The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1884-12-27
MONTANA CONDENSED.

I}ozc.nan boasts Of five meat markets.
Missoula county has never hung white |
man.
Coal can now he had in Helena at SIS !
per ton.
Helena now has fourteen arriving and
departing trains daily.
There are now 6, students in the Collie
siate Institute, Deer Lodge.
The Territorial Teachers Association
meets ut Helena, on Dec. ,oth and syst.
There are half hundred new buildings
in process Of construction in Anaconda.
The number of tax dclinquents in Che.
teau county this year is unusually large.
The City Council Of Helena has repeal
ed the ordinance requiring wood ,ncasur-
ing.
The protested additional snclter build
ings at Anaconda arc to be 500 feet in
length.
During the two years just ended 0S7
| quartz claims were recorded in Deer Lodge
county.
City Treasurer Loeb, Of Helena, this
year collected $417S3oo Of city taxes,
licenses, etc.
a choice OF ;, different routes is offered
purchasers Of tickets from Montana points
to New Orleans.
Montana cowboys, when they start to
church, announce that they are going to
1.-THE parsons roundup
The Rc,rc7v says ut least Is tramrs are
around Anaconda. There were three cases
OF theft there in one day recently.
The total asscssable property Of Gallatin
county for the year 1854, according to the
Assessors returns, foots up $6,.6s,1o5.
\ fair will be held at Frenchtowr, Mis-.
soula county, during the holidays to raise
funds to assist in finishing the new church
there.
In point of population Gallatin is the
third county in the rerritory-Silver Bow
being the first and Lewis and Clarke the
second.
A new counterfeit on the silver dollar of
the issue of 1SS, has made its appearance
in Butte, the First National Bank having
detected one.
The Episcopal fair ut Bozeman took III
about 5000 during the two nights i, was
held, and it was pronounced by all who at.
tended to be delightful success.
Iowa papers ann unce the death OF Rev
S. 6. Lathrop, at Ottumwa, November
:rst. Deceased was one Of the pionee,
Methodist ministers OF Montana.
Giiner 4 Salisbury, who for so many
years had almost a monopoly Of the Mon
tana stage business, now have less thar
zoo miles Of line in the Territory.
) Frank Underwood, of Custer county, i
in trouble for having falsely sworn that h,
travelled 1880 miles in getting to the coun
. ~ seat to testify in a Territorial case.
Mrs. Mary Deimling was confirmed a
post'nistress at Virginia City, on Dece'n
her nth. We congratulate the lady, an
hope that she will serve out the term.
Timothy J. Carney, confined in the Mis-
i. soula county Jail on Il charge Of murde,
, atte,nptc1 to kill himself on Wednesday G
!. last week by cutting his throat with
> razor. He did not succeed.
q \ few Of the Indian horse thieves VIII
!. have Been in camp at the head of Cotton
o wood Greek, for the past three weeks,
a reports be true. have entered upon ne,
v and future existence in the "happy huntin
l grounds"
=, The fifteen struggled horses from Ca,
ada. recently seized at Miles City by l,
!. spector Blow, were sold at auction ON Il
10Th inst. Fourteen brought prices ran,
ing from Sis to 500, and the race hor.
sold for 500.
The Bozeman Courier publishes Il stat
10 mcnt from Grow Agent Armstrong, whit
Is that paper thinks should entirely esoner;,
e. him from the charge Of influencing Il
r. Indians to lease Il part of their rc<ervatie
80 to the Colorado cattle syndicate.
50 Gambling licenses have been largely i
creased in Anaconda since the clsctio
To run the festive game of st,d.lor
poker now costs Sl4o when it former
cost $7o and the religious game of PHI
an raoh is raised from $40 to 500.
David Tcrwiliycr, Of Horse Plains, NJ
soula county, was murdered in his cabin
Monday OF last week. His body "