The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1884-03-22


Ia,arli. Barber is down this way for the
purpose Of carrying off a Dillon Whistler.
That May be true. It looks that way DA
cross-eyed lnan.
A number OF commercial bummers and
dru,nmers have been prowling around
Dillon lately. Some of these fellows are
slick Washers. Joe Leyson knows It $50
worth to his sorrow.
The Good Templars of Sheridan will
celebrate their 14th anniversary on next
Wednesday, March goth. A pleasant time
is anticipated, as the programme is long
and embraces interesting exercises.
Parties desiring to get supply OF black
honey locust seed for planting this spring
can obtain the same by applying to II. Cush-
ing, shoemaker,on Montana street. He will
distribute the seed gratuitously. This kind
OF locust tree grows rapidly.
Last Thursday the coaches running be-
tween Helena and Jefferson City were
h.uled off by Gilmer, Salisbury 4 co.
The jefferson Citv-Butte line and the lines
running from Dillon to Virginia City and
Boulder City will be continued.
The TRIBUNE is independent in politics
neutral in nothing-and so it is indispen-
>ible to every citizen of Beaverhead toun-
ty. The unterrified Democrat and the rad
ical Republican will find comforting Pol't-
ical paragraphs i'll its columns every week
Subscribe, and try it.
St. Patrick's day was quiet ore in ire"
land. Norows. No shellalahs. So it was
in Dillon. Irishmen being few and far be-
tween in town, and st,amrocks being scarce,
the Dutch ana Americans turned out on
dress parade, wearing the green emblem OF
truth, love, and valor.
AS he lit out of the vestibule of st. James
Church, the other evening, he wrapped his
,1.dol,ar overcoat close around his heaving
bosom, and said to himself: ooh, why did
she tickle my Juvenile pride" and then he
drow ned his temporary sorrow with four
who'll sale anti Hogan drinks.
During the week number of Bannack
bloods took in Dillon. The venerable "Old
Wedge" conducted the exercises. They
performed without printed programme
and everything passed off decently and
pleasantly. The Bannack bloods are good
ones-if turned loose on the right trail.
The Republicans Of Montana will hole
their Territorial Convention earlier this
wear than usual that they may elect two
! delegates to the Republican National Con
vention. TIE choice of Montana Republ
cans is divided between Arthur, Blaine ant
| Losan-the "Plumed Knight in the lead
Rev. Hugh Dancan, of Sheridan, is re-
covering from his late injuries SO SLOWLY
| that were it not for his most implicit faitl
| in Gods grace and ability to 'do all thing:
| we'll" he would be inclined to revolt at hi:
>ufferngs. We hope to near OF the quick
| recovery of the pioneer Methodist preach
er of Montana Territory.
The live, wide awake merchant or bust
| ness man knows full well that spring is The
time to advertise. 1t follows as a cons
auential consequence, as Bill Seward woult
say, that the columns of the TRIBUNE are
| mediums to make known your business
| YOU want to be rewarded BY the trade o
Southern Montana and Eastern Idaho.
| Our Dillon merchants are doing gooe
wholesale jobbing business already thi
spring, and selling goods at very low fig
ures Dillon prices range so low, whe'
compared with the prices of other towns
that purchasers find it to their pecuniar,
advantage to come from long distance t.
this railway center to do their trading.
Quartz mining in the Blue Wing Distric
is progressing favorably. Another gooe
strike is reported. Mike Herr, working thu
| Charter Oak mine, located in the south enc
of the district about four miles from Ban
| mack, has struck rich vein of silver ore
| The vein is strong, measuring five to 81,
feet in width, and the ore is high grade.
In the Rel Bear mine in the Birch Creel
! District, owned by the Railway Mail Min
ing Company, rich strike has recent,
| beer made A vein of three feet in thick
| ness of rich red ore was struck, and =:
shaft has been dropped on the vein to thu
depth of about thirty feet. 1t is consider
ed the best opening ever made on the mine
That Dillon's prospects are Frightening
and looming up, even the croaker and pre-
JUDGED person can not help but admit The
building season has not opened vet, still
there are number Of small buildings fin
ished and occupied and others nearly ready
for occupancy, while the improvement o.
oh property is going on in many parts o.
town in lively manner.
Bannack squaws are buying figured cal
leo quite freely. The squaws, immitating
their white sisters, will come out in the la
test squaw fashions as soon as the posies
being to bud and bloom. 1t has been no.
ticed, by men, that the Oldest and giles,
Of these "ladies OF nature" do not bang
their hair, but they eclipse white feminines
in the matter of daubing on red paint.
Comrades will see the signal flying by
calling on Ohio Klemm at the First Ma
tional Bank Of Dillon. Rally round the
flag, boys, and enroll your names on the
muster roll Of the Grand Army Of the Re
public. Don't delay. Quite nulnber I"
names have been enrolled already, and the
G. r. A. blank is open to all ex-soldiers 81
the U. S. army now residing in Southern
Montana.
The San FRANCISCAN, new Pacific Coast
aspirant for literary fame, has reached this
Office. Il is a modernly gotten up weekly
paper of sixteen pages. 1t is anti'nonop.
oily in politics and is wellfilled with choice