The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-30
NEWS.
Culled From the Columns Of Our
Exchanges.

lings and Billings is happy
The Missouri river is;rising and the
low lands are reported overlooked.
A Lodge of Knights of Honor is to
be organized in Miles City.
White Sulphur Springs will cele-
brate the glorious Fourth.
Dillon talks of getting up a patri-
otto, old fashioned Fourth of July
celebration.
Helena is making preparations for
a general observance Of Decoration
Day.
Five hundred children born in tho
homes OF Helena have yet to see their
first railway train.
frankie Butler, one of Bczeman's
demi monde, died recently from an
overdose of morphine.
John Fox dropped dead in a Ben
ton saloon last Thursday. Alcoholic
paralysis was the c%oroner's verdict.
Sixty thousand pounds Of silver
bullion were shipped from Barker to
Billings the other day for shipment
East.
Last year the number of school
children in Montana was IL ,2O9 and
$117,357.96 was expended on public
schools.
Capt. Hamilton's troop of the I'd
cavalry has been stationed ut Big
Timber to protect the Crows from
Piegan raiders.
Private Samuel GochnaueT, of the
5th Infantry, was killed recently ut
Fort Keogh accidentally while at
tending to the rifle target
A foreman at the Mullan Bore
killed three hogs with an axe, for
which he vas sued, and it cost him
$500 and the costs of court.
The negro "Beauregard" who Dor
rowed a livery hose and decamped
from Benton. was captured with the
horse thirty miles north OF Fort
Shaw.
The Billings Herald talks with the
most perfect n~0nchaidnce Of 1.-The
court house on 25th street." The
suburbs of that. embryo city must be
large.
The Hecla Consolidated Mining
Company of Glendale paid its month
ly dividend tor May Of $l5,00), max
ing SIS, 900 in dividends since the 1st
of January.
Billings records as an evidence of
the enterprise of that burg the con-
struction and occupation of q resi-
dence in one day. Was it i wall
tent or a tepee?!
The acreage of grain sown OH the
Shonkin and Highwood this year il
fully twenty-five per cent. greater
than last, and the prospects for a fine
crop are most ~1attering.
,Bozeman's new poor house will be
a twc-storH brick with o sixty foot
frontage, The building will be a
commOdious one, with several ellis,
in which the office, wards, cells, etc.,
are neatly arranged.
AS an instance of the commercial
prosperity of this Territory, it may
be mentioned that Bradstreets has
only recorded one business failure in
Montana since the beginning OF the
current year.
The citizens of Benton have te'c-
graphed u petition to the secretary Of
war in behalf of Col. Ilges, in the
hope that a brave soldier and recog-
nized gentleman may be spared the
dishonor of dismissal from the army
in disgrace.
Tae Northern Pacific reneWs its
offer of premiums for the encourage
ment of forest tree planting in groves
and shelter belt on the line for wind
breaks, including free transportation
for trees, cutting and see's, and fam
ily round trip passes to St. Paul.
A stranger was accidentally hurt Il
day or two ago, at Sun river, Dya
team hitcfed to a buggy e olglng 10
Nickson and Murray running away,
and the pole of the buggy striking
him back Of the ear, fracturing bis
skull.
Husbandman: Having long been
noted for suavity ana p~oll;eEcss,
Mentanians should not allow a new
immigration to foster upon the coun.
trv the co!d-blooaed, cOld-hearted
customs which have so little in them
to add to human happiness. which
are now so prevalent III the older SET
tied states.
Wednesday forenoon, while John
Larson, a teamster at Marysvlllc.
was driving a team attached to
heavy load of wood, the team ran
smashing the wagon to pieces
and throwing the driver under the
wheels. He fell face down, and the
wheel passed over his hip, inf1icting
serious injuries.
Boating on the upper Mi souri, this
season is said to lie better than
has been for the past two
The settlements along lac
river are growing rapidly, the local
trade increasing to q marked extent,
and the steamers are taxed to their
full capacity to supply the increasing
upon them.