The Dillon tribune., 1884-01-05

carefully prepared table of the gross out
put of the Butte District for the year 1889
The output reaches nearly the enormous
sum OF $ro,ooo ooo-a big showing.
The New Year callers were quite nu
merous in Dillon. The ladies who KEEP
open houses received in the most graceful
and hospitable manner. At many private
residences elegant repasts were spread.
Recorder McGough was busy part o
New Years day recording claim location,
of mines and lands. The claim.jumper'
got In their work in number Of instances
Time will tell whether It will stick or not
Agent Beebe is authority for the state
,nent that sales of passenger tickets at the
Dillon office of the Utah and Northern
Railway amounted to $45,o75.4s for the
year 1883. A nice little clean up for the
company.
The Salt Lake Tribune, with its usual
characteristic enterprise, issued Holiday
Number containing eighteen pages or one
hundred and eighty columns Of interesting
information about the Territories of the
Great Northwest.
The Dillon Literary Society will give its
nest entertainment at ST. James Church on
Wednesday evening, the 9Th. The subject
for debate is-"Resolved, That the propos.
ed Constitution for Montana should be one
Of prohibition"
The subject of the morning sermon al
St. James Episcopal Church tomorrow,
Sunday, will be-"Epiphany, or, the Mani
festation Of Christ in Our Lives" In the
evening the text Of the sermon will be-
1.-THE Lost Sheep Found"
The beginning Of the new year is time
when the people Of Dillon and Beaverhead
County are to be congratulated upon the
prosperity which has fallen upon them in
the past year and felicitated upon the bright
and promising prospects Of the future.
New Years Day passed off In very
quiet manner in Dillon. The saloons were
all open and dispensing Intoxicating drinks
to imbibers but the order prevailing In and
about these establishments was good. The
"chronic monuments Of intemperance"
were not numerous around the saloons.
The scholars of St. James Sunday School
are making arrangements for the produc.
ton of an extravaganza entitled another
Goose's Melodies" sometime during the
present month. All Of the characters will
be represented, from Jack who jumped over
the candle.ktick, to Peter, the pumpkin.
eater.
The battle of New Orleans will be fought
over again with snow balls by the whole
juvenile Yankee Nation on next Tuesday,
Jan. 9Th. The action will commence at the
playing. ground Of the Dillon Public School
at noon, and before the fight ends the Brit.
ish side will get licked a la General Jack.
son seventy years ago.
A note from Bannack concludes thusly
"Our Masonic ball, on the a7th ult., was a
great success. Guests were IN from Horse
Prairie and the Grasshopper sent forth a
goodly number. The dance was up to the
old.time standard Of Bannack, and those
participating enjoyed themselves immense
~, and SO they said on Dispensing"
During the past week the section hands
OH the Utah and Northern have experience
ed hard work in keeping the cut about one
mile north Of the railroad bridge free from
drifting snow. A snow-fence, six feet If
height, is being built along both sides o
the cut, which will prevent its filling NJ
with the driftir' low in the future.
Reports from The different ranges in Bea
verhead County of the condition Of stool
are very favorable. Cattle and horses ar,
doing finely. Sheep are getting along we'll
and no loss is reported, except in a few in
stances where the sheep piled up, which re
suited in the smothering Of twenty. five o.
thirty head. The winter, thus far, has beef
mild, and stock Of kinds is doing splendidly
On New Years Eve the amusement
were light, consisting Of raffies for sundry
articles. At the Dillon drug store Ton
O'Connor won q handsome ladies' toile
box by heaving 40 out Of the dice.box
At the Corinne Hotel, Phil Shenon's mum
Der got away with genuine old.tashion
ed relic in the shape Of an oren.faced bulls
eye watch. valued at So and four nickles.
John Nickum, the baggage slasher an,
checker at the depot, is brush-artist Of nj
mean merit He paints signs. One Of hi
beautiful productions is piece Of lettering
resembling a cross between cross.eyed ital
les and drunken Roman letters, with re.
border supposed to have been painted will
the blood from Bannack buck Injun. Fo
the present Mr.. Nickum is not taking or
ders for his ornamental work.
The scourge, diphtheria, Is prevailing t
an alarming extent among the children a
Butte, Deer Lodge and other towns. Sew
eral cases of diphtheria, in mild form, ar
reported In town, and one serious case
AS the public school opens on next Mon
dav, it would be well tor parents to b.
watchful Of their children and send non,
to school that show any Of the symptom
Of the disease in its incipient stages.
The New Years Eve ball, at the Co
rhine Hotel, was largely attended by tn
fashionable dancing people oil Dillon. Tn
connections dining.room Of the hotel wa
filled with gay and agreeable assembling
Of dancers, who hopped the old year GU
and the new one in to lively music. Tn