The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1882-05-13
MONTANA CONDENSED.

Benton ia to have new hurtv house.
A few cases of pneumonia are reported
at Butte.
Potatoes are worth ten cents per pount
at Coulson.
Twelve cases Of small pox at Miles City
and one death from, the disease.
Two thousand lots havs already beer
sold in the new town Of Billings.
The arrival OF boats at Benton has caused
tumble on prices Of merchandise.
1t costs two.bits drink for whiskey now
in M,ssoula, and poor liquor at that.
$4,000 worth Of high grade young bull
reached Mandan, N. P. R. r., last week.
Thirty .one quartz locations were made
in Madison County during the month Of
April.
Bud Meadow favorably known through.
out Montana, has joined the Billings
boom.
The Indians on the Upper Teton, for
want Of game are killing the cattle Of the
pale faces.
Drunkenness has been alarmingly. prev.
| alent in the town Of Missoula for the past.
three weeks
When the topographers Of the N. P. r
r. buy bill Of grub it is mostly Of pickles
and sour cider.
The N. p. R. R. is making preli,nin
airy survey between Benton and the Vel.
lowstone River.
Track.laying from the East, on the N
p, is going on at the rate Of mile and a
quarter per day.
Wool.sharp buyers, from the East, are
beginning to advertise Themselves through.
out the Territory.
The Gloster 6o-stamp mill is turning
out from $4,000 to $4,000 worth Of gold
| retort per month.
Northern Pacific land sales tor the QUAR-.
ter ending April Ist amounted to 4o9So
acres, netting $l6I,o3s.
The intelligent boys Of Deer Lodge
passed fitting resolutions on the death OF
one ri their playmates.
Montana banks are discounting Cana
dian money slightly, but Canadian curren-
cy continues to circulate.
Two mile grading contracts between
Spokane and Helena, on the N. r. r. r.
are being rapidly, filled. &c..
The geographical parties Of the ". P. r.
K. are examining the odd sections in town.
ships in Eastern Montana. =
The Presbyterians Of Bozeman now say
their prayers on anice, new 5000 carpet
laid down in their church.
The Bozeman Courier saws that Major
Pease exhibited sack full Of rich quartz
from the vicinity OF Benson's Landing.
We challenge the people Of Montana to
say that they ever picked up Helena pa.
per and didn't see Tommy Cruise mentioned
in 1t.
One day last week man named Cullen
went from Helena to Jefferson City and
s,,icided-Nitric acid, three ounces, cid the
job.
Over in Madison County they are brag.
g'ng because Ruby Valley miller was re-
Gently made the daddy Of sixteens
pound girl baby. ...f
The Bismarck Tribune wants to know
where the Hnsba~timan newspaper is print.
ed? Certainly. On farm somewhere in
Meagher County.
Deer Lodge Judge instructed Deer
Lodge Jury to bring in verdict to the IF.
feet that Cinnamon had the right to pur.
chase and hold placer ground.
Meal Cribs, of Deer Lodge, writes such
a wretched hand that when he autographs
on hotel register the page looks as though
1t had been struck with forked lightning.
Mrs. Hartz, for licking her husband, Pc
ter, was tried by a Deer Lodge Jury last
week The jury thought the women was
the best man of the two, and acquitted her.
The first boat Of the season. Josephine,
tied up at Benton, May sd. She lett Bis,
'narck ON the 10Th OF April making but
slow progress owing to the low stage OF
the water.
Geoge Staring, an employee ir the hide.
fe""'M office, had one Of his triggers almost
severed from his hand last Thursday, by
tho''ghtlesslv placing it in the moving cog