The Mineral argus., 1884-06-12
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Bozeman's sidewalks last week.
Helena has now a paid ire depart
ment with a Chief Marshal at a salary
of $1,000, engineer $1,000, tower
watchman 5000 and teamster 5000.
The towns along the the Northern
Pacific, will soon have A chance to
sample circus lemonade and laugh at
the Stale jokes of the clown. Cole IS
coming.
The stock of the Helena Mining
and Reduction company is quoted at
S7.5o and no sellers. An offer was
made this week for 1900 shares, but
the holder was not DESTROYS OF selling.
independent.
Judge Coburn is winning golden
opinions from the bar, ltlgants and
citizens generally for his dignlhed
presidence, impartial opinions, com
mon n and practical rulings
Avant Courier.
The Attorney General has instructed
II. S. Marshal Botkin TO "offer a re-
ward of $1,000 for the arrest of all the
seven persons engaged in the assault
on Paymaster Whipple, o r a proper
tionate sum for the arrest of any part
of the seven"
The unpaid employees Of the National
Park Improvement Company still hold
possession of the company's hotel at
the Monmouth Hot Springs, and all
efforts to effect a settlement with them,
short of paying the full amount OF
claims are futile.
Hon. Martin Maginnis was one OF
the speakers at a meeting in Baltimore
on the 24th of May, in behalf OF the
effort to establish a home in Rich
mond, Va, for disabled and destitute
confederate soldiers.
A project is on foot by the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone company
for the erection of a telephone line
between Fort Custer, Montana, and
Fort Mckinney, Wyoming. The dis
lance between these two points IS
about one hundred and twenty miles.
The latest yarn from Belknap Is to
the effect that in boring for a well at
that late lamented metropolis a solid
stratum of gold was encountered, the
under wall of which has not yet been
struck. There are some vely gifted
liars in this country.-Inter Mountain.
Mortimer O'Loughlin, better known
as Teddy O'Loughlin,' was killed by
a surface rock falling upon him while
digging in a hve-foot bank of gravel,
a few days since, on his claim IN Bear
gulch. He went to Bear in 1867. He
was about ffty-fve years of age, and
a native Of County Clare, Ireland.
Hundreds OF teams are engaged in
gathering buffalo bones near Bismarck
SIS per ton being paid for them. Fol-
the present. the bones are being shipped
to Philadelphia, where they are grounc
and sold for fertilizing purposes, but !
is the avowed intention OF Mr.. Nude
and associates to erect a mill ! n Bis
marck and have it in operation th'
coming fall and winter, manufacture!
bone meal.
X. Beidler, in his anecdotes, says
81 was a messenger for Wells, FargC
* Co., between Helena and Salt LAX,
for four years, and rode 500 mile
weekly and 2ooo miles every mont
during that time. | did not &c
n sleep for nearly four years, an,
toward the last l got sleepy quit
frequently. During the last two week
of the time my feet got into the habi
of going to sleep. | stood that unit
they began to snore, and then [ threH
up the job"
The Miles City Daily press ha
Welded to the inevitable, after a de.
perate struggle, and given up tn
ghost. In publishing its " obituar
It says: Through the vicissitudes {
of the past six months we have rake
and scraped, worked under disadvar
taqes at almost every turn of the roat
in the endeavor to present to oil
niggardly patrons a paper worthy
more liberal support than 1t has eve
received, and have grown very tire
Hone deferred maketh the heart sick
IS the truest maxim ever written, an
we have concluded that TO wait an
labor for better things in an inappr
ciate community vast in our line"
One peculiar method of reachir
bedrock without a drain IS being trit
on the Maggie ID. placer claim, ownt
hv Ed. Ransome 4 Co. three-fOurt