The Dillon tribune., 1883-12-15
MONTANA CONDENSED.

MONTANA CONDENSED.
Billings is to have skating rink.
Miles City will put down another arte-
sian well.
Thieves infest Missoula, to the terror Of
timid females.
Ben Hogan has decided to make Butte
his headquarters.
Deer Lodge paupers cost the county Sc
per head per week.
Much sickness among children is report
ed from Deer Lodge.
Twin Bridges has social organization
called the "Poet's Club
The Alice Mining Co., at Butte, use up
1000 cords of wood per month.
Snow is causing considerable trouble on
the Yellowstone division Of the n. P.
Butte's boss hummer, John Doe, was be-
fore Judge French again this week.
jefferson Valley folks wife away their
evenings by participating in ghost parties
Claim jumping at Emigrant Gulch has
caused the death of several men during the
past week or two.
COL Wheeler has given up, for the pres
ent, his intention of starting newspaper
at Sun River.
The new Meagher county bank at White
Sulphur Springs has opened its doors tor
the transaction of business.
The Territorial grand jury presented
fourteen indictments, for various ofaenses,
at their session in Deer Lodge.
H. Haupt, late General Manager Of the
Northern Pacific, is now President of the
Dakota and Southwestern railroad.
John James, an old Alder Gulcher, died
of appoplexy last week at Deer Lodge.
He was nearly seventy years Of age.
Benton processes to be tired of her post
master and has petitioned to have him re-
moved. The new candidate is S. B. Kelly.
The bran new town Of Townsend has
had five business failures in the past six
months. What is the country coming to?
A petition is before the CITY Council of
Butte requesting the removal of house of
i'll fame from in front of the public school.
The poet of the Livingston Enterprise
is most too pointed in his remarks. Won
der if he ever worked on the Police Ga
zette?
Regular trains have ceased running on
the Park Branch for the winter. Occa-
sional trains will be run as business de-
mands.
Five hundred geysers and five thousand
hot springs are reported in the Yellow
stone National Park by the Government
surveyors.
Seven hundred ard ninety-two money
orders have been issued from the Billings
postoffice since it was made money order
office July 1st.
The keystone Cattle Company, of Glen
dive, with 100000 capital, has filed its ar
ticles of incorporation in the Secretary's
office at Helena.
I. D. McCutcheon has retired and now
John S. Tooker has charge of the Office of
Secretary Of Montana. Smell retains his
position as deputy.
And now old Last Chance turns out to
be diamond diggings, three hundred
dollar brilliant having been found in pile
of tailings. What next?
Delegate Maginnis has appointed John
Evans, son of Phil E. Evans of Deer
Lodge, cadet to the West Point Military
Academy from Montana.
The Cook City smelter' has shut down,
owing 10 Ilc ref avto,, nature of ahe nre.
The roasters will be finished before the
smelter is again started.
TIE Concord Cattle Company, of Con-
cord, New Hampshire, has filed articles of
incorporation in the Territorial Secretary's
office The amount of capital is $4,000.
Gov. Crosby has appointed A. F. Bur-
leigh as District Attorney of the First u
dicial District of Montana, to fill the place
made vacant by Thomas R. Edwards, de-
ceased.
The Townsend Bridge Company have
filed articles of incorporation with the Sec
retary of the Territory. Their capital is
$4,000 and they propose to bridge the
Missouri river at Townsend.
Professor Wickes, of the Northern Pa
cifc Coal Company, is engaged in build
ing railroad about two miles long from
near the west end of the Bozeman tunnel
to the company's coal mines near there.
The new school house at Miles City is
in bad shape. 1t is said by competent
architect that all the work done so far will
have to be torn down on account of its in
security. The bondsmen of the contractor,
Hunt, will withdraw from his bond.
The man HENDERSON, who has been play
ing the assumed role of postoffice inspect
or to the grief of the postoffice department
employees in Montana has been arrested
and now awaits his trial in Helena. He is
also wanted in Chicago after the Montana
authorities get through with him.
A number Of Benton men are talking of
invading the large Blackfoot Indian reser-
vation, they having set their hearts upon
ranches in that inviting field, and others
who propose to seek for the precious metals
in the Bears Paw and Little Rocky ranges,
where they are known to exist and in pay
ing quantities.
Speaking of Frank Young, now in the
Gallatin county Jail under sentence of
death the Bozeman Con,1ey says: Young
shows marked signs of close confinement
and sleepless nights, although since the ar
rival of his brother-in-law, E. F. Berris.
ford, the we'll known merchant of St. Paul,
he has gained scme courage. Berrisford
will move heaven and earth to save his REL
alive.
r. H. Glendenin, dealer in general .mer-
chandise at Martinsdase The is also post
master. keeps hotel. liyerv stable and