The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-20
MELANGE.
Accidents and Incidents as Mar
rated by Our Exchanges.

duO d6 NdI
rated by Our Exchanges.
J. $. Athison, of Maiden, raises s
pound cabbages.
Oscar Stevens has at Maiden eco
head of weather..
The new depot at Missoula will
cost a little less than S15, 600.
The taxable property of Bento1
was this year assessed at $1,000
The snow is said t. be over tire,
feet deep between Lincoln and Black
foot.
Wood is worth sew n dollars a core
in the Helena market, and coal $685.
per ton.
X. Beidler Is rustling for hors,
thieves along the Miss suri river, be
low Benton.
Eggs bring $l.25 per dozen ir
Maiden, and the supply is not equa
TO the demand.
William Turner is under arrest il
Helena for selling whisky to thu
Blackfeet Indians.
Jack Hardy, the victim of the lat,
row in Helena. still lives, nut with
little hopes of his recovery.
Superintendent Ainslee, of tn,
Northern Pacific, is the father of
little girl born at Glendive last week
A train of young cattle from the
states passed through Livingston fol
the Steel Brothers, at Gray creek.
An even dozen of unhappy couple.
are applying to the Dillon court fol
dissolution of the matrimonial bond
The Helena Steam Power anG
Lighting company paid $4,000 fol
their property on Clore street in thai
city.
Major J. &. Tilford, of the Seventh
cavalry, in command at Fort Butord
has been promoted to Lieutenant
Colonel of his regiment.
The blast furnace in the Barker
! smelter was shut down for five days
last week on account of a flaw in the
water jacket.
Specimens of rock from the artes an
well at Miles City have been for
warded tor assay. They resemble
black carboEates of silver.
TROOPS B. anu K, of the Second
cavalry, under the command of Capt
MacAdams. have gene to Fort Ma
ginnis from Fort Assinab zine.
Prote ,sor Lewis, who was charged
with the murder of the girl Eva
Clark last August, was acquitted this
week at Dillon.
Old Mig" has been presented to
President Willard by the Winston
Brothers and is now on his way to
New York.
Livingston is to have a bott'ing es
Enlistment. Milwaukee beer will
be shi! ped there in barrels and bot
tied for general use.
The Stoddard-HowelI cattle com
p1ny of Custer county have already
shipped east 200 heeves this year,
and will soon ship l LOO more.
On account of a lack of mechanics
no work has been done on the new
mill of the Virginia City Reduction
Company for the past two weeks.
It is expected that the Democrats
and Republicans Of Choteau county
will compromise on delegates to the
constitutional convention.
The miners of Whites Bar, Grass
hopper creek, Beaverhead county,
have repealed the local mining laws
heretofore in force IN that district.
Colonel w. F. Rogers, who had
interests in Northern Montana, has
been shot dead by his brother at his
home ia Robertson county, Ken
lucky.
Parties in Livingston who bave
taken pains to investigate the ru-
mored hanging of Neal Powers at
Sioux City, Iowa, believe the whole
story to lie a canard.
Custer county has $4,000 head OF
cattle, valued at $40 per head, aggre-
eating in value s., 460, 900. The as
sessment Of 1882 was only $4,000 head,
valued at $3.50. QUO.
Or. Newcoinb, of Perham, Mimi,
will erect ten-ton smelter at Chick
Ory, a station on the Park branch,
nearly opposite Emigrant Gulch. He
will have it ready to start about Dec.
LIST.
Last week there were shipped from
St. Paul thirty-two cars of yearlings
consigned to the Crow Indianagent at
Gray Cliff. The beeves averaged Is
o1he car, and the calves for the Crows
thirty-tWO to the car.
Col. A. r. Moore shot himself in
his room at the hotel in Junction
City last Thursday. He was on his
way from his home at Altoona, Iowa,
to take charge Of the Collar mine aud
mill at Maiden, Montana.
Theodore Bach in a quarrel with
Jack Hardy, of Helena, last Monday,
nearly killed Hardy by beating him
over the head with an ak The ply
sicians consider Hardy's chances OF
recovery very slim.
It is stated that J. Wesley Filbert.
the absconding Northern Pacific rail
read telegraph operator, who was at
Townsend this summer, is now in
California, making lots of money
specializing in stocks.
Hon. w. o. p. Hayes, ofBozeman.
who has been at the Eureka Springs,
Arkansas, for several months past. is
reported to have experienced another
change for the worse, and his recov-
cry is regarded as very doubtful. F..
In the race at Missoula last Satur-
day the Judges gave the ace to Ben.
nett, out Jameson claimed that Ben
nett's horse trotted with his fore feet
and jumped with the rear, and re-
fused to give up his horse as wa
gered.
The Tongue River Ditch & Irriga-
ton company have bonded the ditch
for $2D, 900 and it will be completed
Immediately. There will be a dam
SOC. ieet longacross the river at PuIlp-
kin creek, the apron CT the dam be-
ing 20 feet and the height eight feet,
foored with three inch plank.
Two men came down the river
from Livingston in a small boat.
They were three weeks in reaching
Glen1iye. They anchored here
Tuesday night, aud next morn-
ing pushed out for Bismarch.-Glen-
dive lines.
The Northern Pacific propose to
build a substantial bridge across the