The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-23
Local News.
From the Daily Of Sunday.

What about that iron contrac
John Brigham?
Over $4,000 in bullion wei
shipped from Butte during the pa.
week.
The Herald says: Prof, Warnel
} of New York, has received q bottle {
Livingstone whisky, since whic
time he has discovered a comet wit
sixty-nine tails.
Mr.. Charles s. Fee is the newly ar
pointed general passenger ticke
agent, vice OK. Barnes, resigned. MI
II. c. Davis is bis assistant. He ha
jurisdiction over the whole Nertherl
pacific line and branches.
Helena "Time" is out of joint, ant
the citizens don't know when to e,
to dinner. The "Old Timers'' wan,
the old time restored. In Butte W,
are not particular as to time and cal
it noon anywhere between II O'CLOCK
a. m. to l o'clock p. m.
Louisville CourierJomrnuz: Illus.
band, you'll have to 60 out and cal
that boy yourself. I can't make him
get up. He sleeps as if he were q
hog" "Oh, we'll, Maria, the boy
can't help it. It s fate. He was
born to be a policeman"
There will be meeting at the Re
form Club Hall this evening at 7:30,
when addresses will be given by sew.
eral of the young members. Every
person is invited to attend. The
ladies are particularly requested to
be present to take part in the singing.
Independent: As the Constitu-
tional Convention is now getting
down to work, the members uf the
Third House (or House of Lords) are
beginning to put in an appearance in
the Capital City, to be in readiness
for the meeting of the House, which
will occur in few days.
Mr.. F. R. Miles yester day pur-
chased the Zen Phillips ranch, upper
Deer Lodge Valley, comprising 600
acres and all improvements thereon.
The round sum of $25,OO0 was the
price paid. This ranch is considered
to be about.the best property in the
valley, over 300 acres being fine hay
land.
Will the Inter Mountain please in.
form us .Ohe,s Mr.. Kessler transferred
his stock in that paper? 1t is dis
creetly silent, however, about Mr..
Jack being a stockholder, for the
simple reason it cannot deny it. This
being admitted, it follows that Mr..
Jack, as a County Commissioner, has
no right to make a contract for the
county with a company of which he
is a member. And it further follows
that when such contract is made it is
Uholly void The statutes are very
plain upon that point.
The Benton Record disposes of
"Tlce, of Radersburg," after the fol-
lowing fashion: The next man who
predictsa forty days chinook ought
to be killed at once. It Is terrible to
have ones anticipations blasted, al
ter placing explicit confidence in
some man who pretends to know
more about the weather than dog
knows about bones. "Tice, of RAIDERS
burg" should be made an example of |
first by being kicked so high that his |
hungry gaze could feast pom the gas !
tights in the streets of New Jerusa-
em. Forty days-oh, Tice, you
rascal.
The Monarch Lightning Saving |
machine was on exhibition on Lower |
Main street, Friday, and collected a
sized crowd to see how
he thing worked. AS a labor-saving
it is undoubtedly a success,
IS one man can perform the labor of
wo in cross-cuttlng logs or saving
arge pieces of wood. The machine
$ very simple arrangement, con-
listing of an ordinary crosscut saw
attached to light frame made of
wood. The saw is made to have the
proper motion by crank movement,
which is easily furnished by one
'erson. Mr.. John Horn has the
gency of the machine for Montana.
Since the MINER commenced
the peculiar methods
by the Republican major
ty OF. the Board Of Commissioners,
q the transaction of county business.
We have been put in possession of a
ew facts Of much interest to the pub
ic. Yesterday we received a letter
rom one of the most prominent citi-
ems of Butte accompanied by an Of
tr OF communication. in which
he writer proposes, over his own
ignature, to have something to say
+ importance to the public. Send it
long. We propose to show up the
of an Augeian stable and
ny contribution which will aid US
q the undertaking will find a place
q the columns of the MINER.
Delicate ana Wholesome Aroma
Agreeably unlike the rank perfume
t an ordinary essence, IS perceptible
0 those who inhale the odor of So