The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
NEWS.
Az Narrated by Our Montana,
Exchanges.

WOrK las DGeQ commenced on q
new skating rink in Helena.
There are now q good many hard
characters in Missoula from the rail-
road front.
Horse Plains, Missoula county, is
the lively railroad town of the west
at present.
A lodge of the knights of Ancient
Masonry is to be organized in Helena
within q week or two.
The gross receipts at the Helena
Firemen's ball Monday evening
amounted to about $500.
The Shonkin bar, which has proved
such an eyesore to Missouri river
mariners, is to be removed.
The bottom has fallen out of Last
Chance; the inhabitants are scatter
ing to O'Keefe aud other directions.
A Cheyenne capitalist wants to
supply Helena with gas works and
desires an exclusive privilege for ten
or fifteen years.
The Meagher county commission
ers offer for sale the old court house,
Jail, and clerk and treasurer's office
at Fort Logan.
Major Conger, superintendent of
the National Park, is making an eff
fort to have ten policemen appointed
to Look after the welfare of the Park.
Henry Wyldes, of Missoula, shot at
a squirrel last week and the gun
burst, 1racturing the unfortunate
gentleman's skull. He will probably
die.
Helena drew warrants on the city
treasurer for $11, $685. 81 during 1882,
of which S., 845. so were drawn upon
the general fund and 81, 1870 OF on the
fire department fund.
John Tinker has been nominated
by the Republicans of Yellowstone
county, as a candidate for that coun-
ty's first Sheriff. The Democrats
have nominated James Ferguson.
The Missouri river opened at Yank-
ton On the 18TH, and the boats will
now head up stream in a short time.
The prospects are favorable for an
early boating season.
A parochial school will be estab-
lished in Helena some time during
the coming summer, in connection
with the Episcopal church and under
the rectorship of Rev. w. T. Webb.
A Deer Lodge boy let a Chinaman
down into a forty foot well "by the
rum" on Saturday morning; but,
beyond giving a Monaghan flavor to
the family water, no damage resulted
from the rapid transit.
There are nineteen hundred and
twenty acres of land within the
limits of the city of Bezeman, as pre-
scribed by the incorporation act.
Helena has fifty-nine hundred and
sixty.
George Kelly, charged with steal
ing cattle of the Sun River Stock AS
ISOLATION, has been arrested by act
ing Deputy Sheriff Partridge, and
lodged in the Lewis and Clarke
county Jail.
A breeze of excitement has been
created in Benton by the report that
a number of prominent citizens had
been indicted by the u 8. grand jury
at Helena for bribing voters and pos
sibly other violations of the election
laws.
The new board of commissioners of
Custer county have gained possession
Of a portion of the books and records
of the county. They had to give
bonds to the amount of 225, 600, and
the defendants, if they want to regain
possession, will have to give fonds to
double that amount.
The Mullan tunnel now penetrates
the mountain 700 feet from the east
side, making altogether about 1900
of tunnelling finished out of the s.
600 feet necessary to complete the
work. Last week the work from the
east end was advanced 81 feet, which
is an extraordinary weeks work, be-
an average of nearly eight feet
per day.
Miss Jennie Corson, last week,
purchased Frank Severance's ranch
Hopley's creek in Meagher u
ty. This virtually places her in pos
session Of the entire creek and in
of one of the finest ranges
in Montana. Her place is well inn
proved and her flock in fine condi-
ton, and she can boast of having one
ofthe best sheep ranches in Montana.