The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1882-04-08
MONTANA CONDENSED.

in Helena, amounted to $474.
The postmaster at Silver Bow tas re.
signed. The office was too hetty.
Garfield, In the Bitter Root Valley, will
be established as post office soon.
There were la7 cases disposed Of at the
late term Of District Court, at Butte.
Nine opium smokers were caught In
an opium den, at Missoula, last week.
The Butte Inter Mountains heads its
death notices with the word "Tomb."
A number Of new saw mills will be put
In oper alton in Madison County this spring.
The Indebtedness Of NI;ssoula County,
on the lst OF last March, was s, S,.do.6I.
Creed T'arletnn suicided n, the Sisters
Hospital, Helena, on the afternoon OF the
sth.
The engineering force, Of the Northern
Pacific, is making the final survey near
Helena.
The Missouri river. at Fort Benton, is
rising rapidly and tile boating season has
opened.
The Rizev Press saws that the stampede
for the Fort Maginnis country has com.
menccd.
The tunnel Of the Retort mine, near
Basin City, has tapped rich vein If gold
quartz.
The Bozeman News says there is con-
siderable sickness prevailing In the Gala
tin Valley.
DR.. Byam, Of the Upper Yellowstone,
died at his home, on March 2sth. He was
an oli.timer.
Noah Armstrong, Of Glendale, has
eleven thoroughbred horses in training at
Lexington, Ky.
a vote was taken In Missoula last week
and It was decieed by six to one to incor-
porate that town.
The quartz mines IN the vicinity Of Dia.
mord City are to be vigorously worked
the coming summer.
The Great Mullan Bore is advanced
nearly $50 feet-about one-tcnth Of the
distance to be bored.
The Madisowias rumOrs the report thai
they will have new Methodist preacher
at that place shortly.
Miles CITY wants the Northern Pacific
machine shops, and Deer Lodge Cit,
wants a large Touring mill.
i r. W. Reeves, formerly Of Willow Geek
Madison County, died sud. enly ON March
I'd at San Bcrnardino, Cal.
Gen. Brisbrn's lengthy letter to the N
Y. kic'uld about the Clark's Fork mines IT
Montana, Is attracting attention.
The success Of sheep mcn In Montana
lor the past winter i,,Surrs II large WOO
clip for the Territory this season.
A Bismdrck dispatch says that two ,arg'
parties are to seprt from Missouri and Mich
igan, for the Maginnis mining region.
t The vote Of Helena on last Monday, wa
. Of. which indicates u larger population
for the capital than there is in Butte proper
The spring crop Of convicts for the Pen
: itcntiarv at Deer Lodge shows no tallin.
oil, as compared with former irutlul years
Last week Bronco Tom was sentenced
in the District Court, at Helena, to twt
years in the penitentiary, for horse stealing
Mrs. Angelinc Levcrdure, OF Fort Ben
, ton, whose husband died IS years ago Il
| the age Of Io,, is great atgrcat-grand moth
!, er.
1t is talked Of organizing compan,
with 100000 capital to commence tn,
: manufacture of giant powder at Silvc
Bow.
The Silver Star mining camp used 10000
fec. OF lumber last year, and 1t is likely tina
camp will consume that amount OF lumber
this year.
' The division Of Mcaeher County is un
, der discussion and the building of a Cour
: House at White Sulphur Springs has bcc'
postponed.
Robert I.other, who was serving terr
in the Deer Lodge Jail, suicided by cuttin!
= his throat with pen knife, on the night G
, March 3lst.
The Mystic Lake Ditch Company, q
Gallatin County, will have an irrigatin
ditch to supply twenty farms finished b.
!, the I>t of June.
!. \ former resident of Deer Lodge is t
a be tried at Miles City for bigamy and triga
:. my. lie owns three wives, which is nu
!. according to law.
5 On the lst Of April one Of the Quarter
masters storehouSes, a large building
d lssx1o feet, at Fort Assinaboine, was blow
n down by the wind
:. Among the best cultivated portions {
% Montana is the Missouri Valley, whcr
Z the farms are we'll fenced and the dwellin
: houses are comfortable.
The Forest and Stream estimates tn
u number of deer, antelope, elk and buffal
killed within the limits Of Montana durin
4 the year 1881 at e64, 200 head.
$ The ten lots purchased some years a.
!, by Bishop Tuttle, for site for an Epscop
$ Church, In the town OF Missoula, were sol
n recently, and brought good prices.
~ Subscriptions for the building of ne
- Catholic Church, in Butte, have con
4 menced, under the auspices OF stron
y committee of leading citizens of that city.
The "Bcnton Line" got the L. S. co,
s tract for transporting military supplies b
!, river, and Fred I. Evans got The contra'
:. for transporting military supplies by lam
in Montana.
5, The Inter Mountains says that the dan
). aged $1o,ooo school house Of Butte is
!: be completed according to the plans an
e specifications enjoined by the school tru
!; tees Of Butte.
y A carpenter, named Richards, fell fro'
n the root Of the new Lexington mill at Butt
on last Saturday. He fell a distance I
c fifty feet, fracturing his right thigh and su
taininv other serious INJURIES