the Moulton mill.
Alarge number of Montanians are winter
ing in Salt Lake, and The Tribune says they
are all I" flush"
In Madison county the election OF probate
judge resulted in a tie between Clark {dem,.
and Williams <rep.) A new election has
been ordered on the Goth inst.
The site for the new Moulton shaft has
been selected and the work of sinking will
begin to-day under the experienced foreman
ship of Mr.. Pat. Clark.
A correspondent wants to know what is the
frussian Diet OF which he sees frequent men
ton IN the dispatches. 1t is generally CON-
posed of sauer kraut, lager beer and linn
berger cheese.
The strictly private meeting in the upper
end Of town last night was not very well at
tended, but was rendered very pleasant by the
large amount of moral support promised for
a momertous enterprise.
From THURSDAYS Da,lv.l
Coal oil has advanced 81 per case.
1t is reported that the Black Bear is 10 be
stocked.
Sleighing was never better than it is in
Butte at the present time. a..
The youths Of the Silver City are having a
high old time oil the skating ponds.
The thermometer registered 81 degrees
below zero yesterday morning at the SILVER
Bow mill.
The occupation Of the Ice man is Othelioes.
and The ice cream business has gone into VIA.
ter quarters.
The one-stamr mill was in operation for a
short time yesterday in the Thornton mill.
A public exhibition will soon be given.
The lights at the Alice mills, accerdin. TO LIN,
report made to Superintendent Hall yesterday,
worked On the previous night to perfection.
During the absence Of Mr.. VIM. NrDer-
mott, who will leave for the east in a fen,
days, Mr.. w. 4. Boardmsn, will be in charge
OF the Clipper mill.
The completion Of the Howell rooster wbich
is being erected in the Silver Bow mill for
the working of custom ores has been temper
arily delayed by the severity of the weather.
BY the electric Lighting proposition, it is as
serted that Butte would be lighted i've times
as well as Salt Lake City, which has 220 gas
lamps and Butte would be ore OF Tbs best
lighted cities in the world.