The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-06-11
Local News.

without fail.
Tosatisfy our evening contemporary
in regard to the ownership of that
quarter" we will explain it be-
longed to a friend who was walking
with US and who threw it down to
test the power Of the lights referred
to. MINER reporters carry nothing
smaller than $40 gold pieces.
MI. Geo. s. Barker, who has been
engaged in cutting wood for Caplice,
McCune & Co., on the head of
Browns gulch, cut his left foot SO
badly on Sunday last that 1t had to
be amputated. He was taken to
VAUDEVILLE where the operation was
performed Monday.
A free delivery of beer was made
yesterdayforenoon by runaway team
attached to a beer wagon. After
swinging around Park, Wyoming
and Main streets it was brought to a
stand still. The wagon was badly
demoraljzed and the beer scattered
from blank to breakfast.
The county Jail is nearly full, most
of the occupants being Migrants.
This feeding of vags and bummers at
the expense of the county is becom-
ing a matter of serious import to the
tax payers of Butte. Every mothers
son Of them should be made to do q
full days work upon the streets until
they are released.
The wrestling match between
James Pascoe and Edwin Edwards,
the champion Cornish style wrestler
of Montana will be a holly contested
affair. Pascoe is a burner and Ed
wards has not yet met his master in
that style of wrestling. The affair
will draw a crowded house at the
Amphitheatre next Friday night.
Mr.. w. A. Clark has just COM
pleted a wood f1ume six miles in
length at the head Of Browns gulch.
He bas now 100 men cutting wood at
the head of Sawmill gulch. a tribn-
tary of Browns gulch. This wood
will be foated down the iume and
hauled to the Moulton and to the
Colorado smelter. AS the latter
works consume about 100 cords of
wood a day, a great saving In the
cost of delivery Of fuel will thus be
thus effected.
Night before last while Johnnie
Miller, Of the Branch Mint, was
waiting upon some parties In the
back parlor of that popular resort, an
enterprising thief entered the front
door, reached over the counter
and helped himself to about $50
which were laying upon the side
board. and silently stole away. john
ME keeps his money in the same place
yet tut he has a back %action, SELF
cooking, stem winding, d~ouble-bar-
relied columbiad attached to it by .
string which will send a man climb
ing the golden stairs as soon as a
piece is touched.
A gentleman who lives not a thous-
and miles from Broadway has been
anxious to obtain the correct draw
ings of a "Tornado at Work." Quite
recently q neighbor went home and
found his wife readings letter signed
"Your own Tootsey Wootsey" which
she found in his inside coat pocket.
he made q sketch of the subsequent
proceedings which he sent to the
"Tornado at Work" hunter. It is
unnecessary to state that the sketch
filled the long felt want, but the VIC
tim has not been able to find q wig
large enough to I'LL the bare places
on his Uranium caused by that letter.
The Miles City Daily Press has
gone to the wall-ylelded up the
ghost and is now no mor In pub.
fishing its own obituary the Press
says: Through the vicissitudes of
the past six months we have raked
and scraped, worked under disad-
vantages at almost every turn Of the
road, in the endeavor to present to
our niggardly patronsa paper worthy
of more liberal support than it has
ever received, and have grown very
tired. Hope deferred maketh the
heart sick,' is the truest maxim ever
written, and we have concluded that
to wait and labor for better things in
IN lnappreciative oommunity:.wasn't
In our line" |