The Dillon tribune., 1881-09-03
MONTANA Condensed.
HELENA HERALD.
Burned.

l. HELENA HERALD.
Burned.
Mrs. James Dwyer, OF Belmont. ha'
come into the city with her little infant, fit
burned .!av before Yesterday, and is now al
the hospital with the little sufferer. Tho
rchild was horribly burned. the arms anc
head being in Il very bad condition. A.
stated in the Herald the little one found i;
box of concentrated I've. The mother h:c
gone to the store few yards distant from
the house leaving the child alone. On hei
return she found the poor baby burning
with great pain. DR.. W. &. Morris is at
tending the little patient.
lift is possible to procure men and team.
enough the Northern Pacific will, we un
derstand, wholly complete the roadbcd
from New Bedford to Helena this fall
The distance covered will bc about thirty
miles. OF this stretch Mr.. Dunn's con.
tract takes in twelve miles of the interval
TIE remains OF James Flctt, who was
drowned ut this place some days ago, were
found Sunday eight or nine miles down
the river, nearly opposite James Rowe's
ranch. Cononer Kelly held an inquest and
returned a verdict OF accidental drowning.
The late Mr.. Spotted Tail rejected the
Christian religion, and briefly put hi, OBJ
| lection as follows: "Whitc religion no
good. God came on earth; white man
kill him. Indian wouldn't do that
The river is now half inch lower than
the low water mark Of 1879. The "oldest
inhabitant' can not remember the time
wa. II the stream Was low tli, early in the
season.
The Josephine left the Coal Banks yes
tcrtl1v morning at daylight and will re-.
licve the Key West OF a portion OF her car.
20 Il: Cow Island. The Rosebud was at
the Coal Banks two days before and was
compelled to work four pumps to keep
her atloAt She was injured on Budd's
rapids.
Daniel Berry, who was wounded BY Il
bear, near New Chicago, last Sunday, is
convalesciny. He yol OF we'll, only few
ya>hes in his arms.
\ forward movement is being made by
the Good Tenpars Of this place towards
moving their hall, and we believe the
work viii be consunatcd. They propose
to get the hall here and completed by DC.
tobcr ist.
Cameron & Fowler's calm, located
about 10 miles east of Martinstiale, was de-
stroyed by fire last week, together with
their entire household effects. Mrs. Cam.
eron only saved what clothes she had on
We have not learned the particulars as to
ho" t.,c Ii. { originated.
The preliminary examination Of John r..
Boiler, ch;rged with selling liquor to In
dians, came Oft before Justice Pomerov
last Saturday, and resulted in Bobicr being
bound over in the sum of $500 to appear
at the November term OF the district court
He found bail without any difficulty.
Accidental Shooting.
Another OF those fatal accid4uts resulting
from the careless handling oil! firearms hap
,en>d last Monday afternoon at The -Four
Mile House, near Fort Missoula, yo,,ny
German named Joseph Smith, who has
been living i'll Slis>oult three or four
months, being the victim. Tie was 10 start
Tuesday morning for the head Of Flat
head Lake to settle upon piece of land
and Monday afternoon went to Fred RAYS
to get pistol belonging to Mr. Hitter, and
for which he had an order from Hitter
Smith got the pistol, Ray saving that he
had fired five loads from it,. Smith carrivt.
it III MS hand to near the -Four Mil. House,
where he met two rr thrr. soldiers among
them Corporal John NJ ,l,an, OF Co. 81"
Third Infantry. Nathan wanted to look at
the pistol and asked if it was loaded, Smith
handed it over, saying it was not loaded
Mahan looked at it and seeing empty
shells in the chambers OF the cylinder com
| 'nenced taking them out 10 do this
more conveniently he cooked the pistol
and while extracting the shells accident.
ally pulled the trigger, the last cartridge in
the cylinders exploded, and the hall was
sent crashing in the breast &c Young
Smls, short distance from the right nip
pie. The unfortunate ln..u lii to TIC
sr'.snl :.!s, ;.,.:.a.t i,,,n, l.:;t ~ expired
Mr.. Smith was about thirty one years
old, ...,s :,..s retcntl, come from Germany,
where he left two broth,r> and sister,
was s|'orcr by occupation, and intended
to makra permanent settlement in the Flat
head Lake country.
During the week the fires have been IRE.
vailiny in the mountains OH all sides and
the smoke has been SO dense as ut times Ia
obscure all s:c., al Tie mountains five
miles away.
Sir John Reid and party ar hunting il
! Tic .NldNi>th bl>Tb AGEDtdNu Lama
maiden shot in i,' Rockies bagyrd him ;
five hundred pound grizzly, which he killc.
the fifth day after leaving Virginia.
Carpenters have begun work on the new
NJ. L. parsonage on Warren street,
! M'4ra.
The banking hou,. of Clark, Donnc!l 4
Larabi'. has shipped nearly one hunLr..
pounds of gold du>, lately.
Some Of the m n employed on the grad
for the new Lexington Mil struck vcsttr
day for an increase Of wages.
The shipments Of silver bullion bars b.
the Pacific Express Company, through
the Butte Office, for the week ending Sat
orday. Aug. 18th, toot.d up .,SS. pounds
valued at Sis.3oo.
/ We We're Informed last evening THAT tn
right OF way l,r the Raiwa, between Sill
, vsr Bow ana Butte had been substantial
-. granted by all parties Interested in tt,
ground over which Tx, road passes, wit
, the exception Of one claimant. The pull
T. lie spirit and oft expressed views tavorabl
:, to railroads made BY ti.S claimant leads II
: to hope that all obstacles will be- remove
T. immediately, and that full force
graders will bc put on the line between ST
q yer Bow and Butte. without further della,
II We earnestly hope that such may be til
: case.
:, Last Sunday morning between three an