The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-07-28
The Semi Weekly Mine,
Local News
From the Daily of Friday,

from the Ually OF FrlQay.
The base ball nine will appeal in
their new suits at Deer Lodge next
Sunday.
The Pacific Express Office will be
removed to the Cohen building on
Main street on August first.
A hanging tee in which one Rig.
ney was the victim, and y $50, 900 IRE
are reported to have occurred at
Miles City yesterday.
A valuable deposit of fire CLAW was
discovered last week on Warm
Springs creek in convenient prOxim-
ity to the new town Of Anaconda.
Excursionists from the Big Hole
report u large party of Glendale peo-
pie in camp Gil the stream, having q
good time and catching plenty of
fish.
The old Elite building on West
Broadway is being o~verhauled and
remOdeled preparatory to its occu-
liquor business.
Manager Bosworth has secured
Thomas hall for the Henry Ward
Beecher lecture, which is advertised
in this Mornings MINER to be de-
livered on August 18th.
Lynch & Mather have secured tho
Morgan Evans house at Anaconda
and will open q hotel which will DO
conducted on strictly temperance
principles. This is not a joke.
The highest score so far made for
the $40 prize at PrOctor's shooting
gallery has been made by DR.. john
ston and MI. Paxson, both of whom
made six bulls eyes in ten shots.
Prospecting with the diamond drill
is being successfully prosecuted in
the Hope mine at Philiipsburg. In
five weeks llOO feet has been drilled
at an and average cost Of sixty cents
per foot.
The Granite Mountain Company
has ordered a diamond drill with
which to prospect their valuable
property. If the experiment proves
satisfactory. several other drills will
he used in the camp.
The sad intelligence was brought
in last night Of the death of Mrs.
Benjamin Phillips, daughter of Nor
gan Evans, who died ut her fathers
residence in Anaconda, at 10 O'Clock
yesterday III )rning of consumption.
The funeral will be held at Morgan
Evans residence at 10 g.. M. tO-mOr-
row.
Messrs. Hartupee and Shodair re-
turned yesterday from a fishing ex-
cursion in the Big Hole country.
They We're accompanied by mr..
Keith, OF Keith's Siding, and report
fine sport and a large catch, the re-
port being verified by a hundred
beauties which they brought into
camp.
1t is rumored that what is known
IS the Billings party have succeeded
in regainlhg possession of q majority
of the stock of the Northern Pacific !
Railroad Company, and intended to
use their power at the next annual
meeting in September to retire Mr.. |
Henry Willard from the presidency
and substitute Mr.. Billings or some
one to he designated by him.
The price asked in the East at the
present time for reducing, o%xiaizing I
and refining raw copper ore and
turning out refined ingOt copper is
5 cents per pound on the COZ per pro-
duced from the ore; but it is claimed
that in Chicago the process Of treat
ing copper ores, reducing. Oxidizing
and refining can be performed at u
profit for 81 cents per. pound of ingot
copper from ores yielding p per cent.
About one hundred and fifty per-
sons assembled at the Pavilion last
night to witI,ess the Arthur-Lynn
glove fight. The money was refund
ed at the door to ticket holders. 1t
is not yet decided who is entitled te
the stakes; some claiming that Lynn
wins the stakes, and others, that as
the stakes were to be paid according
to the decision of q referee, and no
referee having been appointed, all
bets are off.
Mr.. TIdball, the efficient clerk at
Sands 4 BOyce' is an artist in the ar
of colors and drapery.
He has just draped a form with silk
handkerchiefs so as to present the
appes anc of a lady's full costume.
The arrangement Of the handker-
so as to produce the desired
effect in color and drapery, is exceed
artistic and ELECTS EXPLANATIONS
of surprise from the ladies who
the great dry goods mart.