The semi-weekly miner., 1883-08-04
The Semi Weekly Mine1
Local News
From the Daily of Thursday

From the Daily of Thursday.
The statement that Miss Willard i
he possessor of a tree claim in Da
kota, is denied.
A daily mail now leaves the post
office for Meaderville, (Gundersol
postoffice), at p. m.
DR.. Rockman has concluded to Ia
cate in Butte aud presents his card il
this mornings MINER.
Passenger trains on the O. s. l.
railroad now run to Bennett creek
which is only 81 miles from Bois,
City.
Thirty-eight delegates from;variou
sections OF the Territory are In at
tendance at the Temperance con
ventjOn.
A meeting of the Irish-Americar
National League will be held a
Miners Union Hall next Sunday
evening.
The first number of the Heleno
Era, a bright little sheet published
by the Helena Real Estate Board
has reached our table.
Aaron Malin was arrested yester
day on the charge of rolling drunk
He will have a hearing in the police
court this morning.
Now is the time for prospectors to
develop their claims and make sales
at reasonable prices rather than hold
over for another year.
Capt. Sam Reynolds of the Union
Guards scored len successive bulls
eyes yesterday at the Broadway rifle
hall, for the gold prize.
The Governor has offered q reward
of $500 for the capture of each of the
road agents who recently robbed the
Helena and Deer Lodge coach.
The penalty provided by the stat
utes for capturing the nest of any bird
or wild fowl is fine of not less than
S. nor more than $40 for each offense.
Ten bars of Lexington bullion val
ued at $l2,7OO and six bars of Silver
Bow bullion valued at $3.50, were
consigned for shipment at the Pacific
express ,tfice Yesterday.
Agent L'nsley was busy yesterday
morning moving the Pacific Express
office to his new and more COM
modious quarters in the Cohen,
building on Main street. The new
location will be much more con-
venient for business men.
Bya unanimous vote, it was de-
cided at the convention last night to
hold a Public Union Temperance
Meeting in the Pavilion on Granite
street this evening. Several short
spec ches and good singing may be
expected. All are invited to attend.
The game law which prohibits the
killing of buffalo, moose, elk, white
or black. tailed deer, mountain sheep,
Rocky Mountain goat, antelope,
grouse, prairie chicken, pheasant, fool
hen. partridge or quail, will be in0p-
erative after the 18th inst, until Jan
uary 1st.
Ore reduction is rapidly nearing
the minimum of cost. At Nevada
City Cal, a mill advertises to treat
custom lots of ten tons and over at
81 DER ton. With water power and
self-feeding machinery gold ore
ought to be reduced at q cost of 81
per ton in Montana.
Herald: The robbers who went
through the mail sacks in the coach
attack yesterday opened letter from
the First National Bank of Helena
containing a draft remittance of $25,-
600. They put the draft back In the
letter again and endorsed upon it,
Opened by mistake by three road
agents."
Mdepcndent:: At last accounts the
stage robbers had not been captured,
although it is generally believed that
they will in the end land in Jail. 1t
is reported that evidence has been
secured which indicates that the men
were from Helena, and that the wag-
on which they had with them was
borrowed in Helena.
The subscriptions to the merchants
purse for the fall races are coming in
so literally that $500 stake is now
Steps will be taken at once
to raise a similar purse from the
saloon, hotel and livery men which
will make the stakes of the next
West Side meet the most liberal ever |
hung up by any association in Mon
tana.
From the Daily of Friday.
Bar silver was quoted at $1.1O5 on
the New York market yeste rday.
There is good prospect for a
mining boom in Cable and the
neighboring districts.
The bullion shipments yesterday
were, Alice eight bars valued at Sll,-
500 and Silver Bow six bars valued at
s., 400.
Now are the dog days fully upon
US, and there are more unmuZZled
ours to the square inch in Butte than
in any other town OF its size on the
continent.
The election will be held to-day to
ratify a special tax to raise 80, 900 for
tAe erection of addit onal school build
ings. The polls will be open at the
public school building.
The Independent says: "The send
ing of teegrams by mail is a purely
American invention" and dl0rOpos,
"nOw let Mr.. Gould sell his
new yacht and increase the wages of
his telegraph operators"
The Moss minstrels. with the well
known and popular actress, Bessie
Louise King, will play the Montana
circuit some time this month. Dates
have not been made, but they are ex-
oected in Butte about the 18th inst.
A notable instance, illustrating the
efficacy of advertising in live news
paper, occurred in the MINER office
lat night. About 9o'clock Mr.. A:
Calvin left for insertion a notice OF
the loss of u gold watch and chain.
Half an hour afterward it was ascer-
tanned that the finder had already
inserted a notice of the finding OF the
Beilenberg & FaIlagan are doinga
good work in clearing out the rubbish
from the alley in the rear OF their
meat market. There are
other business houses in the same
neighborhood that might profit by
the good example, particularly on
the alley running north and south
between West Broadway and Gran
Ite streets.
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