The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-16
MINOR ITEMS.

OF buildings.
H. l.. Frank has on exhibition a handsome
Gala lily in full bloom. 1t is said to be the
only one of its species in Montana. |
Mrs. p. F. Morrison has rented the Will
liams boarding house, In Centerville, and is
running the same in first class style.
The road between Butte and the terminus |
is reported to be lined with freight wagons
and no further apprehension is felt Of a
freight blockade.
j. Ross Clark, who has been recuperating
his health at his old home in Fairfield, Iowa.
for several weeks, returned to Butte yester-
day looking hale and hearty.
A ditch about one mile long is now being
dug for the purpose of conveying water from
the Gagnon and Original mines to the Dexter
mill. Wooden pipes are being laid so that
The flow of water will continue during the
winter.
From Saturdays Daily.l
The sports who bet Oh California going
democratic will make a big clean up in Butte.
The board of county commissioners refused
| to reduce the assessment ofthe Alice company.
The MINER Office has all the latest I'M
proved facilities for turning out superior job
work at reasonable rates.
Operations will not be resumed on the
Shonpar until next spring, when extensive
hosting machinery will be imported.
In order to meet all its engagements in the
territory, as advertised, the Wyman Com
pany yesterday left Butte for Deer Lodge.
The county returns will be canvassed on
Monday. From the returns so far received,
McAndrews has q slight lead and stands ali
excellent show Of being elected.
On Thursday Donnell, Clark g. Larabie
shipped seven bars Of bullion from Hall
backs mill. valued at $1,000. Yesterday S.
T. Hauser & Co. shipped four bars of Lex
ington bullion valued at $4,000, and five bars
of Silver Bow bullion, valued at $4,000. The
Alice Company shipped three bars valued at
$1,000. Total, $4,000.
We learn from Mr.. Ross Clark that Mr..
Black, travelling agent for the forwarding firm
of B. F. White & Co., and who, it will be re-
membered, was in Butte last winter in COM
pany with Mr.. w. NJ. Rank, of the North
western company, suddenly died Of heart d.
sease at the terminus several days ago. Mr..
Black was widely respected.
Frem the Brighton Ensign, published at
Brighton, Ont, Can, We clip the following
personal in reference to Mr.. M. B. Ketchun,
who has accepted a position inthe drug estab-
l;,l,r,o,k nc AEaeerc Dorohon 3 n'Anhan1 M
this city: ''The friends of Mr.. Marshall B,
D Ketchun will be pleased to learn that he has
, been successful in securing a lucrative posi-
= ton al the far vest whittier he went a shor'
r time ago. He is now in Butte, Montana, en-
gagged in his profession as a pharmaceutis'
ard dispensing chemist at a salary of $1,2O(
per annum. Since his graduation at the On
tario College of Pharmacy, where he carried
Il off the high honor of first prize as botanica
I student among a class Of IS competitors las
I year, he has been engaged in dispensing a
the Getty Pharmacy in Toronto
From Sundays Daily.l
y Bohemian has the reputation Of selling TIT
worst whisky of any town west of the Missis
n sippi.
DR.. Thompson has removed into a hand
some office on the first floor of his new bricl
e building.
c. B. Trowbridge and Messrs. Leyson I
IL Turck are already beginning to stock up thei
new stores.
9 Fred Taylor gave the boys a free blowou
u last night, consisting Of a very creditable va
riety performance.
Cold weather has little terror for Montan
travellers. The Butte coaches arriving an
departing, generally carry from 10 to % pa:
sengers.
y The Methodist Sunday-school entertain
ment last night was we'll attended, and tn
a youngsters acquitted themselves to the sati:
. faction Of those present.
BY the accidental breaking Of one Of sh
foot lights in the Helena theatre by frisk
commedian on Thursday, the Thespian editic
of the capitaltes had a very narrow escap
. from total destruction.
. During the past week the Montana Cope
il Company has shipped to the eastern refine
re- les forty tons of copper matte, and to-la
twenty tons acre will be loaded. This wi
=, leave about fifty tons at the smCltcr, and
W teams can be procured regular shipments wi
70 hereafter DC made,
Of Bullion shipments from Butte for the wee
ending Nov. Is aggregate S3o,4-5' Last wee
the amount was So, $40. Total 20 date du
- in- this month S03,2 G4. This is the large
output of bullion that Butte ever shipped i
-, two weeks, and is a most gratifying eyiden'
OF the Increasing productircncss Of the But
o.
=. mines.
Freight rates to the terminus are higher