The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-12
Local News.
From the Daily of Friday.

The delightful winter weather Is a
subject of universal comment.
Private Brady, who was frozen
several days ago, died on Monday
night in the hospital at Fort Keogh.
The Butte merchants report trade
as unusually good for the season, but
little of the usual falling off after the
holidays being observable.
The icy condition of the WELL
cleaned sidewalks on Main street
makes the pedestrian long for enough
snow to give a firm 70 othold.
Fred Robinson has left his case in
the Critic Office and gone into partial
training for his four found bout with
Sohn l.. Sullivan. on Saturday night.
Flathead Lake in Missoula county
Is to be made a summer resort. A
tourists hotel is to be erected, and an
excursion steamer placed on the lake.
The Chinese New Year lie near at
hand, and the celestials are getting
ready with their bombs, crackers,
roast pig, ETC., to celebrate in grand
style.
Passengers report a number of emil
grants, laid over at Garrison, who
have been there several days waiting
for a Northern Pacific emigrant
train.
Silver Bow having set the example,
both Deer Lodge and Lewis and
Clark counties have IN contempla-
ton the erection of elegant and COM
modious county buildings.
Thomas Amphitheatre is open fox
skating and will remain open until
tomorrow, when the floor will be
cleared and the stage put in readi-
ness for the Sullivan exhibition in
the evening.
Notice is given that there will be
q meeting of the Reform Club at
their hall this evening at 7:3O o'clock,
when there will be business of inn
portance to attend to. All members
are requested to attend.
A sister of Mrs. Odgers, of Meader-
vile, while passing q number of
boys engaged in coasting at that
place, was run owe and thrown to
the ground by one of the sleds, and
in reaching out to catch herself, her
left arm was broken.
Donald Mitchell is in Jail at Boze-
man awaiting the action of the grand
jury m a charge of seduction, the
victim being a young girl of Liv-
ingston. The local papers publish
details which make it one of the most
outrageous cases on record.
The Sweet Grass hills in Northern
Montana are reported as rich in sill
yer bearing quartz leads. The ore is
galena, assaying high in silver and
showing a trace of gold in the crop
pings. The leads are said to be we'll
defined and to average five feet in
width.
Jay Kimball brought a load of IA
deer into Helena on Saturday. He
was arrested for violation of the game
law, and under the statute possession
of the game being prima tacie evil
dence of the killing and the defendant
failing to prove that they were killed
prior to January 1st, he was mulcted
in the sum Of $40 and costs.
The thoroughfares of Butte never
presented a livelier appearance than
they do these moonlit evenings The
sleighing is excellent, and gay parties
dash by in handsome cutters, drawn
by steaming horses, while pedes-
TRANS jostle each other on the side
walks. and the blare of music from
some of the brass bands heightens
the spirited scene.
Several tramps visited residents in
the western portion of the city yes
terday. One of them struck Sheriff
Twins residence, and that urbane
gentleman being at home, he re-
sponded to the tramp's request for
something to eat by inviting him
with Chesterfieldian politeness, to
his "other establishment" where he
turned him over to the kind hospi.
tality of Jailor Lyle.
No town in the West is so enliv-
ened by martial music as Butte. We
have five brass bands composed of
first.class talent. Every afternoon
the public are treated to a free seren-
ade by the Pavilion band, and every
evening by the Comique band, while
upon every public occasion excellent
music is furnished by either the
Alice, Miners Union, or City band.
VIM. Woodhouse yesterday pleaded
guilty in the Police Court to the lar
ceny ola pair of boots from E. l..
Bonner & Co. g store. He is an old Of
fender, and the Court gave him a
500 fine with three months in the
county Jail. This assures him COM
Portable winter quarters, which the
manner in which he received his
sentence Indicated he fully appreci-