The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-08
The Semi Weekly Miner.
Local News
From the Daily of Friday

FROM the DAILY OF Friday
Sackett's Pantomine Company
leaves to-day for Deer Lodge.
Silver bars were quoted on the
NV York market yesterday at 81. O955.
Paxson is decorating the doors Of
the Pacific express Office with some
handsome lettering for the Union Pa
cifc ticket Office.
The new addition to the Butte
school building has been insured
through Mantle & Marsh's agency
for the SUI of $1,000.
Juvenile e%xuberance, which runs
riot during vacation, will be brought
to a sudden stop on the 18th inst,
when the public schools will open.
The trains conveying the Willard
excursionists will leave Helena for
the scene of the spike.driving cere-
monies at $50 O'Clock on Saturday
morning.
\ Chinaman on East Park street,
who is afflicted as Job Was, is made
the basis of a jim Crow leper story.
Butte don't require q case of Mon
goIian leprosy to MAINTAIN her met
ropoiitan reputation.
The routine business of the county
dads yesterday included the exam:-
nation OF the Treasurel's books,
which were found to be correct.
Treasurer WEIGH filed a new bond in
So, 900, which was approved.
The general impression seems to
prevail that the newspaper reporter
should he a natural born humorist,
aud his sole ambition to fiddle for
the crowd" Some newspapers are
funny, 80 are m nkeys.
The county commissioners will
meet a. a board of e~qua'izatiOn the
third Monday of this month the
l7tl-when all those who feel that
Assessor Mailett has done them an
injustice by raising them lone bet
ter" or more can make their griev-
ances known.
O. G.. Greene, Superintendent of
Telegraph of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, is making arrangements so
that Wien the golden pike is driven
on Saturday next, every stroke will
b. heard in every office from Port
land Oregon. to Duluth. All tele-
graph business will be suspended be-
tween the hours of 10 a. M. and IL m. |
Of that day.
The "Rocky Mountain Division"
of the n. p. r. II. extends from Hell
ena to Heron. and is divided into
two districts No. l from Helena to |
Missou,a. and No. 2 from Missoula to
Heron. Passenger trains will run
over the entire division without
changing engiaes or crews. Each
district is a freight division, and the
freight crews will have headquarters
ut Missoula.
The special invitations to the cere-
mony Of the driving of the golden
spike at Independence Greek next
a number of which were
received bv citizens of this city yes
terday, are very elegant in design,
and as a souvenir of the great event
will doubtless be highly priced and
lpnr preserved by the recipients. It
be remarked in this connec-
tiot. that those OfsOur citizens who
were favored with invitations were
more tnan ordinarily pleasant and
happy yesterday, while others who
thought they ought to have had in
vitations and didn't get them, were
.orrespondingly sour and ill
bumcred.
The board Of county commission
era, at their quarterly meeting just
adjourned, transferred SIS 600 from
the poor to the county fund. leaving
a balance in the former Of about
81, 600, which, should there be no
,pecial cause for the disbursement of
hat fund, will be sufficient to cover
all demands for the ensuing quarter.
The 5000 added to the $4,000 re-
,eived from Treasurer Welsh, co..
ected for licenses for the quarter
ended September 1st., W. under-
tand, will pay all registered war
ants TO date. Over $4,000 was col
ected for licenses in the county dur
ny the past three months. Is per
,ent. of which goes to the Territory.
Contracts have been awarded to
Messrs. Spared 4 Martin, of this
for the construction of two
,rick school buildings, 26x4O in size,
ceilings, at a cost of So 800. A..
The site for tut one of the buildings +,
boon selected, which is on the ,
,orth side of the extension of Broad :
way, near the E~dgington house.
Ground for the other house will most :
likely be secured either in Walker !
lille or Travona The S $1,000 covers =
III the expense of the completion of :
10Th bull .ings, except the founda- !
ions, which are to be of stone, and :
'aid for at a stated sum per perch. i,
Goth buildings are to be completed :
within sky days. work already hav- =
ny been commenced on the Broad =
structure. .