The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-25
MINER.
Local News.
From the Daily Of Sunday.

,roceries and produce dealers on
Rroadway, has been dissolved. Mr..
Donovan retiring.
A man employed by the Butte
Hardware Company had his little
snoer mashed off yesterday by a
heavy timber falling on it.
Rerorts from the Valley districts
throughout the territory indicate a
larger acreage has been seeded and
crop prospects are better than in any
previous year.
Attention of the readers of the
MINER is called to the notice "Stray-
Cd or Stolen" in this mornings issue.
reward of $40 is offered for the
return of the animals to the owner.
Mr.. w. &. Child, who is now visit
ing Butte, has recently enlarged and
added a French roof to his residence
in Helena, which makes it one of
the handsomest residences in that
city.
The independent candidates failed
to develop any strength in the con-
yention yesterday. Fred Taylor was
mt in nomination for marshal and
scored a solitary vote in the ballot
ing.
The 25O east drift Of the Shonbar
il is now in 100 feet and has penetra-
ted the shoot of black ore which
showed in the 1856. The vein is eight
feet wide across the breast and sam
pies l25 ounces.
John Petritz entertained a distin-
guished guest yesterday, and the
newcomer was received with so much
favor that he is likely to become the
future proprietor of the Northwestern
hotel. Its a boy.
As we go to press, information is
received that the Opera Walker House
Company will extend their engage
ment here, appearing tomorrow
evening in the splendid comedy en-
titled "The Widow Hunt"
The building business will be lively
this season. Besides the Catholic
church and new court house and jail.
alarge number of smaller structures
will be erected, giving employment
to several hundred mec.l anics and la
borers.
The chain gang is Kept busy
cleaning up the streets these Spring
DAYS. Citizens will do we'll to sup
plement the work of the city officials
by carting out the garbage which has
accumulated in back yards and pass
age ways.
An atmospheric phenomenon, pecu-
liar to the valley of the Platte, an
Electric Storm disabled the wires
between Cheyenne and Omaha last
night, and Pacific coast journals, in
Guiding the MINER, are without their
usual quota of Geographic news this
morning.
There is more genuine material
prosperity in Montana now than was
ever known before. Heavy immi-
grafton, influx of capital, new enter
prises, extensive building operations
and all the clements of prosperous
times are reported from every town
in the Territory.
Mr.. Lippincott, having in his card
published in last evenings Inter
Mountain, admitted that be lied to
the MINER reporter, the presumption
is a natural one that his statement of
the circumstances connected with the
matter is also false, and it is therefore
unnecessary for the MINER reporter
to brand it as such.
Decoration Day occurs on April
SOth. Throughout the country the
day is observed with appropriate
ceremonies and the decoration of the
graves of departed comrades by the
Grand Army of the Republic. So
general has become the celebration
Of the day that in some sections it
may be said to have supplanted the
national holiday.
The MINER office received q pleas
ant call yesterday from G. G. Thurs
ton, the enterprising brick manufac-
turer. Mr.. Thurston has taken large
contracts for furnishing brick to Hell
ena parties during the coming sea-
son, and although he will continue
bis business here, he will open a yard
there, with two Martin brick ma
chimes, each capable of producing
10000 brick per day.
The mills ana smelters are making
remarkably steady run. With the
single exception of the longmaid
concentration all the reduction works
In the camp are in full operation.
Among the works that have turned
out their regular contribution of min
eral wealth during the past week are
The Alice, Moulton, Lexington, Sill
yer Bow, Clipper, and Dexter mills,
and the Colorado, Montana Copper,
farrott, and Bell smelters.
The report reached the city yester-
Jay that On Wednesday a a on the
tramway between Glendale and Lion
city jumped the track, throwing
from the car two men, n of whom
was killed by the car passing over
MS body, and the other seriously in
Jufed by the fall. The car was load
"a and coming down grade at a fear
Jul rate of speed. Owing to the fail
ure OF Geographic communication
with Glendale we We're unable to
gather further particulars of the &C.
cident.
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