The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1884-01-12
MONTANA CONDENSED,


Pickpockets infest Missoula as tramps do
Dillon.
The Glendive Times has been reduced in
size, temporarily.
A Young Mems Christian Association is
10 be organized in Bozeman.
Fast driving on the city streets is prohib.
| tied b.; the "dads" of Bozeman.
Lewis and Clarke County apportioned
S2s,S4o for the school fund last week.
The delinquent tax list in Madison coun-
| tv for 1881 contained only fifteen names
Money must be scarce in Mis>oula coun-
tv Judging by the howl the Misso"lian turns
| loose.
Ben Hogan warmly greeted his friend
Iohn l.. Sullivan on the latter's recent visit
to Butte.
The Northern Pacific saved about $3o.-
ooo interest BY not paying off until after the
Ist inst.
The Gloster mine furnishes employment
directly and indirectly for between 900 and
400 men.
During the past wear Helena has expend
ed three-fourths of million dollars in
building.
It is expected that the next general as
sessment of Montana will reach about
100000.
The tax levies Of Silver Bow and Gala
tin counties. for 1854, is thirteen mils-the
same as that Of Beaverhead county,.
The Virginia CITY brewery, which was
recently burned, is being rapidly rebuilt BY
Henry Gilbert, the enterprising proprietor,
Fort Benton is soon to have Touring
mill. Dillon needs just such mill, and
the man who puts up one will reap big
harvest.
The time lock on the safe Of the Mer-
chants National Bank of Helena is out Of
whack and no one can open it, not even a
! burglar.
Little Missouri is soon to be supplied
with a weekly newspaper. New newspa.
per ventures are becoming quite frequent
in Montana.
Jim Sharp, of Tongue River, lost good
manv head Of sheep in one night by the
O1nO CCO"uiuS ItltO NOIIdI, SiJUlIcIUlS
about one hundred head.
Last week guard at Fort Keogh shot a
soldier named Keotn, who was under arrest
and quarrclsome. The shooting is thought
to be just fable, under military law.
The Pine Tree Lode at Marysville, for
which Tommy Cruise recently paid $4,000,
was jumped on New Years, and relocated
on the ground of insufficient representa-
ton.
A tract of 10000 acres of desert land in
Choteau county has been taken up bv
Messrs. Hauser, Hotter and others. 1t will
be irrigated by fifteen mile ditch from Sun
River.
Mining Re1rew:: Estimates on the yield
Of NJ ontana in the precious metals. begin
nir,g with January 1st and ending Decen,-
Der 31st, 1853, are placed at the round fig
ures Of $50 10000.
Last Sunday morning George Stokev,
resident of Helena for the past sixteen or
seventeen wears, was found living in the
snow on lower Jackson street, in that CITY,
dead from heart disease.
"Swift" Bill, the legless fruit vend-r OF Hell
ena, who had his legs so badly frozen few
wears ago while driving stage. that they
had to be amputated, died in that city last
week from an overdose of morphine.
The Northern Pacific bows along the
He'll Gate have not seen the paw car since
November 18th, when they were paid for
October. Fears are entertained that the
paw train has been "abandoned."
1t is understood that F. F. Griffin, ST.
perintendent Of the Rocky Mountain d.
vision Of the Northern Pacific, has resign
ed and that he will be succeeded BY J. b.
Cable, Of the Manitoba Railway.
A chap named Brannigan, over at Liv-
ingston, concluded he was TOO delicate
to walk, so he purloined a 1ooo-mile ticket
from the local ticket Office. He is now en-
joving the Inequalities of the Livingston
calaboose.
Track-laving has been commenced in the
Bozeman tunnel. In the meeting Of the
two ends Of the tunnel there was only H..
part Of a foot difference lat
erallv, and in the grade only four hundredth
part of a foot.
About 5000 worth Of presents were dis
tributed among the inmates of the Terrific
rial Insane Asylum at Deer Lodge during
the HOLIDAYS. Many of the unfertunaieS
appeared highly pleased at the kindne>,
which prompted the remembrance of them
Livingston ENTERPRISE: Among the pro.
posed plans for conducting the hotel a,
Mammoth Hot Springs in the Park is that
Of obtaining corps Of colored ALTERS " no
xill also be good musicians. Their duties
will be to wait upon the tables during meal
hours, and to furnish music in the even
ngs This would certainly be great a.l-
vantage to the many attractions of the Ma
ional Park.
The Bozenan Chronicle says: Monsieur
Ober. manager of Marquis De Mores' Mon
ana stock and beef cattle business. has TO-
:ated at Brainerd the eastern headquarters
IT their concern. Two great buildings will
'e erected immediately for ice storage
Ind the great refrigerator house. This viii
'e the depot Of Eastern supply for dressed
Montana beef, for which the MARQUIS agent
las engaged the line Of the Northern Pa
Inc refrigerator cars that are manufactur-
d there.
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