The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-26
Local News.


Local News.
From the Daily Of Friday.
Silver was quoted at j. O9k in thu
New York market yesterday.
Owsley, Walton 4 70. are improv.
ing their livery stable with a coat Of
paint.
The fill on West Granite street
leaves the buildings on the south side
OF the street from two to four feet be.
low the grade.
The cOnsignments of bullion at the
Pacific express Office yesterday were:
Anaconda 7 bars, valued at Sc, 848;
Alice IA bars, valued at $50, 1872.
Gordon's variety people for the
Helena theater left yesterday morn.
ing in a special coach. Thew ex.
pected to make the trip in one day.
The Helena Light Guards have re-
solved to make the company an in
dependent one, and $1,000 has been
subscribed for the purchase of equip
ments.
A telegram has been received bv
Manager Mcguire from the Hvar
Sisters Opera Company, now PLAYING
IN Illinois, stating that they will
play the Montana circuit this e a
son.
n canvassers for Burr's Butte
City Directory have covered about
two-thlrds of tho ground and regis
Tered over 100 names. The result of
~ canvass will show that the popu-
latlon "f Butte has been under-esti-
mated.
M1ssoula has two base ball clubs.
which played their first game of the
season last Sunday. Some good bat
ting was done and the Missoulians
VII! think they are world beaters.
until The Butte nine takes the conceit
out of them.
We learn from Mr.. Scott. the ac-
comnodating U. & N. agent. that
excursion rates to the Thomas musi-
cal festival in Salt Lake, on the 10Th
prox., can no doubt be obtained, pro-
,vldlng twenty..c r more persons club
together for the trip.
Manager Mcguire goes to Deer
Lodge this evening to meet Fred.
Berger, manager for Sol. Smith Rus
sell, the we'll known Comedian. with
Whom ne expects to arrange for Mr..
omlth TO appear soon with his fine
company ut Butte, Deer Lodge and
Helena.
In the cases of VIM. Weinstein in
the Deer Lodge term of court, against
the Algonquin Company, judgments
were last week entered for the fnIl
amount of his claims, amounting to
$1,000, and S1,O50 costs, which de-
PENDANTS bondsmen have s~atisfacto-
rily settled.
The MINER acknowledges the re-.
ceint Of five views Of mills, smelters
ana lis is;Ii Z works, Handsomely lith- |
ographed in colors, from the enter
prising mill and mining machinery
firm, Rankin, Brayton & Co., pro-
Prletors of the Pacific Iron Works.
San Francisco.
Inc evening Ananias is trying to
explain the part it took in working
up the Occur d'Alene stampede. The
other stampeder, Prichard. is report
ed to have been left hanging to a
tree in the Occur d'Alenes. That's
where the Ananias will wind up, if
amt hoisted by his own petard
Inc sale of excursion tickets for the
Salt Lake Jockey Club races com
mences at the U. & N. ticket Office
The tickets will be on sale
until June lst, and are good for the
outgoing trip for three DAYS from
late of sale. Returning thew will be
good until June 9th. The fare has
been reduced to one full fare for the
'ound trip.
A merry party of children celebra-
'ed the seventh birthday of little
Nay Brown at the residence of her
PARENTS, Mr.. and Mrs. H. T. Brown,
m washington street, yesterday af-
ernoon. The little recipient was
made happy by numerous presents
nd her guests, after being enter
aimed with gleeful sports and boun-
y. refreshments, separated with
light hearts and beaming faces.
The funeral obsequies of Chow
foke, a high toned celestial gambler,
we're celebrated yesterday after the
most approved Monaghan fashion. {
how was a "Flee Mason" and the
'rethren turned out in style, with
arrlages, marshals on horseback and {
band OF tom toms. horse fiddles
nd kettle-drums, which created a
!orrible din as the procession passed
trough the streets.
In the case of Richard T. Kennon .
8. Gilmer and Salisbury, wherein :
be plaintiff obtained a verdict at !
last term of the Deer Lodge court ;
or 81 500 damages for the breaking , /,
I his leg while travelling on the ,
tage from Deer, Lodge to Helena. :
motion for a new trial was last :.
7eek over-ruled by Judge Galbraith !
nd Judgment ordered in accordance |.
'ith the verdict, with twenty days' .
of execution granted defendant !
perfect an appeal. :
The improvements on Washington '
this spring show the enterprise 8
taste of the residents on that {
andsome thoroughfare. The resi- $
ence OF VIM. Hensley has been re- t
lodeled and painted outside and in. =
v. Pinkham has built an addition /
painted the outside of his neat /
esidence. J. F. Fish has also added =
wing to his home and beautifed s
. external by a coat of paint. Frank r
'eck has built a lean-to, a portico in .
ont and painted the outside of his
esidence. A. E. briggs has enclosed y
is property with a neat nickel I