The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-06-23
NEWS.
Culled From tho Columns Of Our
Exchanges.

The Helena town site is to be r.
surveyed at a cost of $3.50.
Livingston rejoices in the prospec
Of a Congregational church.
Livingston wants the electric light
Noah Webster keeps a news stant
in Helena.
The contract for building the Ben
ton court house was awarded to Gus
Senieur for $40, 900.
An effort is being made to have 6
postotfice established at the mouth OF
Sun river and Deep creek.
The commissioners of Gallatin
county have appropriated $500 to
build q lock up for Livingston.
Another futile attempt to enforce
the Sunday gambling law in Fort
Benton was made last week.
A snow-slide from Stonewall noun
tain, Lincoln Gulch, carried an
arsstra clear across the gulch.
Fifteen thousand cattle have al
ready arrived in the Yellowstone
valley from the States this spring.
The new Presbyterian church at
Miles City was dedicated with i'm
pressive ceremonies last Sunday.
The Helena city dads propose an
ordinance to close all the saloons in
the corporate limits at midnight.
The Western Union wire along the
line Of the Northern Pacific railroad
was run into the Helena city office
on the Goth inst.
Helena has decided to hold a COM
bined railroad and national ce!ebra-
ton on the fourth of July. A big time
is expected.
\ Methodist church is under con-
strnction at Townsend, superintend-
Ell by Rev. Mr.. Hall. Estimated cost
$4,000.
S. Paget, while breaking a colt at
Benton last week, Was thrown from
the wagon and sustained a disloca-
ton of his shoulder.
Louis Schliep. s. stock tender at
Bulls Head Station, was thrown
from a horse at Benton last Thursday
and had his leg broken.
Madame MOdjeska, accompanied
by her husband, Count Bezenta, will
pass the summer in the Yellowstone
National Park.
The county treasurer of Madison
county has enough funds to pay off
all outstanding warrants and still
have a balance left.
A valuable horse was bitten by a
rattiesnake at Billings last week, and
died after suffering terrible agony for
three days.
Two miners left Billings last week
for the Big Horn mountains to search
for the Lost Cabin, under which ira
dition says a band of robbers buried
their booty many years ago.
The mother of the Barber boys, re-
Gently lynched at Waverly, Iowa,
lives at Glendive, and the boys. were
heading for Montana when captured.
Iowa anticipated Montana in the
rope business.
J. H. Milsap, of Paris, Texas,
wants information of his brother, J
V. Milsap, who, when last heard
from, was engaged in mining near
Virginia City, about thirteen or four
teen years ago.
Missoula's new city government is
a land office business. Last
month the city attorneys fees
amounted to 1855, the police Justices
probably ditto, and Marshal Myers
raked in $145 and over. There were
81 arrests and SO convictions, of
which 81 paid their assessments.
Since the people of Jefferson couD::
tv determined to remove the county
seat to Boulder that town has begun
to prick up its ears and talk improve
ment. Several thousand brick are !
being burned, and it is understood
that several brick houses will be
erected soon. Several prominent
mines are being worked within a few
miles Of town.
J. H. Martini. the man who was
shot in the leg at the Four-mile
near Missoula, by King, a
of weeks ago; died about four
o'clock Saturday evening. The
he received was not severe,
but he was in bad health, which, to-
with lying out most of the
night after being shot, probably was
the cause of his death.