The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
AMALoAM,
Found in Our Cleanup of the
Territorial Exchanges.

Twenty-Five below Zero in Boze-
man on Sunday night.
1t is expected that the next gener-
| al assessment of Montana will reach
$40, 600, 00O.
During the past year Helena has
| expended three-fourths of a million
dollars in building.
John Slack, one of the first settlers
| of Bitter Root Valley, died of pneu-
monia on December Goth.
Mrs. L. A. Luce, of Helena, had
her shoulder dislocated last Monday
by the upsetting of q sleigh.
The Missoulian reports a gang of a
dozen thieves and pickpockets MAX
ing their headquarters in that city.
A band of rowing Peigaus are MAX
ing their presence Objectionable on
the Teton near Benton by numerous
minor depredations.
It is reported at Cooke City that the
plat of that townsite has been &C
cepted by the surveyor general, and
has gone to Washington for approval.
George Fabrian, a rauchman of
Marysvisle, fell from a load of hay on
Christmas day and was impa!ed on
the brake lever, producing probably
fatal injuries.
From nine and three-quarter tons
of second class ore from the Highland
Chief mine. in Browns Gulcl, Mr..
f. L. Smith got 1856 ounces of gold
retort.
The Pine Tree lode at M~arysville,
for Which Tommy Cruise recently
paid So, 900, was jumped on New
Years, and relocated on the ground
Of insufficient representation.
Jackson street, in Helena, is
spanned by a bridge and %subterran-
eously crossed by a tunnel. both con-
Meeting the st. Louis Hotel with an
annex at the base of Tower Hill, used
in part as a pressroom for the hide
pendenu.
X. s. Burke, an old time newspa-
per man of the Black Hills, passed
through BOxeman this morning en-
route to the C@urd'Alene mines. He
says that he represents 1000 miners,
who will follow him in the SPRING
Chronicle.
Talk about invading the reserva-
ton is not so brisk as iG has been. a
number of the loudest agitatOrs have
gone to the promised land, and those
who would like to go lack a leader
Just now.-Benton Record.
Sheriff Berry. of Missoula, who re-
Gently visited Bozeman, is reported
as saying that a shorter route can be
had to the Occur d'Alene mines by
leaving the Northern Pacific railroad
twenty miles west Of Trout Creek.
An old Indian trail extends from
here to the mines.
In the trial OF the parties to the
shooting atfray at Dillon, reported
last week, White was fined go tor
carrying a deadly weapon concealed,
and discharged. Frost was held to
await the action of the next grand
jury and lodged in the county Jail.
FrOst'S wounds are not serious, and
he will speedily recover.
A Bismarck man dreamed that he
died and went to hell There! don't
start; it was only a dream), and
when he got there he found the ~
tire kingdom staked off into sulphur
claims by Montana men. The Mon
tana papers will deny this. but we
al produce the Observation-Disclosures
Tribune.
James Bailey was caught in the
act of rifling John McDonald's pock-
cts, in a MissOula saloon, by cutting
through the cloth with a sharp knife.
After knocking him down and head
ing him up in fine shape Mcdonald
brought the culprit into court, where
In default of $500 bail he was given
winter quarters in the county Jail.