The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-21
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Quilted From the Columns Of Our
Exchanges.

crocusses and budding shade trees.
The Episcopalians of Bozeman are
raising money to build a rector's res
idence.
Dillon has a minstrel. club which
will give all entertainment this even
ing.
Pat Hughes has struck a copper
silver lode in the Belt Park that is
eighty-five feet in width.
The Catholics of Virginia City and
vicinity contemplate erecting a new
church this year.
It is stated to be the belief in Gus
ter county now that the county debt
approximates $2OO, 600.
The placer miners of Alder gulch
are jubilant in expectation of an un-
usually early season for beginning
work this year.
The late Territorial Legislature
cost the U. S. Government sixteen
thousand eight hundred and ninety
dollars.
Robert Hardin, an old resident OF
Bozeman, Was run over by the cars
at Medina, Dakota, last week, and
killed.
The Glendive Times says the North
ern Pacific lands in that section are
to be thrown open to settlement in
the spring.
About five hundred patents for
agricultural lands are awaiting claim
ants at the U. S. Land Office in
Helena.
An old Gallatin valley hunter and
trapper says that this is spring, and
that we will have no more cold wea-
Their till next winter.
The patented mineral claims of
Montana are represented in the Sur
veyor Generals office at Helena by
1860 choice specimens of ore.
? v. Hale fell from the roof of a house
on the upper Missouri. He had an
axe in his hand by which he was
severely injured besides receiving in
juries.
Missoula is enjoying a quartz ex-
element. Some Wallace district ore
has been brought in asssy wing $977 in
gold and $2l9 in silver. Other sam
Piles aesaved less, but up into the hum
dreds.
Miles City has the meanest sneak
thieves in the Territory. They steal
the Methodist contribution jugs"
-,e,sol owo Loft c,, f1,o oor~k to- c ~
business places to receive the drop
pings of the charitable.
Business at the Helena U. S. Land
Office was heavier during the first
ten days of March than during the
whole month of February. The fees
received on the fifteenth and six
tenth days of March were nearly
$500.
Hellroaring Creek is the euphon-
eous name Of the noisiest tributary
of the Upper Yellowstone. Its loca-
ton is within the boundaries of the
National park and it tumbles from
rocky declivities into the river above
the Third Canyon.
While riding along a slippery path
way where the mountain was pre-
cipitous near Missoula last Sunday,
Tommy Landers, fearing his horse
might slip, dlsmounted, when the
animal turned, and in so doing
slipped and went spinning down the
mountain, landing in the river with
broken neck.
The Lewis and Clarke county COM
missioners are advertising for sealed
proposals for 800 900 of the new six
per cent. bonds of that county-the
bids for which are to be in by the 10th
of next April. Beaverbead county
will be offering a new lot of bonds as
soon as the commissioners a get at
the business.
At Livingston last Wednesday
night a we'll mounted man with a
pistol in one hand and a Winchester
rifle in the other, cavOrted through
the streets, shooting at every one
who showed themselves out of doors. |
After running the town" for a short
time, he rode away. The citizens
very properly complain that the
strong arm of the law seems to be
paralized in that blooming burg.
There is scarcely an old-timer who
will not learn with regret of the
death of Peter Hanton. On We'd
nesday morning Pete was at work
at the Big Blackfoot saw-mill, near
hauling in logs. He had
brought in his second load, loosed
his binding chain, preparatory to
unloading, and stopped down beside
the. wagon presumably to pick up
the binder, when a heavy log rolled
off the load and crushed Pete under
killing him almost instantly.
He was picked uD at once, but
withou. a word.