The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-02-22
MINOR ITEMS.
From fridays Daily

yesterday rom a visit to California.
In the police court, yesterday, no cases,
either hard or tender, were called.
The supply Of feedstuffs for brutes and ami
mails is fair and prices moderate.
Butter, old enough to be bald-headed, read
lily brings forty cents per pound in this mar
ket.
1t costs a man six bits to enjoy the luxury
of a bath in one of those elongated, oval
shaped bath tubs.
Poker-playing, faro guessing and games Of
chance of a similar similarity are having their
usual run of votaries.
The cabinet at the Office of the Alice Com
pany is filled with many fine specimens of
rock from the famous Alice mine.
Ore haulers are having an easy time.
Sleds slide over the we'll broken roads with
ease, requiring little power to propel them at
a rapid rate.
The approaching Butte boom will not be a
sickly simeon, to blind one briefly, but it will
be a solid aggregation of wealth and muscle
that will come to Butte to stay.
Tit tributes of respect paid 10 the memory
of Oscar Sedman, in the house, by Represen-
tatives Blake, DeWolfe and Cullen, were ora
torical efforts of a high order.
The boys of Butte are on their good be-
havior at all times. The lectures and admo-
nitions they receive in the school rooms
operate as preventives of hoodlumish acts.
Tha pCrtnr or n0p,nnoitNr h1nndarni in
mentioning the transfer OF property On Main
street in yesterdays issue. Mr.. Fitchen paid
SO 800 for the desirable property referred to,
instead of $500, as reported.
I%mpecunious and needy lawyers, and the
number is many, will be delighted to learn
that a law is about to be enacted providing
pay, in certain cases, where attorneys are
called upon to defend criminals who are too
poor to pay for their defense.
The Mining Register, issued at Lake City,
Colorado, carries the following astonishing
assertion at its editorial masthead: "Pub-
lished in the richest silver mining district in
the known world-the field of the cloth of
~silver!'' The benighted %propellers of the
Register are totally ignorant of the existence
of Butte.
The smoke of battle for the county division
had barely blown over when local politicians
of both parties-democrats and republicans
began the agitation of proposing or suggest
ing possible and probable candidates for the
offices to be filled at the ensuing election. As
the election zones off in April some of the
aspirants are likely to be April-fooled.
The final finding of the coroner's jury in
the Belmont mine disaster, concludes that
the death of the six miners "resulted from
the heated foul air, generated by fire, which
fire originated accidently in a blacksmith
shop, dangerously located at the mouth of
said tunnel, and is furthermore to be attrib-
utcd to the fact that there existed no way of
escape open to them, save through the flames
in the mouth of said tunnel ; the existence
of said blacksmith shop being in accordance
with a custom prevailing among miners,
which custom We, the jury, do most emphati-
cally condemn"
[From Saturdays Daily.l
Private boxes will soon be ready for occu.
pancy at Fred Taylor's Opera House.
The days are growing longer at both ends
very perceptiblJ.
The Herald says that the Rt. Rev. l.. r
Brewer, the new Episcopal bishop for Mon
tana, will reach Helena this week.
Generally Butte whisky is mild and pro
duces invigorating emotions, but som of il
must be mixed up with the drunk element
predominating.
The court calendar for the February tern
of the district court, to be held in Deer Lodge
next week, contains eighty-five civil cases o
more or less importance.
Transfers of real estate in the city are no
[ numerous. Property owners are not inclin
ed to dispose of real estate at present figures
preferring to take their chances of highe
prices.
TIL constant reader of the "proceeding
of the legislature" will observe that there i
no opposition to the passage of memorial
directed to that turbulent body called tn
congress of the United States.
1t is understood that a term of district cour
for Silver Bow county will be held in Butte
commencing the first week III May. Thi
time is as soon as a term can be called in thi
county under the provisions of the law.
The Benton Daily Record records the in
telligence that the snow is light in the Moca
sin mountains and there is no great depth o
snow southeast of the Highwood mountains
except IN the immediate vicinity CT the judith
Gap.
The publication of card-announcements o
candidates for Office is now proper. The ad