The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-12

As Found in Our Cleanup of the
Territorial Exchanges.

A movement is on foot to organize
a Post of the Grand Army of the Re
public in Glendive.
The Marias river was enjoying a
boom and at last reports was az high
as it was in June last.
The county poor of Lewis and
Clarke county are kept, maintained
and clothed for six dollars per head
per week.
John James, an old Alder gulcher,
died of apoplexy last week at Deer
Lodge. He was nearly 70 years of
age.
During November seven patients
were admitted to the Territorial In
sane Asylum, and two were dis
charged as cured.
Harry Steadman, formerly of Fort
Benton, was badly kicked by a horse
at Fort Mcleod, but from last re.
ports was getting better.s
Five hundred geysers and five hum
dred hot springs are reported as in
the Yellowstone National Park by
the government surveyors.
Miles City had first-class burglary
last week, but work with the jimmy
was rewarded by only $50 worth Of
booty. The craftsman was arrested.
Cooke City is threatened with a
famine, there being scarcely q
months supply of provisions in the
camp and the roads thence already
impossible.
A man named Mcdonald, of Trout
threshing machine last Saturday, ne.
cessitating a%mputation between the
wrist and elbow.
A disease resembling mountain fe-
yer has broken out among the Blood
Indians, and is carting them off to
the classic confines of the sweet sub
sequently with startling rapidity.
On Friday morning three buildings
belonging 10 Walter Matheson, on
Twenty sixth street, in Billings,
were burned. Loss, S 1900; insurance,
$500.
A Chinaman engaged in section
work on the Northern Pacific, near
Avon, was run over by the cars a
few evenings since, and was in
stantly killed.
A little girl named Sadie Smith
was thrown from y cOasting sled at
White Sulphur Springs, last Tues.
dav, sustaining q fracture OF the
thigh bone.
The new school house at Miles
City is in a bad shape. It is said by
u competent architect that all the
work done so for will have to be torn
down on account of it insecurity.
A Montana man w1o had
won the sympathy Of q Dakota town
by exhibiting the scars of terrible
scratches and telling \ story OF a ter
rife fight with a bear has been
proven a fraud. An investigation
developed the fact that he neve saw
a bear, but had been married three
times.-Bismarck Tribune.
John Easterllng, an old-tlme Mon:
tana miner and prospector, who has
been prospecting at the head OF Fl
oneer and Pllgram Bar, has found
the feeder of tie famous placers in a
gold bearing ledge f~ifty-seven feet
between the walls, and which aver
ages $40 per ton ali the way across.
Picked samples have yielded as high
as $72 per ton.
Benton Record: The marriage re-
ferred to yesterday turns out to have
been a reality instead of a Josh
Archie Campbell and Flora Lane
were the contracting parties. Friends
dared the woman to marry. the
Young man. II will take Archie be-
fore 1 will a dare" she said, and
ordered up the justice OF the peace TO
officiate.
A young man named Hoxie, who
was cutting timber alone In the
mountains, near Sulphur Springs,
accidentally cut his knee and came
near bleeding to death recently. lie
managed to crawl to his cabin after
much exertion, where he remained
during the recent cold snap for three
DAYS before relief came.
At the Blackfoot crossing OF BOW
River on the l5th Of last month, a
Young man known a kid every"
where was drowned. He had been
Working for I. G.. Baker q Com
nanv for sometime as q cowboy.
His horse was found by Indians
| standing in the ford. Nothing is
known of his parents, relatives or
name.