The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-15
MELANGE.
Accidents and Incidents az Mar
rated by Our Exchanges.

in Miles City.
The first oats of the season were
sold at Benton for $3.50 per bushel.
A stage line is now in operation
between Deer Lodge and Garrison.
Benton proposes to irrigate with
artesian wells. Where's the ShOnkin
tunnel?
The blacksmith shop of Mr.. E. J.
Price, of Highwood, "a burned to
the ground the other day.
1t required fourteen locomotives to
pull Willard and his guests over the
range at BoZeman Pass.
The City Marshal Of Benton is
waging wal against business signs
projecting over the sidewalk.
There are one hundred tons of mill
itary freight at Bismarck awaiting
shipment to Fort Assinnaboine.
At present all through tickets on
the Northern Pacific include a trip to
Wonderland.
The $1,1Go omnibus of which Boze-
man has been proud, was almost to-
tally demolished in q runaway last
Saturday.
Reports from the Shonkin round
up show that the cattle in that dis
trict are in more than usually good
condition.
Bullion is daily coming down to
the Park branch terminus from the
Clarke's Fork mines, for shipment
east.
Two hundred and fifty tons of
Gregory and Alta Montana bullion
were shipped from Helena last Mon
day.
Eastern Montana exchanges report
venison, elk, mountain sheep, and
other wild game plentiful in the mar
kets.
The contract for building the new
school house in Billings has been
awarded to Nelson, Crow & Gagnon
for $40, 1929.
There are six murderers, including
Addison who is under the death
sentence), in the Gallatin County
Jail.
An example of carrying Goals to
Newcastle" is noted in the shipment
Of large lots of oats from Missoula
county to Washington Territory.
Bell, the Benton darkey who took
a dose of crOtOn oil internally, in
stead of using it as a liniment, is
still in a precarious condition.
Governor Crosby purchased the
handsome match team of bay geld
ings VT ich were exhibited at the fair
last week by Raymond Bros.
The first through car from Port
land to st. Paul, over the Northern
Pacific, passed east through Montana
last week. 1t contained a fast horse.
Commencing within . few days,
the Northern Pacific will shorten
its time between St. Paul and Port
land to four days.
In August five persons were adj
mitted to the Territorial insane asy-
lum at Warm Springs and all equal
number discharged. One died.
The first through freight over the
Northerh Pacific was a barrel of flour
sent to Henry Willard by the officials
in the railroad offices at Portland,
Oregon.
Although there were several thou
sand persons present at the ceremO-
ny, each guest secured a piece of the
tie in which the last spike was
driven.
Bozeman talks of building a semi
nary, and two public spirited citizens
have offered to donate three acres of
ground as a site for such an institu-
ton, besides giving $1,000 in cash.
The diminutive steamer which is
to navigate the waters of the Missouri
above the great falls, was launched at
Townsend on Thursday. It was
christened the Little Phil" !
10. Bush, who shot Viznir in duel
at Benton last week, has been bound
yer to the grand jury in $500 bail.
The wounded man is in Il very pre-
carious condition and may die.
The District Court in Miles City
was called to order on Monday by
the clerk and adjourned until Tues
day, when it adjourned sine die,
there being 10 Judge in attendance.
The first Masonic funeral that ever
took place in Livingston occurred
last Friday, the funeral being that of
Willard J. Newton, who died in the
railroad hospital at that place On
Sunday.
The formation at the Emigrant
Gulch Hot Springs is pronounced by
Professor Phelps, of Minnesota, to BIZ
the extinct crater of a geyser, which
formerly poured forth its torrents of
boiling water.
A gentleman high up in railroad
matters says that the construction of
the Bull Mountain railroad from
Billings is = certainty. Location is
now going on, and it is probable
that construction will commence
this fall.
The mines in Emigrant Gulch,