The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-11-14
The Semi Weekly Miner
Local News.
From the Daily of Tuesday.

weather on the Pacific coast to-day,
Go to Leiaer " Anderson's and gel
some Of Winslow's fresh butter and
cheese.
Ben Hogan's lecture. last evening
vas largely attended aud mann
signed the pledge.
Mrs. Irene M. Morshead b ,s beer
appointed teacher for Room No. 3
vice Miss Anna Wardeld, resigned.
The 50 cent freight rate from thu
Missouri river to Ogden and othe]
points in Utah still holds good,
Professor L.eford's dancing schoo
will open for the season in Caplic.
Hall, Tomorrow "wednesday even
ing.
Union Guard hall was well fllet
last night by an attentive audience
and Ben Hogan delivered an earnest
address.
There are $50 men employed in The
new machine shops lately erected at
ShOshOne, on the line Of the Oregon
Short Line.
Two thousand Chinamen are said
TO be at work between Helena and
Missoula improving the road bed Of
the Northern Pacific.
The Ogden Pilot says Jack Waite
has pu chased for the Butte gymna.
sium the material formerly used in
the Ogden gymnasium.
Paddy Ryan, it is said. has tele.
graphed his acceptance of F'Ox's off+l
TO back Slade for $500 against any
heavyweight pugulist in America
Sullivan excepted.
Ogden Plot: The through sleep.
Ing car which has been running be.
tween Kansas City, Missouri, and
Salt Lake during the past summer
will be taken Oft on the 18th instant.
We were shown yesterday q pair OF
elk horns which measured ten feet
across from tip to tip of each horn.
Tho elk that bore them was killed
near the head Of Boulder by a COL
ored man.
According to the Pilot the Walker
Eros, Of Salt Lake, are about to re-
tire from the mercantile business,
their banking business having be-
come so large as to entirely engross
the attention of the firm.
The outlook of all the leading
mines in Butte was never more salts
factory than at present. New devel-
opments are constantly bringing to
light larger and richer bodies Il ore
than have heretofore been worked.
Says a Haley correspondent of the
Ogden Pilot: Just now the excite
men Of the Occur d'Alene mountains
in Montana, is attracting the notice
OF the country, and of course many
from here are on the way to realize
their fortunes. But they Will even.
tually return.
Messrs. Orion & Gravis have
opened out at Coleman's some more
beautiful specimens from Geyser
land. Among others Is a taken
from a tree, resembling the comb of
q fowl. The gentlemenxhave a fine
supply, but the demand for them is
fast carrying them of.
Some wise exchanges say that
John w. Mackay is buying up a
number of Pacific slope papers to
pepularize his new telegraph scheme.
He is wasting money to do so, for
any scheme to build new telegraph
lines would be popular of itself.
Among tue papers said to be pur.
chased ia the Salt Lake Tribune
Messrs. Prescott, Reed and Taylor
selling their three.1ilths for SIS, 900
each.
Mr.. James Larkin, better known
as Doc" Larkin. met with quite a
painful accident last Sunday. He
was walkin , through Owsley & Val
iton's stable when he fell
through the opening in the
floor used to convey hay to the
horses below. There was just hay
enough over the opening to conceal
its locality but not enough to sustain
Mr.. Larhin's weight. The fall caused
him the fracture or a shoulder blade
and several bruises.
The City Council meets this even
Ing.
Police Court was decidedly dull
yesterday.
A complete change OF programme
at the COmlQue this week.
Prof. Leford's dancing school
opens this evening in CapIice Hall.
The Pavilion rink was fairly at
tended last night. The new floor Is
excellent.
Ben Hogan had his usual large
audience last night, and the enthusl-
asm seemed to be undated.
Sherwood and Vinton are making
many friends at the Comiqae by
their artistic performances.
The crew of the local express train
are dismayed at the idea OF having to
stay over night at Garrison during
the winter months. The prospect
isn't very cheering.
The Board Of Canvassers, consist
ing of Wm. M. Jack, Chairman OF
the County Commissioners; Robert
G.. Knox, Probate Judge, aud +. A.
Nichols, Justice of the Pace, with
County Clerk H. s. Clark as Clerk,
met yesterday and canvassed the re-
tu,ns for Delegates to the Constitu-
tional Convention. The returns In
tabulated form will be found in an
other column. The vote for Dele-
gates at Large shows the reiative
party strength, this statement bear
ing further proof in the vote for W.
Y. P%emberton, on the Democratic
and George G. Randolph on the ne"
publican ticket, these gentlemen re-
ceiving but few scratches and run