The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-06-24
THE SEMI.WEEKLY MINER,
T JUNE II, 1885.
CITY BREvITIES.

The Emmett Guards will have a grand
picnic on Sunday next.
The city carts are busy every day clean
inn nm the streets and alleys. Let the good
work go on.
Butte is a reading community. One sa.
loon. the Mint, takes thirty-seven papers
seven dailies.
An important meeting OF the Maryland
and Montana Mining Company will be held
on Thursday next.
Caplice, Smith 4 Company have closed
their branch store at Missoula, and sold
the stock and fixtures.
At the cricket match on Sunday, the team
contained by A. C. Newell, badly defeated
the team captained by F. w. Bntler.
The pretty half-breed Canadian. from
Montreal, is meeting with deserved success
in selling her dain~tily-wrought beadwork.
The membership of the A. o. U. W., in
Montana is about 3,OOO-the number hay.
ing about doubled in the past two years.
The city police will have their new uni.
forms in the first days Of July, and they
will Join in the Fourth Of July parade in
fine style.
Marshal Stoner is p~erplexed-he don't
know whether to put Dryer or Reynolds
in the front rank "as the handsomest man
on the force"
Burt, the electric light man, who was
injured at the Amphitheater on Saturday
last, is steady improving. He will be on
duty inside OF q few weeka.
The wrestling tournament on the coming
Fourth of July promises to be an interest.
ing affair. 1t is expected that over fifty
persons will engage in the sport.
The wife OF the Rev. DR.. Ditzler, the emf.
nent divine, now in Butte, was a first
cousin OF Henry Clay, and a great-great
grand daughter Of Oliver Cromwell. Good
stock.
There was considerable excitement in the
Jail yesterday. A desperate prisoner was
found to have a very savage knife concealed
in his undergarments. The jailer gallantly
unarmed him.
Clark, Davidson, and other Butte bicy.
clists, would like to tackle the blusterers oil
Helena for a handsome purse. They will
willingly give the Helena dudes a considera-
BILE distance.
The Fourth of July celebration in this
city promises to be the grandest in the his.
tory OF Montana. The Soliciting Commit
tee lave secured over 81, 200, and before
their work is lone the total will aggregate
$4,000.
There will be fun at Eagle Rock on the
coming Fourth of July. On the bill OF fare
is a prize fight between Thomas Garsides,
the middleweight champion of Idaho, and
one Pierce, a champion slugger OF New
York, for a purse of 5000.
The bunko and sure-thing men must be
kept on the march. II the marshal cannot
drive them out under the old ordinance,
the Council should enact a new ordinance
that will drive them out of the city or put
them on the chain gang.
Tom Fallon, the Butte correspondent ol
the New York Clipper, in his last letter
pays a deserved compliment to little mas
ter Fred. Newbury, the two-year-old actor,
who made his debut with ~Janauschek'
Little Fred. is a daisy, and his future career
is very promising. .
One of the white ponies attached to the
delivery wagon of the Eagle Bakery, made
a miscalculation, yesterday, and fell into
an excavation at the corner OF Main and
Granite. George w. Newkirk, the geniaI
saloonist, who CHANGED to be present
states that the pony's death was almost
instantaneous and unattended by pain.
On Sunday, Harry C. Bodley, a promi
nent resident of Butte, while out horseback
riding, was thrown and badly injured. Hill
right leg was broken below the knee. HI
was taken to his home, and his wound wa!
dressed by a skilled physician. Bodley wal
one of ex-Sheriff Irvine's most popular dep
uties. He will soon be about again.
The MINER is requested by Fire Marsha
mccarthy to o that a special meet
ing OF the Butte Fire Department will b.
held at the City Hall this evening, at {
o'clock sharp. Every member is urged to
be present. The purpose in tiew, is tt
make arrangements for a creditabled display
of the department in the Fourth of July
parade. Mr.. mccarthy is determined tx
make the celebration a grand and g~loriou'
success, as far at least as the Fire Depart
ment is concerned.
Considerable complaint has been lately
made by people living on the outskirts o
the city against parties dumping their offa
just outside the city limits, into some o
the ravines, between the central portion o
the city and the depot. The Marsha
should see that all parties who violate tn
health law be punished. Every well regu
lated city has dumping grounds, some dis
lance away from the city limits. Tn
Mayor and City Council are doing all il
their power to cleanse the city; they shoule
see that the refuse is not emptied SO Gloss
to the city, as to make it offensive to PEG
pie living in Butte's suburbs.