The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-08
MELANGE.

MONTANA MELANGE.
Accidents and Incidents az Mar
rated By Our Exchanges.
Miles City il taking steps to incor-
porate.
A Helena man has grown 5000
gallons of currants off a five-acre
patch Of ground.
The new mill of the Cellar Mining
Company at Maiden will cost the
company $50, ono.
The Northern Pacific Is now COM
pleted eighteen miles west of Helena,
and twenty east Of Missoula.
An in~cendiary attempted to fire the
large wholesale and retail establish.
ment of Leighton. Jordan 4 Co., al
Glendive, last week.
Two stories of the National Park
Hotel are now completed and fur
nished, and guests are being enter.
tanned.
The construction Of the Miles City
school house, like the Butte court
house, is being delayed on account Of
legal t~echnicalities, with reference to
disposing OF the bonds.
This seems to be a disastrous year
for steamboating on the upper Mis-.
souri,. The Butte is the second boat
lost, and in each Ease the boat is an
entire loss, while in the case of the
Butte beth the craft and cargo are
lost.
Lieut.. J. H. Thompson, Of Fort
Misseula, has been assigned to place
the Big Hole monument in position.
The monument is in commemora-
ton of the fight between the Me-
Perces and a detachment of the
Seventh Infantry.
It is said that John Chinnick, who
was shot in Miles City, is gradually
sinking, and though the struggle
against death is we'll maintained,
must, from the nature of the wound,
finally succumD. He still maintains
the story that he shot himself acct
dentally.
The Hon. Frederick Billings, who
gave the University of Vermont the
magnificent library left by the late
George P. Marsh, United States Min
lister to Italy, has also given the Uni
versity $4,000 wherewith to con-
struct a tire-proof building to hold
the same and the other collections be-
longing to the college.
The Montana Fair Association Of
fers $4,000 in premiums this year.
There will be trotting races, running
races and bicycle races every day
among the exhibitions. The associ-
alton has a mile track, which is the
finest in the Territory. The grand
stand accommodates 1000 persons,
and commands a view of every part
Of the track.
White Sulphur Springs is to have
a National bank.
The excitement at Miles City has
subsidized and no more trouble is an
ticipated.
Two new town sites are being laid
out in the wonderfully rich Montana
district.
In July 165 feet of completed tun-
mel work vas done in Mullan Tun-
mel. asaasEs
The restaurant privilege for the
Territorial Fair has been secured by
Mrs. A. T. Allen.
The work 0 fsurveying the proposed
branch road from Billings to the Bull
mountains is in progress.
1t is said that railroad laborers
near Rocky Canyon habitually kill
trout by the use of giant powder.
The price Of lager beer has been re-
6uced to five cents in Helena. An
other evidence of prosperity.
Lieut.-Col. Ilges has been ordered
to report at Fort Assinaboine, under
arrest, to await the PRONUNCIATION of
the cOurt-martial order.
The construction of new concen-
trating works for the Alta Montana
Company at Wickes, will be COM
menced at once.
A big forest fire several miles in
extent destroyed a large amount of
valuable timber in the vicinity of
Diamond City last week.
A regularly organized gang of
thieves, under the leadership of
skinny Waterhouse " well known
| p%enitentiary bird has been unearth-
ed in Benton.
Six Indian prisoners, confined in
the guard house at Fort Macleod
made a grand rush for freedom a few
| days ago and made the 1iff1e; two Of
them were recaptured, however.
Tip Top will De the name of a te)e-
graph station to be- established
on the summit of the Rocky Noun
| tains, nineteen miles west of Helena,
by the Northern Pacific Company.
Deer Lodge expects to be the edu-
cational centre of Montana. 1t has
already two colleges, besides excel
lent public schools. 1t has also a
Territorial penitentiary, which, in
its way, is an educational institution
teaching the old copy book moral,
that honesty is the best policy.-New
| North West.
Twelve thousand dollars, spot cash,
was offered by Banker Stebblns for
eighty feet on Main street in Miles
City, it being the site burned over by
| the recert fire. The offer was refused
by all but one of the owners. It
| strikes us that $3.50 per front foot is a
boom price for property in a railroad
town.
+ The settlers of Carpenter and Snow
| creeks, Meagher county, have laid
| odt a town which has been named
Montezuma. They claim that it will
become the largest mining town in
the Territory if large and we'll de-