The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1884-12-20
MONTANA CONDENSED,


y new Baptist Church is being built at
Bozeman.
Helcna's new hotel will be heated by hot
air furnaces.
lherc arc 4,t children Of school age in
Dawson county.
There arc sac persons holding Federal
Offices in Montana.
The salary Of the Governor Of Montana
is $4,000 per year.
The Bozeman session Of District Court
convened last Monday.
Since May 81, 1884, Yellowstone county
has disburscd $+l,o6s.so.
| Fort Benton is determined upon having
Il Touring mill next year.
The value Of silver bullion shipped from
Butte last week was $9,,o6,.
Cattle in all parts Of Montana arc in
prime condition for wintering.
Yellowstone county wants a poor farm.
There arc - paupers in the county.
Miles City still talks of railroad being
built from that place to Deadwood.
At 'Isozcman last week $i,5os was
raised to purchase hand fire engine.
The Deer Lodge tcrV Of the District
Court is likely to continue till Christmas.
Yellowstone county has made protest
against the lease Of the Crow Reservation.
At White Sulphur Springs the dead are
being removed from the old cemetery to a
new one =,
Wadsworth Post, &. A. H., Of Helena
has arranged for camp fire the first Fri
day i'll January.
Fred. Alder, confined in the Dawson
county Jail, cut his way out with a penknife
few nights ago
\ monument is to be erected at n
Mary's Mission, Montana, to the memory
of Father Ravalli.
The Chcyenncs have been assigned a
reservation bounded by definite lines, just
east OF the Grow Reservation.
Thomas 4. Cu,nmins has been appoint
I'd Collector of Customs at Benton. Hc
held the same position III 1880.
On account Of the crowded condition of
the Penitentiary about so Montana con-
victs are held in county jails.
John Edmundson, Il notorious character,
was convicted ut Helena, and sentenced to
twelve years in the Penitentiary.
The Grow Reservation is the best water
ed region in the Yellowstone country. 1t
is 900 miles long and a. miles wide.
The school census Of White Sulphur
Springs school district foots up SOL chill.
dren in the district against 1SI one year
ago.
The Northern Pacific Express Company
at Helena shipped $l23,374.l4 in gold and
silver bullion in the first thirteen days in
December.
The military authorities have decided to
bore for artesian water on the Fort Keoph
reserva ion.
On New Year's day there will be horse
race at Billings between Astcll's Billy
Spanker and Anderson's Walker John for
$1,000 side.
Rev. NJ. J. Hall is endcavoring to raise
subscriptions sufficient to warrant the
building Of Methodist Church at White
Sulphur Springs.
| Delegate Maginnis telegraphed p. Nc.
Adow, Of Billings, that the action OF the
Senate had probably knocked the Grow
Reservation lease.
Ono night last week Il tramp attempted
to rob a Helena lady, but she screamed
and he ran. This was the second a,temp,
OF the kind there las week
The coal that is used in the manufactur.
Of gas by the Helena Gas Company i:
brought from the Northern Pacific Com
panys mine near Eozemun
OF the manufacturing guns furnished b,
the Government 10 Montana in 1907 Their.
are on hand at the Virginia City Arsenal
l.oSo; Helena Arsenal, IS: Butte--Uniu,
Guards, lco;G. \. X. Post, IS; total, las
According TO an Indian tradition the h,,
lands between Glsndivr and Man,';,n wcr
at ono time high level p!atcaus, but ter
rifle earthquake several hundred wears as'
changed the country to its present uonl!i
ton.