The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-26
Local News.
From the Daily of Thursday,

A furry OF snow yesterday after
noon made the daises blooming q
the hillsides look sick.
The Helena coaches are now NAL
ing the trip in Vne day. Stages no,
leave Butte at B a. m.
The Episcopal church has fiftee
marshes and missions in Montan.
and 600 communicates.
The funeral of little Katy Dola
Yesterday was very largely attende
bv the friends of the family.
Our wide awake transfer mar
Hugh Kirkendall, is in the field fo
the transfer business from the Helen
depot.
In the Police Court yesterda,
Chris Curry pleaded guilty to tryin'
to curry John Field with a brick.bat
and was assessed five and costs.
The annual Montana Conferenc
Of the Methodist Episcopal Churcl
South will be held at Willow Greek
Gallatin county, August 18th prox
Bishop Hargrove will preside.
The promising outlook in the lowe
levels of the Moulton mine has de
cided the management to sink deepe
and q contrac. will be let at once (,
sink the shaft to the 600 foot level.
Montana will be represented at tn,
Walla Walla ICE next fall by Char
lev Williams, of Missoula County
who will take oyer his 2-year-olds,
Basil and Exile, and probably Mar:
row Gauge.
The brick skating rink being BULL
by J. D. Thomas, is progressing rap.
idly. The foundations are completed,
and their massive proportions indi.
cate the substantial character of the
building.
The work on st. Patrick's church
is progressing very rapidly. The
brick are already laid above the win
dow frames, and the edifice begins to
suggest some idea of it's handsome
architectural design.
We begin to wear a military air.
SQUADS of 1.-The guards" with guns
trailing or at shoulder arms, march,
ing about the streets, and an Occa-
sional sharp, decisive military order
from the drill master, remind us that
the militia are here.
Fortunately the two men caught
in the cave at the Moulton SUNDAY
night escaped without serious injury,
but the accident will prove a lesson to
the men who were working in the
DRIFT, in disobedience to the orders of
the foreman, to timber it before firing
q shot.
A runaway express team dashed
down Main street yesterday afternoon
and for a time the establishment of
vehicles and pedestrians in the street
seemed imminent, but they wound
up on lower Main street without
further damage than a slightly de-
moraIized buggy with which they
came in collision.
The Butte City Light Guards con-
template a reorganization and en-
rOllment of u full muster of officers
and men. The company is composed
of some of the best material in
Walkerville and Butte, and it is to
be hoped measures will be adopted
which will result in an effective Or
ganization.
The Bozeman Courier of the 18th
says: Mr.. Chas. s. Shoemaker, of
Butte, eX-President of the Miners
Union, and a rustler in anv kind of
business, passed through Bozeman
last Friday, Ell route down the river. |
Mr.. Shoemaker contemplates engag-
in the stock business in the vicinity
of the Rosebud.
1t takes money to make a mine. |
few hundred dollars will buy a.
very good prospect, but that is, of
worthless unless money is
expended in development. People
who purchase mines should take in
to co nsideration and prepare them
selves to put in money until money
can reasonably be expected to be
taken out.-Er.
RuInor is not yet done with the To-
cation of the Anaconda smelter. The
ate.'-probably arising from the
sudden change of plan by certain
business firms which contemplated
merchandising at the smelter-is that
!he WORKS will not be built on the
Warm Springs site this summer. It
also cited that the high grade ore
rom the Anaconda can be shipped
10 advantageously to the European
market, that the necessity for reduc-
ION works here Is neither immediate
pressing. This, however, is mere
street talk, and is given for what it is
worth. The plans of Messrs. Haggin
y lewis are usually fully understood
~ the public when they get ready
o execute them and rarely before.
Vice President Cakes and Traffic
Manager Muir passed Ogden on the
80 EN- route to San Francisco.
Twin to breakdown of the stage
lie Herne & Roscoe troupe failed to
each Helena in time to appear on
Wednesday evening as billed.
Fred Stuke killed a large black
'ear IN Colorado Gulch. near Helena
gently, and drew the first 49, 90.
county under the new law. l
The calendar for the June term of
ne district court is published in this
lornlng's MINER. 1t embraces 2O3
wi and IL criminal cases. F.,
Inc class of buildings in course of
obstruction and to be built in Butte
us summer are much superior to
nose erected in previous yesrs.
The variation in the weather yes /.
Froay afternoon might be character
Sea as dust storm, and a wetting
ain would have been welcome. !
Erh. Ball, formerly of this city. is !
operating in Owyhee, Idaho, !
~ Ills friends will be glad to know
'aolnga prosperous business there.
An exchange says Major E. v.
'0eeft will probably have charge of
nc Northern Pacific depot at Boze- |
'"i' The road could not choose q bet
man. {
W smelters to be erected in 1
yoke Civ. Clark,s Fork district.