The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-07-25
Local News.

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Sands & Boyce present some terse
facts in another column.
Andrew Jackson, the man who
was so badly kicked BY a horse at
Woodville on Saturday night ia like
~ to recover.
Joe Campbell is in Indianapolis
unaer treatment for wounds received
in this city in his duel with "Bodie
Joe , last year.
A substantial culvert is being put
in to carry the waters of Buffalo
Gulch between West Broadway and
Granite streets.
Roscoe Conkling, who is general
counselor for the Northern Pacific
Company, is expected over the road
in a few days.
That Inter Mountain cane Joke is q
little stale and scarcely apropos in
Butte, where we don't carry canes
and have no galleries of art.
The Butte nine have ordered uni
form suits to consist of white shirts,
navy blue knee breeches, brown hose
and white hats trimmed with brown.
The A. o. U. w. meeting at
Meaderville Monday night was en-
thusiastic and resulted in large Access
sions to the membership of the or
der.
R. J. D. Jones and Jack Hannah,
the last Of the small pox patients,
were on the streets yesterday. receiv-
ing the congratulations of their
friends.
The large number Of substantial
buildings now being erected is ample
evidence that our business commune
ty have the utmost faith in the fu-
ture of Butte.
The Territorial press is agitating
the subject of calling preliminary
meetings for the purpose of discuss
ing matters of constitutions: interest
and appointing delegates to the con-
stitutionSl convention to be held
next winter.
Sheriff Irwin brought a man
named Fraunfelt down from the val
ley yesterday, charged with grand
larceny. The prisoner claims a mis-
take has been made and that the
charge will be withdrawn when the
facts are known.
Manager Cowan has completed ar
engagements for a game with the Deer
Lodge nine to be played in the latter
city next. Sunday The Butte nine
will consist of McAuliff, c.; J.. Moffet,
D.; Treglown, To-; Carson, 3D.; Glea-
son, 3d.; L.. Moffet, s.s.; Arthur. l. f.;
Cowan, c. f.; Montieth, r. f.:
There is very little doing in the
stock of the Alice mine at present.
There is a great deal doing neverthe-
less at the mine, and when the time
comes the directors will make a
showing that will place the Alice in
q position second to that of no silver
mine in the country.-N. Y. FInan-
cial and Mining News.
Sam Ash, killed last Thursday
from a fall in a placer mining shaft,
on Flint creek, was a good man. He
was jolly, good natured and indus
trious, and a better fellow never
delved gold in the auriferous soil of
Montana. He was precipitated fifty
feet into a pit, and died from the eff
fects of the fall in twenty-four hours.
Helena Herald.
When it became known yesterday
morning that Proctor and Mann, the
striking operators, had been arrested
upon q frivolous charge, a number of
business men came forward and Of
fered to 60 upon their bonds. Bail
vas furnished, and they were re-
leased from custody. They say the
end is not yet, and the Brotherhood
of Telegraphers will see them through
in a prosecution for false imprison-
ment. The case will create consider
able excitement all over the United
States.
The malicious mischief story
published last evening in the Inter
Mountain is a dead give away on the
telegraphers employed in this dis
t.ict. If a repairer went to Deer
Lodge in search of a trouble on the
line, and returning found the trouble
on the Butte switchboard, then some
one IS woefully incompetent, or it
would have been located on the
switchboard in the first instance.
The attention of Superintendent
Dickey is called to this instance of
unnecessary use of a line mans time
and railroad transportation.
THE PARNELL u N