The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1881-04-30
MONTANA CONDENSED.
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AvAMr COURIER
Judge Conger arrived from Virginia Of
Saturdays coach, and opened the Distric
Court here on Monday
WIN. b. Crowell, brother Of y. G., ar
rived from Dillon on Saturday, and ha'
commenced to work at his trade.
A few Rocky Mountain Arabs, denomi
mated Flathcad Indians, tasscd through
town last week en- route to the west side.
lfany one attempts to haul down til.
Silver Bow flag. shoot him on the spot, a
let one of the commissioners hit him will
Butte Jack.
We are informed tina. Joe. kounts, whs
| left here Tor California some time since
has purchased band Of sheep, and is no"
en- route with them for Gallatin county.
News comes from Sweet Grass that the
Northern Pacific surveyors had reachcl
that point and were working this way
They had asse. ted their belief that the,
would soon be engaged locating between
Bcnton's Landing and Boze,nan.
The Grand Jury finished it, labors or
"Wednesday morning. But one indictment
was returned and that for petty larceny on
", which fact speaks volumes for thu
healthy moral condition of our community
new NORTHWEST,
Tie Territorial Insane Asylum and ti,t
Penitenti:rv have eac!, the same number
Of inmates under restraint, ifty.four.
Reed, the murderer of Garland, has beer
indicted for murder in tn. first degree. ],
is not positively known that the cause viii
be tried this term.
&. Holenbcck met with severe acct
dent from the effects of which he was con
fined to his bed for a couple Of weeks
While in the woods near his saw mill fall.
ing tree struck him on the back and head
INJECTING painful bruises.
Quite an assemblaye gathered at Willow
Run farm on "Wednesday to Witness the
exhibition OF stock. Several animals were
put around the hult..nilc track in good
SHAPE. Billy Grant crossed the score III
1917. lIcrod was ~, the track but was
driven leis,rclv. Deer Lodge can boast u
finer horses and more. Of them than any
other Montana town.
Our Community was startled on Wetnes
day by the announcement that Charles
Blum was dead. lie had been quite i'll fol
some three weeks, but the nature of hi.
disease was not generally known and his
decease was unexpected. Dropsv WAS thu
immediate cause Of his death. MIR. Blum
was forty-tive years Of age and has been III
business in Montana several wears, former
ly with Sands Bros. IN Helena and laltcr,v
in Deer Lodge.
YELLOWSTONE JouRHAL,
Reports from up Tongue River are &c
the effect that the Indians are running of
considerable stock and that they are catch,
ing them over on the Rosebud until they
yet ready to skip out. The officers at TT
keogh who have the Indians in charge
should see to it that their depretlations are
immediately stopped, otherw.>, the settlers
will proceed 10 or .yanize AMI shoot every
retl>kin that comes in sight OF their ranches
On NJ 'nday morning last Il courier from
Powder river arrived in town with the sad
news Of the death Of \. n. Allard, N. p
r. r. civil engineer The rircum .tanccs
OF the killing are briefly as follows: An
axmen engaged in cleaning his r,vo!v i,
with the cartridges in, by som, mans cx.
ploleei one the ball passing directly through,
Allard's heart The axman who has long
intimately known the dead man and loved
him rs a brother was nearly beside him self
with horror an! despair from the sad terini-
nation of his c1relessness. Allard was one
of the most promising young men on the
survey, we are informed by his associates,
with whom he was most popular lie was
lately from Anoka, Mimi, where he lett his
young wife and lately born babe, for his
summers work in this valley. A telegram
was Immediately sent to the relatives and
the body is being conveyed to the end Of
the track. Taken altogether the atf.r Is
very sad indeed.
T:,crc is less to fear from yra,s!,oppers
ON Smith River valley than any other val
ey in Montana.
! There has been considerable quart.
found in NJ ,iien gulch, new miain .
camp near Fort Maginnis.
\ private letter from G:.rdenland, Judith
valley, says eight or n new ranches hav,
been located in that vicinity this spring.
Helena inauguratcd a first.class ghost
story, April I>t, but like Mea:hcr countv's
wild woman sensation Of last season, it soon
came to grief. The numerous so.callcd
m, sterious lights that appeared upon III,
Tackle farm, which, were alleged to have
been from supernatural sources, whe,,
traced out proved to he farm house lights
and lights in the city OF Helena.
METROPOLITAN.
Monday afternoon as Messrs. John Can
lice and F. ID. B,own were coming from,
Walkerville in buggy the team became
frightened and ran away, overturning tho
vehicle and throwing both gentlemen VIC.
lentlv to the ground. Mr.. Capiice fell on his
St ouldcr and was considerably bruised
though not severely injured. Mr.. Brow,
escaped injury.
Monday morning about 9 o'clock JOSEPH,
Humble met with horrible death al,,ut
one mile north Of the Montana smeltcr.
le was driving wagon loaded with min.
ing stulls and while making sudden turn
ut a bad place in the road tipped over the
vehicle. The unfortunate man fell under
the crushing weight of two tons ofponder-
ous mining timbers and received Injuries
from which he expired almost immediately.
n number OF men soon arrived ut the
scene OF the accident, who found that one Of
The tinbers had crushed in the ribs on the
lett side and appeared literally to have torn
The heart from its natural resting place.
The sight was terrible to witness. De-
ceased was about thirty years of rpe. lie
leaves two brothers in Missoula county and
!! wife AMI family in Spring field, Missouri.
tie was formerly partner with Bovcc L.
Bacon in the planning b,,sisess and was
man temperate, industrious and universally
(sUrYE MINING REWswA