The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-08-11
MONTANA CONDENSED.
Trade IL brisk In Missoula.


Trade IL brisk in Missoula.
Miles City will incorporate.
The Drum Lummon tunnel is In aos
feet
The new mill at Maiden will cost $3.50,
GOO.
Missoula county IL being warmed up by
forest fires.
Miles City a. well - Billings IL to have
an artesian well.
The trains on the Park Branch are we'll
filled with tourists every day.
The Montana Fair Association offers
$4,000 In premiums this year.
The concentrating works At Virginia
City are about ready to start up.
I. Anderson, hash-houseist At Missoula.
quietly skipped out owing $4,000.
Work has commenced on the Boxeman
iail. It IL to be Of brick and stone.
A station on the National Park branch
has been named alter Gen. Brisbin.
The upper Ruby was Visited by cloud
burst last wsek which did come damage.
virginia City psople ore laying In their
winters supply Il wood At $50 per cord.
Boseman Il to hsve street railway ex.
tending from the court house 10 the depot.
White Sulpher Springs h to have First
National Bank, established BY Helena
capitalists. .--ta.=5
Alex. Clarke, q Missoula, has lost his
fine trotting mare, Blanche, Of Mountain
Chief stock.
The Cosyiev says Bozeman l. the hand.
soonest town In tie Territory. The Cosriev
ought 10 know.
Boseman busiaess men are talking of
building 4 wagon road into the Park via
the West Gallatiu.
The gross earnings Of the Northern Pa.
cific for the year ending June 80, are est.
mated At $7.oonooo.
And now II transpires that the mastodon
tooth found In Boseman creek was coughed
up by Helena belle!
Railway mail service will be extended
on route, No. 26,ool, from Livingston to
Helena on August 18TH.
Indians In Missoula county obtain wills.
ky enough 10 enable them to keep drunk
the greater part Of the time.
Oregon Rube, the horse that won the
race at Benton, last week, is one Of the fast.
est 6ooy yard Aiers In the Territory.
A new industry for Montana is pre-.
sented by the successful cultivation Of
tobacco In the Yellowstone Valley.
The Cashier mine, In the Barker district,
has ready for shipment 10000 bars Of bull.
lion weighing one hundred pounds each.
The steamer Helena, which left Benton
Saturday for down river, took down
seventy.iive tons Of sheep pelts and wool.
The w. G. r. u, Of Missoula are to
open reading room In that town. The
Dillon society might follow suit with good
results.
James Sweeny, an Irish laborer on the
N. p, was beheaded by train Of cars, near
Missoula, last week. He was lying on the
track drunk.
The Tongue river has fallen so much
that the ferry has been taken down and
persons crossing to and from Fort Keog!,
ford the stream.
There IL q scheme on foot to establish q
foundry and machine shop At Livingston.
Those Livingston people have the "sand"
for almost anything.
4 Helena man has grown 5000 gallons
Of currants of ave-acre patch Of ground.
Bozeman merchants are negotiating with
II. w. Cole for the Introduction If electric
lights.
FosaeIs' addition to Billings wiz contain
the new. $4,000 jail, the Sra y school
house, thu Episeopal and Methodist
. Gasrsess and a"hsr of private res
Emory Cobb, Of the Boseman National
Bank, has presented the city of Kankakee,
ILL.,, with an opera house to cost over $Ioo,.
600. Wonder when he will do 40 much tor
Bozeman.
Capt. George Higgins, Of Deer Lodge,
has bought Of Matt Carroll, w. H. Buck,
and Ira Mayors, their ranch ard herd on the
Teton, the consideration being $Ss,ooo.--
/sdefessiest.
L. w. Peck, sheep commissioner Of
Choteau county has resigned and the Gov
ernor has appointed Robert Blankendaker,
OF Box Elder. The appointment is said to
be good one.
A band Of 500 cows belonging to G. w.
Conway, of Bloomington, H., are being
driven from Wyoming to range on
| White Beaver creek, about fifty miles
from Livingston.
| Gilmer. Salisbury & 20. are stocking up
for double daily line between Deer Lodge
and Missoula. This will make q double, daily
line from Helena to Missoula. The vast
amount Of travel rendered this increase Of
facilities necessity.
Twelve thousand dollars, spot cash, was
offered for eighty feet on Main street, Miles
City, It being the site burned over BY the
recent fire. The offer was refused by all
but one Of the owners.
Fort Assinaboine, Montana's northwest.
ern military post, Is now most expeditions.
y reached from the east via the Canadian
Pacific. From St Paul the trip can be
made In about sixty hours.
Captain McCauley Of Ogden has collec'
ted and made consignment of choice Utah
and California fruits and vegetables for the
use Of the Presidential party on their trip
to the Yellowstone country.
Roscoe Conkling, accompanied by ex.
Governor Gorham Of Mass, Hon. Mr..
Boutwell,, ex-Secretary of the Treasury;
Judge Cox. Of Utica, N. Y; Mrs. Conkling
and Miss Cox. Is doing the Geysers.
RAILWAY RACKET.
The N. p. Company are to build branch
line from Gallatin CITY In X elton Idaho.