The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-19
The Semi Weekly Miner.
Local News.
From the Daily of Tuesday.

CHASED Tue law library OF Judy
Iholnas Laspeyre deceased.
Christmas trees are already bein,
brought into town and decoration fo
the merry day will be more genera
than ever
Independent: Col. w. F. Chad
wick presided in the District Con
on the 18th. He took hold of tn
relns like an old hand.
The noon train to Garrison wa.
discontinued OH Sunday and hereaf
ter passengers tor the north will tax
the morning train.
Dan. Halvorson. the victim of tn,
recent accident at the Alice mill
was much improved yesterday, and
his condition is now considered
quite hopeful.
The man who ;tole the MINEt
from the door of the Silver Bow
brewery on Sunday morning wa
seen and identified, and had a police
man been in the neighborhood ht
would have been arrested.
Our reporter erred in stating that
tickets for the Phantom Carniya]
will be on sale at Newton's DRUG
store. They may be procured al
Fred Gilbelt's stationery store,
Wynne's drug store or at the Amphi'
theatre box Office.
Hon. Cornelius Hedges, Territorial
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, Is expected to arrive in Butte
to-day, and to deliver y lecture to the
teachers and others interested in the
cause OF education, at 1870 tuis even
ing, in the Congregational church.
The MINER is in receipt of a circu-
lar from Francis Pope, Secretary, an
nouncing that the Fifteenth Annual
Exhibition of the Montana Agricul-
tural, Mineral and Mechanical Asso-
citation will be held at Helena on
next September Sth, 18th inclusive.
The charge against George P.
Bretherton, who was charged with
maintaining a vicious and dangerous
dog, was dismissed yesterday, the
evidence against the general charac-
ter and reputation of the dog for
peacefulnass and docility not being
sufficient to sustain the charge.
Quite a party of old timers from
Helena and Sulphur Springs passed
Silver Bow yesterday en- route to
California. where they will spend the
winter. The party included A. J
Davidson and family, but Mr.. David
son bid them good bye at the juno
ton and came up to spend a few days
in the metropolis.
A diminutive mule, with an intelli-
gent lOp OF his left a and the gem
eral appearance of the proverbiaI cir
Gus trick mule, paraded the streets
yesterday bearing upon either flank
the announcement of the great ''Mul-
doom Picnic" at the Comique. The
programme does not announce what
part the mule is to play in the per-
torrance.
The first religious services ever
held in Anaconda were held by Rev.
E. Stanley of the M. E. Church
south a week ago last Saturday. A
Union Sunday School has been or
ganized and the citizens have sub
scribed literally for the Christmas
tree, npon which a present for every
child in town will be hung on Christ.
mas. |
Under Sheriff Bodley leaves for
Missoula this morning with warrants !
for the arrest of Fitchen and Beck,
charged with robbing the store of T.
G. Hami ton & Co. on the 18th inst.
AS they are held in Missoula county
in S., 900 bail for the Stevensville rob-
berry. he is not likely to return with
the prisoners, but the warrants will
be maze of record so as to be availa-
BILE in case of any slip in the Missoula
county proceedings.
Our next door nelghbor had a hard
time getting owe Sunday night. The
local page yesterday was devoted to
rehash Of Sundays MINER, silver
coinage and 1.-The need Of publication
the present heated term,"
although it was the first genuine win
try day of the season., while on the
inside a good story was spoiled by
the unfortunate turning upside down
of one of their patent composition
saving, stereotype plates, the use of
which our economical neighbOr has
recently adopted.
When the Evening Rehnsh copies
from the MINER, 1t should be
careful to do SO correctly. In its re-
hash of the MINERS report of the
Stevensville robbery an unfortunate
mistake is made in giving the name
of an honest miner, Dewey, as one
Of the robbers. The MINER only
mentioned Dewey as working with
Beck in the Geneva mine, not as one
of the robbers, who were named as
Eeck and Fitchen. Our Ian
guage was plain, and we don't see
why it should he misunderstood by
the reporter of the Evening Reh0sh
The attention OF roller skaters is
to the announcement in this
MINER, of q proposed
tournament at which the
championship of Montana will he
Among Butte skaters James
Reynolds, Louis A. Schultz and
Hugh Wright have signiied their
intention to participate in the tour
nament. Skaters throughout the Ter
ritory are expected to take part and
the tournament will doubtless create
great interest among the lovers OF the
gliding art.
Old Boreas got his work in Sunday
hight. A stiff nor-wester sprung up
bout midnight and from that hour
Until morning, the creaking of signs,
banging Of shutters and peltihg of
window pan,s by the icy sleet, made
sleep impossible for a majority OF the
ienizeus of Butte. At daylight the )
NOW commenced skurrying around :
he street corners and by noon yes
terday about six inches of the heecy
covered the ground. The afternoon
was less stormy but the day closed
with a lowering sky and the indica-
ions are that the heated term is
|bopt over,
The MINER has recently made sew s
,raI suggestions calculated to aid the {
aides in devising means of divertise-
nent for the social occasions of the s
season, but it now pre- s
,ents the boss scheme for the {
moderation Of the rigors OF d.
hese wintry mornings: The "wish- {
zone" wedding..has become the cor !
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