The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-24
Local News
From the Daily of Friday.

From the Daily of Friday.
Allen Pierce will put a new stage
line on the Philipsburg road mex,
Monday.
The District Court will probably b,
occupied all day to-day in hearingth
case In re. U. & N. Ry. Co. vs.. Harr!
Gassert ct al.
Rev. Mr.. Wood,of Helena, will ad'
dress the Union Temperance meet
ing at the Mountain View Church
next Sunday evening.
To-day being Good Friday service,
will he held at st. Johns Episcopa
church at II o'clock a. IN. Preaching
by Rev. S. e. Blackiston.
Tn accordance with time hoporei
custom upon the approach of Easter
week, St. Johns Episcopal churct
has been very tastefully decorated.
Knights of the Diamond Field il
Helena are doing considerable crow
ing over their defeat of the Butte
nine two years ago. Where are oul
base ballists:
Some fine prospects are reported t.
have been recently found about seven
miles east of Butte. Specimens were
brought in yesterday for assay which
carry heavy silver.
Information is wanted of Peter
Walker, who formerly lived in Dee.
Lodge, by his wife, who is now sick
in St. Johns hospital in this city.
Address this office.
Four bars of Alice bullion, valued
at 81, 10 passed through Ogden
Yesterday, going east, making the
shipments for March to date aggre-
gate $50, TAI, lO.-Salt Lake 7|i-
bune. Goth.
A large number of strangers are in
the city, and emigrants arrive daily
who scatter out to the valleys in
search of farm work or engage in
mining at the neighboing mines.
Passengers over the U. & N. from
both directions report the track in
splendid condition. No further
trouble with washouts is apprehend-
ed between here and Deer Lodge.
A washout on the o. s. L. just
west of Cokeville caused the ditching
offs tie train yesterday afternoon.
No damage is reported beyond the
wrecking of one car.
The weather yesterday so nearly
approached the heat Of summer that
the shade of an awning was a COM
Portable protection from the sun, and
a number were unfurled over the
store fronts on Main street.
The firm of John Caplice & Go.
yesterday bought out the bankrupt
stock of boots and shoes of George
Warren, which they have added to
their fine new stock at their store,
opposite the postofice.
The Helena firemen will give a
grand ball next Monday evening for
the benefit of the fire department re-
lief fund. The MINER acknowledges
receipt of a complimentary invitation
from Chief Fire Marshal Curtis.
Under the influence of too much
tanglefoot, J. D. Lewis wanted to be
q dad man" on Park street yester-
day. He was arrested on a charge of
disorderly, and relieved of two for
midable looking dirk knives ; n of
which he carried up his coat sleeve.
No further action has been taken
in the court house matter. The title
to the Granite street property is be-
ing examined. At the next meeting
of the Board of County Commission
ers the abstract of title will be sub
mitted and if it shows q clear title,
the property will probably be pur-
chased and definite action taken as
to selecting plans and specifications
and letting the contracts for build
ing the court house and Jail.
From the Daily OF Saturday.
Look out for the auction sale of
twenty head of horses at Pinkham's
this afternoon.
Summit valley ranchmen are IS
busy as bees, blowing and preparing
their lands for seeding.
After to-day the sackcloth and
ashes may be laid aside, and the
social whirl of festivity which usually
follows the Lenten season may be
resumed.
Silas Prather, who severed branch
Of the brachial artery of his rights arm
with an axe last Tuesday, has had
the artery taken up and is doing well
at the hospital.
This is marble time" and the
small boy keeps his mother busy
patching his trowsers knees and his
sister making little sacks in which to
Keep his store of marbles.
Messrs. John Caplice & Co. are in
daily receipt of goods for their new
boots and shoes, and furnishing goods
establishment, and their stock il now
about complete in every line.
As usual, Immediately after the ad-
Journment of Congress, the mails are
now loaded down with pub. docs.
sent by obliging members to rural
constituents, who never take them
away from the postoffice.
hev. l.. L. Wood, of Helena, will
lecture on temperance at Mountain
view M. f. church tomorrow night.
mr.. Wood has earned q wido reputa-