Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-29

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Two nice ladies had a genuine rough and
tumble catch.who-can match near the post
office Tuesday morning about n O'Clock.
Snow and skirts flew freely.
James II. Lynch and his brother Frank,
who is passing the holidays with him, went
to Burlington yesterday to look after their
mining interests and have a little time with
the boys and girls for Xmas sake.
The Ceur d'Alene Record publishes what
~purports to be a picture OF the late Gov
ernor Pitkin, of Colorado. If the Cover
nor's friends were to see hat daub they
would feel like scalping the Record office.
The estate of +. D. Reynolds, deceased,
valued at $28, 1895, has been settled and
the heir. Reynolds. a brother-received
$1,737.64 cash and $3,S77.49 in property
of several kinds.
Charles Hoffman leaves next Saturday
for Lincoln, Nebraska, where he will marry
Miss May Whistler, formerly of Butte Citv,
and after a trip east will return to reside
permanently in this city.
George Lewis, late city editor ofthe Inter-
Mountain, leaves Montana for his late
home in Ketchum, Idaho, tonight. Good
luck!
The Silver Bow S~tockgrowers' Associa-
ton will meet in Good Templars' Hall, in
this city, on Thursday, December 80, at 2
O'Clock p. m. By order Governing Com.
mittee. SAMPLE H. ORR, Pres.
Still the beautiful falls like the gentle
dew from heaven"
The streets are gay with the merry music
of the ~sleighbe]ls.
Sleighing in Butte is o the order of the
day and equals that in Montreal.
The old postofice building is now occu.
pied and is as bright as a new dollar.
."Bob' Paxton's firm assigned yesterday
Report has it that they will pay in full.
At Renshaw Hall tonight the Entrt
Nous people hold their fourth reception.
The Pacific Express shipped 10 bars O
Moulton bullion yesterday worth SIG, 12O
The public buildings of Butte bore tbt
flag at halfmast in token of grief at Logan,
death.
A dog bit eddie johnson of the Com
ique yesterday. He is off duty for d
while.
Ogden arrivals say there is a fair chance
to elect anti-Mormon officers in that tow
this spring.
The patients in tie Insane Asylum re-
ceived 81, 900 worth of Xmas presents
from DR.. Mussigbrod.
Passengers from the South say the snow il
all on this side the ridge and no drifting.
Trains were on time yesterday.
The Carrie LEONARD mine, in Smoky dis.
trict. Idaho. has been sold to Salt Lake
parties for sos 900, spot cash.
Stock men are jubilant, the only danger
is a thaw and then a freeze to make a crust
over the snow that stock cannot break.
Died-In Butte, De- ember 26, Nellie,
do,,nhfor of r. r opI g A n,DE,o mad q
years, 8 months and 26 days.
trains OF the Utah & Northern between
Ogden and Butte. it is semi-oficially said.
Snow still falling. The storm is the
greatest in depth of fall known for four
years.
There will be a merry wedding hereabouts
New Years day, so u little bird whispered
through the window OF this Office yester-
day.
Foreman Cole, late OF the Anaconda Re-
view. came down from Deer Lodge Sunday
night and left yesterday via the Northern
Pacific for Minnesota.
The man, over whose body Coroner
Amsden, at Meaderville, Sunday, held his
first inquest, was the old-timer George
Of Helena brewery fame.
Died-In Butte, Monday, December 27,
1889, Slator Hepburn Blaekiston, son of
Rev. S. c. Blackjston, aged 2 years and 3
months. The funeral will take place from
the Episcopal Church at 2 p. m. to-day.
Died-Yesterday. of old age and general
debility, the Gratuitous Local Puff. The
will be entirely private. No fow-
ers. Friends will paste this in their hats.
At the Utah & Northern railroad shops
a new machine is being constructed to be
used in cutting off the ends of the ties
along the road to the level OF where the
rails nov rest. It will be attached to an
engine and will have a sort of revolving
cutter and circular saw.
Judge Mediation had a tough case in
several tougher cases figured yester-
day. The subject ratter was a $3.50
and chain alleged to have been
stolen. The dramatls personae were a
woman. a discarded lover and a
coon.
Charles Colbert, Levi Price and Michael
Judge have relocated the Yellow Jacket |
mine, situated one.half mile south of the |
in Butte City, under the name
Of the Interior. The Yellow Jacket was
several years ago by George Fit
schen, j. A. Moss, E. NJ. Bowen, H. u.
Hauser and Cummins. Since then part
81 the mine has been sold. The "Inte-
rior" people claim irregularities in the Vel
.ow Jacket location, ETC., and have sold
The major part of their claim. 1t is very
valua bic ground, even if there were no lead
Of mineral there, and it is probable a rich
vein-the Black Chief-passes through it.