The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-01-03

"WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5, 1861.


EON EI0OA JAM ~ AoSSs
xDlT0RlAL N0TD&
The gold brick racket has recent,
been tried In Boston.
DeLong's report has been publisbed
Il makes $1,000 words.
There will he . money order ex'
change with Belgium after Janurry
lst.
The Evening Itst hss = compositos
who he's worked In the office los nlty-
six years.
The agony over the Passion Play
In New York " ct IN end. The Mayor
hos refused to license II.
The widow Of Colonel Slayhsck
has Withdrawn her $5,0o0 damage
suit against Colonel John 4. Cork.
erell.
a party Of surveyors weresurprhsed
and robbed by indians on the Eureka
L California railroad line, bat mt
injured IN person.
The New Years. festivities ut the
White House were brought TO sud-
den aud sad terminate ~ Monday by
the death from heart disease VI
Elisha Allen. Minister " the Sand
wicl, Islands.
While the pe"ple VI Halifpx were
watching the Old year out and the
new one In, severe shock " .-srll,-
quake broke In On the s0lemnilies Of
the occasion, shaking the buildings
and crestin4 much cosr motion for
about thirty seconds.
Tho old year closed In Han Fran
ciseO with = SNOW storm that give
them five " more inches. and the
first sleighing ever seen In the city.
The storm was gesesal throughout
the State. such falls were scarcely
ever known in the history of the
Htate.
Secretary Teller Will refuse to xp-
prove u the leasing Of aO.O'N seres
In the Indian Territory by the stan
dard Oil Company, who got the rel
men IN ssttle Sosq uarter sections and
turn over pausessiOn. Barl-wire |
fences have l,een erected sOund the !
entire tract.
4 case of Office farming b given im
the dispatches to-day. II the truth
were known, there are many other
tsase~ that never reach the pul,ltc
ear. A directory Of the Office l,r0k. !!
En- IN the country who have supposed
influence with public men, would
surprise the sOuntry.
News reaches ~ FROM Salt Lake,
l,y way Of lisleus, Ill.,, that w. II.
Hooper, sWono9amos,s, II dying In
dalt Lake. HoOper started lie mer.
In (;alena. Ills, removed
10 ~. Louis. and afterwards 10 s,alt
Lake, where he joined the Mormon
lie was delegate Tor Utah
IOr . number Of terms.
Jals,L Blitx. y wsll-k mOwn Kansas
City nsassjclan, WAS shot and mortal
y wounded in m upper room III .
'narding hHs'sc, kxmsas City, hast
Monday. For several days past he
had Leen living ut the place with
Mis- A.idie Ayrsx, who wss supinned
IA l'e his wife. Hl,e claims that Blitx
hot hin,sclf. The woman. however, |
was avreslesl. !,
l'es'k, Indian agent In the Milk
liver country, Montana. telryrarl.s
he Department that whites are
laught~ing l',iIaIo, aud wants .
Military force IN remove them. The
indian Commissioner promises Ia ask
~ the solslie~. Why the govern.
'sent waists the buffalo killing bs,si.
'e's' to H. e"mlinesl exclusively to the I
n'lians h onc II those things that no I
How can lind nat.
A MuskOgec, Indian Territory,
Iecial Of the 18th says: The first ! !.
pen l,',.tilitiex Of the Greek Indian .
'ar occurred Sunday, within fifteen !.
'i's~ ~ OkmMlxee. a hand VI Chn.- i.
~ men. under Jim I.ansey. going !.
'e-a. were attacked by st,n,e two :,
"'''lrssl " Speeches. partisaus, under !,
II Mekarocl,e~. Tie iixht
aged E'r an hour, when the 'hu.taw
zen fell lack, but kept up n running -.
.''t for ten miles. lh,,'. Carr. llsve =.
Jarrett and wife, and . man named !,
Walsh are rrTortesi killed. The Io.s !.
u tn" other side h not known. The =
hole country h rushing To arms. On :
E.'eilA III the news here, . detacl,.
lent " forty United states soldiers =
~ Orsls.ret) to the xecne. This morn
X they overlook and disar,n.ed 80 ! :
(I'sssts''s nscm. This will liz CON.
nussl til all the men engaged on
ah side" are di.ar,ae<l. eriss.l,e's .
'e" say they don't want I" fight. hut :.
D want their rights, aud are anxious !.
United States Commissioner should =
'vestiEate AMI leeisle the matter lr- !
str" them and the opposing PARTY. =
nitssl Statss Agent Tufts went IL y
" s's'ne " the tr'uOle Yesterday. y
Much aslves,se criticism Of Justice e
ie'sl ha" l'.en caused by events that
anspired after the conclusion Of the u
LAT. ~ s. 4.