Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-22
c NEWS NOTES.
Silver, 99K.

House.
Sheriff Lloyd got into his new quarters
yesterday.
George Woodthorpe in the Mysteries OF
| Paris tonight.
sn,endid music at the Bonner Mercantile
| Store last evening.
There are tw enty seven prisoners in the
| County Jail-all males.
Rev. F. A. Riggin, OF Fish Creek, 's on o
| brief business visit to the city.
Plenty OF work for miners at the Ana
| conda and St. Lawrence mines.
Steve Simpson is improving and has
| almost an aver chance to recover.
| +. Ursa Collins, at q late hour last night,
gave 81, ZOO bail to appear to-day.
Lots of fun last night at the foot ball
match between colored people at the rink.
The Jerry Creek Flume Company's AK
has been reduced from $4,000 to $4o,'
900.
His physician told The MINER man yes
| terday that Steve Simpson is steadily i'm.
proving.
Dan Riordan left for California last night
| where he will fill q case and hear the sea-
lions howl.
C. II. Clay, of the Inter-Idaho, HALEY.
L 10 tO1y ALL ~ AAo Ply ASAsSA
hopes OF his recovering.
The Pacific Express Company shipped
ten bars of bullion from the Blue Bird
mine yesterday, worth $1.O4O.
j. C. johnson has received the contract
to treat and furnish medicine to the county
| sick at 81 per head per year.
Samuel Stephens and John Collins will
| wrestle in the Milwaukee arena Cornish
style) on the evening of Christmas day for
$50.
The police were on g, red hot trail last
| night but for prudential reasons the re-
| porter deems it best to keep silent just
now.
"Sic send for Maginnis! How do you
| like our new GOVERNOR" is the Billings
| Gazette's way Of announcing Gov. Leslie's
appointment.
About 400 persons have signed u petition
! to the Postof1ice Department, praying that
/ the Butte postoffice be removed to a point
further down town.
Schilling Bros. had q grand opening Of
their International Beer Hall last night.
The lunch was royal and the liquids were
literally consumed.
The Pacific Express Company shipped
to-day thirteen bars of Alice bullion, val
ued at $21, 64S, and eleven bars of Moul-
ton worth SIS,
w. w. Morris came in from Pony yester-
day and reports the mines and the mill in
first-class shape and work progressing
steadily and rapidly.
The old postofi"e building is pretty as q
picture, having been painted, papered and
renovated throughout. and is being filled
with goods by ]. E. Richards.
Mathew Hogan left the city last evening
on q visit to the old folks at Willard,
Minnesota. He will more than likely put
in the winter with them.
Correspondents will please recollect to
write on only one side OF the paper. A nice
letter was recently spoiled by being written
on both sides and not noticed till too late.
A$2O,OOO clean up on Comstock shares
was the snug little pocket sum an engineer
on the Modoc mine recently took in. He
has gone to Frisco to eat sea6sh and
breath salt air.
Last evening Andrew Davies, station
tender in the Alice, crushed his hand be-
tween the cage and shaft. DR.. Holland, the
company's surgeon, was called, and ampu-
tated one of the fingers.
That was an interesting and yet a sad
sight yesterday when a little child led a
blind man across the street. over which
wagons and hacks were continuously pas
sing. "And a little child shall lead them"
The most elegant saloon fixtures ever put
up in Montana will soon be placed in the
Clarendon; the old Revere House. MIR. Paul
Davis, the proprietor, will entertain his
numerous guests most royalty in the new
palace
The name of Curtis E.. Price, of Fort Gus
ter, has been suggested by the department
commander to the National Headquarters
of the Grand Army of the Republic, at
Madison, Wisconsin, for Assistant 1nspec-
tor General.
Messrs. Leyson & Turck have been ap-
pointed licensed watchmakers for the Union
Pacific Railway, which, under a new regula-
ton, requires every employe to have his
time piece tested and regulated before as
Stunning duties on trains.
The MINER was in error in stating that
Mrs. Williams is the leader of the orchestra
in Gilroy's musical parlors. Mrs. Gilroy
herself, a most accomplished pianist, is en-.
titled to that honor. The lady has an en-
viable reputation in the city as a musician.
Sarah H. Nichols. of Rapid City, Dakota,
wants to know the whereabouts of her son.
Thomas F. Nichols, and a y that when
last heard of he was in Butte three years
ago. His mother is a widow and will re-
ceive kindly any information concerning
him.
In several of the valleys OF Eastern Mon
tan the farmers are busy blowing, the
mercury ranging from IS to IS degrees in
the shade nearly all this month. Down in
the so-called banana belt east of the Mis-
souri, the ground is already frozen several
feet deep.
At Meaderville, at Clark's Calusa, the
boilers are being repaired, and during the
time OF repairs the shaft will be put in
irst-class operation. There is enough ore
on hand to keep the smelter going. Repairs
will probably take eight or ten days to be
completed.
Young Green, who committed suicide at
Bozeman, attended one of the whist club
meetings in Billings a few weeks ago. He
built to shoulder his way through the
world, and the last man that would be ex-
pected to commit suicide.
Remember the Keystone Club ball to-
morrow evening. Parties who have not
the door of the hall. Ample arrangements
have been made for the alton
of the ladies and guests. The ball will
promptly at 8 O'Clock.
Dublin Gulch has thirty-seven marriage
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the next sixty days it is said there will be
I'D there thirty-six weddings and three en-
gagements to be fulfilled in July. Some
body 60 and take the th~irty-seventb, who !
will be SO disconsolate after sixty days.
The "Model" restaurant is no more. It !
has "gone glimmering" like the dream of a |
Tilted girl but its place is to be supplied by
one OF the finest saloons in Butte, under |
the MANAGEMENT of Messrs. Murphy e. |
These gentlemen are au fait in
this line OF business and will be ready to re-
ceive their friends about New Years day.
Mr.. Burgess, of the Pacific Express Com
pany office. has the thanks Of The MINER
man for repeated courtesies. The company
are to be congratulated on having a man to
representa- them here who, while he is constant
and watchful OF their interest, does not
as too many men would, forget the amenit
les and decencies that make up and mark
The gentleman.
Miss Annie Hart, who was married Sun
lay morning to Mr.. Henry Williams, and
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