Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-13
MONTANA NEWS CLIPPINGS.

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country.
An eighty-ton engine for the Cascade di-
| vision OF the Northern Pacific Railroad
lately passed over that line.
The Helena Snow Shoe Club now num-
| bers seventy-seven members.
The Fifth Infantry band will hold q con-
cert in Miles City Saturday evening next.
A new iron truss bridge will be built at
Stevensville across the river at that point.
Thomas NJ. Dunn has cleaned up some
| fine large nuggets out of his claim on We'll
come Gulch.
The City Council OF Helena had a special
/ meeting last evening to consider the water
question.
The Drum Lummond's new sixty stamp
mill is about completed and will begin
humping on ore from the mine some time
during the coming week.
Cavuse Alex, u ranchman near Poplar
| river, Montana, had his haystack set on
I fire by some Indians last week who were
playing with matches.
The Irish-American Society of Helena
held a ball on Wednesday evening in their
hall at that place. The ball was a financial
as well as a social success.
The Northern Pacific R~efrigerating Com
pany are killing and shipping daily seventy
five head of cattle per day for the Eastern
market at Medora, Dakota.
Helena City Council on last Wednesday
evening let the contract to furnish the city
with water for domestic and fire purposes
to Mr.. Wooliston for q term of twenty
years.
Quite a number of emigrants has lately
been moving into the Bitter Root Valley.
No doubt there will be a big influx of immi-
grafton into the valley during the coming
season..
The Madisonian says that Toole's major
ity inVirginiaCitywas the effect OF Hon.Sam
Words speech there on the eve of election.
It was the first time Virginia City gave a
Democratic majority since the days of as.
NJ. Cavanaugh.
The Ancient Order of United Workmen
will hold a ball in Helena on the 23d inst.
The proceeds of which will be kindly do
mated to Mrs. Latham of that place, whose
husband was formerly a member of the
fraternity. She is O in destitute circum-
stances.
Frank s. Hyde, a young ranchman who
has a ranch e Great Falls, mysteriouslv /
disappeared from Helena, the other day |
leaving two four horse teams and a freight |
ing outfit at Weir's stable in Helena. The
last seen OF him, says the Independent, vast
when he borrowed a pistol of Mr.. Weir, |
saying he was going out for a short walk. |
The many friends of A. L. Stokes, of the |
Pacific, will be pleased to learn
he has returned from a trip to Chicago, |
where he a an operation performed on
one OF his eyes. Mr.. Stokes has fully re-
covered from the effects of the operation.
Hoffman & Bates nave been awarded the
for building the new iron truss
bridge across the river at Stevensville. The
bridge is to cost $4,000 when completed.
Navigation IN the Upper Missouri river
has about closed. On Nov. 6 there was
one a to arrive at Fort Benton and
be the last OF the season.
Ihe Northern Pacific Railroad is build.
ng a new engine house at Missoula for the
Use OF the engines which will be attached to
The snow pillow. The building will be one
hundred and sixty feet in length when COM
Lieut.. Beacon, OF the B}ackfoot agency
roned the Piegan Indians who lately stole
he horses on the Judith. They were tai on
o Fort Shaw notwithstanding the threats
nd demonstration made by the other In.
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Mr.. Richards, OF Cook City, lately bonded !.
group OF mines. The Acme, Talisman
md Kara Avis-from Frazier & Dunnigan. .
'1yihR pI,o"O IOf q lease held by School 1
red and partner and agreeing to paw S75.- =
at the end of the year. These mines |
re very rich, some of the ore going as 1
Ugh as ] 300 ounces of silver to the tor d
'Ozeman Chronicle. q
A son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Kron was drowned ,
t Missoula last week in the mill Hume at 2
hat place. Some parties who saw the it, q
fellow fall off the bridge ran to his os- l
lstance, but too late. as he went over the r
Ills, which are about fifteen feet bioh =
on the bottom and cutting q Ia roe h
ash over his right temple. When taIen n
ut lille was extinct. The boy was onlv 2 p
ears and 6 months old. a
Missouri is happy over the new railroad ::
hops which are to be built there in tba ~
bring. The lumber for the immense na mv &c
Jock yards ia now being laid on the d a
The yards when comnleted w .%S "
over an area OF 1OOx31O feet. Tbono 3,
be one pen 1OOx1OO feet in size to- NJ
.x1OO and four COx50. Every nsn VIII o
3 provided with feed-rack and wata,;nnn a
'ough and such other conveniences as o.e u
to insure safety and careful treat u
emit OF the stock. The yards are tn W.
'ed principally for feeding and restinc "