The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-07-11

Accidents and Incidents az Mar
rated By Our Exchanges.

Bass Brothers strawberry patch in
the Bitter Root valley, yields this sea-
son 1000 quarts.
It il reported that q band of Crow
Indians, on . demonstrating expedi-
ton, are on the Teton.
One hundred thousand pounds of
Barker bullion was shipped from Liv-
ingston On the 18th.
In the week preceding the first Of
July the Barker smelter turned out
100 bars of bullion.
Judith postonoe, Choteau county,
has been discontinued, and mail from
this point is ordered to Benton.
Henry luncheon. of Misseula, had
$165 stolen last week out of the peck
ct Of q garment hanging in q closet.
A new town has been laid out on
tho Yellowstone, Is miles above Liv-
ingston. It is called Riverside.
The Methodists of Livingston have
been rustling and they raised money
enough to build q church in that
town.
When q Benton crook attempts to
smuggle weapons into the Jail to his
pal, the courts discharge him with =
r%eprimand.
Over SOC, 900 pounds Of bullion is to
be shipped from Billings during the
next ten days. 1t comes from the
Barker mining district.
Twelve soldiers who deserted from
Fort Maginnis recently are believed
to have taken to tho road, and organ
lied a gang of horse thieves.
Custer county wants to sell SIS, 600
worth Of bonds, to bear Z per cent.
interest and be redeemable in ten and
twenty years.
The Virginia City reduction COM
pany have decided to put in a stamp
mill in connection with the concen-
trating works.
A parsonage for the Presbyterian
minister and a rectory for the Episce-
pal pastor will be built in Bezeman
this summer.
An effort is being made to have .
telegraph line constructed between
Livingston and White Sulphur
Springs, to be built by the citizens of
these towns.
James Randall, of Livingston, a
saw-mill man, has been missing since
the middle of May. His friends be-
lieve he has been drowned in the
Yellowstone.
Henry Arnett, an old-timer, recent
ly had occasion to make a hasty trip
from Fort Macleod to Fort Shaw, and
rode the entire distance, 200 miles, in
two days,
In Missoula the city attorneys fees
for prosecuting 'drunks" has been
reduced from S. to $3.50, and the po-
lice magistrate receives q salary of
$500 a year.
Hugh McClements, whom the ter
ritorial press advertised extensively
in the interest of his deserted wife,
has turned up and returned to his
family at Bozeman.
The Gregory and Allah ontana re-
duction works are turning out fifteen
tons of bullion daily. New smelling
stacks, to be added this season, will
increase the output to about thirty
tons every "a hours.
The Marquis de Mores has been
arrested at Manden on the charge of
numbering Reilley Luffcey. The in
formation on which the warrant was
issued was laid by O'Donald, who
is now IN Jail charged with melting
the disturbance which led to Luf-
cey's death. 1t is thought to be ruse
to prevent the Marquis attending the
trial of O'Donald.
An exchange says: Tin Fry caught
five sacks Of trout with a dip net ia
Deer Creek one day last week. His
net consisted of a gunny sack tied to
a hoop. If the game protective so
ciety Of the neighborhood were to
fasten Tin up in One of his gunny
sacks and dump him into the stream
for awhile it might cure him of his
unsportsmanlike proclivities.
It has been known seven or eight
years that veins of copper and silver
combined, exist in Sixteen-mile
creek, but only of late has much in
terest b zen paid to them. 1t is now
believed and confidently asserted
by those who have prospected in that
district that some very valuable
mines will be opened there. Some
very fine looking specimens of argen-
tiferous galena from Sixteen-mile
have been exhibited recently In Boze-
man.
At least five Western Union tele-
graph operators along the Montana
division of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road have been engaged in swindling
the public for several months past.
Their mode of operation was by over
charging, destroying copies, etc. II.
w. Hilbert, for a long time in the
employ of the government at Miles
City, is said to have organizedth the
scheme, and owing to the detection
of one of the parties he few, in what
direction is not acknowledgements
Chronicle.