Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-08
LOCAL NEWS T

wv oiASAV dTHl0R OF " ynfQ
in the air yesterday.
New improvements in Iuilding axe stead
lily going on in Butte.
Minnie Hank, the famous prima donna
will appear in Butte shortly
The Magma Charta mine has inst ha,
AIDED to 1t new hosting works.
Owing to the wires being down, our teIe
graph dispatches to-day are rather light,
Wonder If the prayers OF the Chinese t,
their Joss yesterday brought on the rain
Traiu Dispatcher e. f. Calvin, of tn
Utah d Northern was up from Silver Bo.
Yesterday.
"A. ID. Wheeler, OF Walkerville, will leay
for the kootenai mining country, in Brit
ish Columbia.
Mike liaggerty, it is understood, vii
soon leave for Spring Hill, to be Coach In
spector at that point.
Master Mechanic C. A. Peavy, OF tn
Montana Union, went over last Friday O,
a tour Of inspection.
u. w. Williscroft, OF VAUDEVILLE, is build
ing an addition to his bookstore which
when completed will be occupied as q tin
shop.
The School Trustees OF Butte Di,tric'
will meet at the office of Hoge, Brownlee &
Co.'S Bank, Monday evening, in reguIal
session.
DuDc Mcdonald took part in the athlet;.
exercises at Salt Lake last evening, givel
given for the benefit OF the Olympic Ciul
OF that city.
| Thomas Rutter, the photoaraphAr, ba;
qeen spending the past week in Phiiipsbur!
taking views OF the Granite mine anu Other
points o. interests.
Mrs. T. w. Rittenhouse and her two
daughters, together with Mrs. Featherly
and family. are visitingat Mauldin' s ranch,
In B~eaverhead County.
The large new smoke stack OF the Butte
Reduction Works is about completed, and
workmen were busy yesterday in tearing
down the ~scaffolding.
Joe James, a partner in the lease OF the
Rock Island and Moore mines, in Walker.
vile. will continue to work them actively
n the absence Of the Youlton Bros.
The Utah & Northern Railway Company
are busy storing an immense amount oi
coal in their sheds at South Butte in case
OF snow blockades during the wints,.
The galvanized iron front for the new
Thomas block, on West Park street,
arrived yesterday, ard will be placed in
POSITION at once as the brick work is fin
ished.
Miss Tiila, the daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
W. e. Hall, will give a party 10 hec numer-
.)us friends at the residence of her parents
in Walkerville. 1t will be a recherche
affair.
Sally Raunheim, the Manager OF the Mon
ana Copper Co.'S works at Meaderviile,
who went to New York on business con-
oected with that establishment, will return
onday.
Joe Fischer received yesterday the largest
tuI tie ever brought to this Territory. It
weighs over 200 pounds. Joe also got in a
car DAD OF spring frogs to feed this mon
ster turtle on.
The Walkervilie Sunday School, which
Iumbers upwards OF sixty members, con.
templates giving q grand concert in the
near future, the proceeds OF which will go
towards buying books for the school.
The ladies Society OF Walkervllle, have
SOW in the treasury $135, which they have
kindly donated to the Rev. j. w. Bennett
for him to build an addition to his resi-
dence. The ladies deserve great credit for
cir noble work.
f. O. Dugan, the genial clerk OF Casey e.
Brophy, left yesterday morning, accom-
anied by John Long, for a trip or the
Pip stone, to Look after some mining
laims in which they are interested.
Says the Dillon Examiner: There is a
smothered row among the Republican
bosses. It is diamond cut diamond
money ''forninst" money. May the long
est pole knock the persimmon down.
Cobban Brothers have just sold to Mr..
Demers ct al, in South Butte, eight lots, OF
300 feet front, on Arizona street, for the
purpose OF erecting thereon a bakery and
grocery and a number OF private dwellings.
John H. Latey, Charles Ellis and Willis
Hall, OF WalkervilIe, have just returned
from a hunting ard fishing trip. They re-
brought back enough fish and sage hers to
feed one-haif OF the inhabitants OF Walker
vile.
The other mornIng the train going south
contained several cars OF horses for the
Bellevue. Idaho, race meeting next week.
They consisted OF nearly all OF the fast
animals from the Butte and Helena meet
,rgs, and will make things lively for all
he Democratic Central Committee met
1T the First National Bank last evening.
Quite a number Of prominent Democrats
were present. The committee mapped out
the campaign and appointed different com
mite S who will go actively to work.
They will meet again Monday evening.
MIR. D. A. RowelJ, late of Chicago. has en-
gagged with the Bonner Mercantile Com
pany as floor walker. He will assist
in looking after the several depart
ments, seeing hat customers receive
proper attention, etc. He will form a val
nab,e acquisition.
The fact that grim autumn is at our
door is evidenced almost as much by our
advertising columns this morning as by the
mercury. Sands & Boyce. with character
istic enterprise, open the fall campaign
witt, a special sale OF ladies' underwear,
which they will continue for a week. Their
announcement elsewhere in this issue is
worth reading.
George Frazier wal sinking a well at
Rocker yesterday when at a depth OF
TWENTY-FIVE fest the bottom OF the well
ulced up, the water rushed in rapidly and
in less than half an hour the well contained
water to the depth OF over tenfeet. George
is p~uzzling his brain to tird some way to
wall I'D the well and prevent the water
rom running out over the top.
The Dillon Tribune thinks the society
editress of The MINER doesn't like the
way Dillonites k ep HOTEL The Tribune
is about three-thirds right as far as one
,,iIlon hotel is concerned. But the guess
bv the Tribune that ''she must be a tender
10 t" is far out OF the way. The MINER
society editress lis to the manor BON
and knows a good hotel when she is in one
Rev. Father ~Cnshnahan, Of Ogden, Utah
arrived i" town yesterday. He comes in
the interest OF education and will be pleased
to meet parents who wish to give theil
children a good education in the new Cath
| olic College of Salt Late City. This insti
| tution is to be opened on Monday with q
| full aud competent staff OF teachers. under
| the presidency OF the Rev. Father Seaman
Mr., H. Jordan, OF Fish Creek, was in tn
| city yesterday, purchasing supplies. ID
returns home this morning. He reports
farmers in his section as through harvest
ing and busy threshing. He says there arr
many fires in the timber along the road
but thinks yesterdays rain, while no
heavy enough to subdue them, Will never
theless act as a much to be desired check
Contractor j. 1. Foreman is erecting
large warehouse at the depot which, whel
completed, will be used by Nelson Story, Q
Rozeman, to store their products iron
their Touring mill. The warehouse will b
one story high, 52x5G feet. twelve 100
ceiling and covered with Il four cornere'
hin roof. Mr.. Foreman expects to hay
the same ready for occupancy by %