The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-07
NEWS,
Culled From the Columns Of. Our
Exchanges.

The city of Fort Benton has fou,
wards.
The total Indebtedness of Missoula
county is $3.50, 993.
A foot Of snow fell at H~ughesville,
Barker district, last week.
Dillon and Glendale are both book.
ed for roller skating Kinks.
The first municipal election in
Missoula will be held ON April 9th.
Less than a hundred feet of work
yet remains to be done to complete
the Shonkin tunnel.
The distance between Benton and
Billings by the new stage route is
224 miles.
Good milk COWS in Gallatin county
are worth from s75 to $50 and scarce
at that.
IA skating contes st was held recently
in MissOula and a half mile was
made in POI.
Noah Armstrong will begin the
erection of a ten stamp mill in the
Georgia Gulch district shortly.
The Montana Forwarding Com
pany have removed their buildings
from Livingston to Bohemian.
The roads between Deer Lodge and
Helena are so lad that six horses
have hard work to pull the coach.
The water in Missoula county's
streams is now higher than ever be-
fnra knnxyn Of coocon Of tho ,oor
There is some talk of %contesting
the legality of the Benton charter
election on the grounds ofinformality
Lieutenant Col. Harvey Brown, at
one time commander at Fort Assina-
boine. died recently at his home in
Philadelphia.
The Bozeman girls were booked to
vote for city officers at the recent city
election just the same as other legally
qualified voters.
A gentleman from Miles City says
that the people down that way are
about evenly divided in the county
commissioner warfare.
Gen. Meade, who purchased the
Collar mine, is at Maiden superin-
tending the erection of the new
quartz mill on the property.
The jugs placed in the saloons in
Miles City were broken recently, and
the churches were $76 richer. The
Methodist church has received in all
1885, IS from the 'little brown Jug"
fund.
There are some reports being cir
culated at Fort Assinaboine as to a
move down Milk rivor to drive the
Cree Indians and half breeds over
the Canadian line. Scouts have left |
the vicinity of the Big Bend to ascer-
tain their locality, or as to the truth
Of the report.
The county seal and the books and
papers pertaining to the Office of the
county clerk Of 4 ulster county, which
were not discoverable when Sheriff
Johnson seized the oncern a couple
of weeks ago, have been found in
the clerks Office in the old court
house.
A letter from Fort Walsh states
that a party of North Piegans had ar
ut the Fort with seyenty-five
head Of horses stolen from the Ola
Agency. Col. Irvine arrived at the
'ort on the 2lst ult. and probably has |
taken steps to have the ami
mails returned.
A letter received in Benton last
Saturday from up north stated that
Marshal Sausel arrested G.
Philips upon the northern reser-
7ation and took from him all his
urs, his rifle, two horses, harness,
provisions, tepee and wagon sheet,
hen turned him loose, leaving him
My his squaw and a consciousness
# being robbed.
r. S. Fowler and son, while haul
Qg a load Of hay across the Bitter
Root last week, were set adrift by
he coupling pole of the wagon break
ng, thus leaving the team free to go
shore with the front wheels of the
wagon. The load of hay with its
Iuman freight floated down the rapid
tream about half a mile where it {
ndged ON a drift pile and the men
ashore. {