The Dillon tribune., 1882-12-30
MONTANA CONDENSED.

age, number an even 700.
During the year 1881 there were 1,s1o,,,4
letters mailed in Montana.
An assembly Of the knights Of Labor
has been instituted at Butte.
The Shakespeare-Parrot copper mine at
Butte was sold for 100000
| A new lodge Of the A. O. U. W. has
been organized at Walkerville.
The corrected assessment roll of Madi.
son county toots ap $a,3oc,ooo.
| AT Billings, on Christmas, Pat Devine
shot and killed Jennie Conkley.
Several cases Of small pox are reported
at the pest house near Missoua.
The product Of Montana in gold and sill.
yer for 1SS, will reach $Soooooo
The agitation of the division of Gallatin
County has commenced in earnest.
Near Livingston, ON the N. P. two silver
lodes are being opened and developed.
The officers at Fort MTissoula amuse
themselves by trapping mountain goats.
The citizens Of Benton have male up a
purse for the arrest Of Hunts murderer.
The male population of White Sulphur
Springs is effected with the quartz fever.
Four men were married at Butte o.,
Christmas. Took wives for Christmas gifts.
Dick kennon, at Deer Lodge, got yer.
dict for $2o,75o against Gilmer, Salisbury
s. Co.
Montana's contribution toward the Gar.
field Monument at Cleveland amounted to
$1,46o.
Episcopal Church Fairs are successes.
The one at Bozcrnan left net profit of
$3SS.oo.
The publication Of the Daily L~bov Um.
ION, at Butte, has been suspended until fur
Their notice.
Dave Upton gave a genuine "'possum
dinner" to all the Missourians in Butte on
Christmas.
The Custer county contests over the late
election have all flashed in the pan and
went out.
Henry Filing predicts that the old Roch.
ester mining district, in Madison county,
will loom up.
A "Fairy Festival" an Episcopal enter.
tainment, at Missoula Melted the handsome
sum OF $4s8
Keats and Davis, the feather weight pu-
gilists, will fight again at Butte, on Sunday,
January I4th.
The mines At Basin City are being work.
ed this winter with larger force Of men
than heretofore.
1t will require $4,000 to build the Sis.
ters' Hospital at Benton-$5,soo Of which
has been subscribed.
The Northern Pacific will make good all
losses sustained by the burning of freight
in the fire at Merrill.
The Christmas DRINKS at Butte we're tn,
numerous to mention, while at Dillon thew
were few and far between.
BY the overturning Of wagon in Colo
RADIO Gulch in Lewis and Clarke county
James w. Warner was killed.
Peter Hansen, = Swede, was instantly
killed In the 'Mullan bore, on the a3d. hy Il
mass Of rock falling upon him.
Judge Wade's opinion Ia that the '.un
earned" sections Of land are the property of
the Northern Pacific company.
The Bozeman Courier Is now run by tw,,
engines. One IL five.horse. power engine
and the other 10 John Smith Mills.
James Emerson shot and killed 4 man
named Burnley at Livingston last week.
Emerson skipped and has not been caught.
At Helena on Friday of last week Hen.
~ Fornan shot his son-in. law Jacob Kenck
In the head. Kenck died In q few hou,f.
The Silver Bow Company's mining prop.
perties At Butte are to be "placed' in Paris
BY A. ]. Davis, who has bonded the entire
properly.
~ B-.,ton II man steals a saddle he IL
lined $50 and he is compeled to sit by the
stove Of the county jail for thirty consecu.
tive days.
One Commit, at Fort Magirnis, chal.
lenges all OF the checker players in Mon.
lama to play match for from $loo to
ST 600 side.
The Coxviey says that R,xe,nan il sun.
piled with bituminous coal from the mines
of mt. Daniel Maxey." Wh.re is Mount
Maxeys How high Is it,
Nina Anderson, female Of limited vir.
hue, attempted suicide at butte on Christ
mas BY drinking laudanum. A doctor
pumped her out In time to save her.
According to the Times some Internal
scoundrel attempted to blow UP the resi-.
dence Of Frank Worden, at Missoula, ~ith
\ bomb which was exploded on the porch.
A Missourian by the name Of Andrews
gets half rates for birth notices in the Butte
litter Mountain. Andrews has been mar.
ried fifteen years and he owns twenty-five
children.
AT the Christmas tree entertainment Civ,
en- by the Preshyterians Of Butte the child
rem received presents from the hands Of y
veritable Sant. Claus who came down
chimney constructed for the occasion.
Up at Glendale it Is said that woman
kept Christmas in mourning. She had
been widow twice in this year and her
heart was too sad and full Of feeling to be
merry over two widowhoods in one year.
PERSONAL.
Pat O'Neil MAS over from Deer r,rlr.,