The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-12
Local News

Helena enumerates 1870 school
children, about 400 less than Butte.
The Eureka Market will make the
finest display of Christmas meats in
Montana.
1t is expected the electric light will
be started up again in time for a
grand holiday illumination.
Pete Gamble displays q fine stock
ofgame, mountain front and fruits at
his Park street market.
The entire Alice band has been en-
gagged to furnish the music at the
Phantom Carnival on the evening of
the Goth inst.
Outside copper is always quoted
from one quarter to one.half cent
higher on the Chicago market than
in New York.
Young Critics, the latest "mysteri.
GUS disappearance" has been heard
from at Oswego, n. y, where he is
visiting friends and relatives.
School was commenced in the new
eastern division school house last
Monday. The Travonia school house
will be ready for occupancy in about
ten days.
In a hard glove fight at Park City,
Utah, for $50 a side, last Thursday,
Pete Gillespie, of Butte, was defeated
by Jack Wesson on a foul in the sec-
ond round.
A very pleasant birthday party was
given to Miss Jennie Cradle by her
friends at Caplice hall last evening,
on the occasion of her sixteenth
birthday.
Rev. E. J. Stanley will preach at
Anaconda next Sunday, December
10th, at II a.. m. aud 1880 p. M, and
the following Sunday &C the Miners
Union Hall, in this city, morning
and evening.
Mondays Herald issued before the
Inter Mountain Of that date could
possibly reach Helena, publishes a
synopsis of the MINERS report of
Saturday nights glove fight and
gives credit to the Inter Mountain.
The New York mining journals
are not disposed to let go of the Alice
as a dividend payer, and although
the last dividend was paid on Deem
Der 18th, 1881, the company is still
included in their lists of dividend
paying mines.
Cap. c. c. Cochran, for several
months on the editorial staff of the
Helena Independent, has accepted a
similar position on the Bozeman
Chronicle. MI. Cochran is a practi-
cal journalist and will strengthen
Bozeman's new daily.
The talk at Benton of raidirg the
reservation continues. The excite
ment is not loud but deep. Parties
are forming, and before long lively
reports may be expected of seizures
upon the arabic lands and rich quartz
lodes of the Bears Paw and Little
Rockies.
We are in receipt of the Travellers
Guide, published by Lewis & Dryden,
Portland, Oregon. It ia the official
guide of the Northern Pacific rail-
road, is handsomely gotten up and
contain eighty pages OF information
regarding the Northern Pacific road
and its connections.
The Montana Railway Company
made application to the Probate
Court yesterday for a commission to
condemn the right of way through
the mining claim owned by Michael
Davitt, for the U. & n. branch to be
constructed from the Montana Cop
per Company's smelter to the Ana
conda hosting works.
At a meeting of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Montana Agricultural,
Mineral aud Mechanical Association
held Monday night, it was decided to
open the 25th annual exhibition on
Sept. 8, 1884 and also to have aspiring
racing meeting on July 4th and 5th.
The various committees were appoint
ed and efforts will be made to present
! special inducements to horsemel and