The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-29
MELANGE,
Accidents and Incidents as Mar.
rated by Our Exchanges.

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Livingston voted a special tax of
$1,000 for school purposes.
A route agent now comes through
to Helena on the postal car.
A Tongue river horse thief was ar
rested at Glendive last week.
There are four prisoners in the
Bozeman Jail charged with the crime
OF murder.
The bar privilege at the Territorial
Fair sold for 81 1900 and the fruit
privilege for $3.50.
The Montana shepherdess, Miss
Jennie Corson, has gone on a visit to
her old home in Wisconsin.
Livingston has 15s business houses,
which number includes every
patton designed to make money.
One of Missoula's brightest yonng
ladies is training the youthful Mon
golian idea of that city, how to shoot
pigeon English.
A. NJ. Wally, Of Highwood, was
badly injured a few days ago by be-
ing dragged a considerable distance
by a runaway horse.
A Livingston mar with more
money than brains got billing drunk
last Tuesday night and was robbed
Of $500, all the money he had.
There is a mar named Cameron
living in MiSsOula County who last
Friday visited the county seat for the
first time in thirteen years.
A handsome rectory is being built
by the Episcopalians of Bozeman. 1t
is of brick. The Presbyterians are
building a $500 parsonage.
A roller, at Glendive, who attempt
ed to 60 through a Swede there, was
nearly carved into chops aud steaks
by his intended victim.
There was a heavy frost in Gallatin
county last Saturday and Tuesday
nights, doing much damage to grain
and vegetables. About one-third of
the grain is ripe.
Fifteen thousand head of cattle, di-
vided into herds convenient for driv-
ing, are en- route from Lost River,
Idaho, to the Yellowstone and Mus
sellshell ranges.
Miss Birdie Damon, so we'll known
in Montana, has just graduated at
the New England conservatory OF
music, and sails for France, to take a
two years. course of music in Paris.
Over three hundred lots in the new
town of Montezuma have been dis
posed of in Benton recently. The
townsite is on Fly creek, in the Mon
tana district, and it is presumed it
will have a very rapid growth.
Mrs. Thompson, mother Of II. H.
Thompson, of Dornix, while attempt
ing to get out OF a buggy the other
day, had her foot caught between the
break and wheel and sustained a fall
in which her leg vas broken.
John Miller and Scotty Crawford
have been arrested for horse stealing
at Cooke City. Billy Sanders, who
travels on the "bad man. racket vas
arrested on a peace wsrrant and bas-
tiled in default of s., 700 bonds.
The Acting Governor, at the re-
quest of the Secretary of the Fair
Association, has teleg raphed Com
missioner Reed to bring his ore ex-
hibit TO the Montana Fair, in prefer
ence to taking it to Cincinnati.
Fifteen families, who lett Jackson
and Nemaha counties, Kansas, in
June, are expected to arrive in Dill
Ion soon. They are en- route in
''schooners," overland. 1t is their
purpose to locate in Beaverhead
county.
A sensational story of swift retri-
button has been spoiled by the cap
ture of George Weber. who killed
John Zutavern at Gardiner last week
and who was supposed to have been
drowned while fleeing from the
scene of his crime.
River Press: Henry Mcdonald,
who came in from his ranch on AR
row creek the other day, reports the
astonishing fact that on this side of
the Frenchman's ridge, for a cOnsid-
cradle distance, he found the ground
literally covered with lizards of all
ages and sizes. They were so thick
that the ruts in the road were fairly
filled with them, and he estimates
that the wheels of his vehicle crushed
the life out of thousands of the rep
tiles. We have not a%scertained the
brand of whisky Henry had been
drinking, but it ought to be known
for the protection of the community
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