The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-17
Local News,

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The most appropriate expression
We a think of at present is "Dry
up"
Over a hundred and fifty thousand
dollar court house and Jail and too
poor to have street crossings,
One thousand dollars in gold
weighs four pounds. That is why
SO many newspaper men are round
s%bouldered.
A new sidewalk has been con-
structed on West Broadway from the
Grand Central Hotel west as far as
the Mt. Vernon.
Several of our citizens were enjoy
ing themselves out fishing yesterday.
1t was on Main street and they were
fishing for their overshoes.-
A medical advertisement says red
poses are Otter caused by dyspepsia.
That's just the excuse Butte has been
prospecting for ever since its exist
ence.
Rey. E. J. Stanley. of the Metho-
dist church south, will preach at
Stuart, Saturday, the Goth inst. a tt p.
m. and at Willow Glen school house
on the Sunday following at II a. m.
Those piles of stone on the street
corners remind us of the Arkansas
man who could not put the roof on
his house when it was raining and
did not need roof when it was not.
Mrs. Mary Green appeared before
Justice Nichols yesterday afternoon
and filed a complaint against her
husband, Griffith Green, for assault
and battery. Wife beating is becom-
ing too frequent and should be Sc
verely punished.
The parties who were warned in
the MINER about shooting their re-
volvers on West Granite street, near
the skating rink, YER at it again last
night. They are known and will not
be warned again. A word to the
wise is Tor should be) sufficient.
The buildings on the southeast
corner of Main and Park streets,
which were damaged by last Thurs
days fire, are being rapidly repaired
and refitted. Fritz & Rogan will
have their place entirely repaired in
a couple of days. The oyster house
fronting on Park street is being re-
fitted in good shape.
We have been confidentially in
form. d tllat Chas. w. Cannon, one
of the largest real estate dealers of
Helena, returns to that place to-day
with a view of having the depot
moved N the west side, he having
lately purchased another quarter
section Of land near the fair grounds.
Oar informant also stated that Mr..
G. would probably take considerable
real estate with him-on his boots.
Harry Gundry was brought in yes
by Constable J. NJ. Fish from
Bogk's Park, where he was arrested
on a charge of petit larceny. It is
charged that he has been pilfering |
whisky, etc. He is now in
Jail to await the trial which comes
before Justice f. A.. Nichols to-
day. Gundry will be remembered
as the man who was logged by the
citizens last spring for the alleged
of bestial crime.
Constable J. NJ. Fish yesterday
served a summons from the district
court On Col. Shaughnessy, on COM
plant of Richard Down, for $4,000
damages for injuries sustained while
at work in the Isele mine. The COM
plant charges the defendant with
carelessness and neglect in not keep
the mine in proper repair, and
with having defective and insecure
hosting apparatus. At the time of
;he accident the plaintiff was work
in the bottom of the shaft at a
of 26O feet. A piece of scant-
ing became detached by the hosting
bucket, and. falling a great distance
with considerable force, struck the
plaintiff thereby breaking his arm,
,ruising him badly and rendering
him unfit for work ever since. The
luminous was served on Col. Shaugh-
,essy just prior to his departure for