The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-07-25
The Semi Weekly. Miner
Local News
From the Daily CT Tuesday.

From he Daily Ct Tuesday.
The Lindsay Dramatic Company
are playing an engagement in Helena
this week.
The Baptist and Presbyterian con.
gregatiOns will unite in q picnic a,
Poplar Grove next Thursday.
C. T. Meader is reported to hav,
made q rich strike in his Wild Bill
mine, which lies west of the Bell.
The dude has appeared in Butt,
direct from "BawstOn." If we mus
nave dudes at all, a Yankee doed'l
do.
Green fruit is becoming plentiful il
the market, and the small boy tests
its doubling up qualities as in day.
of ycre.
The Union guards have decided t.
give a picnic on August 10Th. They
have not yet decided the place of theil
bivouac.
The Pacific Express Company will
occupy Cohen's building on Main
street as o on as vacated by the pres.
ent occupants.
A cave occurred in the Gregory
mine at Wickes on Friday night, in
which Robert Corbett, a miner, was
instantly killed.
The heavens opened their food
gates on Sunday to the extent of a
few drops of rain, which was q great
relief as far as it went.
It's time for everybody to go pros
pecting. The assessor ana road su-
pervisor are around collecting the
special poor and poll tax.
James Stephens and James Dun.
can, two of the convicts who escaped
from the penitentiary last week, have
been captured on Sun River.
The report that Deputy Collector
James w. Hathaway will be placed
in charge Of revenue affairs in Utah
is contradicted by Helena papers.
Nellie Boyd has secured Ming's
Opera House, Helena, for fair week.
She will play the Montana circuit
next fall with an entirely new COM
pany.
The Helena Independent has con-
tracted for fifteen 25-candle power
Maxim incadescentlights with which
to illuminate their new printing es-
Enlistment.
The big telegraph strike Is the alb
sorbing theme all over the country,
but here in Butte we are more inter-
ested in the new mining strikes that
are reported from all directions.
The Union Guards were out in full
uniform Sunday afternoon and pre-
sented a fine appearance. Quite a
number Of them went on an excur-
sion to Poplar Crow in the evening.
All of our merchants speak mo st
encouragingly of the present state of
business. There is no great rush for
goods but a steady and growing trade,
upon a legitimate basis. is reported by
all.
Spencer F. Baird, Of the u. S. Fish
Commission, proposes to introduce the
valuable species of fish in the waters
of Montana, mOr particularly
salmon in the upper waters of the
Columbia.
A beautiful fawn was brought into
the city Sunday from the vicinity of
Silver Lake 1t was of the black
tail species, not over six weeks old
too young to know the fear of man
and m ,de friends with every one
who approached it.
A boring auger, or drill, is being
experimental with in Wood River,
which. it is claimed, will bore
through hard rock as easily as a com
mon auger bOres through WOod. The
invention Expected to revolution
lie underground work in mines.
A shoot NJ ARRAY took place at
Bullion, Idaho, last Wednesday, be-
tween two miners named Burke and
Scadden, neither of whom are serl-
ousIy hurt, but = bystander named
Pete Hynps was shot in the mouth
and probably fatally injured.
A row between two miners at the
Pioneer saloon last night was settled
by the doors being locked and the
men allowed to fight it out. They
stripped to the skin and fought one
round when the fight was stopped
without either combatants being sat-
isfied.
Eureka Sentinel: Toney Mehlvitz,
until recently assaver at the Eureka
Tunnel, Henry Fautz and Hugh
Donahue, the two latter miners, also
from, the Tunnel, started out yester-
day horseback for Montana, on a
prospecting trip, to be gone for an in
definite time-that is, not expecting
ever to return.
The grand bounce among Union
Pacific conductors appears to have
extended I'VE the entire system. Be
tween Omaha and Cheyenne thirty
nine were let out, and on the Utah &
Northern eighteen out of the twenty
four were notified to leave. This is
reported to be the work of spoilers
employed by the company.