The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-07-08

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lasted about lbsty minutss, ard w.s
f'lDewed bys rudy al i0psessive
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manner b. Mr.. RandslPA.
There wese 6 leost llteea Hundred
| strangsss In town Tuesday, ~ IT,
nDerehsnts SeaPed . harvest. Many
Of them = well = q their clerks
worked hard Ill day. The stssets
were thronsed with people Ill day
and until an early hour yesterday
morning.
At the races these were q least ~.
teen Numbered pessons. There eoald
have been little len than thousand
dollars received at the gate and like
amount In the pool box. Several
hundred persens present were dead
heads, many Of them climbing the
fence.
| The favosites al won, which h de-
structive of very brish sport. Many
men won considerable amoants In
the pools. The pony mile dash was
won By Queen Of Spades, the half mile
and 600 yds dash BY Little Dick, the
| trotting rscs By Dutch Gin. Waite
f, wonthe hurdle race without difficulty
and Cooper, the colosed boy, beat biz
| white competitos in the 100 yard
dash.
There was . decided surprise In the
trotting race. Horses were supposed
to be driven BY their 0wneTs, but
pefso0s familiar with the booked
nose, diminutive anatomy and gener-
ally, ferocious appearance Of Bud
Doble think thit this great jockey
was smuggled here to drive the
Dutch Girl, who distanced the field
the first heat.
The air about three o'cl0ck was
torrid, but . passing shower sprink-
led the hacks Of sweltering humanity
It the races. The inner man was
kept pretty well moistened oil day,
| and the bar did an enormous bust
ness on small investment
Fred Taylor, David Marks aud
Young O'Aeara had charge Of the
pool selling. Dr.. Gleason was gener-
al manager, Sylvan Hughee, and
Mr.. Hulaniski among the judges.
Gleason and an old colored man
occupied intervals and filled up waits
by yelling 1t the crowd. The anci-
ent African had . refreshment booth
In wooden shed next to the r0ol
stand and yelled keep often dat ar
roof" with much emphasis every few
minutes. Gleason's cry was ''clear
that track"
The bus companies coined money
Tuesday. The restaurants were
crowded all day. One we'll known
restaurant on Broadway fed 100 per-
sons between twelve and two o'clock,
and 4GO during the day. There were
crowded houses 1t both the COmique
and Palace Theatres, the former seat
ing about six and the latter three
hundred persons. Most Of these
were strangers.
There were various side diversions
ut the races Tuesday. Dillabow, .
miner At the Liquidator, and raii-
road man attracted . crowd to wit
ness their high jumping. They
made five feet two inches, stan cling.
Several persons narrowly missed he
ing hit by the hammers. The time
given the 100 yard dash, ten seconds,
must have been ut least . second too
little. The best rccorl In America Is
o..
FraLk Taylor who came in second
in the foot race Tuesday Is cousin Of
Fred Taylor's. He has already been
matched for five hundred dollars to
beat Cooper, the winner Of Tuesday,
in y 100 yard dash to take place two
weeks from Saturday. It is stated
that he Ia also matched to run
Thompson, Of Foy and Thompson,
and an unknown, for SO and 500 re-
spectively next week.
The fireworks from the top Of the
school house attracted . large crowd.
Some Of the rockets were nlagni6-
cent. There were displays from other
points In town. The large balloon
ten by eight feet, when inflated, was
sent up from Richards 4 Grix' roof
about nine o'clock. The fireworks
proved two heavy for the balloon to
support, in this high altitude, 70 they
were st of separately, atI;'rding
amusement to . number Of young
men and attracted the attention Of
number Of people in the streets. TIE
balloon went n'ajestically up and of
to the northwest.
Tine Firen,an's Ball the night Of the
Fourth was y decided success. The
laddies never looked 60 well, although
they had gone througha hard days
work. \ large number Of visitors to
the city were present, and . number
Of lovers Of the light fantastic. Dus-
seau's string hand played, with rein
forren,ents, and. the floor and arrange
inents in general were good. The
receipts were over three hundred
dollars, Of which amount about 1925
will IL the net proceeds to the fire
company.
Freight Notes.
Shipped to Butte, from Ogden,
Monday last, :. cars furniture, ! Of
salt, !: If coke, Of machinery aud 9
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