The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-03-08
MINOR ITEMS.


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The price to be paid for the Granite mine
at Philipsburg, is $4,000. $4,000 is due in
May.
Mr.. Jordan, the bookkeeper of Capllce &
Co., received a telegram announcingthe sud-
den death of his wife.
The passenger train of the Utah g. North
ern departs every morning from Dillon, the
terminus, at eight o'clock.
1t is reported that several of the prominent
mines of the Summit Valley district, now
idle, Will be started up again soon.
The Episcopal bishnr If Montana, the
Right Rev. L. Brewer, arrived in Helena last
Friday, accompanied by his wife and daughter.
Make preparations to plant trees and orna-
mental shrubs when spring opens, that the
city may improve in appearances, as we'll as
in business.
In the Police Court yesterday a mar had
a hearing for stealing a saddle. The GRIMM
ating evidence being weak the defendant was
duly discharged.
j. M. Venable announces himself a candi-
date for Sheriff of Silver Bow County-sub-
ject to a nomination by the Democratic Coun-
tv Convention.
Last Sunday night the churches and places
of worship in Bntte were well attended.
From the multitude of sinners in this vicinity
the churches should be filed every Sabbath
evening.
The circulating of silver Mexican dollars
seems to be a business in Butte. Dollars of
this kind of coinage are numerous. The
banks will, hereafter, only allow eighty cents
apiece for the coins.
AT the Radersburg term of court, last week,
Reece William Tunnel was found guilty of
~manslaughter and sentenced to five years i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary. He killed
George II. Jones, in October last, at Boulder.
Hon. T. j. Lowry, district attorney for the
third district, is ex-ofticio encouragement of
Montana. He gets $500 a year. How "Jeff."
will be able to sustain the dignity of the
office ON that trifing amount of money
bothers us.
The last Rozeman Courier says that Revs.
Riggin and Van Orsdale are holding a series
of revival meetings in that town, after the
close of which the reverend gentlemen will
go down into Custer county pursuing the
good work.
Thanks are rendered to Messis. George W.
Irvine, Lou Coleman, Lou DAMIEN, Orren
Emerson, and r. L. Davis, of Deer Lodge
for courtesies extended to Jos. A Hyde, OF
the MINER, while on a visit to the permanent
burg IN the valley below
The last Mddisonidn says that it is rumored
that a number of placer claims in Alder
Gulch will be consolidated and another fume
started this season. If the report proves cor
rect it will materially increase the yield of
gold dust in old Alden.
Our Helena contemporaries, the Indepen0-
ent and Herald, are pecking away at each 9TH
er with a vim. There is good
leather in both concerns, aud time, the allie
viator of bitter animosi,ies, will, doubtless
witness both sheets on the stool of repentance,
A private letter from Deer Lodge an
nounces that most all the cases properly be-
longing to Silver Bow county have been con-
been made in order to transfer the cases to
this city for trial at a term Of district court to
be called as soon as practicable.
The last edition of the wonderful weekly,
actually swears in loaded bourgeois. O
~ailusion to the cgotism of the cditor-in- chief
of the valley sheet is sufficient. Then the
.Ner North. UcSt shakes of its insipid stupid
ity and bclches forth in language that would
bring the crimson blush of shame to the
toughened face of an old tish-wonlan..
Billy Shakespeare, or some other immortal
man has said "that coming events cast theil
shadows before" The following prominent
Butte republicans are the gentlemen who con,
sttute The officers of the Inter-Noun'ain Pub
fishing Company: VIM. E. Hall, Presiuen;
Chas. +. Meadcr, Vice President; Charles $
Warren, Secretary; II. A. D'Acheul, Treas
u.cr; Lee Mantle, Business Manager. Direc
torS-Wm. N. Jack, Chas. S. ~arren, G.. T
Meadpr, Lee Mantle, W. Z. Hall, J. B. Read
BENZ ,Sheeks, j. d. Thomas,lI a. D'Acllsul
From Wednesdays DalIy)
Tickets for the grand gift distribution may
he obtained at Newkirk's.
There are eleven United States commits
siouers scattered over Montana, but not ont
is located in Butte.
The >acrifcial season of Lent is coming on
when for 40 days people will be more circum'
spect in their conduct.
The symptoms are that winter is ~vacatins
these parts. The February thaw continues
and the snow is going fast.
We venture the assertion that as yet ",
have soon hut the h%eoinning Of The magni