The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-07-28
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Accidents and Incidents as Mar
rated By Our Exchanges.
The corner stone efthe new NJ. E.
church at Livingston was laid on
July 18th.
The schedule OF board and lodging
rates in the National Park runs from
s. to S a day.
James McCann was arrested for
horse stealing at Muir city on the
18th inst.
Marquis de Mores will establish a
large slaughtering and canning e.
Enlistment at Miles City.
It is estimated that Montana's
wool clip will reach SO, COZ, 900 pounds
per year in the next decade.
A washout on the Northern Pacific
east of Billings Sunday night delayed
the passenger train seven hours.
Empire Railway Metropolis" is
the latest name for Livingston.
Typographical and geological sur
veying parties will summer in the
National Park.
Col. J. III. Wood has purchased a
site at Bozeman upon which he will
erect an opera house.
It is believed that the Texas horse
disease, which is now. raging in Da-
kota, has made its appearance in
Helena.
Virginia City will spend more in
public and private improvements
this year than it has in tae preced-
ing five years. .
While Dick Cummins was down
in a we'll at Glendive last week the
iron pump fell in upon him, and
came near killing him.
A large fossilized tooth was found
in the bed of Bozeman creek last
week. Expert pronounce it to be a
maslodon's molar.
John Hamblin had both his legs
broken at his ranch OF the Teton q
few days since by his team running
away with him.
Citizens of Livingston have petit
toned the Northern Pacific company
for assistance in building a large
hotel in that city.
Bozeman complains Of the town
being overrun with hard cases and
The frequent occurrence of till tap
ping, burglary and petty thieving.
Albert Gone, a conductor on the
Northern Pacific Railway, was mar
ried to Miss Minnie Miller, of San
Francisco, at Ogden last Tuesday.
John Jonson, formerly in the en-
ploy of the n. P. r. R., was killed at
Miner City last week by some ii H.
bers falling on him, breaking his
back.
For the six months ending June
80, 1883, gold to the value of $246, 8l1.-
80 passed through the Helena U. S.
assay office, and silver to the value of
$17,O47.56 Sc.
Hon. Emory Cobb, president of the
Bozeman National Bank, has pre-
scented to the city of Kankakee, ILL.,,
an opera house, which, when COM
pleted will cost $l0O, 0OO.1
While chopping wood last Satur-
day evening at Livingston Leon
Daniels received a blow of the axe OF
the top of his foot, cutting through
the boot and into the foot to the
bone.
The body Of Dennis Gallagher. ia
miliarly known as "Wlnnepeg,'
was found drowned in the Missoula
river, five miles below Missoula, last
Saturday. He had been dead three
weeks.
One of the valiant members of the
Helena Light Guard, VITO is not
we'll up in the manuel of arms, let
his gun drop on his toe at the Mon
day evening drill, and now goes
around with his foot in a sling.
The survey of the exterior boun-
Diary of the new town of Great Falls
has been completed, and the survey
ors are busy sub-dividing. The town
will be tive miles long by one and a
half miles wide.
Upon entering his corral at Ben
tor, recently, Olesen Lying was at.
by q yearling colt, which
made a furious assault upon him,
him down and infiicting
serious injuries.
The end of track of the Park
branch is now something over thirty
miles from Livingston, and a new
station, Dailey's, has been established
thirty and a quarter miles out on the
line.
Eaton & Co. s smelter and saw mill
are now en- route to Cooke City. 1t
will require some time to get the
giant in place, owing to the difficult
and poor roads. A force is
at work grading the worst places.
John Flnkler, of Billings, while
in the Bull Mountains
last week lost his way and wandered
ab' ut the intricate country a day
and night, without food or water,
when he reached a ranch in an ex-
condition.
There is a general complaint from
The placer mining districts, on &C.
count of the sudden and extraordi-
nary falling off of water in the gulch
streams. 1t is not remembered when
the water began to fall so early il the
River Press: Hon. w. B. Settle,
who was injured by being thrown
from his horse on Saturday last, is
improving slowly. He was severely
bruised, but fortunately no bones
were broken, and we may hope to
zee him on the streets again in a few
Sunday night deputy sheriffs Ash
and Bailey returned to Bozeman
with Gus Kinderman, Henry Arholt
lad John Layander, having cap