The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-22
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AS Found in Our Clean-Up of the
Territorial Exchanges.

Lots facing on Main street, Miles
City, are now worth $500 per front
foot.
Ten new engines have been turned
out, since last March, from the rail-
road shops at Glendive.
w. J. Mccormick, of Missoula, is
mentioned AS the probable Chairman
Of the Constitutional Convention.
Sun River has a neat little theatre,
which will shortly be formally
opened by the Sun River Ministries.
A panther killed five sheep for a
Tongue river ranchman one night
last week. and badly wounded
about fifty more.
Lewis and Clarke county has de-
rived a revenue OF about s., 900 from
commercial travellers this year in the
way of licenses.
&. w. Choate had the wrist and
elbow OF his right arm broken by
falling from a buggy on Belt creek
last Saturday evening.
J. T. Dodge, foreman of the North
ern Pacific shops at Brainerd. while
out hunting became lost and died
from ccld.and exposure.
The poor and sick of Beaverhead
county will be cared for by j. T.
Dingley for the next year at $ll,5O
per week per capita,
The total number of children OF
school age in Gallatin county is L.
500; the amount of school fund $21,-
S36.Ss, and the %percapita dividend
$11.57.
Frank Young, who was to have
been hanged at Bozeman on the 9th,
inst. has been respited ny President
Arthur in order to permit al appeal
of the Ease.
The River Press says arrangements
have been fully cOnsumated for a re-
| sumption OF operations at Barker by
the smelling company and that camp
will soon be booming again.
Unless an unlooked-for respite in
tervenes to save their lives, John A.
Clark and Frank Young will suffer
death in the Jail at Bozeman, on
| Thursday next at II a. III.
Missoula is to have another gcoG
sized hotel. The building will be
4Ox52 feet on the foundation, three
stories high, and substantially built
throughout.
J. T. McClung, OF Little Missouri
q principal witness III the Marquis
de Meres assassination case, has been
| fired upon twice during the past two
weeks by unknown parties in am
buScade.
Frank H. Tidball, Of the District
of Columbia, has been appointed as
commissioner to examine all that
portion of the Northern Pacific
which has not heretofore been exam
ined and accepted.
Professor Wickes, Of the Northern
! Pacific Coal Company, is engaged in
building q railroad about two miles
long from near the west end OF
the Bozeman tunnel to the COM
pany's coal mines near there.
Tom Try tried to kick up a row at
Benton the other day. He was tried
before Judge Kanouse, and upon
agreeing TO try to do better was let
off with a 81. 90 fine, which he is try
ing to pay.
George A. Way, a Miles City mer'
chant, has disappeared from the
the town, after, having, as 1t is al
legged, lost heavily at cards and raised
considerable money by giving checks
against d suggestions bank account
General Howard. who recently
visited Montana and the great reser
walton north of the Missouri. WI
recommend THAT it be greatly re
duced by restoring a tract 200 miles
long and 120 miles wide, containing
Il. 600 600 acres Of the best land.
Mrs. Sam Camp, CT Miles City, il
said to have left her husbands caml
anu woodbined with a fellow naniet
Seacord, deserving a sever months
old infant. The husband is camping
on Seacord's trail, and there'll b.
more discord than Seacord in tina
camp, If he catches him.
A scheme is on foot among tn
rancners of Spring Coolee, to take u!
d large CTdctO vi ldIAO 1
loWstone near Buffalo rapids. They
propose to dig a ditch and take wa
ter odt of the river for the purpose 0
irrigation. It is said the lands in tina
locality will produce large crops b.
irrigation.
The Missoula officers have at las
run down the petty thief with Whlcl
that town has been afflicted TO
months past. His cache, discovers
on an island in the river, reveale'
an extensive stock of general mel
chandize and articles, the fruits Q
his differing, embracing most OF tn
articles which had recently been ste
len in the town.
About every town on the Northeri
Pacific for d distance of 700 lnlle
claims to be the tue and only feast
BILE gateway to the mines. There ]
not much doubt that by the tim
travel opens il the spring the o*i
near and easy route Will be iron
Trout Creek, in this county, or iron
some point in the immediate vicln
ity. That is practically settled, all
Spokane Falls and other little burg
over near the Pacific might as We
concede the inevitable. -Nssoa/
Times.
Livingston Enterprise: A. .
Grayelle leaves this week for his foi