The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14
From Thursdays Dali e,
The freight boom has subsidized,

AICiSuu UOOu Has SuDSlOGO,
Ihe county commissioners adjourn to-day.
Miners can obtain location blanks at this
Office.
Nothing before the police magistrate on
yesterday.
z bridge is to be put across Missoula gulch
on the county road.
Jno. Mcclure has been appointed postmas-
ter at Helemsville, in Deer Lodge county.
Entries for the Fourth of July races in
Mlssoula close on the Saturday preceding
the races.
The Bitter Root people think that thew
nave plenty Of quartz that will pay to ship to
Butte.
For the week ending June LIST one forward
ing house in Dillon sent over PIP, 900 bounds
of freight to Butte.
The bullion shipments for yesterday
through the Butte express Office amounted to
965 pounds, valued at SIS $40.
Choice lines of Spring Hats (Stetson and
other celebrated makes) at reduced prices at
SANDS & BOYCE.
Helena people report a grand mix up in
mail matters under the new postmaster. Sun
days mail was not distributed until Monday
afternoon.
Within the past w. weeks there have been
a numbe of new quartz lodges reported on
SweathOuse, the lowest assay going 80 ounces
to the ton. A quarz mill is wanted.
The MINER office now has in stock a num-
Der of copies of Copp's Hand Book of Mining
Law. 1t treats of manv subjects of interest
to mine owners and %locators. Price ST.. If.
Another washout on the U. & N, and a
consequent delay in freight and passenger
traffic, but no long delay need be feared.
Trains will probably be running regularly in
two days.
Next Sunday afternoon there is to be a race
etween the horses Terlulia and Joe Howell,
1t being a matched race tor $500 per side,
mile heats, two in three, Howell to carry LOG
pounds and Terlulia 80.
The county commissioners on Yesterday
contracted with John Caplice for the use of
the building he is now erecting on the corner
of Park and Montana streets, at 5000 per
month, This includes court room and five
offices for the use of county officers.
Last week the community of Missoula was
thrown into a state of agitation over a COW
case. A COW and calf were the objects of the
wrangling, and costs amounting to 500 were
rolled up. Both sides having Introduced the
best of evidence, the learned j. P. proved
himself a second Solomon by awarding tc
one party the COW. and giving the calf to the
other. No one was happy but the lawyers.
Mr.. Ben Ezekiel, of Helena, is visiting the
silver metropolis for a few days. While here
Mr.. Ezekiel will receive subscriptions fol
Jefferson Davis "Rise and Fall of the Con
federate Government" and "Around the
World with General Grant," by John Russell
Young. Parties desiring copies of either o.
the above interesting works should yield al
attentive ear to friend Ezekiers persuasive
eloquence.
Well educated people il the east frequently
display most lamentable ignorance of west.
ern geography. A case in point is related by
a Missoula lady who received a letter from
friend about to move 81, 800 miles west'' tt
Omaha, asking the Missoulian to meet her a
the depot. As Missoula is only 1880 mile
further west, the request will undoubtedly b.
complied with. While Judge Woody was a
a Georgia hotel, two years ago, he received
word that a lady wished to see him, and wa
surprised not a little when she told him tina
hearing he was from Montana she thought h.
must know her brother who lives in Prescott
Arizona. These incidencs remind us of thu
Montana woman, who, hearing a gentleman
say he was from Chicago, was much surprise,
to learn that he did not know her sister wh'
lived in St. Louis.-Missoulian.