The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-27

AMALaAM,
As Found in Our Clean Up of the
Territorial Exchanges.
Jack Langrishe will appear at Deer
Lodge next Friday.
A new bridge is built across the
Yellowstone at Livingston.
The streets of Miles City have be-
come impossible. Cause-mud.
The District Court at Bozeman got
! down to business last Monday.
Laton A. Huffman and Miss Lizzie
! Skinner, of Miles City, walked the
matrimonial plank last week.
A man named Clark, from Shields
river, troke his leg in jumping from
a wagon at Livingston on Friday.
Milt Endsley, of Benton, has pur-
chased the entire bull outfit Of Ne
hoff s. Fields. I: is one of the largest
in Montana.
It is rumcred that a tract Of placer
| ground near Mammoth Hot Springs
has heen sold to Baltimore capitalists
for 500, 900.
On account of the lack of mechan-
| les nc work has been done by the
Virginia City Reduction company for
the past two weeks.
The Benton papers make the re
markable statement that the Barker
smeller is turning out one hundred
and twenty-five tons of bullion per
day.
Rev. r. NJ. Stevenson has been
called to the pastorate of the Presby-
| terrain church at Bozeman, by the
unanimous vote Of its members.
A tent meeting, to commence at II
a. NJ. tomorrow and continue over
Sunday, viii! be held at Duck creek,
near Keene's school house in the
Missouri Valley.
George Liscomhe has two speci-
mems OF genuine sugar beets, raised
at his ranch On Tongue river, which
weigh twelve and thirteen pounds
respectively.
The new works Of the Helena
Mining and Reduction Company at
I Wickes are fast approaching compile
| ton, the main building being now
| enclosed.
w. q. Reeve, vice-president of the
| Peru National Bank. of Peru, Ills,
will engage in the cattle business in
Yellowstone county next spring. He
will invest $50, 600.
A. B. Curry, OF Livingston, who
received the Republican nomination
in the First judicial District AS dele
gate to the Constitutional COnven-
ton, has declined the honor.
III Yellowstone county so little in
terest was felt in the Constitutional
Ccnventif n by the Republicans that
no one attended the Republican eau
Gus in Billings.
The steamer Helena was to leave
Bismarck On the 18th for Rocky
Point, o r as far up the river as prac-
ticable. This boat will about wind
up the boating season for the year
1889.
The Northern Pacific agent at
Billings, has received orders for
eighty cattle cars, fifty for Mont
gomery, Ward & Co., and thirty for
the Chicago Cattle Company. The
stock will be shipped at once.
General Sheridan says that Fort
Ellis will not be abandoned, but will
be kept as a supply post for the sur
rounding neighborhood. 1t fur
nished 200, 900 pounds of grain to
troops belonging to other posts dur
ing the past year.
A verse in the Helena lndependent
about a rich Madison county
farmer marrying a negro, delayed all
railroad trains and precipitated a
general snow storm over the west
ern region twenty-four hours after
ward. -Missoulian, Oct. 9th.
Sheriff Blakely and Deputy Sheriff
Conly, of Gallatin county, who went
east after Staples, Shannon and
others concerned in the Teller rob-
berry, tailed to bring them back. The
thieves are held at Bismarck, where
the requisition held by the officers
was powerless.
Col. Clough, counsel for the North
liens in Bozeman by laborers and
contractors who had not been paid
for work on the Park branch, was a
move on the part OF enemies of the
road to affect the stock market on
Wall street.
Notwithstanding the scarcity OF
buffalo. the traders of Carroll and
Rocky Point, on the Missouri, ex.
oect to do a good winters business in
hides. etc. The prospects at both
these points are very promising, ali
things considered, and the people
down there feel quite jubilant.
A. Northern Pacific locomotive
and one of Nelson Story's mules en-
gagged in an argument n day lasl
week near Bozeman. Singular as il
may appear the mule came out sec
ond best. The coyotes of the neigh
borhood now dine sumptu0usly
every day.
Missing from Fort Buford: Mich
oils Chrissman. who is supposed tt
be in Montana. His wife recently
died and his children are objects O.
charity. Any person knowing O
the missing man will confer a favor
uIon the children by addressing
Clara l.. Chrissman, la Crosse, Wis
consin.
John Davitt was fined 500 at Bill
lings Saturday and sentenced tt
three months imprisonment fol
slaughtering and selling beef with
out exposing the animals hide, a!
required by law. In addition TO in
fringing the law the ownership o
the animal killed was involved IL
doubt.
That story, about the bull buttin}
the locomotive, which is going tn
rounds of the territorial press, may
be all right, but if the bull is OF thu
same manufacture and the locomo
tive of the same breed as the bulls
and locomotives that are usually
seen, it is a little bit thin--unless tin
locomotive got away with it:
What fools these mortals be! Some
people who arrived in Helena Wed
nesday from New York City brought
a quarter of beef with them all thu
way, as they were informed in thu
East that there was no beef in Mon
tana. This shows how ignoran
people in the East-or some of then
at least-are about MOntana.-DO