The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-11-03
The Semi Weekly Miner.
Local News.
From the Daily of Friday.

the streets were thronged with
people.
Yesterday being All Saints Day
there was Holy Mass at st. Patrick's
church at 1880 a. ia.
The land Office at Helena is being
Hooded with applications for patents
for quartz claimsin Lewis and Clarke
county.
The ladies OF the M. f. church O
this city are preparing to give s
Thanksgiving dinner on the 29th o.
this month Misunderstanding Day.
All those who are enrolled as mem
hers Of the new gymnasium are re
luested to attend the meeting to
night at Renshaw Hall.
Mr.. L. r. Maillet showed lis a e
handsome meerschaum pipe yester
day which he had just received as s
present from Montreal.
A party was detected yesterday in
the act of stealing goods at Sands &
Boyce's store. He was arrested and
will be tried before Judge French to.
day.
Geo. F.. Marsh has recently re.
ceived from Chicago the handsomest
folding office desk we have seen, and,
with its proprietor behind it, it is
just too too.
Mr.. George c. Randolph had his
arm permanently set and placed in a
plaster cast yesterday afternoon, and
expects to be able to be at his Office
by next Monday or Tuesday.
Dennis Simpson is now sole pro-
prietor of the tonsorial and bath
rooms. in the basement o. the bank
building, corner of Main street and
Broadway, having purchased MI.
Fred Bestenbostel's interest.
The advertiser is the man who has
the interests of the city at heart. He
is the known person, consequently
the person who does the largest bust
ness. It's a good thing to "toot your
own horn,' but you must have audi
tors.
Night before last a valuable pair of
blankets were stolen from i'm front of
Sands & BOyce's store. It looks as
if bad element was coming into our
midst, and merchants who have
goods exposed in such places had
better keep their eye on them.
MI. Chris. Hart, for a number of
years foreman ofthe celebrated Trout
mine at Philipsburg, has located in
Butte, and is now proprietor of the
Broadway livery and feed stables.
The gentleman will no doubt do a
fair share of business and give good
satisfaction.
The Helena Herald of the Goth ult.
says: The overhead line across the
maid range, fifteen miles west of
Helena, will be dispensed with on
and after Monday next. The great
tunnel will come into use on Mon
day, and all traffic of the Northern
Pacific will pass through it after that
date.
Owing to improvements now being
made in Thomas Amphitheatre, the
County Democratic Convention
which will meet in this city next
Saturday Will be held in Good Tenn
plars' Hall, on West Broadway. The
place becomes the staid sober gentle
men who will compose the cnnven-
ton.
j. Gray, Of Centerville, was brought
before Judge Eddy yesterday on the
charge of malicious mischief. After
n prolonged and rather amusing trial,
the defendant was acquitted. George
Jacky and Samuel Barker Of the
same place we're charged with the
same offense and their trial will take
place to-day at l p. m.
Steele & Co., of Helena, are about
to publish a book called the Montana
Directory. 1t will give the name
and a dress of all Territorial, county
and city officers in Montana and will
also give a complete list of the tax
payers in the Territory and will con-
tain from two to three hundred pay
ers. This will be an important book
for business men.
Harry w. Child, one of Helena's
most pron,isingyoung business men,
and Miss Adelaide Dean, of Wiscon-
sin, were married in Cincinnati on
the 23d ultimo. The bride is a sis er
of Mrs. s. S. Huntley, OF Helena,
and during a recent visit to that
place not only mad a host of friends
but captured our handsome Harry"
The MINER extends congra'u ]ations
to the newly welded couple and
wishes them all happiness in the fiji
ture.
II. =. District Attorney William
H. Dewitt, who has just returned
from Bozeman, informs us of the fol-
lowing court proceedings there: John
A, Clark was convicted of murder in
the first degree, and Weber of MUIR
der in the second degree. The case
of the Territory VS.. Mcfarland, for
the murder of Jim Stanley at Cooke
CITY. was continued. About half a
horse thiefs were convicted but
have not yet been sentenced.
Canal Survey.