Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-22
C NEWS NOTES.

The hackmen say business Is slack.
The Tivoli social last night was a sue.
cess.
A new crossing has been laid on Park
street, near Thomas grocery store.
Manager Sheedy is a success. He would
make a tip-top drum major.
How many headaches one week from to-
day!
"Among the Pines" Monday night at the
Grand.
Mrs. Osborne's Dairy has been doing
finely since it's opening.
Warden Thomas M. Fagin came up from
Deer Lodge last evening.
Marshal Kelly, of Deer Lodge, is up to
see "Yours sincerely, John L., Sullivan"
Col. w. F. Sanders, the Republican
''War Horse" is in the city from Deer
Lodge.
George Woodthorpe in "Among the
Pines" tomorrow night at the Opera
House."
The North Pacific Express shipped TWEEN.
ty-two bars of bullion from the Blue Bird
mine yesterday.
j. NJ. Cole, foreman of the Anaconda Re.
view ran to town last evening to shake
hands with the boys.
To purchase a library with the proceeds
of their holiday ball is the wisest thing the
Knights Of Labor could do.
among the Pines" is a pleasing pictur-
esqae drama. It will be on the Opera
House boards tomorrow night.
A number Of persons from Deer Lodge
and Anaconda came to Butte to witness
the Sullivan exhibition last night.
j. G. Searles, Esq, The MINERS special
correspondent at Anaconda, came to this
city last night and took in j. LIS show.
There was only one l%ittle-very little
case before the Police Court yesterday.
While Sullivan is here the other places of
amusement show a falling of of visitors.
Work is progressing rapidly on the con.
tract recently let by the Parrot Company.
If this autumn weather continues to
Ginger in the lap" of winter, it is likely
there will come a little spring.
Fritz has sold out the Capital restau-
rant, root and branch, and now goes at
something else.
City Marshal Jolly was on the hot trail
OF a watch thief yesterday, but at this
writing he is not up with the time.
L.. 8. Wild returned from Helena last
night, commissioned as Butte correspond
SuC VI Uue 1uutpeuO0uCs
1--WE are making scarcely any arrests
is the answer of the policeman to the
mems request for just one
item.
Samuel B. and VIM. M. Larmour pur-
chased oil j. H. Curtis one-eighth of the
lode claim, on Camp creek, for
$3.50.
This office was nearly smothered yester-
day by a crowd following John l.. Sullivan,
who was passing by. 1t would have beed a
one" in the eye. Such toadying!
"Steve" Simpson, who fell seventy feet in
the Skip mine, is at this hour living, but
will probably die before The MINER reaches
the reader this morning. He fell on his
head and suffered conclusion OF the brain.
Miss Julia O'Neill arrived in Butte, direct
from New York City, q day or two ago.
The young lady will make it her future
having accepted a lucrative situa-
lion with Miss Formed, OF the popular
Dairy restaurant.
Tomorrow is the day get apart for the
heads Of all the U. P. departments to meet
Omaha to consider the lesseninR of rates
over all their lines.
Butte has been as quiet and orderly dur
ing the past t~wenty-four hours as a Quaker
Good for the good name of Butte, /
but rough on the reporters.
Jimmy Carroll and the "Marine'' call il
and fun, but ordinary people
would think the blows they give each other
we're either mule kicks or bolts of lightning.
both.
There are fewer idle men on the streets of
than ever known before, and more
men at work. relatively speaking. than at
any previous period of the city's history.
The amateurs, as boxers, won manv
words of praise from friends and STRANGERS
alike. Larry Gleason. especially, showed
up well.
J. L. Sullivan ia as nimbls as q kitten.
his appearance. He jumps NJ
and strikes several lightning blows while in
The air.
Sullivan made a neat little speech to the
audience last night, closing it by saving. |
You see, it is the same old story-there's
1obody here to spar with me. Therefore.
I'll have to kill Taylor, and am sincerely
your friend, John L. Sullivan"
During the week ending yesterday the Pa
;ific Express Company shipped the follow.
ng bullion: Eleven bars of Silver Bow. val. |
led at $40. 3O4; Is bars of Moulton, val.
led at SO. $40; ~ bars of Lexington, val.
led at $25, 1882; IL bars OF Alice. worth
s1S, 7S4, and 8 bars OF Bluebird. worth
1888. Total 81 balls, worth $99, 952.
Yesterday Guy X. Piatt, of the Iuter
Mountain, entered a complaint apainst the
'ditor of THE MINER, charging him With
libel. The alleged libelous article
vas q reply to q gross personal attack in
he columns OF the Inter Mountain nnon |