The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-10
MONTANA MEIANaE.
Accidents and: Incidents as Mar
rated by Our Exchanges.

Montana's finest season is nov at
hand.
A new court house for Deer Lodge
is being talked Of.
Montana has paid in all $1,000, 900
internal revenue.
There are 1872 pupils enrolled in the
public schools of Benton.
A movement is on foot to organize
a division of the G. A. r. in Maiden.
The Utah & Northern put a t.le-
graph office at Garrison last Monday.
TIE Couer d'Alene excitement is
creating intense interest among
miners all over the country.
It is understood at Fort Assina-
bnine, that Col. I!ges will soon be re-
stored to his rank and command.
A number of new buildings are be.
ing erected in Chickory. the thrifty
Park branch town.
VIM. Carter had a valuable horse
killed by a monstr0us grizzly, a few
| days since, on the Shonkin.
John Beady, of Boulder valley, has
sold 1000 pounds of butter to the
Eikhorn mines at 40 cents per pound.
n branch of the Northern Pacific
to Cooke city-Clark's Fork mines
is t,,e latest new railroad scheme.
Eighteen to twenty thousand red
skins in Montana occupy 100000
acres of the best land in the Terri
tory.
Chester Weirick, a fifteen year old
boy of Miles City, recently shot a
wolf, a bison and q black-tailed deer,
in a days hunt.
A report comes from Macleod that
Joe Healy, of Benton. has sold his
interest ia the Alberta Mining Com
pany for $25O,O0
The chimney stack to the Livings-
ton machine shops has an elevation
of 100 feet, s. feet of which are
already in place.
There are nine cases on the GRIMM
al docket for Yellowstone county's
first term of District Court, which
ccnvenes next Monday.
Bozeman points with pride to eight
miles of new plank sidewalk built
since spring, and to streets we'll
paved with gravel and macadam.
\ caboose and several cars passed
over a child at Livingston, and
strange to say the child was unin-
jured.
The Piegan Indians are said to be
in u wretched condition. Their
feeble attempts at agriculture have
proved a complete failure.
The highest point on the Rocky
Mountains reached by the Northern
Pacific is 1900 feet below the summit
on the Central Pacific.
Miles City has an institution
known as the California lying club.
All the citizens are considered ELI
gible for membe rship.
The blowing of a locomotive
whistle at the Billings stock yards
caused a herd of cattle corraled inside
to stampede and wreck the fences.
The American Chamber of COM
MERGE ut Washington City has APP
pointed as commissioners for Mon
tana, d. G. Corbin, l.. H. Hershtield
and Hon. Mar. in Maginnis.
Wilburt Bess, the young man who
was so severely injured by a thresh-
ing machine near Missoula, a few
days ago. died Tuesday morning at
the Sisters Hospital, Missou!a.
Bradstreet's September bulletin
contains the following among its
"trade embarrassments:" Billings
Marks L. Soule, general store, have
assigned. Miles City-D. Harrigan,
shoes, has assigned.
A cowboy named Cal Vanderpool,
while attempting to cut q calf out of
a band, near the Triangle ranch OH
Tongue river recently, was thrown
from his horse and fatally injured.
Helena has a kleptomaniac in the
person of Mrs. Hambly, a bride of a
few months, who is awaiting trial.
charged with stealing innumerable
articles of which she could make no
use.
1t is reported that about seventy
five conductors and Engagement
were discharged on the Northern Pa
citic, Oh the Sd for making a greater
percentage out of passenger fares
than the law allows.
The wife of Prof. Chas. A. Lewis,
WHO is held at Dillon for the murder
of Eva Clark, has gone to remain
with iiim until his case is heard. She
expresses perfect confidence i'll her
husbands innocence
A small baby was placed in a Pull
man porter's hands in Miles City the
other evening, by a mother fora few
moments. Tie mother has not come
back as yet, and the baby WIFI be put
in a fuuEdling home.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Hambly have
been arrested in Helena charged with
sundry thefts. A large number OF
stolen articles were found in their
trunks. The woman pleaded guilty,
but the man says ''she did it."
The Lewis and Clarke County
Commissioners have awarded about
So, O0O damages for the right OF way
for the Helena and Jefferson County
Railroad. The Company thinks the
amount too high, and the s"ttlers
van more.
!. The assessment list Of Missoula
county shows a total OF S3,32l .Jo7,
which includes the levy on railroad
prope,ty. Without the railroad the
total is 81, 536. 607, all increase over
last year of $780, 0O: or over % per
cent.
The Sheriff of Choteau county has
delivered at the penitentiary James
Haley and Thomas Saunders, high,
way robbery, sentenced to ten years
imprisonment; James Oglesby, (col-
ored) horse stealing, sentenced for
three years, who were convicted at
the recent term of G ,urt in Benton.
"Frenchy,"a we'll known team
ster, was accidentally killed on Sur
day last, between Buffalo creek aud
Ubet, by falling from a wagon which
he was driving, in company with
the Government paymaster. The
wheels passed over his breast cau-ing
instant death He was buried at
Ubet on Monday.