The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-02
Local News.
From the Daily Of Tuesday,.

Local News.
From the Daily Of Tuesday.
Sitting Bull has become a convert
to the Catholic church, and is now q
papal bull. ,
A meeting of the board of County
Commissioners is called for Monday.
May eth.
The Lexington Company yester-
day shipped 10 bars of bullion valued
at 1884, SO.
The Moulton mill started up again
Yesterday after a thorough overhaul
ing of the machinery.
This is collection day and ought to
be a day of self-gratulation because
e, erybodys duty is dun.
The butcher shops will be closed
after 10 a. m. to-day as a token of
respect to the memory of J. Ornstein.
That seductive beverage known to
the initiated as peach and. Honey" is
sold in its purity at G. B. Houser &
Co.'s.
Saturdays freight train from o.
den brought up eleven cars of coal,
one of lumber and three Of assorted
merchandise.
Mrs. Mary A. Boyle, of Eagle Riv-
er. Mich, desires information of Jno.
Boyle, who left Glendale about a
year ago.
Counterfeit bills of the Mcrchants'
National Bank of New York, and of
q Boston bank, have made their ap-
pearance in Salt Lake.
A special meeting of Mount Moriah
Lodge A. F. & A. NJ. is called for
1890 p. m. to-day, to attend the
funeral of J. Ornstein.
May flowers have made their ap-
pearance on the hillsides, and a large
number of ladies and children gath
cred beautiful boquets yesterday.
Ole NJ. Flagstad, of Webster City,
Iowa, seeks information of his broth
er, Peter n. F!agstad, who is sup.
posed to be in Montana or the Wood
River country.
The telephone is popular with
strangers, because they can carry on
o conversation with an old timer
without feeling obliged to ask him to
"take suthin."
The Cottage House from the Gran
lite street front of the new court house
site has been moved into position on
West Broadway adjoining the Pres
byterian Church.
Butte has a substantial and active
home market, in which the deal in
mining property amounts to between
thirty and forty thousand dollars per
month.
The past few days of warm weather
have thawed the snow on the Divide,
and the roads are almost impossible. {
The Helena stage, due Saturday ]
evening, did not arrive until S o'clock
p. m. yesterday. {
The we'll known Wholesale and re.
tail liquor house, G. B. Houser & Co.,
is just in receipt of one of the largest
~consignments of Kentucky wbiskies,
shipped direct from Louisville, ever I
brought to this camp. {
Louis Gunderson has received his {
commission as postmaster at Gunder- {
son-the newly established Office at '
Meaderville-and will open the Office I
at Gunderson Bros. store in a few i
days. I
H. Jacobs has announced his in :,
tention to withdraw from the candi- :
dature for Alderman in the first ward :.
on account of the demands of his '
business upon his time. The central =
committee will probably nominate a :;
candidate to fill the vacancy. "
The Haverly company have made y
q decided hit in Marble Heart" r
and at the urgent request Of a large 8
number of citizens they will repeat =
the play tonight. Those who miss r
seeing marble Heart" tonight will =
mics a rare treat. -
When other Territorial towns sell :.
ten or twenty thousand dollars worth :.
OF property in a single month the =,
fact is heralded abroad as an evidence =
OF boom. Butte transfer red over =
$780, O0 worth of real estate and nearly =,
worth of mining property ',
last month and we think times are a =
little dull.
Madisonian, 2sth: Inc democrats -
Butte have nominated the follow i,
ing municipal ticket: For Mayor, ~
Dr. James Thompson; police magis- to
rate, J. B. Wilcox; city attorney,
Judge Laspeyre; treasurer and col
'ector, Samuel Johnston; city mar
'hal, J. NJ. Venable. It is a sound,
healthy ticket, and one which ought
% De elected by a handsome majority. b
Lie Boulder Hot Springs have
'een opened for the season. VIM. re
l. Sweet is the present proprietor,
ma has made every arrangement for fir
ne comfort and pleasure of his
'uests. The medicinal properties of IA
waters, both for drinking and
bathing, are we'll known. Hot, cold h