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

J. L. Sullivan and party left yesterday.
Church services well attended yesterday.
To-day all the new officers Of the county
supersede the old ones.
Alex. Tarbet, Esq, paid The MINER q
pleasant visit last evening.
Mrs. D. F. McDevitt has returned from
her visit to relatives in Minnesota.
Union Pacific officials meet in Omaha TO-
day to consider the rate question.
Judge Galbraith is down from Deer
Lodge looking over the metropolis.
Yesterday the Parrott got it's large new
blast furnace started. It works finely.
Yesterday was q spring day and the en-
tire population of Butte seemed to be out.
Mr.. Gallagher, of the Parrott smelter,
cheered this Office by his presence last night.
Albert Baettcher. of eorgetown, is in the
city with specimens Of gold ore from the
Grub Stake mine.
Frank Freysclag came in from the Grub
Stake mine near Georgetown yesterday to
take in the metropolis.
Prof. Mueller is in town from Argenta
and tells us the Argenta has closed down
for the winter.
Capt. Edwards expects to leave for Mad
ison county this week and like a sensible
man will order The MINER to follow him.
George Woodthorpe has arrived. She
will appear in "Among the Pines" at the
Grand Opera House tonight.
Married-In Butte. NJ. T., by j. J Nc
Hatton, Justice of the Peace, Mr.. Henry
Williams and Mrs. Annie E. Hart, all OF
Butte.
Yours sincerely, J. L. Sullivan, and party
left for Salt Lake City last night where the
champion will give the Mormons one Tor
luck.
Smiling Albert has in bis cigar case an
envelope incribed: John L. Sullivan, Esq,
Parnell strset, Boston, Mass, for which he
refused $50 yesterday.
About shutdown yesterday spring left for
Florida and winter, with it's whirling, twirl-
ing, matchmaking snow, settled temper
arily over the city.
"Among the Pines" will be produced with
grand scenic effects at the Grand tonight.
a brook of real water running down a
mountain side being n OF the effects.
Wheeler. representative from Bingham
County in the Idaho legislature, made u
speech the other day that an old miner
describes as "simply grand"
Fred Rohr, a prospector living at Green
Campbell Gulch. at Silver Star. suicided
a few days ago. Suffering from tapeworm
the cause.
The actors, actresses and employees OF
the Arion presented Manager Foster with
q magnificent $50 gold headed cane last
evening as a token Of regard and apprecia-
ton of his worth.
Capt. George D. White, commander OF
the famous ''White's Battalion" of Stuart's
confederate cavalry. is now a member OF
the great importing house of Murphy,
Grant & Co., in San Francisco.
A personal letter from one in a position
to know states that there is little doubt
about the truth of the report that the rail-
road company will make Pocatello the
great town between Omaha and Portland.
The Anaconda boys who came up to see
''Yours Sincerely" knock Burns into the
middle of February are disappointed in
that but managed to put in their time in
the metropolis pretty effectively,
Private advices deny the report Of the
big strike in the Bullion mine near HALEY,
though the Wood River papers are blow
ing over it. What else have they to do in
the season OF suow?
Dave Graves and Matt Peterson, late
employees of the Centennial Brewery have
accepted a position in the California Brew
cry and left for Salt Lake City last even
ing, followed by the good wishes OF all their
fellow workmen.
The Idaho legislature is in a deadlock.
The Council has organized solidly Demo-
cratic and the low r House is a dead tie
twelve Democrats and twelve anti.Mor-
mons-with little prospect of a yield by
either side.
The Cresus mine, in Scorpion Gulch,
TJoI- ~,~&1xv orvrol NV a Mnnfono mon
has been sold for $4,000 cash,.and the
Minnie Moore, since Jupe, has paid off
$500. 600 of former Indebtedness and has
$500, 900 in sight.
A gentleman had a huge candy cane,
striped like a BARRIERS pole, yesterday near
this Office. He can recover the remnants
OF it by sending a small boy down into the
cellar, where there must be a few pounds of
sweetness yet.
A Miles City paper, speaking OF the tun-
mel discovered some time ago under DR..
Beal's Centennial Hotel, says: "Happily
their operations were checked by coming
in contact with the meat closet OF the no.
tel, the side OF which was easily pierced,
but q tenderloin steak which hung against
the wall defed their efforts and barred fur
Their progress" Cheeky. very.
Joice, of the tonsorial parlors under the
Revere House, has made a wage1 OF $5OO-
money up-with a well-known sporting
man in this city that Phil Levy, the cham
pion barber of the west, can shave a man
quicker, neater and nicer than any other
h ber in the Northwest, and $500 more
money up-that Phil can cut a mans hair
in shorter time and more artistically than
any other artist between New York City
and San Francisco. The sporting man
has already written to thirty or forty ra-
zor experts to try Phil, but they have de-
clined to enter the list. 1t begins to look
as though Joice will win the money without