The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-22

Gallatin county had a severe hail
storm a few days ago.
Copious showers of rain are report.
ed from all owe the Territory.
White Sulphur Springs is to have a
bank with $50, 900 capital.
The Hecla company produced bull
lion and matte valued at $50, 900 dur
ing July.
The Masons of Billings gave a ball
last Wednesday night, which was a
financial success.
Gallatin county last year produced
$50, 900 worth of the gold and silver
product of Montana.
A gale at Helena Friday evening
completely wrecked a new frame
building 30x6O feet in size.
Grading parties will be set to work
on the Helena & Jefferson County
Railroad on Monday next.
Thomas Riley of Kingston who
was shot in the leg by McMann, will
likely loose his leg.
The Howe truss bridge across the
Big Blackfoot is the LONGEST Oh that
division-l60 feet.
The Canadian Pacific representa-
tives have arrived in Benton to So
licit shipments of cattle by their
road.
Twenty new dwelling houses are
in course of erection on CamaS Pral-
RE, and already the country is as
suming a settled appearance.
The golden spike will be driven on
the 9TH of September, and the formal
opening of the n. p. r. R. will take
place on the Sth.
The dime-novel readers of White
Sulphur Springs have named the
new cavern RAMS Horn Cave, or
the Bandits Retreat"
Mike Foley. who was standing by
the machinery of the artesian we'll at
Billings last Saturday, was severely
injured by the walking beam falling
on his shoulder.
Bohemian has reserved a generous
parcel of ground for a beautiful park;
its numerous fountains will be fed
by crystal mountain springs and
swarm with speckled trout.
The lines from opposite directions
in the Mullan Tunnel came together
within two inches, the grades met
within three quarters of an inch and
the length within half a foot. Good
engineering.
The inhabitants of Cooke City are
likely to have some vexatiOus con-
tests regarding titles to town lots,
nearly all the ground selected as a
town site having been previously filed
on as a mill site.
By the close Of the present month
the survey will be completed of all
the bottom lands on both sides of the
Yellowstone River from Glendive to
the boundary of the Fort Buford mil
itary reservation.
The fence around the jail yard at
Bozeman is OF brick, twelve e ethigh
and two feet thick. On the top it is
rendered somewhat dangerous for
prisoners to scale by having a row OF
broken glass imbedded in mortar.
C. A. Lewis, who is charged with
numbering the girl Eva at Dillon, is
married, his wife and Child residing
at Miles City, Mrs. l.. being an in
dustrious, hard working woman who
subsi~ts b., dress making and the pro-
ceeds of sales from a small millinery
store which she conducts.
The ends of the track On the North
ern Pacific are rapidly approaching
each other. On the east end last Fri
day 1908 feet of track was Lid, and
on Saturday II, 100 feet NEARLY three
miles, Friday night the gap was
twenty-five miles wide and on Satur-
day night it was about seventeen.
Buckskin Jim sticks to that desert
land claim of Ed. Stones like grim
death to a diseased Zulu. The rail-
road company could not root him
out, and the game of freeze out they
inauyurated IS having the effect OF
inducing merchants and others to
buy Jiln's interest and donate it to
the company, in order that Gardiner
be made the terminus of the
Park branch.
The members of the Indian Com
mission had rather Indifferent suc
cess at the Crow agency the other
day in treating with those noble red
for the reduction of their eser-
walton. The Crows claimed they had
not yet been paid for the portion Of
their reservation west ofthe Boulder.
which they had ceded some time ago,
and declined to negotiate for a furth-
er reduction until this had been paid
for. The commission had no power
to make any agreement regarding
the portion already ceded, and con-
no treaty was arrived at