The Dillon tribune., 1884-08-09
MONTANA CONDENSED.

The Montana wool crop Of 1884 is sur
passing all expectations.
The Lexington mill at Butte reduces
1,soo tons Of ore per month.
Mrs. Sidney Edgerton, wife Of the first
Governor Of Montana, is dead.
The cast, receipts Of one the beer halls OF
Butte averages 5000 per month.
Over in Old Madison the local political
pot is simmering very slowly now.
The Fay Templeton Comic Opera Go.
has been playing in Butte this week.
Massena Billiard has been elected Pres
| ident of the Montana Bible Society.
Lawrence Barrett, heavy tragedy actor,
will soon be billed for the Montana circuit.
District Court for Madison county, will
convene at Virginia City on August 18TH.
The Northern Pacific is just commence
ing to enjoy an excellen, freight traffic to
the East.
Bishop J.. c. Cranberry will dedicate the
Methodist Church at Boulder tomorrow,
Sunday.
The dread destroyer of the innocent,
diphtheria, has made its appearance again
at Butte.
O.P. Chisholm, of Illinois, is the newly
ann,inted Register of the Land Office at
Bozeman.
The denot at Anaconda is about finished
and a water tank is in course of construc-
ton at that place.
Last week Butte shipped 81 bars of sill
yer bullion, weighing S,c14 pounds and
valued at $131,4,4.
On last Tuesday night, up at Garrison
Nav Lord who is. frai| morally, but not
otherwise, was robbed Of sos.
According to the present rate OF produc-
ton the silver and copper product OF Butte
will reach $15,oooooo this year.
At Livingston seduction suit was with
drawn by the girl after the gay decelver
thanked down a round sum OF money.
Ex-Supt. Conger gets grain or two OF
comfort from Bozeman paper over his re-
moval from the Park superintendency.
tits estimated that there are now in Mon
tana, including calves, upward of million
head of cattle, besides horses and sheep.
During the month of July the N. P. ex-
press Office at Helena shipped $9o,9o5-
some $4,000 more than the June shipment.
Butte Miner: Work on Hamilton &
Pfouts' building, on the corner OF West
Park and Main streets in rapidly progress
ing -.
The tresspassers on the Northern Pacific
ground at Garrison having removed, the
suits for damages against them have all
been dismissed.
Boyce's planning mill outside of the fire
limits of Butte was entirely destroyed BY
f fire early last Tuesday morning. Loss
about $2o,ooo--no insurance.
The Nezy North West says that Col. In
, gersoll did not fill his lecture engagement
at Deer Lodge, considerably disappointing
many who desired to hear him.
| The Northern Pacific Company announce
a reduction in cattle rates of five per cent
, from all points west of the Missouri river
, to Chicago, and parallel to points on the
Union Pacific.
The meeting Of the Presbytery Of Mon
, tana was called to order by the retiring
moderator, Rev. 7. v. Moore, in the Pres
byterian Church, at Helena, on the sth inst.
and has been in session since.
Montana admirers of Ben Hogan will
be pleased to learn that the broad should
cred rough and tumble temperance talker
addressed the sinners and tipplers in Market
Hall, MINNEAPOLIS, last Sunday night.
Recently Daniel Gerty was found by the
, side of the N. P. track near Drummond, in
an insensible condition with an arr so bad
ly crushed that it had TO be amputated. He
fell off a west-bound passenger train.
On the requisilion of the Governor o.
Minnesota, Gov. Crosby gave up one Mat
1 thew Casey who was working on Prickly
Pear ranch. Casey was taken back to AL
bert Lea, Mimi, where he will be tried fol
seducing maid Of that town.
e On last Tuesday morning Lizzie An
; drews, not sixteen years old, morphined a
o Butte. She was Park street girl an<