The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-06-20
The Semi Weekly Miner
Local News.
From the Daily of Tuesday.

uhe Alice bullion shipments foI
,na TO date amount to $43, AS. II.
p,nlar Grove was we'll patronized
,r suburban pleasure seekers last
Sunday.
The delightful summer weather Of
.,a nsst few days has brought out
the usual crop Of straw hats.
The race track presents a lively ap.
lance. Some thirty flyers are In
raining for the July races.
attention is called to the adver-
.:Inment of the City Park which ap-
uasrs in this mornings MINER.
THE Utah & Northern postal SER
u;aa ojyes employment 10 seven
VICE who run between Ogden,
Utah, and Deer Lodge, Montana.
The newly appointed Bishop of the
cotholic church in Montana, Bishop
Drondel, is On his way to this Terri
!orv to organize the diocese and select
,be episcopal residence.
Affeen-year-old boy named Chas-
.;ns Humphreys, while playing on
SWest Quartz street Sunday, fell on q
,iace of a broken glass bottle, severe
" cutting his knee.
Madame Cappiani, who gave q
aoIiyhtfu. operate concert at Rem
ahaS Opera House last fall, has
Stunned from the East to her model
f,rm in Choteau county.
ONLY two weeks remain in which
10 nrepare for the Fourth of July Gel
sbrstion. The committees are work.
mo faithfully and meeting with such
liberal cooperation that a rousing
celebration may be expected.
virginia City authorities are nego-
tiatins with S. Il. Rice, of this city,
for the purchase of his hotel property
in that city, upon the site of which
thew propose to build the new city
hall.
The Madisoniun says: From some
prospects which are said to have
hsen found while grading, we are
warranted in the assertion that the
streets of Virginia City are like those
of the New Jerusalem-paved with
gold.
The Inter Mountain has just found
fonnd out that the freight rate on
calf has been reduced to $40 per ton,
a fact which was published in the
MINER of June 10th, and gleefully
the discovery, in a column
article in its yesterdays issue.
Dan Costello's circus has left Du-
luth via the Northern Pacific en-
route for the Pacific coast. They
will travel by special to Mandan, by
regular train to Helena, and thence
across country in their own wagons.
We may expect them in Butte in a
few weeks.
Parties so wishing can leave Butte
in the morning by rail, go as far as
Warm Springs, and there take the
stage for Anaconda; have five or six
hours in which to purchase lots or
attend to any other business they
may have III hand, and leave in time
to connect at Warm Springs with the
up train for Butte. Mr.. Allen Pierse
is the gentlemanly conductor of the
stage line.
The Independent, referring to the
proposed game between the base ball
mines of Helena and this city, throws
down the gauntlet as follows: ut
may be depended upon if a game is
not arranged it will not be the fault
of the Helena nine. We have the
best players in the Territory and
they can take the starch out of any.
thing that walks-so far as Montana
is concerned, at least
We are in receipt of the journal of
the second annual cenvocation of
the Episcopal Missionary District OF
Montana held in Virginia City last
August. From it we learn that dur
ing the year niue clergymen were
regularly employed in the various
Episcopal parishes throughout the
Territory. There were 165 baptisms,
q combinations and 4S5 commune
cants. The offerings received by the
Church amounted to $l9,830.9 So and
the value Of church property was
S54,357.S0.
We have received from Thos. M.
Nichols, secretary of the Denver
mining exposition, copies of the tour
list edition of the New West and Colo
rndo Condensed. The former is a
handsomely illustrated magazine con-
tanning valuable information for
tourists on the Rocky mountain
routes, particularly regarding the
Yellowstone Park and valley. Colo
rado Condenscd is an eighty page
pamphlet giving general information
as to the general characteristics. soil,
aud mining resources Of Colorado with
interesting Illustrations and maps. 1t
cannot fail to benefit Colorado in the
dissemination of information as to
her resources.
Billy Ryan is getting g. cd pay out
his placer claim in the Big Hole
Basin.
A new show wind wv ornaments
The front of Mrs. Whites Opera Ice
Cream Parlors. !
Butte has enjoyed q remarkable
immunity from fires during the last
,hree months, and the insurance
companies are glad Of it.
Prospectors are bringing a large
lumber of samples from new strikes
n the neighbOring mountains, and
The asSayers are all busy.
The report of a case of diphtherIa,
n the family of Mrs. White of t e
opera Ice Cream Pariors, is pro-
lounced entirely groundless.
Excavations are being made for a
!rainage pipe on West Broadway to
Train the water from the alley be.
ween Main and Montana north OF
Great preparations are being made
o celebrate the driving of the golden
spike at the completion of the North
'rn Pacific railroad some time during
he month of August.
A number of heavy fre;ghting out.
It's were loading at Jim Capllce q
Io.'s Wholesale store yesterday with
goods for J. Ross Clark, 4 prominent
merchant of Anaconda.
Frank Warfield is carrying full
Dads of passengers to connect with
evening train at Silver Bow fol
)eer Lodge. and his hack isprovlng
great convenience to the business
hen OF both ciLies.