The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-17
MONTANA MELAN4E.
Accidents ana Incidents as Mar
rated by Our Exchanges.

Accidents ana Incidents as Mar.
rated by Our Exchanges.
The tunnel at Muir City will be
5000 feet long when complet ted.
Hauser, Hotter & Co., who have a
bond IN the Massachusetts, mine at
Neihart, nave suspended operations.
The Helena passenger de. OF is
nearly finished and is a very neat
building.
Large quantities of is So bullion from
Barker are being shipped east by way
of Billings.
The wealth Of the Crow Indians,
valuing their land at 81 per acre, is
estimated at $500 each.
The cost of constructing the North
ern Pacific = said to have been an
average OF {4O.O 600 per mile.
Jack Langrishe, the popular old
time actor ct Montana, will appear
at Helena during next week.
Samuel Bundock. a civil engineer,
has charge of the Tongue river irri-
eating ditch at Miles City.
Custer county's assessment foots
up 5 $3.50, 1872. to which the railroad
co%ntributes$l :: 1850.
Dan LIE Valley, the noted scout,
has finally succeeded in finding a
route from the Musseishell to Sheep
Mountain.
The capacity Of the slaughter
house to be built at Miles City by the
Marquis de Mores, will, it is said, be
$50 head per day.
George Macarthur, charged with
the murder OF James p. Russell, was
triedaat Billings last week and was
found not guilty.
The Miles City First National
bank claims the handsomest counter
in the west. 1t Is Of cherry with
beveled plate glass the entire length.
The Irish hunter, Jamison, and
party, are now in the Snowy noun
tains where they went flom the Big
Horn country.
\ Missoula Chinese leper case has
been sent to San Francisco. the citi-
Gems donating sufficient funds for the
purpose.
The Briggs-Ellis cattle company
have purchased Thomas kent's band
of cattle on the Grow reservation be-
tween Merrill and Big Timber.
1t IS said an ex .ursion train will
be run from the Montana towns to
San Francisco about The holidays,
when very low rates will he given for
the round trip.
r A prominent business man of Ben
on has received a number of letters
from wealthy Irish capitalists. who
are DESTROYS OF investing in cattle in
this territory.
Major John J. Coppinger, (pro-
noted to Lieut.. Colonel), who will
succeed Col. IIges in command at
Fort Assinaboine, is a son-in-law of
James G. Blaine.
Major Conger estimates that about
20, 600 people have visited the Nation
al Park during the season.. About
three-fourths Of them went by private
conveyance.
Geo. E. and Willy Carpenter, of
Deep creek, Missouri valley, raised
$500 pounds of Mangl WurZel's beels
on 7S rods of measured ground the
past season.
The board of directors of the Ter
~ritorial fair propose to offer some ex-
ira large trotting and running purses
next year with Il view of inducing
noted horses from the east and west
to pay us a visit.
1t is reported that Mel Powers,
who kept a variety show i'll Billings
several months ago, was hanged at
Sioux City last Friday for killing a
man whom he suspected of improper
intimacy with his wife.
Three car loads of soldiers were
brought to Montana last week. The
majority of them were to recruit the
garrison at Fort Keogh, while others
distributed among Custer, Ma
and Mjssoula.
During a recent hunting excursion
in the Bad Lands, in which the
MarQuisa de MOres was accompanied
by her husband, she shot three deer
with as much dexterity as though
she Was an expert at the business
Enterprise.
Harry Horn mas organized a COM
pany for the development Of his coal
veins on the Gardiner river, to be
known as the Goal Mining and
Coke Company" The coal is said 10
be of superior quality and the veins
are of great extent.
A Montanjan who vas asked by an
Eastern rapOrter what the resources i
of the county were, replied. "Got
everything, gold, silver, iron, copper,
coal, wheat, vegetables, niggers, Chi
and Injnns. That's all we
The body ota young man, supposed
be that ofyoung Godfrey, VINO was
last July, was discovered by a traprer
last week below the mouth OF the
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