The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-11-14
PILLS.,
On the WIng-A Coed Indiau-
A SiCkening SiQht-Busi-
less in Dillon-A
Sensation.
Glendale Matters-Lion CITY.
Etc, Etc.
DILLON Nov. IL. 'S3.
Special Correspondence of the MINER

oPNtA1t \ot.tSicHUtuCc Oh tQt MINER
DILLON, Nov. II. 's3.
1t is a cold day when a man work.
ing in the interest Of q new paper
can't manage to run mp against aud
capture a few news items. They are
laying around loose and though some
of them may not be of startling inter
est yet such as they are they record
the events Of the present and in the
aggregate go to make up the history
of many lives. A birth to-day, q
funeral OF a c~entenarian tomorrow,
mark the beginning and end IF life,
but the chapter to be written In the
life of the one and those recording
the life of the other will read very
much alike. in tie end. And so It
happens that news Is not always
startling, for the reason that a like
thing has happened before, has been
talked about. printed and read time
and time again.
But it is seldom that a newspaper
man, when on the wing, is COM
PEELED to record q more sickening
sight than met my gaze at Melrose
t le other day. A half dozen Indians
e on u hat a attached to u train
which was just starting out as I ar
rived there. One of tue Indians-a
young buck of about 18-fell off be-
tween the cars. He was Immediate
ly caught by the wheels and showed
several rods upon the track ahead
of the cars, before the train
could be stopped. When he was at
last taken from the wheels, he was
found to We most horribly crushed
and mutilated. He was cut open
aud disembowelled one foot torn off
and his face and skull mashed IN a
shocking manner. An Indian run
ner was at once sent off to Birch
creek, where the main body of the
Indians were camped, with the news
of the accident. III the meantime
the two or three squaws at Melrose
gathered the scattered remains of the
young brave together, and covered
them with some sagebrush to await
the arrival of the camp.
All of them came up in the even
ing and the pow-wow commenced,
The mother OF the boy seemed to be
thoroughly overcome with grief at
her loss and could not be comforted.
After holding a noisy pow-wow over
his remains for some time they were
placed upon a pony and the band
headed for their camp on Birch creek
marching away to the discordant
music of their own unearthly lam,
At Glendale I was told everything
was running smoothly. including
Avery's fine whiskey, the
HecIa works. and Professor Frank
Reed. Mr.. Bennett, Of the firm of
Wilson, Rote& Co., informed me that
the output of the Hecla last month
was $50, 900, and that Professor
Reeds output is a barrel or two of
fun each day. The Professor makes
everyone happy around him.
At Lion City I found your old
friends, Moses Morrison and George
Tarbell, up to their ears in business.
'Mose" is running a store and SAM
pie rooms, while George Ia kept busy
putting the balls ia place in his am
pie billiard hall.
. From Lion City I went to Dillon.
Here / found the town in ~ecstasies
over the happy termination of an af-
fair which at one time babe fair to
end rather seriously. Briefly told 1t
amounts to just this: A gay young
10th ario was made t. marry q BLUSH
ing maiden several years bis senior
he didn't "wanter." But he
had to all the same.
Business is good at Dillon, and the
town seems to be in . dourishing
The fine new school house
there is the best of evidence that the
of Dillon are public-spirited,
lib raj givers in the cause of educa-
lion and are there TO stay.
Pete Anc erson and family, who
formerly kept the Park station, on
The Boulder road, has opened a hotel
here. They are good ones who set .
better table than Mrs. Anderson.
Th Corinne House still keeps up
its reputation as a first class hotel.
Sim Estes, who was recently
from his wagon while his
team was running away, is getting
along finely and will soon be all
right again. PILLS.