The Dillon tribune., 1884-12-06
MONTANA CONDENSED.

gas. ....
The postoffice at Belknap has been dis.
continued.
Benton's new $4,000 school house has
been completed.
The bullion shipments Of Butte last
week were over average.
Gallatin countv's coal mines support
population Of 400 people.
Fine specimens Of elk and deer antlers
sell in Helena at from S. to $40.
There are at present eighty.seven pa.
tients in the Territorial Insane Asylum at
Warm Springs.
Duncan Mcmillan and Frank Kinney
will wrestle at Anaconda this Saturday
evening for $Ioo a side.
| The death sentence Of Frank Young, Of
Boze,nan, has been co,nmuted by the Pres.
ident to imprisonment for life.
Rev. NJ. r. Lamb, lately Of Glendale,
was giving stereopticon views OF the Vel.
| lowstonc country at Salt Lake last week.
| The assessment roll OF Madison county
for 1854 shows an increase of taxable
property amounting to about 100000 over
that Of last year.
! Five United States cases, seven criminal
and forty.two civil cases, arc ON the docket
for the term Of Distric. Court now in SEES.
sion at Deer Lodge.
The jury in the John Edmundson case.
at Helena, after being out four days, agreed
to disagree, eleven being for conviction and
one for acquittal.
| At present there are Lego men enrolled
on the books Of the Miners Union at
Butte. From Is to 80 new members Join
at each meeting.
Secretary Teller officially informs Paul
Mccormick, Of Junction City, that no
lease Of the Grow Reservation to stock
men will be permitted.
At Missoula, the judicial knife severed
the nuptial bond binding together Mary E.
Ray and Fred. f. Ray; also that uniting
Minerva Howard to Alexander Howard.
Charles E. Falvey, Of South Boston,
Massachusetts, will hear OF something
greatly to his advantage if he will com.
'nunicate Immediately with his brother,
F. Falvey.
The citizens Of the Yellowstone country
have become thoroughly aroused ON the
subject Of leasing portion Of the Crow
Reservation, and are working zealously to
prevent it.
The new tcn.stamp mill and conccn.
traitor which il being erected by Messrs'
Filing & Word, on Hot Spring creek, near
Red Bluff, will BE- completed and ready for
operations shortly.
Judge Coburn has decided the Custer
county tax cases, brought against the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company, di.
recting such modification of the assess.
men, as will exempt the land, road bed
etc.
Butchers report scarcity Of beef cattle
in Deer Lodge valley. Prices are nov
ranging as follows: Yearlings, $40 ane
!. $as; two.year-olds, SIS and $3.50; three
year.olds, $4s. Spring calves bring ST!
and $40.
Acting Governor Tooker has issued I
warrant for an election in Gallatin county
, on Tuesday, December 18th, tor the pur
+ pose Of electing member Of the Hous
I from that county in place of Mr.. Martin
/ deceased.
AT the recent term Of the District Cour
I at Missoula, Thomas F. Mckinney, Henr
ii Miller and William Zip were found guilt
OF stealing cattle, and sentenced to pay tn
). costs Of prosecution and is months impri>
, onment in the Pententiary.
!. Knights Of Pythias lodges are warm
# against man calling himself Nelson. II
. is travelling about as knight, and bun
e ming his way among the orders. He wa
e expelled from 4 Pythian lodge some veal
ago in Arizona. He is 4 slight built mai
with side whiskcrs, ami has pleasant az
dress.
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