The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-06-30

Accidents and Incidents as Mar.
rated By Our Exchanges.

Jones' cut between Bozeman and
Livingston is now finished.
Bentons race course will be ready
for the Fourth of July meet.
Custer county warrants are now
worth ninety cents on the dollar.
The 5000 school bond proposition
will be voted on at Dillon on the
18th of July.
Ar 800 yard swimming match will
be one of the attractions at Benton
ON the Fourth.
It is expected that Madame Cappi-
ami will give a concert in Benton on
the Sd of July.
Crowfoot, chief of the Blackfeet
nation is, it is said, lying at the point
of death.
A force of 300 men is employed on
the overhead link of the Northern
Pacific above Mullen Tunnel.
Three years ago Miles City shipped
only 5000 pounds of wool. This
year it is expected to reach 100000.
A large number of miners are out
| fitting at Billings for the mines re-
! Gently struck in the Bull mountains.
A railroad laborer was "held up''
| between Colbert's aud Mullen tunnel
and robbed of a time check last Tues
day.
The Helena U. S. land office will
| receive filings on Odd-numbered rec
| lions in Southern Montana early in
| August.
The work of excavating for the
new court house at Benton has been
commenced. 1t is to be a fine struc-
ture, costing $4,000.
Southern Montana grangers are
CONTEMPLATING themselves upon the
abundance of grass and the largest
hay crop known for years.
At Cooke City lumber is worth $3.50
per 1000 feet and the demand is sup
piled by hand-sawyers. A saw mill
is now on the way to the mines.
Mai. James Whitehead, lately re-
siding in the Black Ellis, has recent
ly been appointed government exam
liner of coal lands in Montana.
Nelson Story will purchase a
monument to be erected over the
grave of John Bozeman. in whose
honor the Gallatin metropolis was
named.
Eric Woods, nineteen years of age,
a Sol of A. j. Woods, who owns a
ranch in Graveyard Bottom, neal
Miles City, Was drowned last Satur-
day in q slough near his house.
Eleven of the, raiding Crees have
been sentenced to the penitentiary
for two years in the Northwest Ter
ritory for horse stealing on the Amer
lean frontier. -
The Worsham Cattle Company, of
Texas, has started a herd of three
thousand one and two year Odds to
Montana, to grow up and fatten on
our northern range.
The overhead passage at Mullen
tunnel will not be accomplished by a
switchback, IS commonly under
stood. The line will be like that
across the divide at BoZeman tunnel
continuous. ,
A large number of choice live fish,
comprising trout, bass, and other
species OF Tie uAuy tFlOe, PdSSeu
through Billings last Friday, des-
tined for the hatcheries in the Ma
tional Park.
The old Fort Logan property, in
Meagher county, is likely to be soon
turned into q stock ranch, as a SYM
dictate of capitalists is negotiating
for its purchase with that purpose in
view.
The ladies of Helena interested in
the noble game of base ball are pre-
pairing prizes to be awarded to the
best general player reaching the
third base the greatest number of
times in the match games to take
place between the Helena and Boze-
man clubs on July 4th and 9Th.
Fort Benton will be the St. Paul
and Great Falls the Minneapolis of
the new northWest.-River Press.
Helena will be the Denver and
Bbtte already is the Leadville OF the
new northwest. How extremely
small these towns around on the
edges will feel pretty soon.-Inde-
pendent.