The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-06-13
TIE MINER
BUTTE. U N ID, 1885.
CITY BREvITIES.

Thelocal real estate market is very active
and prices rule high. a Ic !
Butte boasts of many fine teams and
thoroughbred horses.
number OF new buildings are cOntem-
plated in various parts OF the city.
The advent OF the gas company, or
rather their product, is anxious!y looked
for.
How do some OF the sure thing men make
q living? Their business is gone and they
will not work.
Burke, who was arrested for ~personating
an officer has not been tried for the offense.
Who is to blame? 4t
SUNDAYS MINER will be a family news
paper, and one of the most readable ever
issued in Montana.
1t looks az though the new opera house
will not be completed in time for Fred
Warde. This will be too bad. .;,-.5
Contracts for three new veneered build
ings were let yesterday. Why not buiid
them OF brick and be done with it.
The new Lodge Of Honor, to be instituted
Saturday night will embrace in it's member
ship some of the best known gentlemen OF
Bntte. o.,
Peter Brennan has been elected Captain
OF the Emmett Guard Rifle Team, by accla-
nation. Mr.. Brennan will prove a good
officer.
The first passenger elevator ever erected
in Butte, or in fact the Territory, has just
beeu completed in the establishment OF
E.. L.. Bonner & Co.
Private parties for trips to Gregson's
Springs are being organized in the city, and
numerous excursions will be made as soon
as the roads dry up.
The Montana Improvement Company are
now handling between $4,000, and 10000
feet of lumber aday. They are employing
between thirty and forty men.
The city Fire Department will participate
in the Fourth OF July celebration, but will
not hold a meeting to make arrangements
until the latter part of June.
Horst's new building at the corner of
Main and Park streets, which was to have
been veneered, is not to be veneered after
all. Who ave him permission to plaster
the upper story?
Tuesday evening a man, name unknown,
sustained a. severe fracture of the leg, on
the road beyond Meaderville. The man
was taken to Meaderville, where medical
assistance was rendered. D..
The wood merchants who were hoping
for a continuance OF the snow storm and
cold weather, enjoyed themselves yesterday
in cursing the clerk OF the weather for the
sudden change in the atmosphere.
The young gentlemen of the athletic club
have a good time in their gymnasium every
evening. They can swing the clubs and do
the trapeze act, but Duncan Mcdonald
makes them believe they can't spar.
Fred Warde will open in Butte on the
18th instead of the 22d instant, and will
remain here nine nights. Manager Mcguire
telegraphs that Mr.. Warde is equal to John
Mccullough when that great actor was at
his best. 81
A well NOW mining man was yesterday
arrested for fast driving on west Park street,
and his trial will take place before Judge
French to-day. The young mar was
evidently in a hurry and forgot the ordin-
ances.
John Gleason, the man mentioned in The
MNER as being taken from st. James hos
pital as insane, was yesterday before Judge
Irvine, who after a careful examination
decided that he was non compOs mentis,
and gave the necessary papers for his rams
fer to the Asylum at Warm Springs.
Mine host Bogk of the Revere House ex-
poets to start his free bus to and from the
depot in a day or two, and then fun may
be looked for at the depot. He has made
formal application to the railroad authori-
ties at Omaha for permission to enter the
enclosure at the depot, but as yet has not
been hOnOred with a reply.