The Dillon tribune., 1882-01-14
MONTANA CONDENSED.
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MONTANA CONDENSED.
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At the Wickes smelter there are fifteet
carloads 100000 pounds) Of bullion await
ing shipment.
A dispatch from Deputy U. S. Marsha
Hathaway says the Glendive express offlc,
was robbed Wednesday night, the mai
sacks being cut open and ritied.
We were shown Yesterday very hand
some bar Of gold bullion belonging to tht
Boston and Montana Gold Mining Co. II
IL the result Of months run on ore IRON
the Gloster mine. This bar was cast al
the United States assay Office, and was the
second bar for 1881. Fine: 62oH gold, 3o9
silver. Its value 5000.
We understand that three Or four famt'
lies lave withdrawn their children from
the school becaus two octaroon children
have been admitted to the temple of learn
ing. We suppose that is their privilege
But the school goes on all the same.
The cattle on some Of our ranges are
suffering for water owing to the dearth o.
snow and the danger from prairie fires Is
now as great as It was last fall. a good
fall of 1.-THE beautiful" would be welcomed
by the stockmen.
A dastardly attempt was made last Sat
urday night to burn Sam Spaulding's bar
Der shop, which, had the effort been as
successful a. the incarnate fiend expected,
would In all probability have wiped out an
entire block on Front street. About
midnight party passing through the alley
in the rear Of the barber shor discovered a
small blaze. An examination clearly es-
tablished the fact that II was an attempt at
ince ndiarism. Shavings and cottonwood
bark, saturated with coal oil, had been
piled against the shed and lighted. Fortu-
nately the fire was discovered in time to
thwart the purpose ofthe fendish fire bug,
or otherwise goodly portion Of our town
might now be In ashes. No clue to the
perpetrator ofthe deed has been found.
Mois Tetreault and his wife, Of near
Frenchtown, had a holiday set-to early
this week, and the old woman was 81
roughly handled that medical attendance
was summoned from Missoula. Madame
Tetreault had one rib broken, and was &C.
vcrely kicked during the fracas.
On the evening Of Dec. 77d, as Mr.. r.
NJ. Baird, Of the agency, was coming
through the O'Keeffe canyon, an accident
happened to his team, and they ran away,
throwing Mr.. B. violently from the sleigh.
As he was found to be quite seriously In
jured, DR.. Ives, Of Missoula, was called
and ON examination found that three OF
Mr.. Baird's ribs were broken and por.
ton Of the left lung lacerated. He was
brought to Missoula on the following day,
and is reported as doing we'll.
svrvs M,mea.
About nine o'clock last night a man
said to be named August Schmidt, fell
down in CONFUSION near the California
Beer Hail, on Broadway. He was imme-
diately surrounded BY an excited crowd,
who said he had taken poison. It was
stated that Schmidt had declared he would
never see another day, and had swallowed,
as some said, seven grains Of morpia, and
and as Others said seven grains Of strych-
nine. He was carried to the Sisters Hospi-
tai, where his commissions were pronounc.
ed eptleptitorim in character. He is
probably Swede, and is some forty wears
Of age. He is said to have been chopping
who'd In the timber for some time past.
Al late hour last night he was not con.
scious, his convulsions continuing.
On Thursday morning body of ore ten
feet wide was struck in the Bell Of Butte al
the depth Of I6o feet. Only one wall OF
the vein has so Far been reached, the orc
showing native and wire silver.
The members. of the Land League in
Butte, held their regular monthly meeting
Sunday night at Ola Good Templar's Hall.
Although the number present was small
they showed their warm.hearted enthusi.
asm by contributing $3.50 10 the fund.