The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-07-14
MELANGE.
Accidents and Incidents as Mar.
rated BY Our Exchanges.

rated By Our Exchanges.
Dillon will vote on the proposition
of a 5000 school house to-day.
Mail to and from Missoula on the
west is now carried by the railroad.
A postoffice has been established at
Grape Range, Aeagher county.
The Benton papers are booming the
new town site owned by Paris Glib
son and J. J.. Hill.
Weller is the name of another new
town up the Missouri between Bis
marck and Fort Berthold.
Boulder, the new county seat of
Jefferson county, has been raised to
the dignity of a money order post
office.
The iron rails on about seventy
miles Of track on the Missouri divis-
ion of the Northern Pacific are be-
ing replaced with steel.
During the month of June, 1888
1852 patients were admitted at St.
Joseph's hospital, Missoula, of which
buS eleven deaths have been regis
tered.
The dry weather of the past fort
night on the East Side has made
water very valuable among the val
ley ranches. 1t is reported that trou-
BILE is brewing.
A tin pan serenade, rendered to a
newly-married Fort Macleod couple
a few days since, was resented by the
happy man with q leaden argument.
Nobody was killed, however.
Mrs. Geo. Myers, of Glendive, is
ertitled to the badge as Montana's
first successful female buffalo hun
ter. While visiting at Terry the
othe- day she shot and killed a whole
buffalo all by herself.
A stranger named w. Patterson
was brought to the Missoula hospital
in a deliriOus condition on the 10Th
of June and died the next morning.
Nothing is known of his antecs-
dents.
The main range at the Mullan tun-
mel is black with men and the work
on the overhead line is being pushed
along for all there is in it. The line
will be ready for the rails in two or
three weeks, we understand.
Grants party trianguIated Emf
grant Peak last summer, aud found
it to lie I0,H5S feet above sea level.
ElectricPeak bevond Cinnabar noun
tains, is the highest point Of Mon
tana, being II, Us feet above sea level.
Louis Riel, whose term of Danish
ment from Manitoba has expired, 10
now at Winnipeg. The object of his
visit is to secure evidence with which
to defend himself in his forthcoming
trial for election frauds in Montana.
The Barker District mining camp
is enjoying a fair share of prosperity.
Fifty men are employed On the Sill
yer Belle mine; the Clerdenin COM
pany are building extensive kilns,
and are purchasing additional claims.
There has been a great discovery
rich leads in one corner of Mon
tana district. The new find is on
Snow creek. The owners of Neihart
a-e very enthusiastic over the new
camp. and say they are willing to
their all upon it.
G. B. Fowler and F. Caldwell, |
while encamped Oh Big Spring creek
one night last week. had all their
horses stolen. The picket ropes were
:ut and the horses taken while the
owners were asleep within a few feeo
If them.
The River Press wants to 90 on
'ecord with the prophecy that the
lew town of Great Falls, the lots of
which will o be placed on the mar-
Let, will experience a greater boom
han have ever any of the railroad
owns of the Territory.
There was a heavy fall of rain in
he Prickly Pear valley Monday
The rain belt was only
bout a mile wide and it only rained
Or about fifteen or twenty minutes,
ut wnen it got through the water
TODD about six inches deep.
Henry Forbes, alias Martin, was
rear Livingston last week,
mo is believed to be the murderer of
obl Donofpe, at a camp on the Liz
Missouri, last fall. The murder
'as a cold-blooded one, the murderer
DELIBERATELY shooting his victim and
defying arrest.
We have it indirectly from one of /;
ne most prominent officials of the
[orthern Pacific railroad that two {
ranches of that road-one from Hell !
"a, and the other from some point !
lrther east, coming by way of the !
udith-will be built to Fort Benton,
nd before very long.-River Press. !