Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-27
C EPIT0ME.

City Treasurer Cannon will start in col
lecting poll tax the beginning Of next week
Couture u Leford's ladies' and chiIdren's
class this afternoon and social hop THU
evening.
There will be a marionette matinee al
Turner Hall to-day for the special enter
tainment OF ladies and children.
Attention Of Knights of Pythias il
directed to an election notice of Damon
lodge under the head OF meetings.
A decree of distribution of property ef
the state OF the late Robert Girton was
signed and filed in the Probate Court yes
terday.
In the Probate Court yesterday marriage
licenses were issued to Michael Rafferty,
and Nellie Duff and Edward Tenby and
Minnie Webb.
The attachment suit in the Probate
Court Of E.. A. Phelps vs.. E. Wilhelm was
settled by the defendant giving q bill of sale
for the amount.
Curtis q Majors adjusted the loss o the
Hughes fire at -bout 5000 and are having
epairs made on the building, the assay
Office on Upper Main street.
The Silver Bow Water Company has ia.
yited the Council Committee on Water to
visit the new location to which it is pro-
posed to remove the water works.
Four plain DRINKS and one petty larceny
case occupied the attention of Judge Lip.
pincott in the Police Court yesterday, in
which two paid fines and three were COM
mitted.
The Street Railroad Company have com
menced to lay rails from Silver Bow mill to
the race track for the races commencing on
the Fourth. The motor will be used to
make the trip.
The Butte Cricket Club will have a prac-
tice meeting at the grounds south OF the
Reduction Works next Sunday afternoon,
leaving Carr's stable at 2 o'clock. All
members are requested to attend.
The case OF George Benson, alias Stewart,
for the burglary OF the Barnard Block, was
continued In the Police Court yesterday.
The defendant was discharged OIL the bur-
glary charge and held for grand larceny.
City Attorney Speer and City Clerk
Graves were occupied yesterday getting up
forms for the new licenses, receipts and
duplicate receipts required by the new
ordinance, as well as receipts for road
taxes and for the Street Commissioner.
ID. 8. Grinnell, now a conductor on the
Bitter Root branch formerly on the Butte
and Helena run, was married at Horse
Plains on the Goth instan to Miss Lynch,
OF that place, whose father is a big stock
man.
The Montana Central Railway lis making
rapid strides hither laying track at the
rate OF three miles a day. The tracklaying
gang ia in the Park now n at the present
rate anticipate getting into Butte by the
second.
A telegram from Silver Bow received in
this office yesterday stated that the Grand
United Order OF Knights OF Rest is in ses.
sion there which a friend says is another
name for the ~Amalgamated Association Of
Tramps.
Bulletins from the Chicago convention
are posted in front OF The MINER and
Inter Mountain Offices and at Babcock's
on Main street and each fresh bulletin is
eagerly scanned, especially since the ballot
ing began.
James Hughes appeared before Judge
Dingevon yesterday and paid the balance
OF a fine he has owed for about a month.
He felt very much aggrieved that a consta-
BILE came after him to remind him OF the
delinquency, but the Judge told him he was
lucky at getting as much time as he did;
That if he came before him again he would
have to pay on the SPOT or go to jail.