The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-09-16

cKLY MINER.
TERRITORIAL NDWo.
0ullod ftom tho Columns Of Our
1xohanges.
A telegraph office will soon he
epeaed ct Beasen's Landing.
The Benton public school opened
lAst Monday With eighty pupils.
Work will be resumed next week
on the Baptist church ct Helena.
The District Court Of Cheteau
eoenty, 1t 10 expected, will adjourn
today.
Deodbeats from Deadwood are
1ocking to Bjllings, ct which latter
place they find plenty Of their kind.
The Helena fire brigade propose
diving . grand ball on the last even
Ing of fair week.
A large number Of herses have a.
ready arrived ut Helena and are tu
Training for the Territorial Fair
IaOoD.
One Of BozemAn's citizens expects
to locate Q fine leod Of Anthracite
coal in the neighborheod Of that
town.
The Benton Prest says . fire was
ragiDg On sage creek on the 10th
inst. and was doing . great deal Of
damage.
Pure bituminous coal In limitless
quantities he's been found near Muir
CITY, some Of It within TIVE miles Of
the town.
A Mr.. Mcclure has put MY men
ct work on the Northern Pacific rail-
road contract recently for. cited by
Thos. Rock.
Stock b being subscribed for the
building Of . Masonic Temple, plans
and sp0ci6eations for which have
boe0 Submitted.
Mr.. f.. Sharpe, at the head Of the
new National Bank, to b started In
Helena, arrived In that city from the
East on last Tuesday.
The electric light failed In Helena
about halfpast eight on Wednesday
evening. The cause Was attributable
to the engine getting out Of repair.
A woman living on the reservation,
one Of the late and memorable Mis.
souri, colony, and said to be filty-eight
years u age, gave birth to . child re.
comfy.
A buffalo put In an appearance ut
George PntteFson's ranch on the Shon-
kin sunday. The boys gave him .
chase and soon succeeded In getting
his hide.
Nr. n. Wright, father Of Thomas
d. Wright, travelling representative
ously III ut Benton, with little hope
Of recovery.
GeorEe Clark, who struck Jack
NofRan in Chicago Joe's dance house,
Helena, Tuesday night, Was arrested
o. Wednesday and both PARTIES AZ
rai9ned and assessed s each.
]. d. Weatherwax has resigned
the ONCE Of County Commissioner
fo9 Choteau county, giving ~ rea-
son that he has too much private
business to attend and that bis time
b fully occupied.
The Ch0teau county Grand Jury
returned four indictments, among
them one against Lombard, an Ital-
ian harp player for mayhem, bis
ofTenae consisting in biting the lower
lip OF Of Mickey the Nike.
On Tuesday last Mike Lynch
brought 70 the Helena Assay ONCE
81 sunces Of gold retort, the result 81
q 2l-tOn run Of ore from the d. L.
Mine, the ore being worked In Eestel
/ Leahy's arastra.
F. r. Knapp. one Of the prominent
stockholders Of the Boston and Mon.
tans and the Gregory Consolidated
companies, arrived in Helena recent
" from Boston, and will make Il per
sonal inspection Of the mines.
Father Joseph Damiani, s. j., lefl
Benton last Monday for Judith h
sin, by way Of spring Creek, Utica
Fort Maginnis, and probably otheI
places, stopping 10 hold religious ser
vices . short time ut each place.
; Nelson Murray has established q
| saw-miil on Big Timber about II
miles from Cross River and for thu
present the town will I've supplied
; with building lumber FROM this mill
, Another mill will put in lunlbel
: yard at the place In \ few days.
; A man named VIM. Fulton met
with q serious accident on sunday
last at sanford & Evans saw mill
! He was engaged with another man
! In telling tree when his c0mpan
ions axe slipped from the handle and
struck Fulton on the instep, intlict
Ing Q painful wound.
! There 10 . fire raging In the ttmteI
near Hotter Bros. mill on the uppei
Missouri, and 10 doing . great dea
Of damage. 1t II supposed that thu
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that vicinity, and the fact that tn
fellow has left for parts unknown
gives color to the charge.
The new boxes and other materiab
to 1T up the Benton postonice, N. A
Flanagan. Postmaster, are nov
coming up the river on the BUTT
and upOa arrival at BrOadWatef'
| Landing will lie freighted the re
manning distance. 1t II expected
there about the latter part Of till
month.
Mt. I. Il. Porter, Democratic nom
ineo for Superintendent OF Pubic
schools Of Lewis and Clarke county
he Withdrawn his name from tn
ticket. The nominee on the Repub
lican ticket . Miss Helen T.. Clark
and Mr.. Porter desires to leave til,
field in her favor. A very chivaI
rovs action indeed.
i A petition has been sent In to Shel
i6 McKinxie, by the citizens Of Croa
Rivel, requesting the appolntmen
Of . Deputy sheriff ut that place, an
w. o. Whitney IL named. TIL
place needs q law officer aud Nj
Whitney haa had the experience
necessary for . successful dtscharg
Of the duties of the place.