The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-11
Local News.
From the Daily of Tuesda y.

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club room in Bozeman.
Only II votes were polled in tn
Helena school election.
Seven bars of Alice bullion wer
shipped yesterday valued at $40, csc
One of the surest signs that sprin,
j. with us, is the influx of tramps VIII,
invade our back doors recently.
The Good Templars will give Oh,
of their enjoyable social hops to
night.
A wagon road is being built be
tween White Sulphur Springs ant
Townsend, the new N. P. railroad
town.
The machinery for the Virgins
CITY reduction company's concen'
traitor will be furnished by the Fort
Scott foundry and machine works.
The appearance of Caplice building
has been much improved by the ad.
dition Of a handsome awning over
the front of John Caplice & Co.'s
wholesale grocery.
Haver]y's Walker House Opera
Company played to good business at
Dillon and Glendale. They play at
Deer Lodge this week and will open
in Renshaw Opera House on the 10th
inst.
The Walker Opera House Com
pany will open the dramatic season
at Renshaw Opera House next Mon
day evening. The repertoire of
plays is strong and the most favor
able reports precede the company.
Helena is excited over the location
of the N. P. Depot. 1t is said that
property owners in the vicinity of
the Catholic cemetery have offered
donations of land which will proba-
bly, induce the company to select a
site there.
Chas. White and Chas. Rock, for
stealing horses, and VIM. Van Sick
les, for assault with intent to kill,
were each sentenced to one years
imprisonment in the Territorial
prison, at the late term of court held
in Meagher county.
One of the most interesting races of
the series will take place at the Pa
vilion tonight. Hugh Wright,
whose record is a mile in 4.56, will
undertake to beat his own record on
a bet of $50. Wright is very conf
den. and puts up his own money on
the result.
With the completion of the third
crossing of the Pen d'Oreille, Hal
let's army of graders finished their
labors and most of them have gone
back to Portland; but many of them
struck out for the mining camps and
we can expect an influx of them here
in a few days.
We have received a copy of the
Billings Daily Herald, publication of
which was commenced ON the LIST
Instant. 1t is a five column folio,
and a Dewsy local sheet. Alexander
Devines the want of the times, and
will no doubt receive the hearty sup
port of Billings business boomers.
The Shonbar continues to develop
well. The east $50 foot drift has ad-
vanced 20 feet from the station and
has penetrated the first rich shoot
which was uncovered in the upper
level. The ore in the $50 proves fully
up to expectations, assays yesterday
running over 200 ounces in silver.
The MINERS mineral collection
has been enriched by the addition of :
three handsome specimens from the !
sankey lode, situated west from the
Big Butte and operated by Messrs. ]
Overson, McMinn & Powelson. Two I
The specimens are rich in free gold !
and carry heavy silver; the other dis {
plays a network of wire silver, matt
ed and interlaced through the inter-
slices Of its porous formation.
Last Monday night as the transfer 9
Gus pulled out of Owsley & Valiton's {
the top struck a hanging lamp q
mo knocked it to the floor. The I
amp broke into fragments and the !!
ignited, spreading in a sheet :
flame over the floor. MI. Cowan
immediately threw ~overcoats and {;
blankets over the flames and sue 7
'eeded in smothering them before y
my great damage was done. r
passengers for Deer Lodge can q
leave on the 6 a. m. train, ar n
wing at Deer Lodge by the mixed O
am from Silver Bow at 1910 a. m. d
seturning the mixed train leaves v
'eer Lodge at AS p. m. and con- q
'ec's with the passenger train at Sill Il
Ct Bow which arrives here at 9 p. e
L. This arrangement is q great con- r.
enience to business men, who de-
ire 10 make the trip to the valley
'wn and back on the sane day.
Inc small boys about town are p
rlVing a thriving trade in the dog -
a'eiling business. They are paid at "
Nc rate of three dogs for q dollar, .,
w woe to the untagged canine that 9,
'''es within reach of the boys wire X
uare' which he throws with the dex- h
my OF New York pound Ike eper. :,
o','e OF the little rascals rung in sew {,
al country dogs yesterday which "
gre not amenable to the tax, and h,
~ 'nelr 33ii cents apiece before the ia
aud wa discovered. ~
Inc MINER acknowledges the very q,
and gentlemanly notice h