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Newspaper
Butte Miner
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1877
Page
2
Fragmentary notes report bullion losses of 20240 58 and 35509 7, cattle exports to England unprofitable, and a bold chess display at the Cosmopolitan hotel in Helena. It mentions Russian themes, Alaska investment, Utah divorces, Chicago whiskey use, and political unrest in France, all in disjointed prose.
The Sioux delegation led by Spotted Tail and Red Cloud met the President and Cabinet on the 28th to press for secure lands and government support. Speakers sought homesteads, crops, and banks, while criticizing reliance on moral suasion alone and urging enforcement of treaties. A Deadwood convention chose Judge Whitehead as Dakota Territory delegate to Congress, amid mining-vs-agriculture disputes, and a novel single-track locomotive by David B. James drew interest for Western transport.
North-West xtra Fort Siaw Montana reports General Miles surprised Nez Perces near Bear Paw mountains in September killing seventeen including Look ing Glass and three chiefs and wounding forty. Officers Hale Mayhew Guilfrey Wirt and Baird wounded lightly. Independent notes rich ore districts with Mammoth and other mines, mills by Walters Perc y Parsons, and tax on ore. Robberies near the Black Hills stage line provoke pursuit, with 20 lodges leaving Spotters Canyon Agency.
Secretary Seburz visited the Indian delegation and distributed silver medals, noting good spirits and no displeasure with the conference result. Archbishop Bayley lay a solemn requiem at the Cathedral and funeral arrangements followed in Gailimore. Thomas Sayler filed a chancery suit against George L. Pullman seeking $300,000 in damages over alleged seizure of a patent railroad car brake.
Reports from Deer Lodge include a jail term for Kelly after a house confrontation and a minor ear wound from a pistol discharge. Debates on school openings cite Prof. C. A. Moore. Captain Mason leaves for Helena as surveyor general. a Catholic concert is planned. a horse incident near Deer Lodge injures no people. O Brien bail set at 4000 for a murder trial in the next U.S. Court.
The article notes emigration from Boronia and lines of migrants toward Montana. It reports a revolution in San Domingo, a large silver export to China, and a deadly yellow fever outbreak in Providence. It mentions California wheat and a labor strike ending in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with wage increases, plus military actions on the Rio Grande and in Texas.
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