The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-23
The Semi Weekly Miner
BUTTE. APRIL q. 1884.
Local News
From the Daily Of Tuesday.

AOc"A Vs.
From the Daily Of Tuesday.
Work on the c~ulverts on Grant,,
and Quartz streets Is progressing
rapidly.
Mo.srs. Barta & TnOle have leased
.ha Northw western Hotel at the depot
snd will reopen it on the LIST Of May
Mr. Will Armitage accepts Wheel.
10 challenge to run q bicycle race
pntte, The date will be flxed
during the week.
AIRS. J. R. Spencer Is now proprie.
.,asa of the California Restaurant,
hsving taken the place from Mrs.
". H. Ambrose.
The Belknap Enterprise Of the 18th
inst. contains q plat of the town and
map of the new mines. Neither
the town nor the mines boom worth
a cent now.
The MINER acknowledges. with
compliments of D. H. Weston, Ter
r~itorial Treasurer, the receipt of q
COPY of the Annual Report Of the
Territorial Auditor and Treasurer for
the fiscal year 1883.
DR.. Van Aukin. the we'll known
dentist, has opened an office at No.
SO West Broadway, and is prepared
to attend to the wants of all those
needing his services. Go while you
have a chance. His prices are within
the reach of all.
There will be a partial eclipse
of the sun the 25th inst, and q total
eclipse Of the Republican party in
Butte May 5th, visible in Silver
Bow county, and In the Nation No.
vember 4th, visible throughout the
United States.
The latest political rumOr is to the
effect that the Republican bosses of
Butte cannot find men willing to run
on their city ticket. No one cares
to play the role of straw man, set
W to be knocked down. The bosses
are having a hard time of it Just now.
Mr.. Jack Roberts will commence
this morning to remodel the Olympic
and transform it into q variety thea
tire with all modern improvements
and necessary adjuncts. The en-
tire work will lie completed and the
theatre opened to the public next.
Saturday night.
Mr.. A. D. Porter, who, at one time
1t was supposed had committed sui
eide here by jumping down a de-
serted mining shaft on account of do
nestle troubles, stayed over night in
the city a short time ago, while on
his way to the C9ur d. Alene mines.
An account of the trouble and the
shooting scrape growing out of it was
published in the MINER at the time.
The Montana Stock and Mining
Journal is the title of 4 new monthly
Issued by Geo. E. Boos & Co., of
Helena. The first number will ap-
pear May Let. The name of the
paper indicates its character. MI. ].
NJ. Williams, a gentleman said to be
well posted in the stock Industry will
assume the editorial charge of the
new candidate for popular favor. MI.
John L. Butler Is canvassing for the
journal in Butte. The MENER eX-
tends wishes for les success.
Herald, 18th: Chas H. Smell, in
charge of the Secretary's Office. Is in
receipt Of a telegram dated this morn.
ing at Huron, Dakota, from r. E.
Ismond, saying that "Secretary
Tooker cannot return for some time,
on account of an injury received in q
railroad accident" Mr.. Smell is If
the opinion that the Secretary had
started on his return to Montana by
way of his Dakota ranch near Co.
lumbia, and that the accident must
have occurred on the Chicago 4
Northwestern railroad. He has tele-
graphed TO. particulars.
The Chicago News says: "There
is a rumor that Mr.. J. II. McCullagh.
the st. Louis journalist, has chal>
the Butte City I'M. T.) editor
who made the proposal of marriage
to Miss Fanny Bagby, editor of the
St. Louis Chronicle, without ever
been introduced to her. MI.
M Cullagh was Miss Bagbv's guar
dian before she became of age, and
aver since she reached her majority
he has watched the beautiful and &C
complished lady with q jealous eye."
Who in the name of samhill is Miss
Bagby ? and what IS the name OF the
Butte City candidate for the Warm
Springs Asylum?
The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
John T. Baldwin will be deeply
panied to learn of the death of their
infant son, Alex. Doniphan. He was
bright, CHEEKY little boy and never
to leave the sunshine of his
presence upon all who met him. The
bereaved parents and family have
the heartfelt sympathy of their large
circle of acquaintance in Butte ana
in this their irreparable
loss.