The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-18
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
As Narrated by Our Montana
Exchanges.

Bozeman has q one thousand dolla
hearse.
st. James Episcopal church in Dbl
lon has a new organ.
Missoula is infested with petit,
thieves and swindlers.
The Helena city treasurer's bon,
will be increased to $40, 1000.
The term of the public schools il
Virginia City ended last week.
A $4,000 hennery is to be estab
lished in the vicinity of Glendive.
Dan Costello's circus is expected i,
Glendive the first of next month.
The FLY Blanche, full sister o
Jacko, has been sold in Helena 70,
$500.
-Four murder trials will come VI
before the June term of Court a
Bozeman.
Lamb, the murderer of Brooke, in
Helena. has been held to answer il
5000 bail.
Glendive wants its photograph
taken, and signs for a photographer
to locate there.
Clark's Fork district is clear Of
snow, and horseback passage is prac.
ticable to the smelter.
The Territorial insane asylum /
now crowded almost as much as the
penitentiary.
Three tons of Alameda ore, from
Alder Gulch was sold at Glendale fer
a little over $500 per ton.
The debt of Meagher county On the
first of last March was $25, 4O2-an
increase in the last year of $2,818.
The Bar association of Benton will
give a grand spread which will cost
just $17 for each Websterian head.
The question of building a new
school house in Missoula will be SUBJ
mitted to a vote of the people.
There ire SO cases on the Custer
county District Court docket, II of
which are civil and II criminal.
Twenty criminals are to be tried in
the District Court now in session at
Miles City, with Judge Wade presid-
ing.
1t is understood that the people of
Madison county are almost a unit in
protesting against the Presidents
action in suspending Judge Conger.
James Pickett tried to stab Charles
Hardwick last week at Billings and
the attempt cost him $50 in fine and
costs, besides fifteen days in Jail.
Two military companies are be-
ing organized at the Capital. They
expect to fill their rolls in time to
participate in the railroad celebra-
ton.
The plat of the townsite Of Town
send was filed in the Office of the
Clerk of Meagher county last
week by the Northern Pacific Com
pany.
1t is reported that the Hecla Con-
'olidated Mining Co., at Glendale, is
preparing to double the capacity of
he concentration at Greenwood this
year.
Cooke City, on the upper Yellow
is the Clarke's Fork mining
lamp. A large number OF adjacent
mines will be worked this season,
md a boom is expected.
A petition has been circulated and
signed in Dillon for the reve-
'ation Of the appointment as post
master of James Kirkpatrick and the
reinstatement of John Weightman.
A meeting of cattle men of south
Montana and northern
has been held at Miles
;ity to memorable the government
N the matter of the cattle-killing
indians of that region.
VIM. Crandall talks of turning
Belt Park into a stock rarch. The
Park is encircled by cliffs and by
'uilding a fence less than a mile
across the only outlet he would
ave a large range enclosed.
Judge Eddy has written a lengthy
xhibit of Montana's present pros
'erous condition and the promising
utlook for her mines, and will in a
ew days forward it to MI. Zeehan-
elaar' at Amsterdam for use in cap
uring Holland.
In the absence of an estray law
overlng the case, the Hamilton stock
rowers propose to advertise estray
nimals, and if not claimed within
inety days, to sell them and divide
ne proceeds among members of the
Henry Swanson, Lynch Bros
onfdential clerk, who absconded
ON Horse Plains after appropriate
]g the contents Of the safe and
rawers, wrote u letter to the firm
aging that he was going to the
tates, and would return the money
ON there, but he was seen at Port
md boarding the steamer for Vic {
,ria.
Personal. .