The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-11
-
MELANqE.
Accidents and. Incidents as Mar.
rated By Our Exchanges.

Carpenters are in demand at Clos
ter, bricklayers at Helena and farm
hands at Boulder.
Glepdive creditors lament the alb
sence of Jonas Hedges who left be-
tween two days.
Blanche, q 2:45 trotting mare
owned by Alex. Clarke, of Missoula
county, died a few days ago.
Joe Taper, the alleged would be
wife murderer, of Barker, says he is
entirely innocent of the charge.
A forty-two stall round house is to
be erected on the depot grounds at
Helena.
It is reported that John Chinnick,
the victim of the mysterious shooting
at Miles City a few nights ago, is
dead.
Independent: The water supply
OF Helena is ample since the price OF
beer has been reduced to five cents
per glass.
A Newfoundland dog gave the
Alarm and saved the Missoula lum-
Der cempanv's steam mill from burn
ing last week.
The Bozeman Chronicle says: 1t
is asserted at Miles City that Hon.
! Chas. G.. Cox is soon to be reinstated
in the Amy.
Hon. Roscoe Conkling was in
| BOZeman Saturday driving around
the city taking in the sights and de-
parted west the same afternoon.
The Billings Board of Trade have
sent out surveyors who have located
a road between that town and Fort
Maginnis, by way of Willow Flat.
Charley Curtis and Curley Rodg-
ers, ofPark City, Yellowstone valley,
killed eleven bear in a two days hunt
a couple of weeks ago.
Miss Katie Leinburger, Of Raiders
burr, was the fortunate holder of
ticket No. 7772, which drew the
Greenwood, Bohm & Co. parlor set.
The great race at Benton last Sat-
urday between Paget's Black Bess
and Shelton's SorreI Pete, for $1,000
aside, was won by Black Bess.
The body of John Nearly, aged
| sixty. was found in a thicket near
Q'Appelle, recently. The dead mans
skull was battered and crushed as if
by an axe.
The next term of the Benton Dis
trict Court promises to be a lively
one. There are thirteen criminal
cases, besides a great many civil &C
tions.
1t is understood that a couple of
Helena's young society people will
be united in the holy bonds OF matrl-
mony by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
on his arrival in the capital.
A large building situated in the
centre of the Grow agency and occu-
pied as the children's home was to-
tally destroyed by fire last Thursday
night.
A laborer at Missoula was swim
died out of 500 last week by bunko
men who had a ''lottery" license.
The swindlers were held to answer
to the grand jury.
A large number of buffalo have
made their appearance in the Woody
mountains, Choteau county. The
Indians and half-breeds are slaught-
ering them.
AT a special election held at white
Sulphur Springs a few days ago, the
proposition SO issue $4,000 in bonds
for the purpose of erecting an addl-
ton to the school house, was defeated
by a vote Of twenty against to ten in
favor of the proposition.
The BcZeman tunnel is surmounted
by an overhead track and 1t is estl-
mated that it will take five months
longer to complete it. An advance OF
PIP feet was made in the east end
during the month of July, in the
west end SO feet, which as yet has to
be timbered, but indications point to
reaching solid rock soon. The east
end had penetrated the mountain
1902 feet Sunday last, and the west
end $50 feet. So that there remains
about 400 feet to be driven.