The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-06-30
The Semi Weekly Miner
Local News.
FIR m the Daily of Thursday.

market SCclCAu~y
The City Fire Department was eu
,,.t night and had a lively practic
nm with the hose cart.
The famous Drum Lummon ha
,ntributed foar handsome speci
uoans of ore for exhibition at Denver
p,tte will have the biggest. tn
naSt patriotic and enjoyable cele bra
ION on the Fourth ever witnessed ii
the Territory.
The Helena and Bozeman base bal
limos, have arranged for two mattel
Games to be played at the capital OF
July 4th and 9TH.
Yesterday was the hottest day o
t,a season, the thermometer ranging
from ninety to 1902 in the shade, be
tween II and A p. IN.
nThe Great Transcontinental ant
Colossal Aggregation of Allied
Snowy is announced to sprea(
,hair canvas in Helena next Satur
day.
The Butte base ball nine is nov
oomuiete and ready for any nine il
mo Territory. There is talk Of
match game with the Deer Lodg'
nine on the Fourth.
The Helena Herald says infOrma
t;on is wanted of the whereabouts O
Ioan Mcdonald, by his mother in
Toilet. Illinois. He was last heard o.
At Saltwater Montana.
Sheriff Irwin, who is the legally
Constituted custodian of the Spring.
tiaId rifles in use by the Union
Guards, denies the story that fifteen
them were sent to Centerville last
Monday night for the protection OF
Gundry.
DOC Gleason is domiciliating this
summer in a tent which he has
erected Oh West Quartz street, where
he has the full benefit Of the whole
ONE pure, Rocky mountain air
which comes laden with the perfume
If pine and fir into his healthful
sleeping apartment.
= Union Pacific Detective John Tay-
,or arrested a man named Boyd at
Silver Bow night before last, who is
believed to he at the head OF a gang
Of freight car robbers. The prisoner
was brought to this city yesterday
and arraigned before Judge Knox,
who committed him to the bastlle in
default of $3.50 ball.
The enterprise aud energy of circus
managers are proverbial. 1t seems
he Robinson combination made a
contract with the Northern Pacific,
in which that road agreed not to car
nv any circus over its line within 80
DAYS Fprior to Robinson's dates, in
consequence of which Dan CASTILLO
was obliged to skip entirely across
Dakota in order to get the cream OF
the Montana circuit outside of the
limited so days.
A bloody fist fight took place in
the Combination saloon yesterday
afternoon. Wait Morris, who was
intoxicated, knocked Bill Dougher-
tvs hat off and looked as if he meant
business. Bill turned in and gave
him probably the severest drubbing
that a man ever got in the territory.
When he got through Dougherty
looked like a butcher and Walt was
almost unrecognizable. The only
fault found by spectators was that
Morris was overmatched and Dough-
erty ought to have quit sooner. No
arrests were made.
From the Daily Of Friday.
The mercury got up to 95 in the
shade yesterday.
Silver was quoted in the New
York market yesterday at $1.lOi.
A young man named Jones was
sunstruck in Helena last Wednes-
day.
Natures Internal machine, the Gu
cumoer, has made its appearance in
his market.
Old Sol is cock o. the walk these
days and the crowds on Main street
hunt the shady side.
Secretary Mantle informs us that
bids for the bar privilege at the race
track will be received until this
evening.
Not a strawberry was to be found
in the market yesterday morning.
Have the Fourth of July church fes-
rivals got a corner on them?
The half fare excursion rates will
be good on the Utah & Northern
during the entire race week. The
hotels are preparing for a big crowd.
The bycicle a C on the Fourth viii
LA .,n - %Eo ,,ooN ipfnpncfIMN fAO
lures at the Race Track. Our best
wheelmen will take part in the con-
test.
Deputy Sheriff Conrad, who went
from Helena to capture the stage
robbers, returned without bis game.
The wounded stage horse had dl APP
peared.
:. Alequest, a Swede, WAS killed
by all accident on the railroad grade
west of the range last Tuesday. Ills
body was taken to Helena for inter
Ment.
Passengers from the Northern Pa
clic report the through travel on
that road as very heavy, and the
stage accommodations across the gap
entirely inadequate.
Under the new time schedule the
Utah Il Northern passenger Tram
Will arrive ut IL a.. m. and depart at
3p. M, which will be very conven-
lent hours for Butte travellers.
A number of citizens have com
menced the work of decorating their
sidewalks with evergreens. Butte
should present the appearance OF
grove Of fir and pine on the four'h.
Montana is now without n Cover
nor, but We'll try and wiggie through.
). Schuyler Crosby and Isaac IL;
McCntcheon, Secretary, viii! hhd
Montana still here, when they return
from their eastern junketing.
We haven't heard of anybody los,
Ing a millionaire saloon keeper, but
a San Francisco paper says: "A
Montana millionaire is lifting up
hfty thousand dollar saloon. he
used to sell his liquor from q 1lh
c'in.n
"A young engineer named A. IL.
Mitchell was drowned in the river al
Mlssonla last Tuesday morning. III
Is doubtful if the body can be recov-
cred. He was the sou of the ASSIST
ant Chief Engineer of the Northern
raclfic railroad.