The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-12-06
Local News.

/ Bar silver was quoted at 1917 yes
terday in the New York market.
Mr.. p. A. Lsrgey has leased his
claim adjoining the Mabel mine to
j. D. Cleveland, who has a force OF
men at work.
~, Leo! Leo! Leo! LIE!
The sweetest ever seen;
'Twere butter We had never met,
y, Leo Margarlnt!"
The hills are full of prospectors and
owners of prospects. This has teen
a glorious season for prospecting and
doing assessment work.
The recent find in Missoula Gulch
has stimulated prospectors and OWL
ers OF claims in that section, and a
good deal of quiet work is going on.
Chas. Hayes and George Conelly,
cooks employed in the kitchen at
the penitentiary, escaped about $50
l.. r.. last Monday, and have not yet
been recaptured.
The Review says m~easures}are being
taken ut the Anaconda smelter IL
avoid talntirg the Warm Springs
creek waters, and it is belived the
evil will be abated.
The incoming county officers take
hold December 18th. 1t is UNDER
stood Eugene Sullivan will appoint
Henry Buzzo under sheriff. No bet
ter selection could be made.
A jury was ~impanelled in Helena
the 4th inst, from a special venire of
.fifty DersUus to try John EdmOnsOn
for grand larceny. The witnesses
for the prosecution gave their testi-
mony yesterday.
The amenities of journalistic life in
Nevada are spiced with originality.
One editor recently declared that his
''estee med contemporary has been
known to kiss q child and inoculate
it with delirium tremens."
A Captain futile, calling himself
an ''ex-king of the Cannibal Islands"
is giving ILLUSTRATED lectures in
Helena upon sights, Genes and incl
dents IN the land of the man-eater."
1t is not stated whether or not the
ex-kiDg uses q human victim TO illus
trate his lectures.
Charlie Sickles, brother-in-law OF
Manager Cairns, of the Western
Union ia this city, died last evening
at the residence Of Mrs. R.. S. Jones.
Mr.. Sickles has been a resident of
the city Tor the past eighteen months,
and up to the time of his being
taken sick, about six weeks ago. was
in the employ Of E. L. Bonner & Co.
The Yellowstone Journal says:
"Butte bellies dance in arctics this
winter" It is true they hired a few
of the Miles City bellies new arctics
to practice in during the recent fine
weather, but as winter has all
proacned they have utilized the
arctics for wOOdsheds and now dance
in the finest ball rooms in the Terri
tory.
The other morning while on his
way home Cy Murphy noticed the
doors of Foster & Co.'s store wide
open. Thinking SOME robbery bad
been committed he went across the
street and found Officer Cudlhee. He
told HIM of his discovery. and to-
gether they entered the store. 1t a
a%scertained that nothing had been
disturbed, the clerk closing up the
night b-fore having tailed to lock
the door found open.
All was life and light last night at
Caplice Hall, the occasion being the
social given by St. Johns Guild.
Sweet music was discOursed to the
great assistance of the apparently
iight-hearted, and surely lightfooted,
dancers. About forty couples graced
the floor with their pre- ence, and
the whole affair throughout was in-
dicative of great success. The next
social will be given the last Thursday
of tine present month.
OF Miss Annie Sylvester, who is
shortly to appear ut the Pavilion 1T Is
said her movements are artistic, re-
fined in appearance, and the very
poetry Of grace and motion, while
her conaummatA skiQ md 60af20eG