The Dillon tribune., 1883-01-20

Con Orem, Of Dillon, and Jack Waite,
Of Butte, are to engage in soft glove con.
test at Renshaw Hall, Butte, tonight, Sat.
urday. The boxing will be purely scien.
tific contest. The gloves to be used will
be blackened, SO as to leave mark every
time an antagonist hits his man. The man
who sc<Hes the greatest number Of marks
on the body Of his adversary 10 to be de.
clared the best man.
The $4,000 surplus In the Territorial
Treasury is clean cash, ready for the scoop
Of the cormorant. The bait is small but 1t
Is inviting and in the nature IF things must
soon be gobbled. While going for this lit.
tie "surplus" the classic language Of Fitz.
gerald, delegate from Texas to the Chicago
Convention, "What in h--ll are we here
for?" will ring through the Legislative halls
at Helena. Fall to- gentlemen, fall to.
Our Nevada exchanges say 1t is now al.
legged that George p. McConkey's death is
| shown to have been a case of suicide. tie
was defaulter, having made away with
$1,000 Of White Pine county funds. The
Eureka New Sentinel says: "The amount
Of insurance on George p. McCon-
keys life is said to be $i3soo-$s,ooo "
the Accidental Policy, A. ID. Haskell,
agent, and So. 500 in the Masonic Aid AS.
sociation, Chicago"
The .real product Of Reaverhead Coun-
ty has never run high up in the figures In
the past, but the prospects for this year are
better than for former years as there will
he larger acreage s0wn IN the county.
The oats, wheat and barley crop Of Gala.
tin county, for the year 1882, is valued at
Ss74,782. There Is land enough in Bea.
verhead county, susceptible Of profitable
cultivation, to produce grain crop ofequal
value to that Of Gallatin county.
1t is suggested that parties receiving U.
S. patents for mineral and agricultural
lands have them recorded in the county
recorders office. An attorney, having to
look over titles, would not certify to their
correctness unless he can truce back to the
patent and anv omission 10 record may
cause good deal of delay and annoy yance
to subsequent purchasers. Not one hall
Of the patents are recorded, either from ig.
norance Of the matter or from neglect.
&C. Fyhrie & Co. did a large business
during the year 1882. The firm received
goods and groceries BY the Utah and North.
ern railway amounting in the aggregate Ia
one million five hundred and twenty.one
thousand eight hundred and twenty nine
pounds Of freight. The firm paid out for
freight during the year $32SS8.32. In ad-
dition to this the firm handled large
amount Of grain and farm products during
the year that would make a big showing in
figures.
Superintendent Plummer, OF the London
Company, at Silver Star, says that the re.
port that employees took the engine and
boiler flom the mill at Silver Star recently Il
without foundation. Mr.. Plummer Ia re.
ported NJ saying: 1.-THE company does mol
owe dollar to one of It's employees.
took out the boiler and engine myself for
some outside work thai had 10 do, and
how such an entirely unfounded repor,
could have been published is entirely be
yond my comprehension"
Chief Arlee, Of the Flathead Agency
concluded his testimony in the Kuntza-
Marc.go murder trial at Deer Lodge a,
(ollows-which, according to Indian rea
soning, throws the responsibility Of what I
drunken Indian does on to the whites
"Whcn an Indian Is drunk and kills an
other Indian we don't consider that he die
anything. The Indians never had whisk,
: before tho white IN N came here, and vi
blame the white people who gave him the
liquor"
There are a number of well.developee
cases of smallpox at Lq4an, on the line o
the Utah and Northern railway. The citi
zens Of Logan have fenced the infected 10
cality in and they have taken the most ef
ficient measures to prevent spread OF III,
disease. A. LagAn is quite 4 distanc,
from Dillon there is no great cause fo
alarm here, but the Utah and Nor.hcr,
officials should establish some kind Of quar-
antine regulations to protect the towns OF
the line Of the road until the disease Is sup
pressed at Logan.
"Curlcv" Campbell. who was in the "A
loon business in Dillon last summer ans
fall, killed a de>perado named Sweeney Ii
the saloon OF Smith y Camptell at Weeks
Vile on New Years night Sweeney at
tackled Campbell, when the latter shot hi
assailant With \ revolver. Smith, Camp
bell and "One. Eyed Riley" were the oni,
persons that witnessed the shooting, whici
was proven to have been done in self de
tense. Campbell was taken to Horse Plain
where preliminary examination was hrlt
and he was discharged. Sweeney was on,
of the "gang Of roughs" following the lin,
Of the Northern Pacific railway.
A correspondent Of the Ogden PHO
writes from Dillon ah follows: I'VE her.
breathe the free air Of American iniepend
cnce. No John TAYLOR dictator, no pecu
liar sect to Interfere with Americans rights
all free and happy as clam in high water
We are blessed with public school, wei
conducted by ladies and we'll attended
There are two Observation-Disclosures an.
Episcopal-neat and commotlious and usu
ally well attended; several eating house,
where the cravings m the inner man ma,