The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-31
SEMI WEEKLY MINER, BUTTE, MONTANA, OCTOBER 81, 1883
T.
As Found in Our Clean Up of the
Territorial Exchanges.

As Found in Our Clean Up of the
Territorial Exchanges.
Sinking the Billings artesisn well
the first 500 feet cost $500.
A Benton sport the other day shot
a mich COW, thinking it a grizzly
bear.
The loss by the late fire at Miles
City was about $50: 100, the greater
part of which was covered by ill.,
surance.
Miss Jennie Corson, the Montana
sheep queen, has been or a visit east.
She comes home without the husband
which runlor said she hadgone after.
+. F. Thywing, Of the Detroit Car
bon company, has gathered and ship
ped to the east from the neighbOr-
hood of Miles City, about 500, 900 tons
Of bones this season.
A petition tor the establishment OF
q p~ostofflce at Garrison (mouth OF
Little Blackfoot) with MI. Facer for
P. M, has been sem to the Depart
ment. The office should he estab-
lished.
There has been one or nlOre-per-
haps three or ~tOur-cases of scarlet
fever in Deer Lodge the past week.
1t is in a mild form. Miss May Da-
Wis, who had a well-defined case, is
convalescing.
The White Sulphur Springs hotel
has female hash singers. This is q
new departure in Montana.-Lnde-
pendent. Oh, Guy! why they've
had 'em in Benton for over two
years.
Miles City folks are very rapid
sometimes. Last week a carpenter
needed a house to live in, built in
n day a frame residence "a by 30
feet in dimensions and moved into it
in time for supper.
The report of the Livingston First
National Bank shows nearly $50, 600
deposits-$s4,O 900 in loans and about
$500 cash on hand. The profits of
the institution have been 81, 900 in
two aud one-half months.
A band of about $50 horses, which
had been stolen from different parties
in Nevada and Idaho, were recov.
cred last week nea Medicine Lodge.
One man named John Joyce was ar
rested, but was afterwards dis
charged, there being no proof against
him.
Stephen Gainan took into Virginia
City on the End inst. 1861 unces of
gold dust and nuggets from his
claims on Browns Gulch. The
STUFF is worth a little over $2,4OO,
and is the result of five months
WOrK OF two men on ground that had
been previously worked.
A party consisting of Geo. Black,
VIM. Knapp aud A. NJ. Baldwin, of
Dillon, and Tom Robbins, of Mel
rose. expect to start for the gold
mines in the CHur d'Alenes next
Monday or Tuesday, Success to you
boys. May you all come back with a
stocking full Of the dust.-Z11bune.
Mrs. Edward Towers, of Living
st0n, died from a dose of strychnine
last week. She was a morphine eat
er. Her husband used strychnine
for dyspepsia end nervousness. Be-
ing out of her own drug, Mrs. Towers
tried that of her husband, but took
too much. Hence the funeral.
The. horse owners failed to hold
the meeting called for last Wednes-
day in relation to the CHAMBERS, as
the meeting could accomplish moth
ing. A petition has been circulated
and generally signed, requesting the
Board of County Commissioners to
take action in regard to the matter
NeW North West.
The white bull mentioned last
week As butting the express engine
south of Stuart, is dead. Whether it
resulted from the occurrence noted or
whether he had a set-to with the
night train. is not known. AT any
rate Conductor Heartt says he was
lying dead at the roadside next day.
Peace to his ashes. He had much
sand and little sense.
It is the opinion of those who know
that the cowboys who were arrested
at Glendive for killing a man there
will not be convicted. Already ove
$1,000 have been raised to defend
them, and a prominent Cheyenne
lawyer has been engaged to attend to
it. The whole thing was a drunken
row, in which the officers were as
drunk as any one.-Herald.
The artesian we'll continues to flow
as freely as when it first started, and
nc doubt is entertained that the true
artesian reservoir has been tapped.
A movement is on foot to bore a well
somewhere in the heart of the city
for use in case of fire, and it has been
suggested that on the proper action
ty the citizens the military would
make a bore on the park reserve
Yellowstone Journal.
There is considerable excitement in
Cooke City over the extensive deposit
of rich ore found in developing the
Homestake mine. The body of ore
found is reported to be so large that
many question its probability, and
what is fully as remarkable, it ap-
pears to beall smelling ore and assays
from 500 to $500 per ton in silver.
The mine is owned by Geo. w.
Smith, a we'll known blacksmith, |
formerly Of Bozeman, Geo. Huston, |
Joe Dewing and others, and will
yield to them all u princely
!
All Gen, a Chinese "Freemas on
OF high degree, passed in his Celestial
checks last Monday. The obsequies
next day were gorgeous, and the Ia
mented was consigned to C%onfucius
with all the honors of Mongol Ma
sonry. The rega|ia of the brethren
was magnif., the white cloths on the !
heads Of the officers giving them the
interesting appearance of mothers
in-law prancing with a heakache.
1t was the toniest send-otf that a hea-
then has had in these parts for many
day.-Mudisonian.
AT every turn yesterday n was
greeted with stories Of the new gold
fields. If bunch of men stood on
the street corners. and a reporter
eager to pick up items Of interest, ap-