The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-10-20
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

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The anniversary of the discovery O
America was celebrated In Madrid, Spain
on Friday.
The Spanish embasador to France ha
rendered his resignation and insists on IT
benig accepted.
Visitors to the California ostrich farm, Al
Anaheim, now have to pay an admittance
fee Of fifty cents.
Chapman, Grear & Co., wholesale crock
cry dealers Of Chicago, have failed with
liabilities Of 100000.
A French transport has started from Tou.
Ion, for Tonquin, China, with 700 men and
aquantity Of war material.
The French authorities, in China, say
that the black flag parties must be exterpa.
ted before peace can be secured.
A Tombstone, Arizona, stage driver cut
the throat Of his mistress and then shaved
off his own head with the same weapon.
1t is stated that the Mexican government
has negotiated loan for $1o,coo,ooo with
American and German capitalists. The
bonds are to be taken at IS per cent, bear
ing 9 per cent. interest.
A HALEY, Idaho, youth caught on fire
when kissing his sweetheart. He had
matches In his pocket. This is warning
to young men to do their kissing by tele.
phone.
Rollie Nicks, step.son Of Rev. A. D.
Nicks, and Albert Bell, thirteen and twelve
year old boys Of White Bluff, Tenn, plotted
murder Of their respective fathers. Rev.
Nicks was shot twice but not fatally. The
boys are in Jail.
II. L. Gordon, wealthy and prominent
lawyer Of Minneapolis, and R. G. Mitchell,
editor of the Duluth Tribune, were indicted
for conspiracy to acquire title to govern
ment land by hiring men to make pre.emp-
tions. Mitchell has been exonerated.
The sentence of dismissal in the case of
Lieut.. Col. Guido Ilges, for duplicating
pay accounts, has been approved by the
President. That of Lieut.. James A. Simp-
son. for unbecoming conduct in marrying
woman who had been his mistress, was dis
approved.
y water.power cable railroad is to be run
on Wood river between HALEY and Ke.ct.
UNI. The distance, 1oX miles will be made
in an hour. The road is designed to carry
the ore, coal, coke, merchandise etc, which
are now hauled between the two places.
the Record estimates that the traffic next
season will amount to 400 tons day.
Sheriff Taylor, Of Glendive, on Tuesday,
endeavcred to quiet three drunken COW.
boys, when he was set upon and beaten.
In the melee Clayton Wilcomb,an English
man about to locate here, was killed. A
freight conductor was also shot in the ankle.
One Of the cowboys was captured and
lodged in Jail, the other two escaped.
Hay has been selling, in Cooke City for
S.. per ton up 10 about week ago. But
one morning S. NJ. Fitzgerald got up
brushed the snow from his doorstep, cast
his weather eye toward the fast falling
flakes, and announced that hay had advanced
to $50 per ton. He CONTROLS all the hay
in that country and is in a pretty fair con-
dition to make prices and bull the market.
The U. S. Revenue Cutter, Thomas Cor
win, just arrived from Ounalaska, bring
ing the Scheffiin exploring party also news
that the schooner Leo with Lieut.. Ray and
party, arrived at Ounalaska from Point
Barrow Sept. 18th. Lieut.. Schwatka, who
has been exploring on the Yukon river,
Joined the Leo at st. Michaels on her way
down. They were to leave Ounalaska for
this port Sept s+th, and are expected to ar
rive here in few days. The captain Of the
Leo reported the loss Of the whaling bark
Cyane, off Point Belcher. The crew and
the greater part Of the cargo were saved.
Ice was unusually heavy and the whaling
season poor. Schetflin, the noted prospect
or and miner, who came down on the Cor
win, and who with large party have been
on the Yukon, and some other
streams, says that the country does not suit
him, although he is satisfied that it contains
plenty of gold, but is as yet inaccessible,
and mining unproftable.-.S. F. Cronicle.
The Fall Elections
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