The Dillon tribune., 1884-11-15
MONTANA CONDENSED.

This years assessment Of Helena foot
up $4,774,s6..
The ore train running into Anacond
averages ten cars day.
Passenger travel on the Anaconda brancl
is reported to be increasing.
Large bands Of sheep have been driver
on to the Shields River bottom to winter
The November term Of the Distric
Court for Missoula county begun on las
Thursday.
The people OF Meagher county are man
ifcsting an eager desire for division of tha
county.
The fellow who forged the name Of ID
c. Holbrot,k, at Helena, for $17466, Ian
guishes in jail.
S. +. Larabie has presented the Pre>bv'
terian Church at Deer Lodge will, TOO
pound memorial bell.
Neal Murphy, the horse thief confined
in the Helena Jail, made his escape on
lnursday Ot last week.
Deer Lodge county has had seventy. two
births during the past twelve months,
against iorty.one deaths.
Last week at Augusta Yellowstone Jim.
a notorious character, was killed by sa.
loon keeper named Ezra Gregg.
Over two.thirds of the wall work of the
central building Of the Penitentiary at
Deer Lodge has been completed.
1t is expected that within two years that
White Sulphur Springs will be connected
with the res, Of the world by rail.
A new lodge OF Odd Fellows is to be
formed at Billings. The order is rapidly
assuming prominence in the Territory.
There has been about $.sooo,poo invest.
ed in ranches in Montana Territory dur
ing the last four months by New FORK cap
italists.
At Butte Frank White is out in a chal.
lenge to fight any man in the Territory,
Jack Waite preferred, under ar. ct of rules
for purse Of $e5o.
Persons desiring to attend the Worlds
Industrial Exposition at New Orleans will
be tickcted from Helena to the Crescent
City and return for $11o.
The calendar Of the District Court for
county for the November
term contained an aggregate Of one hund-
red and sixty-ninc cases.
The reported disasc among calves and
ycarlings on the Montana ranges was
greatly exaggerated 1t is believed that the
stock was poisoned by wild rarsnips.
The Flat Willow, Lower Judith and Ar.
ncll's Greek fall round ups have complet-
ID their labors. The beef cattle collected
will he shipped by rail from Billings.
Capt. John Mullan, who laid out the ia.
nous Mullln road from Fort Benton to
Walla Walla, was at Missoula lately. He
S now Commissioner Of Indian Schools.
ID. l.. Miles, who was employed by the
D. NJ. Osborne Company at Bozeman, has
skipped, having cmbezzled considerable Of
sum of money and leaving numerous
creditrs.
John Lloyd, railroad engineer on the
division Of the Northern Pacific,
who had been sick for some time at St.
Johns hospital, Helena, died on last Sun.
day evening.
A telegram OF last Monday announced
the death Of w. H. Martin, of Bozeman.
Mr.. Martin had just been elected Demo.
cratic member Of the Legislature from
Gallatin county.
X. B. Wilson, special live stock agent
Of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co., saws
that the cattle on the Montana ranges are
in an exceedingly fine condition and prom.
isc to winter we'll.
Prot. Marsh, Of Helena, has made an
important discovery OF coal in the noun.
tains few miles east of Townsend. The
coal is OF excellent quality, and the vein is
eighteen feet in thickness.
Win. II. Dewitt, United States Attor.
ney tor Montana. has given notice that he
will pay reward Of $3.50 to any one who
will furnish him with evidence that will
convict any person of bribery at elections.
~ Miles City dispatch states that word
had been received at that place that band
ot eight Indians had made raid on Hang.
Ing Woman Creek and captured two horses
belonging to trapper. The band divided