The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-12
The Semi Weekly Miner
Local News.
From the Daily of Tuesday.

tne department OUT on sunday and
made the fire laddies hot in the col
lar.
The Reform Club rooms are now
in full blast, and we'll attended and
interesting meetings are held every
evening.
Jack Waite has accepted Billy
Lynn's challenge to a hard glove
contest to De fought Yithin two
weeks for $50 a side.
Saturday was the Feast Of the I'm.
maculate Conception, and its holy
obligation was generally observed by
the Catholics Of this city.
The children Of Deer Lodge are at.
flicted with diphtheria, and the
primary school has been closed until
after the holidays.
Exchanges say that the lady who
leads the band and plays the cornet
with Hewett's Musettes is q dandy
from Dandyville.
The display of fine beef, mutton.
veal andimported pork at the Eureka
Market reminds one of the approach
ing Christmas feast.
AS the court house tower assumes
shape, its graceful lines and the
beauty Of the architectural design of
the entire structure becomes more
apparent.
1t is expected that the Bozeman
tunnel will be completed about the
25lh of January. There only re-
mains about 200 feet of tunnelling to
complete the work.
Rev. NJ. Il. Lamb was called to
Glendale, yesterday, by a telegram
announcing the serious illness Of his
wife. His Butte engagements will
therefore be postponed until his re-
turn.
Geoffry Lavelle is erecting a very
neat brick building at the corner OF
Arizona and East Park s~trrets, to
be occupied by the Montana LumLer
& Produce Company as an uptown
office and store room.
Jasper" the victorious thumper
of Saturday nights battle, WIS out
yesterday. looking none the worse
for wear, but it is understood his OPP
ponent was still in bed nursing a
closed eye and other bruises.
The sciopticon entertainment
which was announced to take place
at the Baptist Church on Wednesday
and Thursday evenings. will be post
poned on account of Rev. Mr.. Lamb
being called to Glendale by the i'll
ness of his wife.
The Union Passenger Depot, at
Garrison, has been completed, and is
a very comfortable structure, plaster
ed and painted throughout. The en-
tire space between the tracks is oc-
cupied by the transfer platforms,
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The Territorial Fair Association
held a meeting at Helena last night
to make preliminary arrangements
for the Fifteenth Annual Fair. 1t
is expected that the arrangements
and premiums will be on q broader
basis next year than ever before.
The streets were enlivened yester-
day by the Comique band, which In
the band wagon drawn by four white
horses, discoursed music on Main
street and at Vaudeville and Center
Vile. It looks like old times when
Gordon gets the band-wagon out.
There will be a dearth of amuse-
ments until the holidays. The next
attraction will be the Musettes. In
the meantime the skating Kinks, the
Comique and the Gymnasium are
we'll patronized, and everybody is
getting ready for the phantom carni-
val at Thomas amphitheatre on the
evening of the Goth inst.
All Suer is the sourist looking
Chinaman in Butte. He was arrest
ed yesterday, charged with stealinga
500 gold piece, a silver dollar and a
check for $50, from some Walker
Vile woodmen. A $50 gold piece
Was found in his possession which he
failed to account for in a satisfactory
manner, yesterday. He will have a
hearing before Judge French to-
day.
The Comique Company now play
ing under Mr.. Gordon's management
include some of the best talent in the
variety business, and the crowded
houses remind one of the Comique in
the time of its pristine glory two
years ago. Two NV stars were
added last night, in Harry Osborne
and Fannie Wentworth, both OF
whom established themselves AZ IA
vorltes on their first appearance.
Considerable prospecting a been
done during the past season, in the
neighborhood of Anaconda, and
some good prospects have been
found, w. E. Williams brought in
for assay, yesterday, a specimen OF
free milling black sulphuret ore from
a claim about a mile southwest OF
the sinelter, aud got a return OF 80 oo
ounces silver. The specimen was
taken from a ledge four and a nall
feet wide, at a depth of three feet
from the surface, and Mr.. Williams
says there is plenty more OF IL III
sight.
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