The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-03-15
[From Wednesdays DaiIy.1

The chop houses run all night and feed the
hungry at all hours.
The health Of Butte is improving and fewer
cases of sickness are reported.
The drawing of the grand gift distribution
takes place in Butte on the 18th of May.
The smart small boy of Butte ceases his
daily labor with his pockets tnll of marbles.
On the coming map of this inter-mountain-
Gus country Butte will be the central object.
The pleasal t weather gives the ladies an
opportunity to make up for lost time in shop
ping.
Three fit subjects for moral suasion were
promenading Main street last night as fail as
geese.
Ore wagons are engaged daily in hauling
rich ore from the Gagnon mine to the Colo
RADIO s%lnelter.
The paying mines Of the Summit Valley
district are monthly giving the world an evil
dence of their wealth.
Mr.. Rolla Butcher and family have rented
and are occupying Chas. S. Warren's resi-
dence on the corner of Montana and Quartz
streets.
The passenger coach on the U. & N. R. r.
leaves Dillon at 500 u the morning, and
reaches Ogden at 500 the following merning,
if on schedule time.
A letter received from c.. Y. Reeder, states
That he will leave st. Louis about the 10Th
inst, with two car loads of fine mules, which
be intends bringing to the Butte market. He
will arrive about the 1st of April.
The Blackfoot, Idaho, Register says that
the rush and stampede to the new mining
sections of Wood River have already COM
menced, and the prospect is that it will ex-
coed anything heretofore known in that Sec
ton.
The local fight in Beaverhead county, over
the removal ofthe county seat from Bannack
to Dillon, promises to be a warm conflict.
Dillon, the new town, want the county seat,
and Bannack, the ~"ancient capital" Of Mon
tana, desires to retain it. The vote of Glen
dale, Lion city and the precincts il the
northern part of the county, will settle the
question.
Mr.. Dave O'Brien, of the Pony district, in
Madison county, is in Butte. He gives a
favorable account Of some of the mines of
that camp and says that smelling works will
be erected the coming season. By the smelt-
ing process the base ores in the large mines
OF the Pony district can be made to pay
handsomely, which fact has been demonstrate
ed by testing several tons in the smelters
operating at different places in the country.
The Celestial element of the population of
Virginia City, this territory, is in d turbulent
state. In the riot among the Chinese in that
town, last week, two were killed and the
Nadisonian says: "There are eleven of the
hvathen incarcerated in the County jail for
participation in the riot, awaiting trial at the
forthcoming term of the district court. By
the taxpayers of the county, this is REGARDED
as the worst feature of all, as it fnrebodes an
expense to the county which it could we'll
dispense with. ana is lciisltcd still less be-
cause it originated with d class of whom few
would care If their quanels all ended Ike
that of the odd Kilkenny CATS"
From Thursdays DAILY
The barometer indicates a storm.
Goldsmith & Co. received yesterday a full
supply of the stylish Sletson hats.
Holy mass will be celebrated at the
Catholic Church on rcXt Sunday at s and 10!
O'Clock.
See the meeting notice Of the Auxiliary
branch Of the Land League Of Ireland in an
other place OF to days paper.
Seventeen prisoners are now confined in
tue Deer Lodge county Jail, the cost Of whose
keeping is char@eahle to Silver Bow county.
J. X. Davis, formerly 4 Montana miner.
died suddenly Of congestion of the lungs at
the fremont House. Omaha, on the 1st Of
March.
All the members Of Blaislell's Vaudeville
company have returned to Bate, after 4 brief
but successful season of performing at Deer
Lodge.
1t is thought tie Indebtedness Of SILVER
Bow county viii be about $4,000, with The
drawbacks IA several Of the fund, to be de
Quoted from that amUunt.
The circulation Of the MINER, both daily
and weekly editions, is rapidly increasing.
which makes it the best advertising medium
to reach the buying public.
Two cases Of assault and battery were tried
N Justice O'Meara's court yesterday. The
first, by the court, resulted in a discharge OF
the defendant. The second was a trial by a
jury, and cndedin a finding of not guilty.
Yesterday certificates Of Incorporation were
filed with the secretary of The territory and
county recorder. Incorporating the Butte