The Dillon tribune., 1883-01-20
MONTANA CONDENSED.

lodge OF "A: y. y. w. IA to be organi. n
zed at Deer Lodge. '
There is talk Of organizing Sun R;x..
Racing Association.
Townsend and Canton are the riva, ,,.
on the Missouri Valley.
Town lots are selling in Townsend .,
from $500 to $500 rer lot.
Another Indian tragedy is reported .,
thu Flathead Reservation.
The bullion shipments from Butte ,,s,
week amounted to $ll6.o4o.
Temperance rallies at Butte are ,no,.
,nents In the right direction.
"N1issouri Bill'' died at Benton m H..
10th from cancer Of the lung.
The average yield Of Irish potatoes IN 4
Montana is I37 bushels to the acre.
At Benton there is talk Of organizing
Fair Association for Choteau county.
Last week Billings gambler won oxs.
$4,000 on one hand at stallion poker.
General Billings is to donate $1oo,o to.
ward establishing school at Billings.
Nearly two thousand tons OF ore are a.,
tracted from the Butte honanzas daily.
LeCon,p, who shot Mike Powers a, G,os.
ter last week Is held at Helena for trial.
The design for $4,000 school house =,
Bozeman was drawn by Byron Veiland,
A petition is in circulation to divide C,s.
ter county, and call the new county Bill.
lings.
The old Largey wire, between Butte and
Deer Lodge, Is to be used Tor telephone
purposes.
The shipments Of cattle from Eastern
Montana over the Northern Pacific are d..
creasing.
The last charge against Bob Fisk, Of Il.,.
ena, Is that he sold his mileage pass to-
scalper.
The Bass Bros. Touring mill, on Burn,
Fork In Missoula county, was sold recently
for $4,000.
w. R. Bell was arrested last week an,
taken 10 Miles City for selling whisky
the Indians.
expend $7oo toward the erection of Jail \
at Billings.
| Milt Caruthers, miner Of Montana dis
trict, recently fell heir to the handsome sum
Of $Iooooo.
Tousley, who escapsed from the Peni.
tentiary lately at Deer Lodge, has not been
recaptured.
Jos. Haskins, 4 wood. chopper in Dawson
county, froze his feet and both feet had to
be amrutated.
It Is claimed that the population Of Boze.
man has increased in the past year from
1000 to 1900.
The Crows and Flathead Indians are
feasting on cattle in the Muscelst,ell coun.
try at present.
With plenty Of money in the county
treasury, Silver Bow county wants new
county Jail.
On Birch Creek, in Meayher county, IA
silver l~de, eighty feet in width, has been
located recently.
Keats, the featherwright pusilist rcctv.
ed the stakes in the fight at Butte ON las.
Saturday night.
i Register Moe reports the receipts Of
moneys at the Helena Land Office for the
year 1852 at So, ,664.6S
Times are getting SD dull at Miles CITY
that saloon keepers propose selling drinks
1t nickle a dram.
Judge Napton, father Of lion. Thos. l..
Napton Of Deer Lodge, died at Columbia,
Mo-, on the 8th inst.
VIM. Scott, (Scotty,) snicided at Philips.
burg, on Friday OF last week, by hanging
himself to bed post.
Livingston has organized Vigilance
Committee. A committee Is needed II
that fast railroad burg.
Corvallis, In Missoula county, lays CLAIM
. to being "the prettiest and best laid out lit
tie village in Montana"
. The Miner says that the indications ar
that building operations will be active ii
I Butte when spring opens.
, III Deer county the tax levy for lSS.:
is 16 mills on the dollar, and in Missoul
county the levy is % mills.
A skating rage has taken possession o
the people of Butte and the Opera Hous
rink Is crowded every night.
Bogers, Of Bozcman, SAYS that a dali
newspaper at the eastern Metropolis,
must soon becn,ne q necessity.
When cripple gets cured at the Whit
Sulphur Springs he piles his crutches o'
3 the "crutch pyramid" and departs.
Medicine Bear, Flying Star and the Thun
der are the Indians summoned to testify i
, the whisky seizure cases at Benton.
II is believed that Simon Piper, who h,
Fort Assinaboine few weeks ago to loo
= for stock, perished in snow storm.
= Rumbling noises heard at intervals max
some people believe that volcano Is aLou
to burst over the Bitter Root Valley.
& Temperance orators at Butte are stirrih
}. up the people, and it is thought their labo
; will add many converts to temperance.
, A mass meeting Of the citizens of Ben
Z ton passed resolutions in favor Of $4,000
court house and a $4,000 school house.
: The schosl lands Of Montana embrac
a about 5000 square miles-a body Of Ian
about the size Of the State OF Massach.
!. sets.
The ladies of the Episcopal Society a
Missoula have introduced dancing as on
Of the amusements at their social reunion
this winter.
The Inter Mosstms figures up the on
\ put Of the Butte district for the wear lSS, :
$6,8S+.973. This includes bullion, matt
and ore shipments
y The buffalo bones Of the yellow s,on
country are to be collected together an
shipped to St. Louis where the bones vii
be ground into frrtilixing powder.
Lena, the five.year.old daug hter Of Cha
Ellison, living near Gallatin City, Was 8.
, cidentally shot by her brother and she " i
, die from the effects Of the wound.
Paul Bean, If Madison county, who VA
: mysteriously missed at Butte some thrc