The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-04-26
From Saturdays Daily.l

Fred. Taylor's troupe will have several new
artists added to it in a day or so.
The penitentiary and insane asylum have
an equal number of inmates -fifty-four each.
Advertisements for the Sunday MINER
must be handed in early to insure insertion.
The Stevens will be numbered with the
mining interpretations of Butte within a few
days.
Reed, who murdered Garland at Philips
burg, has been indicted for murder in the
first degree.
The Right Worthy Grand Lodge of L. O.
o. F.. meets in Helena on next Wednesday,
the 27th instant.
Business is becoming brisker in Butte. Our
merchants report increasing sales in almost
all the lines OF trade.
The Trowbridge block and several other
business houses on Main street are receiving
fresh coats of paint.
E. ID. Reynolds has purchased of D.. NJ.
Buck a house and lot on Granite street, with
a frontage on the st.eet of t~hirty-two feet.
A number of carriages filed with the
friends of the deceased followed the remains
of Charles Blum to the cemetery yesterday.
The Pacific chinook of yesterday, in con-
nection with the conjunction OF Saturn and
Jupiter, passed over without any dire results.
Our Deer Lodge cotem. mentions the fact
that a number of citizens of that town are
pulling up stakes and will remove to Butte.
Popular approval is the criterion to forming
a correct judgment, and the crowds at the
Opera House attest the popularity of that
place.
Barrett & Warren's monthly Mining Re
aieau is issued to-day. A hasty glance at its
contents shows it to be well filled with mining
intelligence.
The U. S. grand jury in session one day at
Deer Lodge found ten indictments. These
indictments are supposed to be against par
ties for illegal voting.
The Amy-Silversmith shaft, on the north
vein of the mine, is down over seventy feet,
and it is timbered is substantial shape. No
water, except surface water, is met with in
the shaft.
4 prairie schooner, with two swings at
tached, drawn by eighteen mules, arrived
from the terminus yesterday. The outfit was
freighted with a miscellaneous cargo of mer-
chandise.
School Superintendent Hardenbrook in
tends locating in Butte, and he will remove
his family from Deer Lodge to this city next
week, having rented a residence Oh Granite
street.
A tunnel is being driven to prospect the
Rosenthal find, near the mouth of Park can
yon, the float quartz from which fully ~iustities
the doing of considerable work to find the
main ledge.
Joseph A. Hyde has accepted the agency of
the Bell Telephone company for Butte. Sew
eral lines, connecting business houses with
private residences, will be put up imme-
diately.
The strike Of a new vein of ore on the
Moulton company's ground, mentioned in
Yesterday , hlNElt. ID ilhtiy W p'oFS WY
valuable acquisition to the property, as the
new ore body assays h gh up in the ounces.
The sisters are making a very thorough
and successful canvass for subscriptions to aid
in building the new hospital. The Sisters
are performing the good work with untlring
energy. One man gave his last ten-dollar
bill. Casting his bread upon the waters,
perhaps.
At the approaching city election every
qualified elector will be entitled to vote for
city officers. The amended election law OF
Montana provides that each elector shall "be
entitled to vote for delegate to congress, and
for territorial, district, county, precinct and
municipal officers"
North West, 22d; Quite an assembiase
gathered at the Willow Run farm on WedneS-
day to witness the exhibition OF stock.
Several animals were put around the half
mile track in good shape. Billy Grant
crossed the score in l:l7. Herod was on the
track but was driven leisurely. Deer Lodge
can boast of finer horses and more of them
than any other Montana town.
From Sundays Daily.l
The crowd of strangers and visitors is
steadily increasing in Butte.
The bullion shipment for the week shows
AN increase over last week of "a 900.
Last night the main shaft of the Moulton
mine had reached a depth OF over 800 feet.
The Helena dailies say that the .Plunketts
are drawing large audiences at Ming's opera
house in that city.
The police court has had very little to do
for the past week. Violations of the law have
been few and far between.
During the past week the dropping of the