The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-13

Accidents and Incidents az Mar
rated by Our Exchanges.

Accidents and Incidents az Mar
rated by Our Exchanges.
Court began at Billings last Mon.
day morning.
Twenty feet Of a lot in Billings re.
Gently sold for 81 200.
The price of cottonwood fuel is
from $40 to $14 per cord in Benton.
Lord Castleton has gone on a fish
ing and hunting excursion in the
Big Horn country.
A very rich strike in silver-bearlng
quartz is reported on Meadow creek,
in Madison county.
A promising town is building al
Wickes near the smelters of the Alta
Montana company.
Livingston will make application
at the coming term of the district
court to be incorl Grated.
f. c. Crude, of Helena. is having
| good success in the sale of his excel
lent map of that city.
A large mass of fallen rocks block
AIDED the Park branch train at Point
of Rocks last Sunday morning.
The tswnsite of Cooke City, in the
Clarke's Fork district, is to be sur
veyed and plated soon.
TLo ;no.ooco - +ho o,.oe,~o,k or
Choteau county this year yer last
will be $1,000, 600.
The new smelter near Sheridan,
Madison county, is now completed.
and will be started up soon.
Trains will run through Mullan
tunnel next menth. The Bozeman
tunnel will not be completed before
December.
A Sun River COW boy has been ex-
ercising his versatile abilities in vic
timizing the Benton merchants with
forged orders.
Uiida and Sun River are now con-
nected by telephone. The line is
about twenty miles long and cost
only about $1,000.
One Of the results Of the Willard en-
cursiOn ia said to be that the North
ern Pacific will dispose of 1000, 600
acres of its lands to Germans.
The festiYe horse thief is rampant
in the vicinity Of Fort Maginnis.
Con kohrs' foreman had one stolen
last week, and Tom Duffey two.
Mrs. Langtry will be IN st. Paul on
the 18th, 10Th and Goth OF next Feb
ruary. 1t is probable that she will
visit further west.
The cattle men Of Miles City are
contemplating the formation of a
live stock association for Eastern
Montana.
Harry Hill, of New York city, has
bargained with a Glendive man for
fifty buffalo calves at one hundred
dollars a head.
A new mineral spring has just been
discovered 1T Jefferson City. The
water is cold and is said to possess
great curative powers.
The Dawson county commissioners
refuse to pay warrants of October p,
1852, issued by Custer county to pay
Dawson county expenses.
Pagett's Black Bess, that cleaned
up the Bentonites last July, has
again won a race. This time it was
at Miles City, on the S;h inst.
Col. w. b. Hundiey, Of Helena,
has entered his FLIES, Australoid and
Glendalia, in the coming race for
two-year ODDS, in Chicago.
Three criminal actions, ti.ree civil
caus es, aud eight suits for divorce
make up the docket fnrt;,e first term
of the district court for Yellowstone
county.
Colorado cattle men drive their
stock into Montana in order that
they may mature and fatten in good
shape before being shipped east for
market.
A band of Indians tried Il run off
about half of T. Thoruton's band of
horses, on Otter creek, but ere pre-
vented by the opportune arrival Of
the owner.
A vigilance committee is being
formed to treat with the organized
band OF horse thieves in the Judith
basin. The band is composed Of both
whites and Indians.
While at Glendive, last week,
Bishop Brondel bought a block OF
ground on which to build a Catholic
church, and raised ST 800 toward con-
structing the building.
A shooting ARRAY occurred near
Fort Maginni-, Tuesday night, be-
tween Barney Wagner and Pat Shin
ner, growing out of IL quarrel over a
game Of ''stud" poker.
The embryo town of Dnrnix, To-
Gated thirty miles east of Livingston,
has already twenty-five houses, four
stores, Il blacksmith shop. and only
four saloons. Good for Dornix.
DR.. James Wright. in 1873 superin-
tendent of Indian affairs. and suisse.
quently Indian agent at the Crow
and Fort Hall agencies, died at his
home in Des Moines, Iowa, recently.
The latest reports from.the Clarke's
Fork mining district are very fatter-
ing. Major Eaton's sHaelter will start
in Il few days ami run all winter,
there being sufficient ore already on
the dump.
The Indian agent at Poplar Creek
has proved to- lie a good stock de-
tective. He keeps a list of brands,
and when the gentle savages under
his supervision come in from a raid,
he notifies owners of any stock they
run in.
A man named Godfrey. while driv-
ing down a steep pitch near the Big
Casino mill last week, with a load OF
lumber, was nearly killed by being
buried under capsized load of lun-
Der. His collar bone Was fractured
and two rios broken.