Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-08
N"EIGHBORING NOTES..

IL makes one lauSn TO FeaO the account
Of the capture Of Corey as published in tn,
Butte papers.-Dillon Examiner.
In the next Territorial Council the on,
just elected will not number one amongst
them, while in the legislature there ar,
four.
Rimini will be the only regular station o,
the Helena & Red Mountain road at pres
ent between Helena and that point, which
is the terminus. Next year, however, j
necessary, a station will be located mid
way between the two places.
Citizens of Benton are talking of organic
ing q mounted force to prevent Indian dep
relations and punish the perpetrators
| when any are committed
Cinabar, the terminus of the Northern
Pacific branch to the Yellowstone Park
was closed on the 25th inst. for the pres.
ent season.
Charles 8. Fell. one of the prop-ietors Of
been appointed Deputy Clerk of the District
Court at L~ewistown, in that county.
A large mountain sheep was recently
killed in the Bear Paw mountains, the
horns of which measured sixteen and an
eighth inches at the base, and in length,
measuring with the curve, were t~hirty-five
inches from base to tip.
The special election held in Dawson
county for county superintendent of com
mon schools, resulted in a victory for the
Democratic candidate. DR.. A. r. Duncan,
who received a majority of % over E. w.
B. Harvey, the Republican candidate.
This election fully demonstrates that Daw-
son county is Democratic.
William L. Dustin, of the bankrupt miles
City Dressed Beef Company" has been ar
rested IN q charge of obtaining money un
der false pretenses. This is the case where
Dustin & Hough failed at Miles City and
Dustin & Co.'s bank at Lincoln, Illinois,
made an assignment for the benefit of East
ern creditors, in effect leaving those at
Miles City out in the cold.
The Butte Assembly of Knights of Labor
will give a grand ball on Christmas eve, at
Miners Union Hall. No doubt it will be
rangements are straining every nerve to
make it a social as well as a financial sue
cess.
In the case Of the Territory against An
drew Stevenson, formerly clerk in the Pro
bate Court, the Grand Jury failed to find
a bill agai.st him and therefore ordered
his discharge and bondsmen released.
Stevenson wal arrested last summer on
complaint OF a woman in Prickly Pear
Valley, who charged him with embezzlement
OF funds passing through the Probate
Court.-Rising Sun.
We We been informed hat at the re-
cent visit OF Gen. Pearson to Fort Belknsp
he was informed by the Assinaboine and
Gros Ventre Indians that they were anx-
iously awaiting the arrival of the Indian
commission, and expressed a willingness to
their rights to the country if the
government will set apart q tract Of land
for them back of Broadwater's Landing.
neal the head Of Peoples Creek. Tbey ear
nestly desire the railroad to be constructed
through the reservxtion.-River Press.
It is reported in Bismarck that a fight
place between a band Of Grow Indians
and some Canadian trappers on the Mis-.
souri, River in Montana. It is said that the
Indians caught the trappers stealing game
from their traps and a vigorous fight en-.
sued. The %traprers numbered five armed
Winchester rifles and ten with shot
guns. One trapper was killed but the In
were driven back and pursued seven
"Corey is one OF the men who was mixed
up in the bogus gold-brick game by which
Colonel jerks was swindled out Of some
$1,000 some months ago, and was in Jail
awaiting trial at the time of his escape. |
he has the reputatlon'O OF being a desperate
man, and his action at the time OF his ar |
rest evidently carries out the assertion"
The above is the account as it appeared in |
the Examiner. Neighbor, you shonld post |
yourself on the subject. Corey is not one |
of the gold.brick swindlers who feeced Col. |
jerks sc veral months ago, but at the time
Of his escape was confined in the county /
for pawning a bogus brick on Mrs. |
on East Park street, for IS.
Word was received in the city last even |
ing that the surveyors coming from the
east are within eighty-five miles of Fort
Benton and are rapidly working this way,
not only running a. preliminary but actu-
ally locating the road. They have written
to one of our business firms to secure a
quantity of oats for their
teams, indicating that they propose to
6ght it out on the line all winter il neces-
sary. 1t is probable that they will be here
in a few days. Mr.. Barclay, who was chief
of the Calf road, and who is well
here. has charge of one OF the par
ties, and Mr.. Roberts, who VI believe was
ut the head OF the Northern Pacific survey
that ran a line from Billings to this city
years ago is also with them. Az the
il most favorable for railroad con.
ytruction they are moving rapidly ia this
directiop.-Rivey R1eGe,