The semi-weekly miner., 1884-08-02
Local News

Work has begun in earnest OIL the City Hall.
The excavation is abo 1t half done and the
rock for the foundation is on the ground.
Some of the policemen have suggested that
the proprietors of those business houses in
which ther- is no one sleeping, leave one or
two tights burning in order that the policemen
may have better chance to watch the houses
and detect thief if he gets in.
A lady residing on the road to the depot yes.
terday lost, by sneak thief, watch and chain
valued at $3.50. She values it of course for its in
trinsic worth, but more especially ss il was q
present to her. She thinks she has clue to
who the thief Is nd officers are On his trail
Frank White came down from Walkerville
last evening to accept the challenge Of Jerry
Flowers, but he was little too late as it had
already been accepted by John Murphy. White
says he Is sorry he was too late as he is anxious
to get acti m on the colored pugllist.
Coles circus passed Silver Bow Junction on
the night of the 3lst. Under Sheriff bodley and
posse went down to the Junction to see that
the circus men did not run off with the depot.
The report comes up that the depot aid plat
form were let. but the circus got away with
most of the cars.
Mr.. William Waraeld has been adding to his
livery until he has been also compelled to add
to his stable on lower Main street. He has had
workmen busy for several days putting an
addition 4Ox1S to the building in order that he
might have room to keep his buggies. He Is
doing constantly increasing business.
The Sun River Sun Says that last Sunday Bob
Chestnut and Texas Bill got into discussion in
the course of which Bill went across the street
to store so that lob might not take ally advan-
tage of him. The sun goes on to say that at
last accounts the two were watching each other,
one from the saloon, the other from the store,
both being afraid to venture within range of the
other. The citizens sat On the fence at re-
specttul distance imI atiently awaiting devel-
opments. As the affair began on Sunday and
the Sun is issued on Thursday the city must
be having gay time waiting.
Rev. Bishop J. c. Cranberry; DID,, efthe NJ. E.
Church south, will arrive in Butte next week,
AMI is expected to preach in the Methodist
Church next thursday At 8 o'clock D. M. The
Bishop is from Richmond, Virginia. and IS
spoken ofas an able and eloquent pulpit orator.
AL should go and hear him. He is accom-
panied by distinguished minister Rev. Mr..
Boyer, of the Wesleyan Methodist Church Eng
land. who is making the tour of the Great
Northwest ip company, and who is also expect
ed to preach in Butte during his visit here
Further an, ouncements will be made in due
time The reverend gentlemen will be the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Baldwin while in
the city.
The reople in Cooke City, Eastern Montana.
are getting a little excited. In the Little
Daisy mine they have struck something if enc
may judge from the little newspaper squibs
saoat. note In the Avant Courier says: The
Little Daisy struck ore in the tunnel to-day, the
finest ever saw aud no end to 1t. 1t con
tains wire god, wire silver, black sulphurets
of silver in large quantities, anilmonial and
native silver-the richest In The world" If this
mine keeps up this way the owner will get
rich some day But this is not all. There are
orht mines at Cooke that are making the same
kind of promi>es. The HOmestake adjoining
on the west has the same kind of orc, and the
owners think these two mines the richest the
world has ever known. The Republic mine
also comes into notice by revealing true
hssure vein in a contact of slate and lime and
minglings Of porphyrv. The owners of this
property have on the dump nifty thousand tons
of ore which assays from twenty to sixteen
hundred dollars per ton.