The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-26
Local News.
From the Daily Of 1Fiday,


Mr.. Jay Lucius Whitney is ap
pointed pcstn aster at Billings.
The Utah & Northern pay car will
make glad the hearts of the railroad
boys to-day.
Attention I o. o. F. See notice
in another column calling meeting
Saturday evening.
Messrs. Sands & Bo yce report s~v'
eral sales of goods to parties goinQ
into business ut the new town OF
Tone City.
A c Sc IF diphtheria is reported al
Stuart, n of the members If the
family Of q MI. Welch of that place
having tSken the disease.
The Governor has ..een petitioned
to pardon Dennis Manten. who in
July, 1882, killed Michael Cslkins in
He'll Gate Canyon. The prayer OF
the petitioners has been refused.
Some of the heavy lumber dealers
of Salt Lake City and prints On the
Union Pacific will purchase their
lumber In Missrula county as soon a.
reasonable freight rates can be oh.
taint d.-Miss0ula Times.
"Brick" Van Waters, we'll known
In Montana from connecti"n with q
rubber stamp enterprise, several
years ago, ia at present in Mandan,
D,kota. He contempIates going to
the Coeur d'Alene mines early next
spring.
Another member Of the family Of
w. H. Young. . daughter between
two and three years Of age. succumhed
tn that dread disease diphtheria. yes
terdav. and will he buried friday.
The bereaved parents have the heart
felt sympathy of numerous friends.
An Eastern scientist says 1t Ia ''cna-
micdust" that produces the rosy rel-
sunsets Of the present. We knew |.
all the time bit didn't want to give
the secret away. Now that 1t 1t
known 1t Ia hoped no one will feel
uneasy about the matter. "Cosmic
dust" ia harmless.
The Butte dailies have been great
ly reduced In size. owing tn the lack
If sufficient advertising patronage.
The fact doe. not speak we'll for the
liberality and Iocal enterprise Of the
business men Of hat rich and axten-
sive mining camp. Avant Courier,
24th.
The Inter Mountain has weakened,
let down. squawk.d m it's defense If
the County Commissioners. We
have moi the heart tN blame 1t, for n
sorry mess 1t got into in defending
them. But 1t ought to say something
Just q little word or 1t won't earn
Its printing contract.
The AvGnt Courier having heard
that another daily ne wsp$per FIR
Butte Ia talked Of ria+s to remark /: |
1.-THE protector IF the enterpri-e
would fare better. financially, ny oh- |
tanning the position If devil in the
office If o"e Of the dailies already es-
tablished."
The M'ssoula Times says that M.
J. G. Baker, VIII" came here from
Butte Last fall. will soon leave for the
minoa. Fl has filed on land adjoin-
ing TIME & Hamilton at Trout Creek
City, and will a M have the mos' IA
vorahlv situa'ed portion surveyed
aud plated, and the lots placed on
CHI mark t
Mr.. J. F. COwan IL In recent NJ a
letter rom, the g .cr t.rv ~ the H.i-
ena Rale Ball Club, in which it. ia
that a Territorial Base Ball
Association will he organic, Il in
the IT. pr"x and request
Ing the Butte club IN son a repro.
ZEN 'ative or representatives.. Nr.
assures IL the Silver Civ
will b. represented at the meeting.
Ben Hogan has enra,led 300 Hell.
ma to in the cau ,e 0f Temperance
B VI sndjackanddSn Fisk, Maior
. tkar. and Judge H-dy-s. If tie
Hordkd, have fallen ack m hepf lea
md are among the most intareste I
listeners at Ren's lectures. Thus the
yood work Roe- on. and the moral
In the vicinity Of the r '-
ublican organ In Helena purified.
Ben.
Leap year ia already bringing in its
ruits. Fred D Nuglas, the great col
pred orator and Marshal IF the Su-
" .me Court of the District Of Column
,ia, WAS married yesterday. Douglas f,
= In hi. 9th year, and the blushing :
,ride, WIN Ia q white woman, Ia 81. !
Particulars found in THIS mornings |
It Is u two to one bet the ,
Woman took q advantage Of her leap j..
rear prerogative AMI popped the '
question to- the bashful orator. There |
still hope for Butte bachelors Go 8
o Washington, young man, 60 to {
Washington.