Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1884-07-03
THE SUMS SClNTlllATlONS.
Anaconda has n theatre,


Anaconda has n theatre.
Virginia City buys her wood at Sc
per cord.
Butte shipped s07,OsO worth of
bullion last week.
Hon. Johnny Forbs will deliver tho
Fourth Of July Grafton Mt Anaconda. ,
Roundups on the Musselshcll are
selling mavericks for from $50 to $25
each.
A sixty ton concentrator is being
erected ut the Colusa copper mine at
Butte.
John Kelly tho old time violinist
and vocalist is again doing the terri
tory professionally.
An Arab attache of Coles circus
who was accidcntly shot ut Dillon,
died ut Butte Oh Friday the oath.
The Deer Lodge penitentiary is
much over. crowded with its capacity
for So prisoners and occupancy by
III.
A Fort Kcogh youth recently un-
dcrtook to Use telephone during q
thunder storm and was just more than
paralyzed.
John Booth claiming to be n ncp-
hew of Booth the assassin, was sent
to the insane asylum from Butte, the
other day.
The cqucstrienne match on tho
Fourth ut Dutte will be for purse of
$1,000, and it promises to be most
exciting event.
Butte is to have wrestling match on
the 18th Of July between james Pas
coe Of Bodic Cal, and Pat. Trigs Of
Tombstone, Arizona.
A soldier who was shot during tar
get practice ut Fort Assinaboine, on
the 18th, died from the effects of his
injuries Oh tho oath.
Butte tallics one more suicide, gon
by the old fashionable and reliable
morphene route. Dennis O'Conner
was the name Of the departed.
The bottom has fallen out of the
Bitter Root gold mines, but the camp
meeting is there in full blast, and
is more to be priced than gold.
Jimmy O'Brien, OF Miles City drop
ped his pop, which was loaded and
exploded, the bullet plugging tho
said Jimmy in tho side dangerously.
Richard Twocy pail Of Calamity
Jane, stole pie from u Billings bake
~ last week. That piece of indegest-
ible pastry, will cost Yellowstone
county $75 and Dick $40.
Recently N. p. Hammer was put off
n Northern Pacific train near Belknap
whercupon he threw stone at the
conductor. The missile missed the
conductor and hit a passenger and
cut q deep cash. Hammer has been
bound over in the sum of $500 to
await the action Of the grand jury.
Tho delinquent tax list Of Gallutin
county last year contained nearly two
hundred names, and the grand jury
got after tho county commissioners
for allowing the assessor his full per-
centage on tho amount Of assessment,
when the returns wero SO defective
and the taxes cocld not be collected.
They are no sleepy heads at Bill
lings. A drummer went into the coun-
ty treasurer's Office to get license,
and before he could get his money
1 - IN, fg, In i,
n process for neglccting to procure the
license and was mulctcd in fine and
costs. Sharp practice that. Madison
ian.
The grand jury nt the present term
of court at Bozeman contained among
it's members more d-timers than any
body of like numbers than has assem-
bled in the territory for many years
or the sixteen citizens composing the
jury, three came to Montana in '62
three in 'G3, four in ga. three in 'G5
and ono in 81, 10, and 70 respective,
ly.
Col. Donnelly has received from
some unknown friend steamboat
and clock combined.--Record. That
is II worry convenient arrangement
all the colonel will have to do now
when he wants to go to st. Louis
will be to put his clock in the river
Jump aboard, and scoot. Then when
he gets homo he can take his steamer
and wind it up, hang it on the wall
and there is his timepicce --Indepcnd
cnt.
The Tompson Falls Index says
Over on Toboggan gulch, about ter
miles from town on the old Trout
creek trail, Il peculiar formation is
met with in prospecting the creek bed
About six feet from the surface Il two
foot strata of gravel, clay and cement
is found which prospects worry well
but not Il color has over been found
below that strata, and there are two
or three feet of gravel between the
pay streak and bedrock. On bedrock
itself q color has never been found.
We are reliably informed that tho
Samson lead at Ncihnrt, owned by
Peter Fehrcnbach and Thos Hcaley
has been bonded by tho Hudson Min
ing company--the same parties who
bonded the Mountain Chief. Tho
amount of the bond is not stated, but
it is understood to be Il large sum, as