The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-11-24

Az Found In Our Clean.Up of tho
Territorial Exchanges.

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meet the city with the railway depot.
Work on the new court house at
Benton has been stopped until next
spring.
The tax levy in Custer county is 90
mills on the dollar. Total assessment
valuation, A,317,5H.91.
The Hecla mines are furnishing the
Glendale smelter daily between 30
and 50 tons of silver ore.
The Hecla smelter at Glendale is to
have another furnace, increasing the
capacity to $50 tons per day.
The Fargo foundry company offer
to remove their works to Livingston.
if land for sites and a cash bonus is
given.
The National Park Hotel will be
kept open all winter for the accom-
mediation Of those travellers who may
come to visit the springs.
Desertion has been very prevalent
at Fort Lincoln recently. None Of
the deserters have 80 far been appre-
hended.:
In the district court at Missoula
VIM. 81. King was convicted of MUIR
der and sentenced to fifteen years in
the penitentiary.
A new land office ruling requires
the publication of notices of final en-
try for six consecutive weeks, in
stead of five, as heretofore.
A team driven recklessly down a
Miles City street knocked down and
ran over two school children, who
sustained serious injuries.
The National Park Improvement
Company are busy getting out lum-
Der for the buildings which they ex-
pect to erect next year.
White Sulphur Springs is getting
to be a pretty lively place. They
had a prize fight and horse race there
one day last week.
The Territorial Secretary has al
ready secured quarters for the con-
stitutional convention which will as
semble in January.
A large party of English tourists
are coming over next season to spend
q few weeks among the "twees,
wocks and geysahs' Of the Yellow
stone.
Maiden complains of condensed
milk and sighs for a dairy. When
she gets it, like the dairy maid of
poesy and song she will sigh for
something else.
A long-eared young man in Ben
ION drank a bottle of mucilage, be-
ing told it would keep out cold. He
don't feel very we'll now, but his
beefsteak sticks to his ribs.
On Thursday IS bars of bullion
were run out at the Barker smelter
during one 8-hour shit, the best rec
ord ever made, aud probably the
richest bullion yet produced.
On the voyage from Portland to
San Francisco. Mrs. Neel's o Sam,
a lad of nine years, tumbled over
board. and was rescued by q sailor.
Mrs. Neel was en- route from Helena.
A herd of about Is. 900 buffalo are
reported in the vicinity of Belle
FOurche, and about forty lodges Of
GrOs Ventres, besides a large num-
Der Of Milk half-breeds, are hunting
them.
The Mckenzie Cattle Company,
with headquarters at Bismarck and
range in Dawson county, Montana,
have filed articles of incorporation in
the Territorial Secretary's Office. The
capital is placed at $l50,CO0.
1t ia estimated that over 1000
hunters are engaged in slaughtering
deer and buffalo along the line of the
N0rfhorn DnniA0 hofu,ocn N6nn1nn
and Livingston, Montana, and the
game is fast disappearing.
1t Is stated that the running ex-
penses have been cut down IS per
cent. GU the Pacific division of the
Northern Pacific, In order to make a
good showing In the net profit of the
road for the last months of the year.
1t has been discovered that the
Chinese murderer who escaped from
Missoula was harpored for a week by
q brother monaghan in Bozeman,
from whence he skipped to some
other locality.
Officers of Choteau county are
again after the notorious Indian An
telope Shirt, who recently served a
term In the penitentiary for a muir
der0us assault on q white man. This
time it is for carving y squaw with
his skalping knife.
Montanians are letter writers from
away back, the average number of
letters q citizen of this Territory
mails annually being forty, as shown
by p0stOfice statistics. For Now
York State the number is forty-one,
and for Minnesota twenty-one.
A man named Sleighton is sup
posed to have been lost in the Crazy
Mountains during the storms Of last
week. o. moving camp he left his
companions and went hunting on the
range. since which time no trace of
him has been found, although search
ing parties are out.
Prof. Lillienskyo!ett, q wealthy
mineowner, was held UP at the
muzzles of two revolvers in a saloon
at Cooke City, and compelled to give
UP 500, all he had with him, except
his name, and the foot-pads wouldn't
take that. The robbers have been ar
rested.
The Dunton Bros, in reducing
some of Il e ore from the Baron by
means of a blowpipe obtained from a
half-Ounce of pulp q button of bullion
as large as a five.cent pie e, bearing
25 per cent silver. The ore from this
". in averages 20 cents to the pound
in silver, or four hundred dollars to
the ton.-Miney0 Ar9Ns.
Captain Owens has rendered his
resignation as a member OF the pO-
lice force. His successor has not yet
been named,
The ladies sociable at the Presbyte-
rian church last night was we'll at
tended and enjoyable as are all of the
socials given under their auspices.
The supplemental list returned by
Assessor Maillet to the Board of