Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-29
LOCAL NEWS NOTES,
Last night Was the coldest yet.

anN
D. M. Evans, Of Anaconda, passed
through Butte with his wife last evening
en- route to his home.
| at The MINER office yesterday. He reports
Fred Kerth left last night for his adver.
tisine trip. He will scatter his Holiday
| Advertiser all about the country and 70.
turn in a week orsc.
The new time card has gone into effect,
The mail train leaves for Helena and
northward one hour earlier now. Bear
this in mind and don't get left.
Mr.. Joseph Norris, Secretary OF the
ness department of the Mining Journal
during the absence Of the editor east to
| purchase presses, etc.
The Christmas play at the Opera House
we're well attended day and night. Miss
Woodthorpe and the entire company
acquitted themselves admirably both at
matinee and evening performance.
There is a stir on Galena street. Petty
sneak thieves have been ''fresh' during the
holidays. stealing whatever they could find
from 5000 watches and diamond rings
down to petty articles OF apparel.
The person who left a pair of overshoes
in the old postofice building on Thanks
giving Day can get them by calling on Rev.
w. E. King, at tie Methodist Episcopal
parsonage hontsps street. north OF the
The men who lately were taken off the
section work on thk~ tah & Northern will,
to prepare for the vide gauge that is soon
to be substituted for the present narrow
one.
Sim Estes, a ranchmcn in our sister
county OF Beaverhead, killed an 18.
months-old pig for Xmas that weighed
SIT pounds. Dillon feasted and fattened
on the juvenile giant during the three days
of festivity, and Sim gathered up ten. bas.
kets of fragments after the multitude had
eaten their fill.
DR.. Amsden, the new coroner OF Silver
Bow County. had his first official call yes.
terday. A man, name not learned, died
suddenly at Meaderville, and the Coroner
was sent for. He called a jury. held an in
quest and the verdict was death from apo
plexy.
Mr.. Patrick Mahoney, whose ad appears
elsewhere in this issue, is not only q very
Industrious and deserving gentleman, but
an artist in his trade: All brick work en-
trusted to his care will receive prompt at
tention and be completed in a workman
like name Pat will do to tie to.
The Commissioners of Meagher and Fer
gus counties, in Joint session last Saturday,
agreed on a basis of settlement or division
OF property and Indebtedness. By this
settlement Meagher county assumes a debt
of $9,4S9.29 and Fergus county a debt OF
$S,O4O.61.
Mr.. Fred McKechnie, a well known and
popular assayer and musician OF Butte, re-
turned home Christmas after an absence OF
six months visiting friends and relatives in
host of friends, who hope aoon to heal the
sweet notes OF his clarionet resound
through the dancing halls of the city.
The man who will leave his good and
faithful horse tied to a post to SILVER and
be chilled on a cold night, while he is
"blowing in his pile" will be run in by the
police and be made, besides, to pay for the
comfortable stabling and care of the poor
animal.
Every man in Silver Bow County who
served in any of the Confederate armies
between 1860 and 1865 is particularly re-
quested to send his name, place Of resi-
dence, where he enlisted, and the command
in which he served, with his term oil serv-
ice. Address D. C. Russell, care DAILY
MINER, Butte City, Montana.
The Odd Fellows had a splendid ball in
Dillon Friday night. One hundred and
eight persons, ffty-four couples, tripped
the light, ETC., at one time in P~oindexter's
Hall. Prof. Bert, of Butte, led the orches-
ira, and ''gave the most satisfactory music
ever heard in Dillon,' so the Examiner
says.
''Clericus," the Washington correspond
ent OF the Dillon Tribune, is doing some
fine work in his Tor her) line. The articles
have a crispy, fresh ''snap" about them,
into which here and there are thrown gems
of rare beauty, that tell of the old times
that are changed. of the old manner that
gone, and they hang about the crispy
portions of the letters like golden beads
upon the rosary Of memory.
Superintendent ben" Tibbey used to
work in a La Sale coal mine with Penrose,
of the Mining Journal, published in Butte.
On the eve OF the latter's departure for the
east, which occurred last night, Superin-
Tibbey presented him with a beau
tiful gold pen and pencil, handsomely made
and Hastily ornamented, and suggests that
now he has a pencil if somebody will give
tbe editor a pair of shears he may be able
w SOS Ouu V"oP0pCIs |
A Butte lady, lamenting the stern re-
luirements OF fashion,, exclaimed as she
vas making up for a ball Friday night: |
The woman who tries to be fashionable |
night as well commit suicide at once. She
must neglect home, husband and children, |
tut away comfort and convenience, be a
ypocrite and a good slauderer,
md at the end of a few years break down
md become aphysical wreck" That lady
hould be presented with a chrome of the !
quality.
Frank Wilkeson, son of Samuel Wilke-
on, Secretary OF the Northern Pacific
railroad Company, has written a book en-
tiled "Recollections Of a Private Soldier"
'hich has just been published. The press
peak of it as wonderfully entertaining and
lied with vivid pictures of scenes that the
oldiers at the front beheld. but which were
otally unknown to the braided and be-
officer who commanded from the
ear.
A cigar but little shorter than a telegraph
ole was passed through the window OF
HE MINER yesterday with compliments
! - Featherly," who has a finely fur.
lshed cigar and tobacco store nearly op-
osite this Office. The cigar has been
Xix a mammoth telescope and a
nAAOA o0OiV OC"u 1oSAuCu WucIc Fl6lUOrS l
lay very comfortably take an hour or
vo's smoke without shortening the cigar
yer an inch.
Tonight will be the occasion of the Grand
Iasoric Ball at Dillon. A Butte orchestra,
mt by Orion Bros, will make the music.
! this connection it maybe said that So
ETY. people have viewed with just alarm
re growing tendency among those who go
} balls to put off the opening dance by
leir late arrival, after the best hours OF
lght are spent. Tho Masons of Dillon I
ave ordered q return to old-time customs !
nd their ball tonight will open with a
snce at 8 O'Clock sharp; and their exam {
e is well worth following. K
1t was at recess, December Oath. The {
schoolboys and girls we're in the :
hoolyard at play. A pretty little He ,
boy was among them, who may be !
lied Isaac. Don't play with Isaac" I
slled out a boy, whose mother, 1t is safe to e
has failed to 'bring up the child in I
,e way he should CO." Don't have any l
ling to do with him. because he helped to I
II Christ" The little Hebrews face e
aled, then instantly flushed to the tenn I
es, while, with quivering lips and choking
Dice, he said, "Oh, no. l did not boys; | 9
as not born then!' That little boys l
other had taught him to say, 'that q
ercy I to others show, that mercy show !
me-" The big boy may profit by the !