The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-01

Accidents and Incidents a. Mar
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Miles City has an artesian well
company.
A private at Fort Keogh was shot
in the leg while at target practice q
few days ago.
John Chinnick, who was shot in
the Miles City troubles last week is
reported to be recovering.
Prairie fires of considerable magni-
tude are reported from the northern
section Of Montana.
Ninety-seven cases were disposed
of in the Helena police court during
the month of July.
A new industry for Montana is
presented by the successful culture
of tobacco in the Yellowstone val
ley.
The Helena market is now cup
piled with eggs from Minnesota.
Prices rule about the same as for
Utah eggs in Butte.
William Ryan, arrested in Miles
City charged with setting fire to the
charged for want of evidence.
Benton is an inviting place for
horsemen at present. They can get
any kind OF race they want and a
get all their money up.
The River Press says: The Re
publicans of Choteau county think
that McCutcheon had better resign
and no longer disgrace the public SER
vice.
The track of the Northern Pacific
has now reached a point on the over
head line even with the entrance to
Mullan tunnel. It will 500 be
across the ranae.
VIM. Ryan, who was arrested on
the charge of being implicated in the
Miles City fire, has been discharged:
the evidence against him being very
fimsy.
The new theatre, now in course of
construction ia Helena, will be called
the Academy of Music. II will be
opened next Saturday night by Ray
mer & Miller.
The Missouri river country below
Carroll is reported to be infected with
hard cases, many of them believed to
be fuEitives from justice, escaped con-
victs ard horsethieves.
Alma x. Kellogg paid $3.50 into
the Virginia City police court last
week for the fun of lashing a China
man about the legs with a %horsewhip
without provocation.
A matched race between Shelton's
bay and Paget's roam, on the Teton
track at Benton, resulted in a victory
for the Bay. Three tho dollars
changed hands on the race.
The Mssoulidn gives the altitude
of mountains in the neighborhood as
follows: st. Mary's peak, $500 feet;
McDonald's 5000 feet; another noun
tain close to McDonald's $500 feet.
The headless body of an unknow
man was found on the railroad track
near Missoula last week. He was
supposed to have laid down on the
railroad track to sleep while intoxi-
Gated.
The end of track of the overhead
line was only a half a mile from tho
tunnel last Friday night, and the
headingslof the Mullan tunnel were
less than q hundred feet apart at the
Same hour.
It is believed that the completion
of the Benton branch of the North
ern Pacific will be the means of TAX
ing o 1000 settlers into the Judith Ba-
sin, where there is a vast area of fine
land.
A Park City doctor has found a
field mouse in the stomach of q trout,
and now the Yellowstone fish lies
is that the speckled beauties leave
their native waters to Craze upon the
bunch grass on the prairies.
White Sulphur Springs has sub
scribed 81, 900 in stock for a telegraph
line to connect that town with the
Western Union system of wires.
The estimated cost Of the line is
$4,000, if strung to Livingston-a
| point from which assistance is ex-
pected.
The Helena Era is the name of a
tasty little sheet just issued by the
| Real Estate Board of Helena. 1t is
to use its own language, devoted to
| the interests of all enterprising peo'
| ple the world over" which means
Last Chance gulch.
A very singular accident happen
! ed in Benton last week in the falling
Of the shelving, Overladen with
goods, at Cans 4 Kleins store.
| The goods were considerably DANA
| ged and two valuable show cases
were totally demolished.
Horse thieves were caught in the
| act of stealing horses from Granville
| Btuart's corral on the Judith last
week. They were fired upon ard
| stampeded but one was evidently
badly wounded as they were tracked
for some distance by blood on the
trail.
Henry Forbes, who was recently
arrested at Livingston and sent to
Miles City, (he was charged with
numbering John Donahue on the
Little Missouri last fall) has been
discharged. Donahue's body never
having been found the corpus deficit
was wanting and it was impossible
to prove that q murder had been
committed.
The stage equipment for Yellow.
| stone Park travel this season will
| consist of 100 horses and ample CON
veyances to accommodate tour
lists and patron. Conveyances
are covered coaches and open
spring wagons. containing three
seats each. Saddle horses and ponies
and guides, may be Obtained at Nam
moth Hot Springs, for a portion OF
whole of the trip if parties desire.