The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-06-06
NEWS.
As Narrated by Our Montana
Exchanges.

Fourth Of July in a patriotic way.
Minneapolis mail matter now ar
rives at Helena in three and a half
days.
A Post Of the Grand Army of the
Republic is in process of organization
at Helena.
Jerry Flehs was fined $40 and costs
in Benton last week, upon conviction
of gambling or Sunday.
Benton Record personal: Kelly,
1.-THE pimp," returned to Benton last
night on the coach.
T.. McManus was severely burned
last Thursday morning, at Muir, by
an explosion Of gas in the fire box
under a boiler.
In a drunken row at Perkins old
saw mill camp, near Rocky Canyon.
Monday, Emmett R.. Donnell stabbed
another man in the shoulder with q
large jack knife.
John Delnpster, aged sixteen,
while rounding up cattle west of the
Ten Mile Hot Springs on the LIST
inst, was thrown from his horse and
dragged to his death his foot becoln-
ing fast in the stirrup.
A. J. Best got the best of the Bill
ings people by circulating a subscrip-
ten list in behalf of a sick man, APP
propriating the proceeds and skip
ping the country with . rapid young
woman of the town.
A stage tender named Cecil has
been arrested at Sun River for the
treasure box robbery on the Helena
and Benton stage last February.
Six hundred dollars of the eight hum
dred dollars stolen greenbacks was
recovered.
The Western Union Telegraph
Company has established offices at
Gallatin, Townsend and Bedford,
and expects to have the line in opera
ton between BoZeman and Helena in
e couple OF weeks.
They had quite an Indian scare at
Sun River several days ago. A par
ty of eighteen or twenty Indians
shot at and chased into Sun River
two men who were out a short way
from town. A party Of men from
Sun River started after the Indians
but they escaped in the direction Of
the Marias.
Billings is still ~agitating for a
wooden mill.
Oregon horsemen are making their
annual drive to Idaho and Montana.
Fifty thousand tourists are ex-
pected to visit the National Park this
season.
Jerome Bray brought three bear
scalp into Boseman the other day,
aud received $24 bounty.
John Matthews, q ranchman, was
kicked to death by a mule, on the
Little Big Horn river, last week.
The first two weeks run of Kohrs,
Kelley & Co.'s Squaw Gulch mine
this season netted $1,000 in gold re-
tort.
Sheep shearing time is at hand, and
the clip promises to be the best and
heaviest that Montana has yet pro-
duced.
At Miles City, Ford, a barber shot
two or three times at another darkey
in town and proved himself a poor
marksman.
A war party of seven or eight Pie
gan Indians headed by the we'll
known chief Little Dog, started out
about a week ago to fight the Crees.
The Deadwood disaster by flood has
put the Helena people to thinking,
and they are now advocating the
construction OF a f1ume down the
gulch.
The Benton City Council has pur-
chased a hand engine for 81 ,2ON, two
hose carts for $3.50, 1000 feet of New
York test fire hose for $1,000, and a
lot of suction hose.
At Benton, last week, J. R.. Craig
was holding a horse with a rope
when another horse ran between,
throwing him under the horses feet
and breaking his leg below the knee.
Bozeman aspires to the position of
a manufacturing centre, and claims
all the natural advantages requisite,
including abundant coal supply and
fine water power furnished by swift
~ running mountain streams.
One day last week, al Tom Martin
was trying to ford the Beaverhead
river. in Madison county, his team
a valuable span of American mar IS
stumbled into adeep hole in the river
bed, and were drowned before they
could be %extricated.
The Henry Willard mining compa-
nv now have shafts sunk all along
their vast extent of placer ground in
Emigrant Gulch. and no barren
gravel has been encountered at any
point. Rich hydraulic prospects are
found throughout the gravel bodies,
which are in places ITO feet deep.