The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-05-10
Local News.
From Thursday's Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
The many friends of Governor
! Crosby will be pained to learn that
he is seriously ILL.
Fourteen couples are on the eve of
perpetrating matrimony in Butte.
Orange flowers, wedding cake and
preachers are in demand.
Fifty dollars and costs are what q
yonng saloon keeper on Main street
paid yesterday for toying with a gun.
| No one was hurt and no damage was
done.
The streets were full of teams yes
terday, business houses overlooking
with customers and every other in
dication present that the spring boom
has struck the city.
The city council will meet to-mor-
row night on special business. The
last regular session Of the present
council will be held next Wednesday
evening the 14th inst.
Captain Shepherds benefit to-
night. 1t should be a rousing one.
The old veteran has been foremost
in many Butte celebrations and has
proved himself a public spirited, use>
full citizen. The community owes it
tc itself to make the Captains bene-
tit a rousing success.
Charley Richardson has q rubber
mat in front of his counter IL feet in
length and four feet in width which
cost laid down in Butte the sum of
$11O. 1t is beauty, nearly an inch
in thickness, tastefully designed aud
the words 1.-The Mint" conspicuous
in the center.
Renshaw Opera House was well
filed last evening by an appreciative
audience to witness the last pres
entation Of the Hidden Hand. The
play is speciality of the company
and was rendred in faultless man.
ner. The company is an excellent
one and deserves a. generous pat
ronage by lovers of Legitimate drama.
Will Armitage will arrive in the
city this evening and tomorrow
evening will run a mile race on the
bicycle with Al Wheeler for 500 a
ide. Saturday night the two will
fun q five mile race for the same
sum. The Amphitheatre will be
crowded by persons desirous of wit
Messing these races.
VIM. Bonner, miner employed at
the Elkhorn mine, had his left arm
blown off last Saturday by the unex-
pected explosion OF a charge which
he supposed had failed to ignite. He
was brought in to tho Sisters Hospi-
tai, Helena, on Sunday, where he is
now receiving treatment for his in
juries.
Mr.. Elf Johnston, the good-look-
ing and polite mix ologist at the Park
Theatre, was severely bitten last
evening while trying to separate two
fighting dogs. Elf tainted from the
effects of the bite and was uncon-
concious for some time. That dog
will tread the golden stairs to dog
heaven when Elf sees hun.
The Herald says the official report
of the convicts in the United States
penitentiary, enumerated according
to the three Judicial Districts of
Montana, shows the following condi-
ton of that overcrowded institutions:
FIRST District, " convicts; Second
District, q; Third District, 81; United
states prisoners, 10; total convicts, 81.
The Lord help us! An exchange
says An Indian Troupe Is on it's
way to make a "Stirring Tour" Of
the Eastern cities and Europe. The
troupe consists of thirty bucks and
ten squaws, and ponies. tepees: and
costumes. The stars are Old Crow
Curley and Liver Eating johnson.
The star ponies are Ioheg, a survivor
of the Custer massacre, and "White.
heads bucklng pony" The plays of
this troupe of aboriginals, will con-
sist of Scalp Dances, "Sun Dances
and "Sham Battles"
Livingston Enterprise: From
gentleman from Miles City we learn
that the prospects are indicative that
all the former officials of Custer
county who have been indicted for
frauds in connecti N with the dis
charge of their duties are likely to be
freed. Cox. Gerrish and Garland are
already virtually discharged, aud no
new indictments against them will
be permitted. Hubbell is under in
dictment, but is not likely to be held
for trial. Steve Taylor is in jail. but
will probably be released on bail aud
eventually discharged entirely. The
tide has turned.