The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-02-08
MINOR ITEMS.
From THURSDAYS Dally.l

From THURSDAYS DARYL
Sol Siegle returns to Salt Lake this morn \
ing. The gentleman is much pleased with \
Butte.
The masquerade of which a notice appeared
on Sunday is to be given by the members Of
the Silver City Cornet band.
The Moulton stock certificates have arrived
and can be had at the banking house of Don
mel, Clark & Larabie by subscribers.
Lee Mantle returned from Dillon on Satur-
day bringing with him the wife and family
OF Mr.. Bretherten, assistant secretary Of the
Moulton company.
j. A. Hodgman, of the Virginia Chop
House, returned yesterday in company with
his brother, W. A. Hodgman, a prominent
bushes man Of Ogden.
Yesterday, the Silver Bow company, per
S. 7. Houser & Co., shipped seven bars Of
bullion valued at $4,000 and the Alice ship
ped five bars valued at SS,21o.2O
Judge Barrett received a dispatch last night
from Helena stating that five sections of the
division bill have been adopted in the COM
mittee of the whole, including Numbers
amendment,
Mr.. John Jolly has bought out his former
partner, Mr.. Black, and will hereafter conduct
the business alone. Mr.. Jolly is a skillful
workman, attends personally to his business
and always gives satisfaction.
On Saturday night, at some point between
Browns Bridge and Willow Creek, a man
whose name our informant, the Overland
stage driver, could not ascertain, was frozen
to death. Deceased, with another man, was
walking to the terminus. Both men are said
to have been inebriated, but the victim hav-
ing taken too much whisky. became unable
to proceed and lay down for his long sleep.
His companion FASTENED to the next station,
but before assistance could return the unfor-
tunate man was frozen beyond hope of re-
covery. He died early the next morning.
From Wednesdays Baily.l
The Good Templars hall is rapidly nearing
completion.
Alder gulch was blockaded for three DAYS
las week by snow drifts.
A big wash-out is reported on the Utah and
Northern, in Marsh valley, a short distance
north of Ogden.
A number of the shares of the Bell Mining
Company of Butte have already been sold in
Helena.-Herdld.
Butte has been selected as the place in
which the teachers institute will be held be-
ginning March 21st.
The Magma Charta shaft house is now
lighted by electricity, a wire having been
extended from the Alice works.
At the bottom of the main shaft ofthe Mag
ma Charta, a station has been cut out and
sinking resumed at a depth of 206 feet.
The Bozeman Courier states that David
Boerum has been removed from the position
of deputy collector of the U. S. internal rev.
enue.
Mr.. w. A. Cole, delivered to Mr.. Ornstein
at the Peoples Market. yesterday, forty fine
deer which he recently killed on Raiders
creek.
The Madis0nian, in speaking eulogistical-
ly of a performance by the Virginia City min
strels, says that "ye local" was not among the
audience. Perhaps he was among the per-
formers.
In regard to the prospect of selling mines
the New York World says: "There is not
the boom which made the Fifth Avenue hotel
a mining rendezvous a year ago, but there is
not the horror Of the word mime which was
felt after the Little Chief Joined Chrysolite
and Little Pittsburg in its farewell to divi-
dends. Mining is on a better basis than it
has been before in this city. Capitalists are
willing to invest in good mines, but they
want to be assured that they are good"