The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-29
The Semi Weekly Miner
Local News
From the dali 7 of Friday.

The Utah & Northern trains are
again running on schedule time.
George C. Fitschen's team ran
away on Park street yesterday, max
ing q wreck of the cutter.
Chris Nissler slipped on the icy
sidewalk at Centerville Monday
evening and sprained his ankle.
The dinner and supper given by
the ladies of Mountain View NJ. E.
Church on Christmas netted 500 for
the church fund.
The bullion shipments yesterday
were, by the Alice, six bars valued at
$9,O72: by Donnell, Clark & Larabie,
eight bals valued at $40. 1928.
The Union Guards parade on New
Years will be a grand affair. Lincoln
Post G. A. r is expected to take part
in the parade and all veterans are in
vited.
In the police court yesterday Frank
Barnes, charged with a disturbance
of the peace, pleaded guilty and was
assessed five and costs, which was
promptly liquidated.
The Odd Fellows ball on New
Years eve promises to be the event
of the season, the interest of which
to the initiated will be heightened
by the public installation of officers
Immediately preceding the dancing.
Between the public school exhibit
ton, and the Presbyterian skating
sOciable and supper at the Pa
vilion, Butte society will be well en-
tertained tonight, and it seems to
be the general intention to take
them both in.
w. A. Clark received some painful
bruises Wednesday afternoon by be-
ing precipitated from an i%nsecurely
fastened ladder IN the Poser mine.
Although he fell but q few feet be
was considerably shaken up aud may
consider himself fortunate that no
bones were broken.
The mercantile establishment of J.
Ross Clark & Co., at Anaconda. has
been purchased by Lee w. Foster &
co. of this city. An account Of stock
will be taken and the transfer made
on January first. This adds another
branch to the already extensive bust
ness of Foster & Co., and the pros
poets of the smelter towE indicate
that it will be an important place in
their chain of business connections.
Yesterday was st. Johns day
which is usually celebrated by the
knights Templar with appropriate
rites and attendance upon divine
services, but beyond a reunion con-
nected with the installation of offs
GERS, at Masonic Temple last night,
the usual o~bservances of the da ywere
omitted yesterday in Butte. The
installation ceremonies last night
were well attended by the fraternity
and their friends, and good music by
the Bullion Club band together with
its social features added much to the
pleasures of the occasion.
There are times when an outraged
community rise in their might. and
by the %unquestioned right of revolu-
ton, rectify wrongs which the law
and its executives have failed to
right, and the dog population of
Butte is just now being rapidly deci-
mated b. a long suffering cOmmnni-
ty with the aid of the bullet and
strychnined beefsteak. Six CANNES
bit the dust yesterday as q result of
poison, and one died by an officers
bullet. While the dog nuisance may
be abated by these methods, how
eyer, the strychnine should be adj
ministered with discretion so that no
valuable animals may become vic
TINS. John F. Cowan's fine bird dog
died yesterday, in all probability as a
result of accidentally swallowing
poisoned meat designed for a worth
less cur.