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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
From the Daily Of Friday.
A DARING ESCAPE.
A Foot-Pad on HIS Way to the
Penitentiary Sheds His
8hackles and. Eludes
The Officer.

The escape of James Edwards, one
Of the prisoners who were being
taken to the penitentiary from Miles
City last week seems to have been
one of the most dare devil feats
which has ever been recorded in the
annals of crime in Montana. Ed
wards was possessed of a
peculiarly supple anatomy,
with exceedingly small and plant
joints, and has frequently boasted
that manacles could not be so secure
ly rivited upon his ankles or wrists
as to prevent his drawing them over
his feet or hands. Sheriff johnson
was en- route to the penitentiary with
fifteen prisoners convicted at the last
term of the Custer county court,
among them Edwards who at Gala
tin City gave q practical DEM
Onstration. of his boast being
well grounded, by slipping his
hands and.feet from his manacles,
and selling a favorable opportunity,
when only one deputy had been tenn
porarily left in charge of the prison.
ers, made q sudden bolt through the
open window beside which he was
slttlng. Inc deputy nred at ana
missed him twice and in an instant
Edwards was fleeing under cover of a
pile of railroad ties to the Gallatin
river which he crossed by swimming
and wading and reached the timber
on the opposite bank. Edwards and
a partner in crime, Jas. McKeeves
held up" and robbed two railroad
men-Laughlin and Crumb-in Bill
lings one night last winter. They
were captured, tried at the last term
of court, and sentenced to fifteen
years each of penitentiary life and
labor. He is q desperate character
and will probably not allow himself
to be recaptured alive. From admis-
sions made to a fellow prisoner it is
believed the escaped convict is want
ed in Pennsylvania on a charge of
murder.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
Wood River.
HALEY TimeS.I

On Friday while workmen were
running a cut on the Ellen Stills
ground, a little south of the Noun
laln View road, an eighteen inch
S!reak of galena ore was encountered.
ms mine was recently bonded for q
reasonable figure to New York par
oes, acting through DIR. s. r. Miller,
oLlhls city. 1t joins the Bullion on
.he southwest and is owned by Bar
hey Qnigg, Tim O'Leary and others.
supt: Frank Taylor has just un-
covered another large body of high
grade ore in the Montana mine. The
ore is full of gray copper and will
average over $500 per ton. The bills
VI Deer Creek are full of prospectors
ahd numerous locations are being
made, while many of the older ones
are speedily developing into mines.
W. E. Dusenberry was down from
ureenhorn gulch yesterday with bis
Rockets full of crock" and locking
NIKE ne was highly pleased with the
world and things in general. Upon
inquiry we learned that he had struch
aseln OF ore about twenty 1nche:
wac assaying IS ounces per ton. IL
,eeis sure he has a bonanza. I'M
lam is owned by himself and J. b
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
From the Daily Of Thursday.
New Fire Bell.

Yesterday afternoon the attention
of our citizens was attracted bv the
sound of a bell, different from any,
thing ever before heard in the city.
Inquiry elected the fact that the
sounds came from the new fire bell
just received by the Butte Fire Bril-
gade: The bell weighs l,O3O pounds,
and Is much the largest of any in the
territory by several hundred pounds.
The entire weight of the bell and
fixtures is l 1880, and it was generous
~ delivered to the Brigade from the
depot by our enterprising and public.
spirited forwarder, Hugh Kirkendall,
free of charge. It has q pure. clear
tone, and when it sounds the alarm.
whichit is hoped will be but rarely, our
people will have no difficulty in con-
jecturing the cause.
The question of the hanging of
this fine bell and the means adopted
for it's future use are Questions
mat will devOlve upon the city
council. The noble old Butte Fire
Brigade that has performed heroic
action in times past upon the occa.
sion of threatened devastations, are
still animated with the same public
spirited motives that have character
lied their entire history, but are un-
happily without the sinews of war
against fire. They have pluck and
willingness to serve the public, but
no money; and it is a fact long since
demonstrated that fire organizations
cannot 1--we on glory alone.
The sentiments of the community
upon this question can be read in the
election that has just passed.. A
grateful people recognize the past
services Of the Brigade, and desire
that they shall continu . in a capacity
where they have demonstrated such
fitness and ability. There have been
no recent events to shake the sound
ness of the positions taken by tho
MINER long ago, that there is not
necessarily any antagonism between
the city government and Brigade.
1t seems desirable that this entire
question, affecting the property inter-
ests of our citizens should be divorced
from pOlitics-that the citizens. who
are willing to perform service at
fires, should have the privilege Of
making their organization efficient
in u way they must understand bet
ter than anybody else. The police
force of the city should have imposed
on them the duty of acting IS a sally
age corps and taking care of petty
larceny thieves and wanton destroy
ers of property during the progress of
fires. The whole matter should be
put on a basis that will be entirely
satisfactory to every interest. No
one certainly wants to speculate upon
the occasions of public misfortune,
or draw emoluments from appre-
hended catastrophe.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
Union Guards Ball.

With a lovely evening, large atten-
dance, splendid music and a sociable
company, the first ball given by the
Union Guards, at Renshaw Opera
House last night, may he said to
have been a pronounced social sue
the floor, although many more than
that number of tickets were sold.
The proceeds of the ball are to be de-
voted to the purchase of uniforms
which are to be ordered Immediately.
1t is to be hoped that last evenings
very pleasant party is but the precur-
sor of many more to follow and that
at the next Union Guard hop, our
crack military company will appear
a n militaire with their new uni
forms.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
Pacific Coast Notes.

A young elder named John Stock
field attempted to outrage a little girl
at Salt Lake.
1t is said that one soldieri in five on
the frontier is q deserter.
A Nevada Indian has been award
ed fifteen thousand dollars for the
loss of q foot by the Southern Pacific
railroad.
A new light house will probably be
erected somewhere between Bismarck
and Fort Benton, as the treasury de-
partment recently recommended the
establishment of one.
Rifeman, the celebrated stallion,
died at Red Bluff, CAL, last Fri
day night, aged twenty-nine years.
He was reputed to be the oldest stall
lion in America. His pedigree, in
back to the 400.
On the Oregon and California road
on the 21st ul!. a Chinese boss drew
$1,000 in greenbacks to pay his men
and sat down on a keg of powder to
wait for them. He didn't wait long
until the key exploded, after which
there was no Chinaman and no
greenbacks but a few fragments.
A Custer City man named Wood
ward has invented a road wagon to
be propelled by steam, that will lay
down and take up its own track. 1t
is claimed that it will perform the
work OF a locomotive and haul TWEEN ;
ty-five loaded freight wagons over
the prairie's highways between Sgd
ney and Custer.
Nine cases of small pox are reported
at Montpelier, Idaho, in the family
of Phelps, where it first appeared,
after the death of a woman wbs went
there from Evanston. After the
body of the lady was taken up and
sent east the coffin was left where it
could spread the contagion. 1t is
feared that the disease will sweep
through that country.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
Midnight Assassination.

A Frenchman named Mayette, who
has a ranch about a mile south of
Calgary, on the Macleod road, shot
his wife IN the breast, in the early.
part of this month. She had left him
and gone to live with her father in
his lodge on the Elbow river, and at
the time she was shot, about eleven
o'clock at night, she was lying in the
lodge asleep with her little sister,
who was also shot in the ARM. After
she left Mayette, he had been repeat
edly trying to get hsr back to live
with him, but she refused, and on
the night in question, he went to the
lodge, saw where she was sleeping,
and then went around and shot her
from the outside. The assassin
was arrested. The wound is = bad
one, and will probably prove fatal
Fort Macleod Gazette.
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NEWS.
AS Narrated ~ Our Montana
Exchanges.

BoZeman is to have a telephone ex-
change.
The postofic e at Mullan tunnel has
been discontinued.
A colony of immigrants from
GAINESVILLE, NO., have arrived at
Billings.
Peter Avren fell from a scaffolding
at Billings last week and was serious
ly injured.
John T. Carlin, of Ohio, has been
appointed receiver of the U. S. land
office in B0zeman.
Gov. Potts has sold his English
draft stallion. Duke of York, to the
Montana cattle company for $500.
NJ. D. Ledbeater, of Gallatin coun-
ty, took a railroad ride last week, it
being his first for thirty-seven years.
There are only three diphtheria
cases now in the Academy at Helena,
and they are reported as doing well.
w. J. Allison was severely burned
about the lead and face by a coal oil
lamp explosion at Billings Oh the 4th
inst.
The Piegans are now on the wal
path, and have commenced in 4
rather brisk way killing cattle on the
range.
A man named Maggie was married
a couple of weeks ago at st. Peters
Mission to a dusky maiden of the
forest.
VIM. Lynn, a Miles City restaur-
ant man, has skipped the town, leav-
ing about 81 1000 worth of mourners
behind.
The Billings Board of trade plants
cotton wood shade trees on the streets
at ten cents per tree and will keep
them irrigated during the summer, at
actual cost.
A large party has been organized
| at Leon, Iowa, tor the purpose of Wis
! ting Montana with view to select
ing q range and entering into an ex-
| tenslve stock raising venture.
A grading outfit from the western
terminus of the Northern Pacific
passed through Benton last week en-
| route to Fort Walsh to work on the
Canadian Pacific railroad this sum-
mer.
Two coaches and two six-hOrse
| teams from Helena and four six
horse coaches and teams from Deer
Lodge. have been transferred to
! Wood River, Idaho, to supply the
rush of travel in that direction.
A cave of made ground in front of
Browns new block in Helena
Knocked down q portion of the outer
foundation wall in curse of cOnstruc-
ton, making it necessary to rebuild
some twenty feet anew and on a
different plan.
The Fort Walsh Gazette states
that the Crees brought in about loo
head of horses, the result oftheir raid
on the Marias. Part of those owned
by Joe Kipp have oeen recovered by
the police, and it is believed all will
be got back from them.
The Crees stole another band OF
horses from the Piegans ear Fort
Conrad two weeks ago. They were
followed by the Piegans and over.
taken near the Sweet Grass hills,
where q battle took place, two of the
Piegans being killed and one wound
ed.
A burglary was committed at Sun
River q few days ago, three men
breaking into the house of Frank
Cooper and stealing two ~overcoats, q
revolver, gold watch, q pair of boots
and several other articles. The
thieves were traced to Benton and
arrested with most of the plumber on
their persons.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
Produce Market Report.

BUTTE, M. T., May IL, 1883
The following are the wholesale
paid by merchants and hotel
Keepers for the commodities enumer-
ated, delivered from the wagons
Price list carefully corrected every
Flour Ruby Valley, xxx, $3.50
per cWt.
Mill Greek, xxx, $3.50
percwt.
Kansas xxx $500. 60
Bakers, $3.50. -.
Mill Creek, New Process, $500.
Gallatin, $40 per cwt.
Union Mills, New Process, Cream
of the Valley, $500
Ruby Valley, new p~rocess) $500
Union Mills xxx Snow flake.
$3.50.
Utah Common, 1926
Utah Choice, $3.50.
Graham, $500.
Wheat per lb., q cts, fair demand.
Oats, $500 at $50.
Butter, per h., 500 40 cts.
Eggs, per dozen, 265 cts.
Corn Meal, &c.
Beef, carcass, 8 cts.
Beets, 81 cts. perlb.
Hay per ton, $230$25
Bailed Hay, per ton, $22@2%
Cheese, 5000 cts.
Barley, $2.25@2.5O per cwt.
Dried beans, Montana, Z cts.
Mutton, 10 cts.
Pork, dressed, IA cts. per k.
. Veal, l2!s cts. per Id.
Chickens, 81 70 $3.50 per Dozen.
Wood, 1925 @ 5000
Rutabagas, II cts. per lb.
Potatoes, $l.3O@1.5O p cwt.
Sausage, Is cts. per 10.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
Cree Indians After Scalps.

River Press: The following letter
has just been received and speaks
for itself. 1t is evident that we have
not heard the last of the Crees:
: MAPLE CREEK, w. T.,
April q, 1883. !
Mr.. Edwin Rice:
S1R:-I am getting some of my
horses back. Up to date 1 have got
seven head of them, and the chances
are good for the balance. But what
I want to say is that I am told by
half breeds and whites that parties
of Cree Indians have been leaving
here for Choteau County every
day for the purpose of stealing stock,
and they have said that they would
bring back scalps to pay for those
who have been killed. I wish you
would make this part of this letter
public, and if the government wants
to defend and protect Its citizens,
now is the time, and not wait until
all the poor settlers on the border are
killed or robbed. Yours,
is. GALBREATH.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
Boulder Hot Springs.

The Boulder Hot Springs are now
open to the public, distant from Boul-
der City two miles. Patients coming
to Boulder City transported to and
from the springs free. These springs
have been known TO the public for
years. The medicinal properties of
the waters, both for drinking and
bathing, are unequalled. Hot, cold
and plunge baths at all hours. First
class accommodations for ladies and
families. A good physician perma-
nentIy located at the springs.
WILLIAM T. SWEET,
52swtf Proprietor.
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Personal.

J. D. Phillips took run owe to
the east side yesterday.
d. n. Dellinger left for a short trip
to California this morning.
DR.. M. s. Bacon was confined to
his room yesterday by a severe attack
of neuralgia.
Inspector General H. s. Howell, OF
Virginia City, came over yesterday,
and will spend a few days in the city.
A very distinguished party of gen.
tlemen, including Messrs. Warren,
Mantle, McCranor, and Caplice ex-
pected to go to Deer Lodge this morn.
ing.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
VICE PRESIDENT CAKES.
Hi Visit to Butte Marred by an
Unfortunate Indisposition.

Among those who have stood by
the Northern Pacific railroad enter
prise from its inception to the pres
ent time, none have been more
staunch in their friendship or persis-
tent in their efforts to promote its
success than Vice-President T. L.
Cakes. In the management of de-
tailed affairs. and in representing the
interests of the company on the At
lantic seaboard he has ably seconded
the operations of the Willard manage
ment and perhaps more than any
other one man has contributed to
their successful issue. MI. Cakes
present visit to the Pacific Coast is
one of business and pleasure, He is
gaining much needed recreation, af-
ter a year of arduous confinement to
business in the New York
Office of the great trans
continental line, and at the same
time is making q tour of inspection
on tho line, which will familiarize him
with the minutia of construction and
traffic conditions, which cannot fail
to be of great value in the future adj
ministratlon of his Office. Acc0mpa-
MED by General Traffic Manager
Muir and Division Superintendent
Buckley, MI. Cakes arrived in Butte
by a special train from Deer Lodge
yesterday morning. The gentlemen
were met at the depot by Messrs.
M. J. ConneI and w. L. Hege, who
escorted them to their quarters at the
Mt. Vernon Hotel. After lunch
Marcus Daily, of the Anaconda COM
pany, drove the visitors to the Ana
conda, Lexington, Alice and Moul-
ton mines, and other points of
interest. MI. Cakes was some
what ~indisposed during the
day and upon his return
to the hotel found himself suffering
from a we'll developed bilious attack
which confined him to his room dur
ing the remainder of the day, and
necessitated the deferring of their
departure until this morning. I'm
der orders from Supt. w. P. P. st.
Clair, the special train which is in
charge of Conductor McDaniels, who
brought the Willard excursion in,
was held at this station until 7 o'clock
this morning, when it is thought
MI. Cakes will be so far recovered as
to be able to continue his journey.
The party will take the stage at Deer
Lodge for Missoula and the western
end of track, where they will be met
by a special cal which will convey
them to Portland, Oregon.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12

Colonel Sanders, the attorney for
the Northern Pacific, advised the
discharge of Peak, the man charged
with forging q pass over the railroad
from Livingstone to st. Paul. It
seems the young mans father was
diving of consumption of Livingston
and wanting to go to ST. Paul for
better art had no funds for the pur-
chase of a ticket, and the son resorted
to forgery to provide transportation
for his dying father.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
Montana Horses Ahead.

The recent time made by Joe How
ell at the meeting of the San Fran
cisco BlOoded Horse Association
eclipsed any former feat Of the grand
old horse and put many shekels into
the pockets of his hackers. The sec-
ond racewas the event of the day, a
mile dash. The starters were Jim
Douglass, Gano, Joe Howell and
Duke of Monday. Gano ahd Doug
lass were favorites, and much betting
was done on the race and on time.
In a sharp contest Howell won, tin e
1:42, which is the hest by q quarter
of q second ever made in California.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
Base Ball.

Considerable base ball talk is going
on among our athletes which will no
doubt result in the organization of a
club, capable of taking some of the
conceit out of the Helena amateurs
who have been talking a good deal
more of late, than our players think
they can back up. DR.. Gleason has
a list of players who r ready to be-
come members Of the club, and in
forms us that they will meet at Good
Templars' hall At 2 o'clock Sunday
afternoon for the purpose of affecting
an organization.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
WANTS.

And now comes General Malone
with his new plan of operations In
Virginia. He purposes to give that
State to the Republicans for a recon-
pense which includes the second
office of the Republic. His plan is to
have control of all the federal patron
age in the old dominion, to rule the
Senate and distribute its emoluments
to his henchmen, and to force his
own nomination for Vice-P President
by the Republican national conven-
ton. He is confident that under
such an arrangement he can carry
Virginia for the ReadJusters in
the autumn and secure her
twelve electoral votes for the Repub-
lican. candidates for President and
Vice-President in 1854. All of which
he may be able to perform, but me
President will hardly have the temer-
itv to pass over the Federal patron
age of Virginia to the ~arch-schemer
for the purpose named. Mahoneism
is not bearing the fruit the Republl.
cans so fondly hoped it would and
they are not as much in love with
Mr.. Malone and his methods as they
were a couple of years ago. Ioey
would drop him in a moment if his
0---A~
vote were not needed In the senate
AS it is Malone and Riddlebergel
will occupy some space in the public
eve for some time to come. Ihey are
needed in the Republican business,
Int as soon as their services can OF
dispensed with they will cease to Gu,
any figure in either local or nationa
politics.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
JED

UPTON.-In Butte, May 10, 1888, David, infant
son of David n. and Lille Upton, aged l."
months and five days.
Tho funeral will take place from the residence
OF the parents ut , 2. NJ. to-day.
DAME.-In Butte, May II, 1855, John Dame, OF
paralysis, age Is years.
MadisOnian please copy.
Funeral will take place Sunday, > ?. NJ. ut the
family residence on WOolman street. Friends OF
the family are invited to attend.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12
A Montanian Lost at Sea.

John Henneberry who disappeared
from Gloster some weeks since and
whose wife died a few days after his
disappearance, is believed to have
been one of the passengers who went
down with the ill fated Grappler,
which was lost off the Narrows,
bound from Portland to Alaska last
week. Tt has been ascertained that
Henneberry went direct from Gloster
to Portland and that he took passage
for Alaska on the Grappler. The
steamer struck a reef and went down
in deep water; only three or four of
the passengers and crew being saved.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-12

The New York Financial and Min
ing NesUs says: "Alice is the cheap
est stock on the mining list. It Is
worth double its selling price,"
The firemen were out for practice
yesterday.
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Vice President Cakes.

Special dispatch to tho MINER.
DEER LODGE, May 10.
Vice President Cakes, of THE North
ern Pacific R. R., with his party, ar
rived from Helena this evening.
Supt. st. Clair has placed a special
train at their disposal, which will
leave here at $50 q. m. tomorrow,
and arrive at Butte about 7 O'clock.
J. D.