The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-04-05

When he republican convention ia tilted !
the dried programme last Saturday night one
of the best posted observers in the city made
the remark "Witter for clerk and recorder!
Why, that's only another way for spelling
Charles S. Warren
Lou Smith is one of the party that first
struck good placer mines in what is now |
Montana. The find was made in the summer |
of lS62-nearly nineteen years ago-on
Whites bar on the Grasshopper, some three
miles below Bannack.
George W. Dopp, cook by trade, suicided
at the Broadway Hotel, in Helena, last Fri
day morning, Dopp took a dose of strycll-
nine and ended life in considerable agony.
Letters left by him revealed the fact that
Dopp dropped out of existence because he
was a disappointed "gold-seeker.''
Last week a mar by the name of Gillett
borrowed a horse of Chas. Beehrer, of Willis
P. o., and rode him to Dillon. After be had
been in Dillon a short time he sold the horse
to George Buck for 500. Gillett then drank
and gambled until he was arrested, and he
now stays in the Bannack Jail to await the
action of the grand jury.
The Madisonian says that a party of east
ern capitalists will visit Madison county in
June, with the purpose of building smelling
furnaces in the Hot Spring or Red Bluff dis
tricts. The erection OF such works would
give a great impetus to mining in those dis
tricts, as we'll as to the Pony and Potosl dis
trlcts, all of which are located in the eastern
portion of Madison county.
From Thursdays Daily.I
Morning glories have failed to put in an
appearance at Vaudeville yet.
On the pay roll of the Alice Company 257
names arr enrolled, 100 of whom are miners.
The public highway between Butte and
Walkerville is being repaired in many
places.
In the police court yesterday the attention
of the judge was briefly consumed in hearing
a log-chain case of small Importance.
On the streets and around town last night
much earnest talk was held over the impend-
ing conflict that takes place this afternoon.
The 6O-stamp Alice mill is running very
smoothly, and is saving an average of 81 to 90
per cent. of the assay valve of the ore
treated.
The local canard started by the shutdown
organ of repubilcanism about the democrats
of Walkerville, is one without the slightest
foundation.
Mining property IN Red Bluff district in
Madison county, IS looking up, $4,000 beng
recently offered for the "Mohegan'' mine in
that district.
Over at Helena city politics is hot. A citi-
zen's ticket is in the field, and a straight
republican ticket also. To this is added d
one-man ticket tor the office of police mag
~istrate.
Barrel & Warren's Mining Reriep for
March is out. 1t is an unusually interesting
number, being well filled with mining mat"
tiers and is the cheapest newspaper published
in the mountains.
VIM. Read, the republican nominee for as
SCISSOR, is a young man of some parts, but he
has no more idea of being elected assessor
than he has Of being crowned emperor of
Patagonia. The chances are equal.
From recent observations we are certain
that a very large emigration is Ell route for
Montana. On the train which left Ogden on
last Sunday evening, forthis territory seventy
nine emigrant passengers were carried to
Dillon, besides six tirst-class passengers. On
this train only five passengers got off for the
Wood River country.
The question isis the Inter Mountain
Publishing Company the republican party of
Silver Bow county? or is the republican par
ty of Silver Bow county the Inter Mountain
Publishing Company? We await IN answer.
Members of this company ran the late re-
publican county convention, and SO many
members of this company areI directly, or in
directly, candidates on the republican ticket,
that we are at a loss to know what is what.
Rise and explain, please.