The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-05
Accidents and Incidents as Mar
rated by Our Exchanges. .

ern part OF Deer Lodge County.
The new Good Templars hall at
Sulphur Springs will be completed in
a fortnight.
Commodore Power predicts Fort
Benton will be the create st railroad
centre in Montana.
There was shipped from Livings-
ton this season a total of 343, lis
pounds of wool.
Benton claims to have shipped
more goods this year than the whole
Territory did a few years ago.
A Missoula miss is teaching the
heather Chipee to speak English,
and raking in some dollars for her
labor.
Beecher was weighed at Deer Lodge
and tipped the beam at PA pounds.
In his lecture business he was not so
heavy.
Next Thursday the whole Crow
nation will assemble at Grayclitf and
execute a val dance for the pleasure
OF the Willard party.
Rufus Hatch wanted to buy Cuba
and all of the Yellowstone country.
How would it do to lump the earth
and sell it to him as a job lot?
Dawson county is striding ahead
nobly. Its assessed value for 1883
will be about $500, 900 in excess of
last year. In 1882 it was $500, OOO.
The Helena hotels are preparing
bed and board for a thousand extra
guests, many of whom have already
arrived in the city.
The ridge-pole in Alder Guich, on
which Boone Helm and his four pals
executed their memorable dance
upon nothing, is protected by a loof.
The new town that is to be the ter
minus of the Park branch is being
surveyed and staked out at a point
between two and three miles north of
Gardiner.
The Northern Pacific Express
Company now has messengers run
ming through to Missoula, and in q
few days will operate clear through
to Portland.
Queener, the PhillipsDurg homi-
eide, has surrendered to the authori-
ties. His version of the ARRAY in
which Wenandy was killed is about
the same as thai given already.
Pearson, the escaped murderer of
HALEY, is believed to have taken his
route along the foothills for Montana,
and three Idaho officers, we'll armed
and mounted, are on his trail.
Willie, the eldest son of Treasurer
Gilbert, Of Virginia City, had his foot
severely injured Wednesday evening
by a h avily loaded wood wagon
running over it.
Con Orem has gone to Helena with
his Mormon Girl and two Shetland
ponies. Mormon Girl will be entered
in several of the races, and the ponies
will be placed on exhibition at the
fair.
The first cotton ever raised in Mon !
tana is now growing in Fred Helms
garden in dry gulch. He only has a
few plants, but they look as thrifty
as if south of Mason and Dixon's !
line.
Thursday last a fisherman discov-
cred the dead body of a man floating
down the river about twelve miles
above Livingston, but before he
could secure it it had been carried
beyond his reach.
A returned tourist says that the
Park is full of nOtables. and one can
not go ten rods in any direction with
out rubbing against a lord, a duke, a
senator, a government guide or some
other gentleman of high degree.
The huckleberry fields in the vi
entity of White Sulphur Springs, are
said to be inexhaustible. There are
acres aud acres of the berry in the
Castle mountains that have never
vet been touched.
Mr.. e. Allen, who came in from
Meadow creek Thursday, brought in
the news that Don O. S%paldlng's
house at the lower crossing of Mead
ow creek, was burned between two
and three O'clock that morning.
W. are in receipt from the Clark's
Fork district of two fine specimens OF
argentiterous galena ore, carrying
from 40 to so ounces in silver to the
tor. The specimens are from the
Uncle Sam and Alta California leads
and weighs IS and 81 pounds, re-
spectively.
The military telegraph line is
broken between Fort Shaw
and Helena, but will probably be in
working order by tomorrow. The
government lines are very mysterious
things and he who bets his money
he can get a message through at any
time is taking great risk.
John Miller alias Black Jack, and
:ott Crawford, who were accumu-
a band Of stock, by means of a
lariat, were arrested at Cooke CITY
last week and will answer to the
grand jury. Nine horses of various
brands were found in their possess
The plat of the new town of Cho-
teau (near Old Agency has been ,
filed with the county clerk. It is
quite a pretentious looking city on
paper-and is likely to become such
n fact. There are nineteen blocks
IN the TOWNSHIP, with twenty-eight
OTIS to the block. the dimensions of
.he lots being 25x150 feet. I. n.
Hazlett is the proprietor. ;
The echo of a cornet played within !,
he wonderous defile of 1.-The Gate of y
he Mountains is equal to a full {
)and of music in the open. The
voice sounded from a boat gliding
Town the Long Pool repeats itself
and over and comes back mag |
nified many fold. 1t is even said S
bal a SALVATION like, "How are you.
Billy Patterson" returns with amaz-
ng h%eartiness, Pretty well, thank
you, Mr.. Robinson" ,
Mr.. B. T. Putnam tells of how in
ais rambles in tn Mission mountains I
asst week, while riding a niue, he 8
an onto a large she grizzly bear and 8
cubs: Mother Bruin was ready
a fight. but MI. Putnam was not, 6
only a shotgun in his possess s
ZION at the critical moment. and the