Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-26
NEWS ATOMS.
An Interesting Collection Of News Items
From Anaconda.

From Anaconda.
Special Correspondence of THE MINER
ANACONDA, May 22.-Anaconda's post
office must be an anomaly In the Depart
ment. Ordinarily the position Of post
master in a place the size OF this is a priced
bone of contention, but apparently it IS
the reverse here. The present incumbent,
Mr.. ". C. Converse, is the fourth within
six months. He is only postmaster de
facto as vet, but as his ~capability for the
position is unquestioned, we trust he will
receive the appointment before long. 1t is
rumored that the Office is about to be
made a money order one, an addition TO
its facilities and revenue that will oun
to the benefit alike Of the public and the
postmaster.
A small blaze, which WAS more in the
nature OF a note Of warning from the fiery
element to our negligent community. than
| anything else, occurred during the earlier
| part OF the week. and it was at the estab-
| iisbment Of the Butte Furniture Company,
and its central location IS well as the pos
sibilities of it's having developed into an ex-
| tensive and disastrous cOnfagratlon,
through lack Of any appliances for ex-
| tineuishing fires, should awaken our city to
a sense OF its danger in this respect. Ever
water in sufficient quantity for that pur-
DO 90 is not available, and if it were could
not be utilized except through the
medium OF a bucket brigade. Several
months ago a special tax was levied upon
the citizens OF Anaconda for the purpose
OF purchasing a fire-extinguishing appara-
tus. but the fund so raised now lies unused
in the hands of the County Treasurer at
Deer Lodge. Why is it not applied to the
purpose for which it was levied, Is a query
no one seems able to answer satisfactorily.
The halls OF our local temple OF justice
have been deserted for the past couple OF
weeks. in consequence OF its judicial
and legal attaches being in attend
ance upon the District Cour o in session
at the county seat. Aproros OF this sub
iect, allow your correspondent to submit
"a example" to The MINER readers: A
denizen OF Anaconda il drawn as a juror.
He pays a substitute 50 per diem to run
his business during his absence; draws an
equal salary iE county scrip tor jury ser
vices, expends SO diurnaliy in hard cash
for hotel accommodations, likewise 50
each evening for unmentionable though
pleasurable sundriee, and at the end OF the
term sells his scrip at 20 per cent. dis
count. How much is he ahead by the
entire operation, and just where
does his dividend come in? Several
Of our goud citizens have returned home
from Deer Lodge to worry through the in
tricacies OF the above knotty problem,
buoyed up with the hope CT solving it
but figures won't lie.
The roadbed of the Utah e. Northern
Railway in this vicinity is being rap
idly prepared for the thrrd rail. We Learn
that when it is laid and the track from
Stuart to Garrison made a standard gauge
that efficient gentleman, Roadmastel
Thomas Douglas, will cease to bt
an employe OF the Union Pacific,
He will be transferred with his track te
the new company, and become roadmastel
of a division extending from Silver Bow te
Helena. Tom is a good trackman, ant
wh:thal, possesses the respect and good vii
of every employe under him
Messrs. Vineyard & Thomas, proprietor
of the Warm Springs Livery Stables, o
this place, have established a new stag
line from here to Philirsburg, making e!
route Gable and Georgetown. 1t runs til
weekly, as does Brownell g. Hammond
line, which gives the communities interestet
the advantage of daily communication.
General Baggage Agent A. Traynor, OF tn
Union Pacific Railway, and Superintendent
Blickensderfer, accompanied by severa
lesser official lights OF the system, paid An
aconda a visit Friday last. just what it:
object was we cannot divine, but as tn
party hadi n tow a member Of the Uniol
Trust Company, Of New York, it is inferred
he was being junketed around ior the pur
pose OF showing him the condition OF tn
Union Pacific property h~ereabouts.
Although there are a great many idl
men on our streets, but few of them re
sponded to a call made by Roadmaste
Douglas last week for 200 men to work OF
the grade. Doubtless the majority of GU
gentlemen OF leisure are here solely to en-
Joy the salubrious climate and ravishin
mountain scenery OF Montana. Their ex
ternal appearance would not indicate thei
financial ability to do this without a col
responding expenditure OF physical strugg!
in some form OF labor, yeti they shrink fron
the latter even as his Satanic majesty i
said to shrink from holy water. EIR