The Dillon tribune., 1883-12-22
MONTANA CONDENSED.

| Gate cost $4,000.
Walla Walla merchants are after the
Butte produce trade.
| Another hotel Is to be added to the th;iv
| ing town Of Missoula:
Helena has 1870 children Of school age;
6o3 boys and 677 girls.
A directory Of Helena is being prepared
by some enterprising man.
Missoula county's physician will receive
$500 for his services In 1884.
Billings has new roller skating rink.
Now look out for divorce cases.
Twenty six recruits from Fort Smelling
arrived al Fort Missoula last week.
The bridge over the Bitter Root, near
Missoula, will not be built at present.
| lin Whitlatch has gone East to spend
the winter with his family at Brooklyn, New
York.
A tramp stole a ride from St. Paul to
Miles City in a hearse. A lively corpse,
surely.
Missoula county pays Sister Mary Louise
for caring for the county poor So per week
per capita.
John Ming has been granted permission
| to build a street car line between Helena
and the depot.
Last Saturday the new standard time
went into effect on the entire line Of The
Northern Pacific.
Katie Putnam was elected member of
the Helena Rifle Club during her recent
visit to that town.
1t is expected that there will be an i'm.
mense immigration from Wisconsin to
Montana next spring.
Jim Brown, an old.time Montana ex.
press messenger, has arrived in Helena
and is greeting old friends.
Trout Creek, in Missoula county, it is
said, will be the gateway into the Cuur
dAlene diggings in the spring.
Missoula water works are in working or.
der. The water is brought from Rattle.
snake Greek, and is very pure.
For the year ending Dec. 81, 1883, the
expenses Of the Territorial government Of
Montana are estimated at $4,000.
When the snow gets out of Last Chance
Piatt, Of the /mdetendenf, will 70 in and
gather gunny. sack full Of diamonds.
Chas. Cox, porter on the Northern Pa.
cttic, was drowned recently while endeav.
oring to cross the Yellowstone on the ice
The Deer Lodge primary school has been
closed until after the holidays, on account
Of tie prevalence Of diph.heria and other
children's diseases at that place.
The N. p. turn.table for the Helena
round.house has arrived and been placed in
position. The first engine to pass over il
was No. S4-the old pioneer engine.
The building used as primary school in
Billings was burned to the ground, last
week. Two other buildings, adjoining the
school, were burned. Loss, $4,000; insur.
ed for $500.
A Bozeman commission merchant has
been shipping grain to Butte. He laws the
grain on the cars at Bozeman at ST. 90 yer
hundred weight, and it sells at Butte at
$1.s5 to $1.6o.
Drum Lummon stock has been advanc.
ed 80 per cent in London. Hugh Mike
Wade is elated in consequence and now he
is squandering his wealth in a reckless
manner in the East
The logs for the coming seasons drive
by the Benton boom company will proba.
by be cut on Deep Creek, about twenty
miles below Fort Logan as there is said to
BE- fine timber in that vicinity.
In the case Of Frank Young, sentenced
to be hung at Bozeman on the 27th Ct this
month, an appeal has been taken from Gov.
Crosby's refusal to repreve, and the matter
has been referred to President Arthur.
In an interview with a reporter OF the
Ri1er Press, Mr.. T. G.. Power disclaimed
being a candidate for the office of Delegate
to Congress, saving 1t was too soon to talk
OF politics with the election nearly year
ahead.
The Receiver of the Miles City Land
Office has been ordered by the Commits
sioner of the General Land Office to take
possession OF all logs, ties and timber cut
on the banks of Tongue River and its trib.
utar'es in Wolf mountains.
|. The Bozenan Courier says that the CON-
tract tor keeping the Gallatin county sick
and poor was awarded to Charles Holme.
at $3.50 week. The contract includes
Inc use Of the poor farm, most of which is
fenced and portion under cultivation.
w. S. Wetzel Il Co., merchants of Rem.
ton have made an assignment to Collins,
Duer Go. The Indebtedness is supposed
to be over $4,000. The assets are est;.
mated at from $lon,ooo to $4,000. II is
thought none Of the Montana creditors will
lose.
a Mlssoula correspondent of the Butte.
M'"er writes to that paper as follows, under
oate OF December II. "The parties who
ROBBED Eddy, Hammond & Co.'s store in
Steyensville, were captured last night on
the Kock Greek trail leading to Philips
burg.
A sculptor Of Cincinnati, named L.. Avet,
has brought from the Yellowstone nieccs.
OF kind of marble, which he nses ior me.
"a on portraits In certain lights the
stone, It is said, has rosy flush, which in
sk,lltul hands may be used to initiate the
color Of flesh.
In Billings the gentlemen of leisure
about town spend their time guessing how
many beans there are in a bottle which one
OF them has filled. Before they begin op-
erations the bottle is passed around freely
SO that each one may be satisfied that it IS
empty, or help empty it.
~, a cont contest t:. INVOLVING a large portion of
Miles City Land Office. Lewis Merrill,
one OF the majors who styles himself "Gen.
eral, entered the land with Sioux Half.
Breed script, but his title to script is cues.
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