The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1884-08-23
MONTANA CONDENSED.

The Sisters Hospital at Benton is now
completed.
Catarrhal fever is killing off the hogs
around Helena.
Missoula is about to issue bird's-eye
! view of the town.
The fastest trotting record in Montana,
one mile, is ,:2S.
THIS years assessment of Silver Bow
county will foot up nearly 100000.
The South Methodist conference began
in Stevensvlle on Thursday the 2Ist
It is said that Big Timber station will
ship 100000 pounds of wool this year.
The Castle Mountain mines are now fu.-
lv as promising as any in Meagher county.
For the week ending August 10Th, the
Butte bullion shipments amounted to $780,
III.
A $3.50 monument is to be erected in
the Helena cemetery to the memory of DR..
Click.
The County Democratic Convention OF
Lewis and Clarke is to be held in Helena
on Sept. 18th.
Philipsburg, in Deer Lodge county, will
have water works, similar to the Glendale
water works.
Candidates for county Offices in Mon
tana are thick Thus far Deer Lodge
county takes the lead
Frank Austin,an employee of Con khors,
| near Fl Shaw, was struck by lightning and
killed on the 18th inst
The smelling and reduction works at
Anaconda are to be increased to double
their present capacity.
A block of Montana granite for the
Washington monument has been hewn
out and shipped to Washington.
The picnic given by the Miners Union
at Butte last Sunday was great success
| over 200 people participating.
In the hard glove fight in Butte last Sun
day night Jack Murphy knocked Jerry
Flowers out of time in three rounds.
The general opinion OF Butte tax payers
! is that the city is too much in debt to JUS
tify the erection ola city hall this year.
The outlook for the mining district of
| Butte is excellent 1t is estimated that the
gross output OF the camp for 1884 will
reach $12 100000.
A charter has been granted for the insti-
tuition of ia new lodge of K. of P, in Butte.
There are already about So applicants !or
membership.
From January to August I, 100 quartz
locations were made in Silver Bow county.
During the same period ~ locations were
made in Deer Lodge county.
The trustees Of the public schools of
Deer Lodge are asking the citizens Of that
place to vote an additional $4,000 issue Of
bonds to complete their new school house.
Dave Goldberg, who formerly was in
business at Deadwood, Miles City, Billings
and other points, has opened store in
Helena, where he was located in the pio-
neer days of Montana.
The Butte physicians ascribe the preya-
lence OF sickness in that city to the condi-
ton Of the hydrant water, and suggest
| l<Al 80 - IL. IVA
during the hot weather.
The Miles City Daily Record, Demo
cratic paper, with w. w. Carland's name
at the head as publisher, began publication
last Monday. It is neat and newsy pa
per, and says it "has come to stay"
/ Mr.. Fairfax, Of the Laclede hotel, Boze
man, last week, cut terrible cash with :
bread knife in the neck ola Chinanar
employed in the house. The jugular weir
was missed only by about a quarter Of al
inch.
The Montana improvement Company
have determined to dam the Blackfoot rive
where it comes out Of the mountains, abou
quarter OF a mile above the ra;lroae
bridge The water will be used for run
ming saw mill.
The Glendiye Independent has publishe,
delinquent tax list, and in the entire lis
not single name of the parties assessed
appears. All are down as unknown. TIL
assessor must have done his. work con,
fortably in his Office.
| Among the number of foreign weed
that are taking root in Montana, we notice
the noxious- odored and yellow-blossome
doc. fennel It will probably be as com