The Dillon tribune., 1884-02-09
IN TOWN AND OCT.

Services at Orace VA ~
Saturday, evening.
LAWYER Barbour has placed in his ofhce
= n.a, and convenient book case and receP'
tacle tor legal blanks. 1t was turned owl
bv connor E Davidson.
Connor l. Davidson, carpenters, swung
q new sign to the breeze on Montana s'1ee'
this week, and let daylight into their shop
by tearing away the awning in front.
Tn. thermometer yesterday. Friday,
morning marked the coldest weather thus
far ex ex,erienced in Dillon this winter. The
mercury indicated thirty degrees below ze'
70 at < o'clock, a. IN.
The iron cage for the County JAIL was
r, ceivei at the freight depot ON "ednes-
dav. consigned to County Clerk Nct1"'Sn'
Messrs. Pauley s. Co.. of st. Louis makers
of the cage, are to send mechanic out 10
put it in position.
Stampeders, bound for the Co,ur d A'ene
gold digyiny<, are passing through Dillon
dailv on the Utah and Northern. Inc
gold fever is attacking number OF f'ea-
verheaders, and they are liable to stampede
northward any day.
The Dillon produce market is quiet with
mn s,..c;al demand for anv article. Pom
dexter's retail quotations for country prod
ucts are: Eggs, soc. per dozen; butter
4oc. to soc. per poun. oats, $l.So per c"'';
flour, $3.50 per sack.
During the past week the Utah and
Northern has rad considerable trouble IN
keeping the road open down in the Beaver
CANYON country. The passenger train was
off time tor several days, but it is now run
ming on schedule time again.
Down on Montana street Dan Chapman,
bossed by John Sennott, built little the
handiest and neatest coal pen ever erected
on the longest feeder of the Big Muddy.
1t is model-one that an educated car
perter could pattern after, If he SO desired.
Tn. Dill,n (Colorado) Enterprise says
that the deputy postmaster Of that place
spent four hours in trying to chnrn butter
from skinned milk The nnfm tunate
man is married, and it is thought his nn-
happy condition was produced by hen
pecking.
Two little deaf and dumb boys, one the
son OF Joe W. Lane, OF Adobe,yto~n. Mad
ison countv, and the other son OF Mrs.
Wageman, of Helena, are about being sent
under the provisions OF our Territorial
laws, at the expense of the Territory, to
be educated at Kendall Green Asylum,
near Washington City.
BF. White was up on the line of North
ern Pacific in the vicinity OF the Cn'r
d'Alenc diggings, selecting location for
business house. and returned Yesterday
He reports that country alive with gold
seekers, and the excitement on the inc' ease
with the snow five feet deep at the Trout
Greek outftting point.
1t is now a sure thing that the Sampling
Works will be erected at Dillon as early in
the springs as the weather ~ill permit. a
dispatch, received on the 9TH, by Lou {.
Fvhrie from Messrs. Mathews & Webb. OF
Denver, Colorado, settles the question. The
works will be planted at Dillon by that
firm at as early date as practicable.
No term Of District Court has been held
in Madison County tor one year. AS the
regular term for that county will not con
vene until May, Chief Justice Wade and
Associate Justice Conger have made an or
der for a Special Term Of court for Madi-
son County, to be held at Virginia City on
the third Monday IL Februarv--the 18th
ay Of the present IN ,nth.
Harry Blood, we'll known at Virginia
CITY, and lately resident ot Butte, acc;-
dentally shot himself in the knee a, st.
Louis on last Saturday. The wound in
tlicted was reported serious. On Sunday,
his mother, Mrs. Harry Warrington, who
had been summonded by a telegram. came
down from Virginia City and took the train
for St. Louis to attend him.
A correspondent, writing from the Crnr
TAlene gold diggings, says there is no
doubt gold there in paving quantities but
tina, whether the diggings are anything like
a. rich as reported can only BE- found out
hereafter. The CGur d'Alene diggings
NAV prove similar to the Stud Horse dig-
g;ngs in the kuotenai country--tl,at is, pay
for mile or 50 up and down the stream.
leaving the balance of the creek bed bar
rem ground.
The MadiwMMw saws that the Montana
Flume and Mining Co., Of Alder Gulch, at
its annual meeting last week, declared !:
dividend OF Sl,3oo. The officers OF the
company Tor this year are: President
Mrs. Mary A. Sedman: Treasurer
Filing; Secrrtary--llenrv n. Blake. The
ground OF the company il hcated near
'Dclwytown and with lady for president
it is altogether likely that it will yield the
precious metal plentifully.
The Metho list revival services have been
continued during the week At Grace Church.
Increased interest has heen manifested at
these meetings. and deeper religious trel.
ing has beer awakened. The services, con.
Quoted b. Revs. Riygin and Van Orsdcl.
have been productive Of good and anun,her
0f persons have show, . desire TO become
humble servants Of the Lord. The servi.
ces will t,e continued over Sabbath. Il is
cxrN.ctad the r ..c Z. e St,,1l Of R,.yf..