Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-15
MONTANA CLIPPINGS.

IL MONTANA CLIPPINGS.
The Bannack Masonic Society will give
grand bail on Christmas eve.
The break up in the Missouri river ha
carried away several of the ferry boats.
, The electric light plant for Billings ha
. arrived at that place and is now being pu
' in position.
n Virginia City has had erected q menu
q ment in the cemetery at that place in mem
DRY of the late DR.. I. c. Smith.
Charles Severance, of Okla, lost 400 sheer
t lately. They were smothered by piling.
Beef steers that net from $4S to $50 pel
head last year are only yielding from So:
to $37 this year.
The order Of A. o. U. w. OF Fish Creel
. and vicinity have erected a new hall fol
{ their use. which is about completed.
Yellowstone County countains 457, 1913,
o % acres OF unserveyed Northern Pacif,
o lands, which is assessed at $137, 7OO.93.
The ladies OF the Episcopal Church al
o Miles City will hold a fair for the benefit o.
. the church at that place on Thursday and
7 Friday night next.
The County Commissioners of Lewis and
Clark County have let the contract for the
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W.. N. Holden, at $3.50 per capita.
Delegate Toole of Montana appeared be.
fore che House Committee on Territories
one day last week and made an able argn.
ment in favor to the union Of Montana az
a State.
The Northern Pacific officials at Miles
City have refused to grant the right of way
for the slide of the Miles City Toboggan
Club. They. however, will sOon make an
other selection for their slide.
The Sun River Canal Company built
during the past summer a mammoth ditch
twenty-six miles in length and carrying
10000 miners inches of water, and
capable OF irrigatirg 700, 600 acres OF land
in the Teton country.
Billings expects soon to have a railroad
connection with Cooke City. 1t is expected
that as soon as the right Of way can be Sc
cured from the government work will be
commenced on the Billings, Clark's Fork
and Cooke City Railway.
Billings has had several incendiary fires
lately, at which the majority Of the good
citizens there acquiesce in. The poor IN
fortunates being some colored women who
rented houses in the resident portion of
the city, and we're living in them for i'm
moral purposes.
There have been more deaths at Fort As
sinaboine since the LIST of April than at
any time previous that date since the &C.
Establishment at the post-three suicides,
six accidental deaths -four of which were
fractures OF the skull, producing almost
immediate death), IL six natural deaths.
The mortality is something remarkable
River Press.
Richter & Co. of Helena have been closed
up under an attachment issued against
i &lor, Ill., ~,@r4 o1s-.ol H.. TIL ~
| Murphy & Co. is $4,000, said to be now
due and unpaid. The firm hopes to re-
turn to business again pending the suit.
Their store is in the hands Of the sheriff.
Many of the citizens of the Panhandle of
Gallatin are anxious for annexation to
Yellowstone county, There are a number
OF fine farms and a large number Of cattle
and sheep in that section, and the settlers
cannot reach Bozeman, their county town, |
without travelling 200 miles, while Billings |
is their natural trading point.-Billings
Gazette.
A gentleman from St. Paul inform the
Bozeman Chronicle that he visited several
members of the Northern Pacific Coal
Company, and that he found them still de-
cided upon one point regarding the Timber.
line mining troubles: They unhesitatisgly
informed him that they would not reopen
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the men who had been discharged. Al
though they were ready and anxious to
start up again, they would not do SO until
an entire new crew OF workmen were &C.
cured.
The Helena Rod and Gun club have re.
ceived three dozen California quail, and for
the purpose of prOpagatiDg this beautiful
species of the well-known game bird, they |
will be turned loose in Prickly Pear valley |
to rustic a living under the protection OF
the law now in force. They are a hardy |
bird, and should flourish in this climate. |
There are already several Tennessee quail
IN the valley, the result of Hundley & Preu-
tits experiment of introducing them over a
year ago.-Helena Herald.
Wadsworth Post No. 3, G. A. R., of Hell
ena, has elected this following officers for
the ensuing year: Post Commander, J. G.
Sanders; Senior Vice Commander, Richard
A. Craig; Junior Vice Commander, George
w. Shaw; Quartermaster, H. F.. c. Klein
schmidt; Surgeon, Richard Hoback; Chap
lain, Rev. R. E. Smith; Officer of the Day,
J. P. Donaldson; Officer OF Guard, Prof.
Nappy; Council Of Observation-Disclosures
Commander &c. Wallace, Col. r. E. Fisk.
Senior Vice Commander r. A. Craig; Rep
resentatives to Department Encampment
Principals, Com. Roes Deegan, Com. r.
Il L ISHs OOlH. CoHi 4MollUC, II lItUCoJ
Com. r. Hoback, Com. G. w. White. Com.
H. F. C. Kleinschmidt.
Mammoth Hot Springs, after the close OF
the tourist season, is usually a very quiet
and unobtrusive burg, but something hap.
pened that sharply broke the monotony.
1t is nothing more or less than an elope-
ment, a bright and breezy elopement. The
parties are Miss Jennie Henderson and
John Dewings. The lady is a daughter Of
G.. l.. Henderson, late Assistant Superin-
tendent OF the Park, a niece of Congress
man D. B. Henderson, of Iowa, and herself
formerly postmistress at that place. Mr..
Dewings drove up from Gardner to the
Springs and took the young lady out for a
drive. ostensibly for a short, quiet, COM
monplace excursion. They drove down
the valley to Judge Wilson's, where they
were duly married. Thence they returned
to Gardner for dinner. Meanwhile the
young lady's father had been advised OF
their suspicious movements and started
from the Springs toward Gardner. Friends
who were in the secret warned the bride
and room of the coming of MI. Hender-
son, and they, evidently believed that their
perfectly defensible marriage would not be
complete without a hasty fitting with an
irate father in pursuit, crying, my daugh-
ter, oh, my daughter"! hastily jumped into
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and FASTENED away. In a little time Mr..
Henderson arrived in hot haste, but mu.
tual friends persuaded him that as it was
impossible to unite the knot of Judge
Whitson. and Is the marriage was likely to
result satisfa ctorily in every way, he had
better let matters take their natural course.
He took the advice and went home, while
the bride and room are presumably still
wearing out norge flesh in their hasty ride
down the romantic Yellowstone.-Madi-
sonian.
A Mistake and Correction.
Sunday mornings issue contained the
announcement of tho marriage of Mr.. Simon
Haley and Miss O'Leary last Saturday al
t~ernoon. The matter was given to The
MINER reporter by one in whom he placed
implicit confidence. But it seems our in
formant was imposed upon by some one
and was just nine months too late with his
news, as the parties in question we're mar
ried last March. It is not often . newly |
married couple is SO fortunate as to get q
newspaper notice of their marriage twice a
year. However, The MINER has given an
extra one to Mr.. Haley and bis estimable
lady, aud now reiterates it's wishes ex-
pressed nine months ago that the happy |
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