The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-01-20

TmRl10AlAL News.
Eegs Are worth @l.:5 per dosen at
0o0ton.
Huntsn are selling bunklo hide.
by the wagon load In Miles City.
Benton wants canning establish
ment; presumably IN put up jack
Tabbils.
Billin9v Her0ld: Game hrs been
very plentiful In town" IL Iste-main.
" ''stud."
Last Thursdsy's Northern Pacific
train Was fifteen hours late im reach
iDg Milea City.
The school laud of Montana. II In
one body, would liz about sinety
miles square.
In the past year the value Of 'aisi.
lezss property in BENTON has increased
about six hundred per cent.
Tho tax levy in Misss.ula county
for 1858 h - mills. which r. reduc-
liOn Of two mills frsNn the levy Ut.
1S8:...
The tax levy in Lewis aud Clarke
county for the year 1857 r. fifteen
mills-twO mills lea than tl,e levy Of
la6:.
The Yellowstone towns have lady
real estate bonner who xOes Fast
every few weeks aud sells dead loads
Of corner lots.
The citizens Of Billings desire the
new cDunty, II one should be made,
to be called Billings instead of Vel
lowstone.
A brakeman named Buscr WA
killed in the collisiou whicl, occurred
January 18th on the n. r. Il. u. near
Little Missouri station.
The new Spanish sm,eller vt lsar-
ker IL being rapidly pushed 10 com.
pletion and 10 = few weeks will b.
ready for b,,sinesr.
During the calender year ending
Dec. 81, 1851, moneys to the amount
Of $Ol ,tai4 ~ were res,eived IN the L.
4. land office ut Helena.
On Monday morning Charley
Johnss,u, n Swetle, fell OM tho l3cu-
ton coach. near silver City, aud aus
tanned a fracture 1T the left arm.
On the morning Of the l,th inst.
James (;Ornlan Of Miles City acci-
dentally shot himself In the left
breast while handling u self-t1s.king
pistol.
Maps anu airawim Of BeutOn*
proposed water works have bcen made
and the citizens are showing m &C.
tive interest IN making the scheme
SUCCESS.
The residence of William Evans.
on the Missouri, about TOUR miles l,e-
low BENTON, was destroyed hy fire
saturday afternoon. Loss I'ctween
81 Ion and $:.'hn|.
Preparation are l'eing made 10
establish the new crUw Indian
agency ut point on the Zig Horn
nearly half way between Fort Custer
aud the month Of the STREAM.
The company that recently pur-
chased the White sulphur Springs
will anon begin the erection Of =
$lO, OkI hath house. to be followed
this year BY u first-rlssH hotel l'iild-
Ing.
1t in stated that simon Piper, who
left Fort A.sinaln,ine n few weeks
ago In search ri stock, got lat In .
suOw storm, and an nothing has (ren
heard Of him since. it II believed that
he was frozen to- death.
4 Misssa,u)~ paper aAy~ ruIn''Iing
noises are herh at intervals up the
valley frons that city. HOsAe aitri-
hute the sounds tO the blasting by
Hallctt's ii,rces and others believe
that u Volcano is about I" '"'r~t over
Hitter ROOF.
Reports irvDlni the cattle range north
NJ Fort Macleod say the SNOW has
fallen tn depth Of three feet in that
section. and ~ the SNOW, moist NJ
first, has frozem into almost solid
mass, ~ ~ tn even bear up llOrses
aud sleigl,~. il il iMpsssiLlc for the
cattle to gs.t ~ the gr,asx, and they
are dying NJ starvation l'y the hun
dretl.
The Miles l'itS I;,xs says: lM
Junction City last Tuesday night the
saloon building formerly occupied l,y
Burns smith wa. I'rs,ken int" and
one hundred dollars were alwtr,acled
from q snck IN the cupboard behind
the lar. \ stranger lO,lmging around
tlsc premises was suspected Of having
stolen the money. and u party ri
citizens took him ont ~ the street
facing the river. and placing - rOle
around his mes.k strung him up IL the
limb Of n tree. They s0Dn let hin.
down again, when he protested his
innocence - earnestly auG ~ ,r''.cln-
sively that he wa~ allowed to 90 free.
the victim Of al unfortunate mistake.