The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-11

~ Pei SoAAOu, uOuI FfO per uuuUF0U
beef Is cents per pound, and bacon 8
cents.
Mary Wilkins and James LabrOl
have been committed to the Warn
Springs Insane Asylum from Chotea,
county.
Benton is a city now and already
agitates for a fire department., side
walks, aud clearing Main street o
awnings.
J. H. Aylesworth's stable at Boze
man was broken into recently an(
two horses, = saddles and bride,
stolen.
Droves Of pilgrims are reported a
coming into all sections of Montana
and most of them are Immediately
provided with work.
Missoula complains of a plentitude
of money in circulation. Gambling
is lively, percentage games running
day and night.
"A camp fire of the Grand Army OF
the Republic will be lighted in Miles
City on the anniversary of the firing
upon Fort Sumpter.
Charles w. Story, who was under
arrest for the larceny of $40, 900 from
| Nelson Story's Bohemian bank. has
been released on bail:
Dillon will have a "necktie festi-
VAL" to morrow night, for the pur.
pose of laising funds to buy q bell for
the Methodist church.
In an alteration at Jepsen's tie
camp, on the N. P. r. R., a few days
since, Jack Hammond shot James
Maloy, inflicting a serious wound.
The arms and ammunition belong
ing to the Territory of Montana will
be removed from Virginia City to
Helena in accordance with the law.
Townsend, in the Missouri valley,
is is one of the ''boom" towns of the
Northern Pacific. Real estate is al
ready being held at lofty figures.
Work on the large hotel at Mann
moth Springs, in Yellowstone Park,
is progressing rapidly. The frame
work of the main building is In
place.
A Missouri valley confidence man
Weedled a verdant emigrant out of
a loan of $40, giving as collateral Sc
curity a note, signed ~. r. A. Good
fellow"
The ferry over the the Missouri at
the mouth of the Sun river is sup
piled with a galvanized steel wire
cable weighing LOO and 1000 feet
long.
The Shonkln tunnel is nearing
completion, and Benton people
pect from it All abundant supply of
water for irrigating as well as domes-
tic purposes.
The railroad company has offered
to sell to the people Of Miles City
forty acres of land near the town, to
be used for cemetery purposes, at Sc
per acre.
The wagon which carried the body
of William Nolan from Helena to
Deer Lodge was smashed on the
return trip and the driver badly
bruised.
Phil. Shenon, of Bannack, last
week made a purchase of 5 1000 worth
of cattle to add to his already large
herds ON the Lemhi and Horse Prai-
RE.
Thos. Rolan, an employee of the U.
& N. r. r., fell from a hand-car
running at full speed, at Pleas
ant Valley, last Monday, and was
severely injured.
1t is said that the finest mountain
sceDery along the whole Northern
line lies in Missoula county,
Antolne's ferry down to Thomp-
river.
The remains of u. J. Stewart, COM
piier of "Stewart's history OF Mon
were encased in a metallic
and taken to Anosa, Iowa, for
interment.
Helena will celebrate the advent
IF the railroad in grand style with
The roar of cannon, oratory, martial
grand parade and ball and
banquet for a wind up.
The body Of Amadie LIE Beau who,
his son, was drowned near
Missoula some weeks ago, has been
recovered and given burial. The
body of young LIE Beau has not yet
found.
The revival meetings recently con-
lucted by Revs. VanOrsdel, Mintzer
md Nutting at Pageville, Madison
county, have resulted in the organi-
alton Of q promising Methodist
church at that place.
Some lunatic at Dillon played a
Wholesale April TOOL joke by blowing
he locomotive whistle, causing the
,ntire community to tumble out of
heir beds, under the impression that
t was a fire alarm.
Helena is promised a lively scandal.
correspondent of the Madisonian
avs Il of the parties implicated has
legal partner i'll wedlock in the east
vho will arrive On the ground one of
hese days and make the fur fly.
The workmen engaged in excavat-
ng preparatory to building a real
xtension to Hale's property on Main
treet, have struck an eight inch pay
freak which pans out ten cents to
be pan.-Helena Independent.
Prof. Clayton has secured nearly
II of the valuable and available
lines in the Bannack, Blue Wing
nd Bald Mountain districts. for the
urpose of organizing a company to
rect a smelter and work the mining
roperties in those districts.
Only a two days term of court was
cid at White Sulphur Springs. Two
and two civil suits were
red, and a number of cases were
ontinued. The term was abbre- !!
lated to enable Judge Wade to open
Durt at Miles City on the 10th inst.
Horse Plains will have quite town
1T after the road has gone by. The
rst regularly built depot in Missoula
.unty is established there. It has
lso a section house for the accommo-
alton Of repair men and other en-
and a telegraph office and
perator. Quite q number of new
arms have been taken up, and set
lers are now arriving in large num-
erS.