The Dillon tribune., 1884-10-18
MONTANA CONDENSED.

Warrants arc out tor fourteen Miles NNy
horse thieves.
A telephone exchange will soon be es.
tablished at Anaconda.
The Madison County Teachers lnsti.
tute was held in Virginia City last week.
Townsend will issue $4,000 wort, Of
bonds to build school house.
The total assessment Of the town Of
Bozeman for this year is about 81 100000
Manager Maguire will have the Rose
Eytinge company at Butte Oct. c9th and
goth.
Reports show that Montana stockmen
are receiving the highest price tor their
beef cattle.
A rich strike is reported to have been
made in the Tidal Wave district, in Madi-
son county.
The finest wagon bridge in Montana has
Just been completed across the Yellow
stone at Big Timber.
There was shipped from Livingston this
year 100000 pounds Of wool, an increase
Of 50 per cent. over last year.
1t is thought that the Senatorial Indian
Commission will not reach the Crow Agen.
cy until some time next month.
Sneak thieves still abound around bil.
lings, and frequent petty thievings from
faA
Jeptha Nall has been arrested in Helena,
charged with stealing $3.50 worth Of rctort
from the Drum Lummon mill.
Copies OF the photograph Of the Pho.
neers OF Montana may be obtained BY at.
dressing Beck with Il Bowen, Helena.
\ Fort kcogh, Mont, dispatch says II
horse tumbled 800 feet down the side Of
Sheep Mountain, and walked off unin.
jured.
The Assessment OF Yellowstone county
last year was $r,6oo,ooo; this year it will
amount to $,,1oo,ooo, an increase Of 3I4
per cent.
The Sun River .Snu is making arrange.
ments to get out a holiday edition OF 900
copies, the editor having gone east to get
married. "-
David Ross, a Helena and Heron bag.
gage agent, was held in $500 bond last
week for robbing baggage on the Northern
Pacific Railroad.
The ladies Of the Baptist Church ol
Butte cleared about $1oo as the proceeds
of the two suppers given in the basement
Of Rensl,aw hall.
1t is estimated that of the 2,17I visitors
who registered at the National Park Hotel
during the season just ended, by far the
larger part were Europeans.
Cattle thieyes, who are supposed to kill
the cattle, cut them up and carry them
away, leaving no trace but the blood, are
operating along the Bitter Root river.
WE. Frcdericks, Manager Of the W. U
T. Co., at Helena, from time immemorial
rendered his resignation recently, and was
relieved OH the st by Mr.. Chas. 7. Day.
The District Court for Jefferson count,
will convene Monday Of next week. rh'
docket is said to be longer than usual ant
will probably require all the time allowed
for the term to dispose of the cases fo
trial.
The contract tor erecting the ccntra
building of the Montana Penitcntiary, ac
cording to plans and specifications and sub
ject to the stipulations as toiock and labor
was awarded by Secretary and Actin,
Governor John 5. Tookcr to Messrs. Nc
Dewitt & Mcconnell, contractors, Of Butte
The amount Of their bid was $Io,475.
At 9 O'Clock Monday morning Count
Commissioner Davie: Austin, Of Missoul;
started out hunting. He was found a &c,
minutes later with bullet hole tbroug
the top Of his head and needle gun dis
charged lying between his legs. He wa
about fifty years Of age and an oldtimcr i
Montana.