The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-04-04
MONTANA.
The Exchanges Yield up this Quota
Of News.

Helena is very much elated over q
$4,000 real estate transaction:
Placer miners throughout the
Territory r getting ready for spring
WORK.
The Independent says T. H.
Kleinschmidt claims he can carry
the entire German vote of Helena.
George Cushing was severely
burned by q powder explosion which
occurred at the Caribou quarry a few
days since.
w. 81. Trippet, ESQ.,, has been ap-
pointed County Attorney for Deer
Lodge county, by District Attorney
Pemberton.
Frank Baudet has run two cuts and
struck promising coal veins in the
bluff close by the Garrison depot.
A landslide displaced about $50
yards of Northern Pacific track neal
Miles City last Wednesday.
Miss Nina, daughter of Governor
and Mrs. B. Plat Carpenter, IL n
nounced to be married at st. Paul's
church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Tues
day, April Z. to MI. Albert Edward
Tower. >
Four men at, work on Memoirs
claim in Emigrant gulch, Gallatin
county, are taking out about $50 per
day in gold dust.
Lewiston, the proposed county
seat OF Fergus County, is promiseda
boom the coming, summer. The place
is favorably located and will make q
nice little agricultural town.
We are informed that a mine near
Butler Station, owned by Leascha
& Opp, Is turning out very rich. At
the bottom of a fifty-foot shaft the
ore assays $128.32.
Helena dance houses that have re-
Gently been closed by an act of the
Legislature are turning their estab-
lishments into "keno" dives. This
looks like jumping from the frying
pan into the fire."
En0ch Wilson, of Jefferson county
who was the administrator of the es-
tate of Dr.. Barley. has affected COM
promises in all the law suits that
were pending at the time Of his
death and settled the estate, saving
several thousand dollars in cash ana
considerable property for the heirs.
Col. Andrew J. Smith, formerly
General of Montana, and
more recently Superintendent Of the
Soldiers home at Togus, Maine, has
been appointed Governor of the Lev
enworth Branch of the National
Home for disabled soldiers. The ap-
pOintment comes from Gen. Frank
lin, President of the National Home.
MI. Wallace Bell, a well known
mining man of Montana. died Of
heart disease, Sunday, at st. Johns
Hospital. The deceased was a native
of New York and IS years of age at
the time of his demise. He came to
Montana when only Is years of age
and first engaged in the stock busi-
ness. In 1879 he commenced mining
and secured some valuable mines.
owned the Silver Bell at Neihart
and was a member Of the Ten Mile
syndicate. Herald.
It is estimated by the appraisers,
we understand, that the estate of the
late Alex, II. Beattie will amount to
like $15O:O0O. The assets,
as they appear from the schedule, in
clude cash on deposit, county securi'
ties. notes, mortgages, city and ranch
property, horses, cattle. merchandise
in store, mining interests, watches
and other articles of jewelry on
and various personal effects.
The will left by deceased distributes
to his mother, brothers and sister
upwards of $50. 900. The full amount
of the claims against the estate is not
as yet ascertained, but it is thought
that after all these are satisfied the
heirs under the will and tho widow
will realize nearly or quite $50, 600. -
Herald.