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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-10-11
The Gardner Shooting.

A correspondent OF the L'vings'on
Enterprise, writing from t1aro'nel'
Montana, under date of OCTOBER o.
has the following to say oou .ne
shooting of Joseph Keeney oS MIS-
T.;s AFTERNOON Joseph Keeney. OF
Cooke CITY, entered the h.tei IN u ' l.
diner Of which Mrs. Ayheart y, :
nr%onrietress, and In the presence Q, - .
humber of guests commenced lat1 Mre
iu1 forth a flood of vile epithets at ME-
Ayheart, emphasizing ms re at her
nv Selling q plate to huri y. n nn'
and at the same time he partlaiiy ~
set a table smashing some c nr
va Mrs. Ayheart quietly 1 waixea q
into her private oom ana setz q f..
a. Colts revolver returned ~ .oot-
dining room and pointing tie sno ~s,
inc iron at Keeney, said, ,yt" vor
ont Of this house and take that, yE r.
son Of a b-h," ut the same t lIai ef.
inc two shots, one of which LOVE- dor
feet in the groin, making a very re Sm
rerous wound which may Ms
fatally. After the shootlng the
Avheart resumed her duties ~ hon.
diyin~ room as if nothing had nsp'
pened of any moment
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Base Bail.

Last evening in anticipation of the
arrival of the victorious nine from
Salt Lake, extensive preparations
were made for their reception. A
four horse team and a band Of music
were at the depot and arrangements
had been made with a leading res
taurateur to serve up a banquet fit
for the gods. But Judge the disap-
pointment of the reception committee
when the train b:wled into Butte
and only Messrs. Cowan, Larry
Gleason and Charley McAuliff
stepped of, the remainder of the
nine having stopped in Zion. The
boys were accorded a hearty reception
for the manner in which they
downed the Salt Lakers and sus-
tanned Butte's reputation of having
the crack base ball team of the Ter
ritories- Montana, Idaho and Utah.
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pleasing and George presides1axArdt
with the dignity and bearing Of a
duke. His store, too, is the centre of
attraction, and many q lovers mis-
slve slips through his fingers as post
master.
About one-fourth of mile below
the crossing of Fish Greek the build
ing of James I. Winslow looms up.
Mn and Mrs. Winslow r of the
earliest settlers in Montana. Arriv-
ing at Bannack on the 18th of May,
1868, they remained there until Al
der Gulch was discovered. Since
81 they have resided at their present
home. The industry pursued upon
this place is mainly in the line Of
dairying and stock Rising, and that
this is most successfully done is
guaranteed by the fact that all of the
butter made upon his place is readily
sold in Butte (the place where moth
ing(?) can be sold at good, round fig
ures. But the thing, if sucn it can be
called, that caps all else upon the
place is q fine three year old black
colt, known as lace of Diamonds"
The animal was sired by Mambrino
Black Diamond, brought here by Ed
Larabie, of Deer Lodge, and certain
ly compares more than favorably
with many q thoroughbred in the
Territory. Although harnessed but
three times he already shows an &C.
ton and speed not often found in a
green and unbroken coli.
The dividing line must have been
crossed by your correspondent. In
stead of the oft-repeated growlings
and grumblings by farmers I now
meet the contented ones. EVERYBODY
seems to be satisfied with Butte mer-
chants, and an occasional one ex-
presses himself highly delighted with
the contracts made with them this
season. Perhaps this is owing to the
weather. A bad season is net a life
i%nvigorat0r.
One thing more and I am done. In
passing up the Little Pipestone 1
find considerable interest manifested
in quartz property. While it has
been generally believed that the lode
in this section is not of healthy pro-
portion it is q fact that about fifty
locations are in the district, varying
all the way frcm a prospect hole to
$50 feet in depth. The ore, in the
main, is smelling, and enough is on
the dumps t, run a good sized estab-
lishment u long time. The "Col. Sell
lea" has a shaft of 20 feet, and shows
q vein of fifteen feet. It is the prop
erty of Mr.. Dan Morrison.
MAN IN THE COUNTRY.
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Political Pointers.

The Miles City Record says Tom
Irwin has the dead thlng'' on his
election for sheriff of Custer county.
Helena has a Young Mems Demo-
cratic Club. Butte has Democratic
young men enough to form the
largest Democratic club in the Terri
tory. Go in boys and form one.
Lewis and Clarke county DEM
ocratic candidates have buckled on
their armor and tak,n the field
against the enemy. Republican fur
will fly from now till November.
The Republicans of Helena had a
rally night before last at the depot.
Free buses, free music and free beer
were the principal attractions. The
latter drew every Republican out Of
the town.
Sun River Republicans are calling
upon Mr.. Chessman, candidate for
the Council upon the Lewis ana
Clarke Republican ticket, to resign.
Chessman won't resign nor will he
receive the votes of Sun Biver Re-
publicans.
The Madisonian says that bets are
being made that Joe Toole will be
elected to Congress by over LOU
majority, and adds: "A Knowles
pump is a very good implement, but
it will hardly lift a Montana Repub-
1ican to Congress this year."
A Sun River Republican thinks it
is time for faithful Republicans to
make sacrifices, for the good of the
party, and ~pointedly observes:
Even Gov. Crosby has contributed
his absence to the success of the
cause" Hard on the Governor.
The heaviest bet on record has
been made over the Presidential cleo
ton, Two firms in Oil City, Penn
sylyania, have wagered all their
property, one valued at $4,000 and
the other at $500, 900, on the result,
the latter amount being laid on
Cleveland. The papers have been
duly executed.
Livingston Enterprise: If we had
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tuTe, we would obtain from eAcn OF
them in every county = pledge to con-
slider and modify or repeal the statute
now in force in this territory imp0s-
ing q license of $25 per quarter on all
persons selling goods by sample in
this territory. The law is . harsh
one to begin with, and keeps hun
dreds of commercial travellers out of
the territory. Added to its primary
effects it is shamefully abused by
officers who are IN search of heavy
fees. If Gabriel attempted to blow
his trumpet in some towns we know
of in this territory, he would be
stopped by the license collector be-
fore he sounded q n0te-or he might
be allowed to blow an unlicensed
blast and pass on to the next county,
only to be followed by q fee-huntlng
with q bill of $500 cost and
fine beside the claim for license.
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Special Rates on Apples.

The Northern Pacific Railroad
Company have made u special rate of
81 % per hundred pounds on apples
in car loads from Portland or San
Francisco to Helena and Butte; also
from st. Paul and Duluth to points
between Bozeman aud Butte. Now
is the time to lay in q supply of
winter apples. Lovers of apples will
be rejoiced at 1.-The glad tidings."
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THE NEW O l. FIELDS.
The Little Rockies Planning Out
We'll Scarcity of Water.

Through the courtesy of Mr.. M.
GansDerger we are permitted to pub
lish the following extract from a let
ter received by that gentleman from
his brother, who has just returned
to Fort Benton from a trip to the new
Ell Dorado: "The distance from
Benton to the new mines by the road
I travelled is about 40 miles, but by
the Cow Creek road it is only about
l25 miles. The gulches have all good
prospects, but water is not very plen>
tiiul and no prospecting has been
done in the deep diggings, where 1
should judge the most pay to be.
The shallow diggings in Little Alder
Gulch, where most of the work has
been done, are paying well, and if
the deep diggings pan out in proper
ton, it will be a big thing, but the
process of taking out the gold is slow
on account of the scarcity of water.
The formation of the country AID
gulches is different from anything /
haye ever yet seen in Montana, be-
ing a conglomerated mass of broken
limestone, porphyry and slate, and
no wash gravel whatever. The gold
appears to be in a kind of cement,
and the gravel or broken stones seem
to he coated with it. My impression
is that richer diggings will be found
in the Bear Paw mountains where
parties have already gone to pros
pect. The country from here to the
mines is the finest [ have yer seen
for farming and grazing, and shonld
the mines fail to prove a success
there will he a big stampede for
ranches. The opening up by Con-
gress of the reservation Will be a Olg
help for Benton, and we hope it will
be done this winter. The stampede
has helped business considerably"
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All the Democrats and. Part OF
the Republicans Solid
for Joe.
HELENA, Oct. s, 1884.

HELENA, Oct. s, 1884.
To the Editor Of the MINER:
The feeling here over the nomina-
tons for Congress may be fully stated
as follows: The Democrats are jubi-
liant and confident and the Republi-
cans (such as care anything about
their candidate) are depressed and
panicky. Sufficient time has elapsed
since the nominations were made for
the two candidates to be pretty
well sized up and 1t is the almost
universal opinion that Joe Toole will
lead Judge Knowles at the outcome
by the largest majority since the
days OF Sample Orr-and there is a
growing belief that even Maginnis'
majority over Orr will be beaten.
The young men of Helena are
taking a deep interest in the election
and have organized a Young Mems
Democratic Club with a member
ship of about two hundred. It in
cludes a large number of good work.
ers and Yields an immense influence.
The boys take particular pride in the
fact that the Democratic candidate
is a young man, and this feeling has
even spread to the young Republic
cans who, with hardly an exception.
will vote for "Joe."
Many of the other Republicans
will also give the Democratic candi-
date a boost. They are dissatisfied
with the nomination of Judge
Knowles whom they regard a weak
man, and while they will not work
against him they will quietly throw
him overheard on election day and
vote for Mr.. Toole. 1 have heard it
estimated by prominent and we'll
posted Republicans that of the 700
Tor thereatouts) Republican voters
in Helena, Judge Knowles will not
get more than half.
In the country the parties are about
a standof on ordinary occasions, but
the great popularity of Mr.. Toole
with his home people insures him a
large majority even outside of the
town. The county may be relied
upon for from 400 to 500 majority for
him. CAPITAL.
THE NEW GOLD FIELDS.
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The ~Penltentiary.

New North Vest, 10: The con-
tract for erecting the central build
ing of the Montana penitentiary, &C.
cording to plans and specifications
and subject to the stipulation as to
rock and labor, vas on Tuesday last
awarded by Secretary and Acting
Governor John S. TOoker to Messrs.
McDevitt & Mcconnell, contractors
of Butte. The amount of their bid
was $lO,475, which is very low, in
deed, and will bring the entire ex-
penditure for the central building in
side of the appropriation, with alarge
surplus of rock on the ground to ap-
ply on the south wing. The con-
tractors are the same who built the
Butte court house, and have the abiI-
ity and energy to to put the building
up aid complete it within the spec
flied time. MI. McDevitt went to
Helena yesterday to formally close
the contract and is expected here to-
day. He contemplates commencing
work on Monday next.
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Emmets Guards Ball,

The ball given by the Emmett
Guards last evening at Caplice Hall
was a success in every particular.
There were about fifty couples pres
ent. and the floor at all times was
filled to its utmost capacity. we no
ticed quite a number of ladies and
gentlemen from VAUDEVILLE and
Centerville in attendance.
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In the seventh inning of the third
days game between the Buttes and
Salt Lakers Kinua Arthur, having
made a fine running catch, was pre-
scented by his numerous lady admir-
ers with an elegant bouquet OF flow
ers-not cabbage heads.
The Helena Mining and Reduc-
ton Company at Wickes is shipping
ten tons of base ore daily to Newark,
N. J., which added to the daily pro-
duets of over $50 tons of ore, makes
the net output of their excellently
managed property something Won
derfu'.
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OrIQin CT Ammonia.

Ammonia is obtained in large
quantities by the putrefaction of the
urine of animals. - Encyclopedia
britannica.
Every housekeeper "a test baking
powders containing TINS disgusting
drug by placing a can of the "Royar'
or"Andrews' Pearr' top down on a
hot stove until heated, then remove
the cover and smell.
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
does not contain Ammonia, Alum,
Lime, Potash, Bone fhOsphates, 1t
is prepared by a physician and chem
ist with special regard to cleanliness
and healthfulness. 3d&w2m
The Regular Court Queen of Mon
tana Ancient order Of FOresters No
7l27, meet at their Hail (Tarbell's
Hall) Lion City. Montana, on the
first and third Saturday evenings o
each month. Sojourning brethren
in e ,od standing are cordially in
vited. J. j. REESE, G. X.
ANDREW WRIGHT, Secy.
90 sW-17
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To the Mine Owners.

Mr.. J. B. Reed who returned yes
terday from Missoula desires US to
state that he is now ready to receive
from the mine owners of Butte, the
ore intended for exhibition at the
New Orleans Worlds Fair. The
room in the rear of James Shields
grocery store, has been rented for
packing and storage purposes, and
exhibitors wi | confer 4 favor by send
ing their exhibits at once. 1t is
hoped that the bulk of the ore will be
in large samples and that each mine
will send abundantly Of its product.
No prominent mine should send less
than 800 pounds and it is hoped that
most of them will send more. All
outside districts, and such as Glen
dale, Blue Wing. Cable, Philips
burg, Wickes, Marysville, ETC.,
will lie represented by
large collections. The Hecla cons
tduy dltuc WILL SCAu A,cOU PoAAuOS
the Dunn Lummon the same; the
Wickes' works will send Il ton, and
other leading mining and smelling
enterprises will send ore in proper
ton. 1t is therefore advisable that
Butte miners should send a plentiful
supply Of ore so that Il exhibit will
he an impressive one and commer-
surate with the Importance OF thu
district, which is now the most pre-
duc.ive in the world. Let our mine
owners now come to the front ard
send III their ore without any delay.
The benefits of the enterprise, both
individual and general, need II o CONF
ment. Mr.. W. A. Clark, II of the
commissioners, will s~rrive flom New
York within a lew days.
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New York Copper Market

The Engineering and Mining Jour-
nal of October 4th says: The market
continues featureless with a jobbiDg
business for Lake at l3@135c., and
q small trade in other brands at the
range of l2@12c. We note a grow
ing export movement of Arizona
crude copper and ingot. During the
past month, about 500 tons of the
former and from 400 to 500 tons of
the latter have been contracted for
shipment abroad, Re Chewing this
market to that extent, outside of the
regular export of other refiners.
London cables E54 for Chill Bars,
and f5S los. for Best Selected.
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E MOUNTAIN.
Of an Important Mining
Sale.

From a gentleman who has been
prospecting all summer in Red
Mountain District we learn that mat
tiers in that section are on the i'm
prove and that a mining boom will
surely set in there next spring. The
main building of the concentration
will have a frontage of 70 feet, will
be three stories in height al d
will be 81 feet in depth. This build
ding will be used for the crushing
machinery, screens, s%eparators, etc.
The engine room will form a wing
to the main building. and will be
40x2O feet, and the concentrating
room, which will form an other wing,
will be 4Ox27 feet. A number of
carpenters are at work on the build
ing. Professor Murphy is in high
feather at the prospect of soon being
able to work on the rich ores of the
district, aud deserves great credit for
his untiring energy in bringing to
the front what has heretofore been a
camp almost unknown. There are
rumors that company composed of
Butte capitalists will put up a
smelter near the concentration.
The National company has a large
force of men at work pushing the de-
velopment of their property. A body
of fine ore was recently uncovered in
the Wanderer.
Rumor has it that MI. Joseph Rus
sell has recently sold his inter est in
this district for $l25,00O to eastern
capitalists. If this is true it will 60
a great ways toward developing the
immense mineral resources Of this
camp.
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Who Owns the Wood?

Last Tuesday Alfred Colvin ap-
peared before Judge Eddy and swore
out q warrants against Louis Emond
and thirteen others, charging them
with having appropriated twenty-five
cords of wood and hauling the same
to town and selling it. An officer was
sent out to Blacktail canyon, about
ten miles from Butte, and notified all
the parties they were under arrest.
They appeared yesterday, but were
allowed to go on their own recognize
ance, icing notified to appear this
morning at 10 o'clock before Judge
Eddy, who will give the case an
airing.
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AALA 3NSE%8FD O0O NJ tn6nA In nR-
81 g estnppiies ahead s~uf,cient ;
1.-The me claim the balance Of the
secoud: Provisions, tools, powder.
for. so 70 oe PAID
Third: No matter how mncb
eood ore lays upon the dunn ito
transportation to mill or smel;er and
.oe high prices charged for treat,
-L acts as a cure preventive
where ready funds are lacking.
Tor these palpable and coeent
easo"s these many mines spoken of
are not steady producers.
Inc iron grip of impecuniositv acts
"s throttle upon would he deyelop-
ment and untold millions of wealth
lay idle.
Inese immense properties of such
great value may be seen any dav one
cares to make the trip in the vicinity
OF Elk Park, in and around Basin
ana Cataract near Boulder CITY:
east to Elk Horn and the surround
ing country, and still further east to
hadersburg where the Parker lodes
lsilver Bell and Ned) are located and
from which the rich ores are already
being shipped to Omaha.
Not the one-hundreth mart has
been told or is known of this wonder
fol chain of mineral bearing veins.
Like the Silver City mines, those
of this country
NEED CAPITAL
to work them, and it will come at a
time not far distant.
1t is absolutely necessary that a.
tenti0n should be called to the facts
above mentioned and in order to at
tain the widest circulation of these
truths what medium so DOW
erful and far reaching as
THE PRESS.
1t has made the mighty West what
it is-peerless in wealth and noble
manhood. 1t will add still more to
its richness and greatness.
Among the thousands of people at
tracted to our beautiful valleys and
grand old mountains will be
some possessing the will to do-and
the power to do with, added to a
heart filled with abiding faith In its
glorious future. We will blde our
time.
POLITICAL.
Mixed with the business cares and
strife for money are the anxieties of
political preferences on hand sought
after by aspirants for local honors. A
Democratic caucus for nomination of
local officers was held on Tuesday
evening. For justice of the peace,
Chacne L. Harris and John Bowling
were nominated; Jasper Shotwell
and Louis e.. Lawrence received the
nomination for constables, and for
road supervisor VIM. Alexander.
AT the Republican caucus held last
evening the following were nomi-
mated for the respect We offices oppo~
site their names: VIM. Noonan and
George Gander for justice of the
peace; D. E. Smith and James Dolby
for constables and James Cummings
for road supervisor. =.
CHANCE.l
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Cuslck.

The coming hard glove fight be-
;waan fred Robinson and Dave
C,sick is exciting considerable at
tention among the patrons OF the
ring. Cusick has the reputation CT
beng a hard and rapid fighter. Rob
inson is "no slouch" with his dukes,
"a was recently shown in Helena in
the two fights he had with Arthur,
and will give Cusick q lively rafting
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Local News.

A telephone exchange will soon be
established at Anaconda.
Bar silver was quoted at Sligo in
the New York market yesterday.
Henry Bernord, who shot and
killed Jack Enright, a printer, has
been sentenced to eight years in the
Idaho p~enitentiary.
Manager Mcguire will have the
Rose Eytinge company at Butt ;,
October 29th and 3Oth. She is one of
the finest actresses on the American
stage.
While in Salt Lake the Butte nine
received a dispatch from Boise City,
Idaho, offering them 1925 to play a.
that place on their return from Zion.
The offer vas not accepted.
The finest wagon bridge in Monta-
ma has just been completed across the
Yellowstone at Big Timber. 1t was
built by Mr. Hooper of Big Timber
of S., COO, and is a credit to that gen.
tIeman's enterprise.
An excited individual in a meat
market last evening created consider
able amusement for bystanders in
his efforts to convince the proprietor
that he had not purchased $3.50
worth of meat in three days.
Mr.. n. J. Bielenberg has purchased
in the past two or three weeks some
$50, 900 or $50, 900 worth of cattle.
which will be driven to Butte,
slaughtered and frozen for winter
use. Butte now uses about 10. 900
pounds of beet daily.
Joseph Creher, aged p, was
brought to st. Joseph's Hospital, at
Deer Lodge, from Anaconda e
Gently. suffering from typhoid fever,
which he had had a couple of weeks.
He died on Thursday night of last
week and was buried last Sunday.
He had been working at the lime
kiln on Lost Creek.
In connection with the quarterly
conference of M. E. Church, south,
Rev. l.. G. Stateler presiding elder,
will preach in the Central school
house on Sunday at II a. m. and
Rev. r. Boyns at 7:3Oa. m. evening
when the sacrament of the Lords
Supper will be administered. Sun
day School at twelve O'Clock. noon.
Yesterday afternoon some men
working in the vicinity of the
court house noticed a dog acting in a
strange manner, and upon investiga-
ton it was found the dog Was crazy.
The canine was finally run down and
cornered in an abandoned building,
where the pursuing party put an end
to his career by filling his body with
bullets.
A fourth game Of Ball was played
in Salt Lake last Thursday for $3.50,
it being agreed that the club having
the greatest number of runs to its
credit at four o'clock should take the
money. At that hour the game
stood as follows: Butte, eight inn
ings, l.; Salt Lake, nine innings, IL.
Thus our boys captured three games
out of four.
The grand opening of the Arion
takes place tonight. Mr.. Richie
has spared no pains or expense in
making this a model place of enter
tainment and a resort where people
can spend a few pleasant hours.
Everything is to be conducted on al
entirely original plan, and he in
tends to produce a number of novel
ties in that line never before wit
messed in Butte. A full band will
be in attendance.
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War of the AmaZOns.

EARLY yesterday morning Maggie
Mitchell and May Swift, who reside
in the classic shades of Galena street,
became involved in q quarrel grow
ing out of an old feud. May gtt
Maggie cornered in q wood box and
was giving her Hail Columbia. when
her cries attracted the attention OF
an officer who rushed to the scene
and rescued her from the wrath OF
her opponent. When a light was
bro ught on the scene it was dlscov-
cred that Maggie had her lip cut De-
sids losing several teeth. The case
will come up before Judge WILCOX
to-day