The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-03-15
MINOR ITEMS.
From Tuesdays Daily.

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New York quotation places Moulton stock at
So so.
Alice stock is rapidly becoming a ~favorite
in the New York market, and is up between
SIS and so.
Considerable activity in the surveying of
mining property in this and adjoining districts
Is reported.
Some neat, artistic jobs of painting are re-
ceiving their finishing touches at the paint
shops of the city.
Camp Creek is greatly in need of a post
office, and al Office should be established
there without delay.
The MINER job room is rolling out a rush
Of job printing, and the work is turned out in
the latest artistic styles of the art.
Digging up the beds of ice and snow in the
shady places on the streets, aids very much
in getting rid of the wintery element.
The moving of a small saloon across the
west end of Park street bridge, yesterday
afternoon, caused a temporary blockade.
The shelves and counters of E. l.. Bonner
d Co., present a fine appearance, not surpassed
by any other house in the Rocky mountains.
The Mountain Publishing company
has rented the basement and first floor Of the
new Good Templars' hall building, on West
Broadway.
5. V. kemper announces himself as a cam
didate TO- assessor of Silver Bow county, SUBJ
ject to the decision of the democratic county
convent IN.
The salt Of r. Kennon against Gilmer &
Salisbury, for $25, 900 damages, is to be tried
at the present session of the Deer Lodge dis
riot court.
Any citizen in Montana who owns a dunn
my or Il slX-pound smooth-bore cannon, can
sell the same by applying to the paragraph
fiend of the River Press.
The republican managers are mum as to
their campaign accommodating and
doubtful as to the course to pursue in open
ing the coming county conflict.
Information is wanted of the whereabouts
OF Sam. w. Mills, formerly of Carsickatac,
SV'hVJ NioHaSidb, AlCidllu. AuuIGSS UeOTBS
Mills, Emerson, Mills county, Iowa.
The Salt Lake Tribune says tina Mr.. Lock-
ley, formerly editor of that paper, has been
rendered the editorial bench Oh the new re-
publican daily to be started in Butte.
The Courier says that the revival meetings
in the Methodist church at Bozeman, con-
Quoted by the Revs. Riga.n and Van Orsdale,
were interesting and productive of good.
The sinking of the shaft on the Hope lead
has been suspended for a time. The running
OF a cross-crt to the north is going Oh for the
purpose of striking the main vein, and is un-
der fair lloauway.
Mr.. Davis, agent for the Buckeye Engine
company, of Salem, Columbiana county,O., is
visiting Montana, and has put in a new valve
in one Of the engines at the Alice mine that
works to perfection.
The other day a Montanian named Bah
cock was victimizod by Ogden sharps and
relieved of 1920, while passing through that
town. They played the " loaning game " on
tie u~nsuspecting Babcock.
The hotel lie Warfield contains four prison.
eIS. Two ale fed on bread and water, one
Z served with substantial hash, and one goes
nished to county %convicts.
Fred Loeber has been legally parted from
his pretty young wife, who, it appears, did not
know how to behave herself, and knew
enough to throw away what might have other-
| wise proved, TO her, a fortune.
4 correspondent III Meagller county writes:
1T is feared that twenty-five per cent. Of the
sheep in this section Of Montana will be lost.
Len Lewis loses 5000 out of $500 head, aud
Burt j. Kline have lost 1000 out OF 5000
| head
Many Of the mines that have not been
worked during the winter will he started up
soon. Winter is about over and work on a
large number OF The mines that have been in
2 suspended condition for several mouths,
will be actively resumed again.
The Ogden Daily Pilot has made its al
pearance, and has reached our table. 1t is q
neatly printed little iye-colulnn-to-the-p page
paper, and is tuil OF local lite. May the Pilot
be able to pilot its way into tie rank of per,
manent newspapers is ou- greeting.
On Sunday morulng last Louis kegpI, q
painter by trade, entered Steinberg's paint
shop on West Park street, about 7 O'Clock,
bent over in a cramPcd condition. Kegel had
not been in the shop 80 minutes when le fell
over and was dead. Heart disease was the
cause Of his death.
4 note from Glendale says: "Our town
is quite dull. The Hecla mining company
have just discharged forty men, aud this has a
depressing influence on business, and bus