The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-01-03
Local News

Seven bars of silver bullion wei
forwarded by express last evening.
On the second page will be fouu,
an account of the Teachers Conven
ton at Helena.
The Shakespeare club will NEE
this evening, at their rooms over e
L. Bonner & Co.'S store.
We understand there Is talk o
starting q Male Quartette in the city
Such an organization Is much needed
It is now the time that the oil col
lectOr is roaming the streets search.
ing for some party who is mot in"
Albert E. Veazie, of the Union Pa.
cific Office, in Helena, was married
New Years evening to Miss Ida A.
Bsrkwell.
The incoming Union Pacific mail
train, due yesterday morning at 1l:l5
did not reach Butte till 5 O'Clock last
evening.
In the case of VIM. Gallagher VS..
J. E. Ledford, before Justice Mich
OILS yesterday afternoon judgment
was rendered for defendant.
Tie funeral Of Nettie Kern, of
VAUDEVILLE took place yesterday az
ternoon and was attended by q large
concourse of sympathiziDg friends.
Edward Brisbin has resigned his
position on the police force and
Marshall HauswirJh has appointed
Frank Mcdonald to fill the va
cancy.
The skating Kinks well pat
ronized yesterday afternoon and
last evening. The supply of skates
at both places was hardly equal to the
demand.
A man was taken with delirium
tremens at q saloon on Broadway,
yesterday afternoon, and was taken
to the county hospital by the city
marshal.
Mrs. J. M. Edmunds and q. l..
Hogen. of Elkhorn, Jefferson county,
were IN the city last evening, enroute
to Zion, where they 60 to spend the
winter-and several dollars.
There was not a single case before
the Police court yesterday. Taking
into consideration the fact that 1t
was the first day after New Years 1t
forcibly demonstrates what law abid-
ing citizens we are.
Very macy Of u citizens are
favoring an amendment to the city
charter" The pros ana con- of the
question are discussed at length by
law makers and law breakers.
R )berts & 20. were buslly engaged
yesterday, moving the stock from
their store on Broadway to Main
They have consolidated the
stock of their two stores and will OPP
crate hereafter only the store on Main
On Tuesday last, q son of A. P.
Winslow, of Deer Lodge, aged ten
years Was playing about the machin-
cry in the planning mill. when he got
his left hand caught in the planer
and it was so horribly mutilated that
amputatiOn was necessary.
A dispatch from Bozeman tells of
The suffering of the live stock in
from the deep snow, and
suggests serious losses to owners. A
rood store OF hav put up for such
10 exigency would serve to tide the
'tarving cattle over the toughest part
If the winter.
Wolf-skins in the frontier market
,ring from one dollar and a half to
,hree dollars each. Wolf-skins are
he main dependence of many of the
poorer ranchmen during the winter
months, some of them collecting as
many as five hundred pelts from the
of November to the close
# February.
Butte kept itself virtuonsly sober
n the First. Calling was quite gen.
raj during the day, and the ladies
f many households made hOspitable
for the entertainment of
heir guests. In the evening the two
kating Kinks were we'll %patronized,
nd the Lelderkranz ball attracted a
arge company, |.
The city schools re-0pens on Mon
after q vacation of two weeks,
nd the new school house at the .
epot will then be ready to COM
aehs:e business. The teacher for
his scAeol, we believe, has not yet ,
cen appointed. Miss Sadie Shaw's :
acant chair l., the central school, .
70 understand, has been assigned to :
1iss CrOssman. d.
Ar extraordinary invoice u. goods
onsistlng of New York Scolieps, Z
alifornia Shrimps, Shoal-water {
lams, Narraganset HOLSTERS, etc.,
per express yesterday, con-
gned to the Arion Halle Oyster Bay,
here the public may regale them
lives without stint. These choice
1T water delicacies will be served g
p in epicurean style at the side G
with the Thousand other s
'mpting dishes for which the Arion 8
becoming famous.