The Dillon tribune., 1883-02-10
MONTANA CONDENSED.

The comedy companies at Butte are
drawing slim houses.
That "sunny Yellowstone Valley" had
40 degrees below zero.
Buffalo bones are now being shipped from
Miles City to the East.
The scarlet fever has taken the place OF
the small pox at Missouia.
The new court house at Miles City has
been completed and occupied.
The Deep Greek coal mines will supply
Benton with coal in the future.
Unity, Utica, Ulida, and Ubet, are names
Of nostoffice in Meagher county.
The wood.choppers of Elk Park want 10
be annexed to Silver Bow county.
Butte Is to have building association,
and Billings wants o woolen mill.
The silver bullion shipped from Butte
last week was valued at $1l3,ooo.
Last month eighty five quartz locations
were recorded in Madison county.
A mountain lion killed forty sheep lately
In cac night for Meagher county ranch.
man.
Last week the members OF the Sheridan
Gun Club killed three wild cats and one
wolf.
Billings has now prospect Of large
supply Of good coal within two miles Of the
town.
The preachers Of Butte have petitioned
the Legislative Assembly to pass Sum
An employee Of Perkins & Ca,fee, a,
Bozemsn, sut led by shooting himself in
the head.
The fire at Fort Maginnis recently was
caused BY defective flue, and the loss was
$4,000.
One hundred and sixty.six quartz loca.
tions were recorded in Silver Bow county
last month.
The Belt Park and Montana districts are
proving to be very rich quartz comps as far
developed.
1t is expected that the Alice and Moul.
ton mines, at Butte. will commence paying
dividends.
The Parrot Copper Company, at Bate,
produced, last year, copper matte valued at
$1,soo,ooo.
Hamp johnson is bitterly opposed to put
ting MissOurians on committees on FEEDER.
al Relations.
Dubort, who stole $4,000 from Lucy
Ahell at Butte, has been captured ant,
lodged in Jail.
A special school tax was voted in the
White Sulphur Springs district by eighty.
two majority.
Last year the Assessor of Silver Bow
county received $6,661.so tor about Ave
months work.
J. Severance & Co. and T. E. Collins, of
Meagher county, cleared $l5,ooo on their
sheep last season.
During the cold weather the prisoners in
the Pcnitentiary at Deer Lodge "spoon,'
| two in a cell bunk.
On account Of the scarcity Of lumber in
Missoula county building will be greatly
! retarded next spring.
Sebree, Ferris s. White are fitting up
house on Main street, Boze,nan, tor the
hardware business.
Mrs. Sarah A. Clark, Of St. Joe, Mo-.
wants to hear of her son, Elisha S. Clark.
il he is in Montana.
Neil McRae, formerly OF Butte, was frox.
en- to death in the BarAer district during III.
recent cold weather.
The A1diso3iaw rep orts that the churches
of the Social City are crowded vi ith sinner,
every Sabbath evening.
lite National Park is IS miles long nv
IS miles wide. 1t contains 3,s73 square
miles or c,..S,ooo acres.
Tim LeBeau and his son, who lived near
Missoula, were drowned while crossing the
river near their ranch recently.
By getting entangled in the machinery OF
y.baIing apparatus J. NJ. Belts, whn
lives ar Nlissoula, lost a leg.
Treasurer Weston advertises that he will
pay oit, Oh March l>t, all Of the seven prr
cent bonds oi Montana Territory.
Pend d'Oreille lake is reported to he AZ
miles long The railroad bridge over the
neck ot the lake is 5000 feet long
Dr. Getchell expects to erect a new
quartz mill next spring in the Rochester
mining district in Madison county.
A party of Flatheads overlook a mart,
OF Piegans on the Musselshell and rscov.
e'ed sixteen head Of stolen ponies.
a new contract has been accented bv thu.
commissioners OF Missoula county to build
bridge over the Hell Gate river.
Roger, has been delegated to manufa,.
ture city charter tor Bozemau. Boyer,
ounsles not and he viii do good lob.
Read of the Inter .uomnlain and Mills of
the Co"riey are trying 20 Guido each other
IN telling tn" truth, but IT is stand or.
Wickersham, the defaul,ing Telegraph on.
orator, was tried by court martial NJ =.
kcogh and sentenced TO seven wears ;mrr;.'
onment at hard labor
The Probate Court of Silver Bow coun.
y was engaged part of last week in CON-
tnNt''g men to the county hospital with
frozen hands and feet
The B"zeman Jail is inhabited BY One
man cha'sed with tampering with U. =.
lna''s,one with murder, four with burglary.
TWO with petty larceny, two with foryery'
and two w'tt exhibiting deadly weapons.