The Dillon tribune., 1884-08-30
MONTANA CONDENSED.

Missou,a has several cases Of typhoid
fever.
Prairie fires are raging in the vicinity OF
GIendive.
The Montana penitentiary contains l25
prisoners.
The Territorial Fair will begin Monday,
September Sth.
Excursionists are pouring into the Ma
tional Park BY train loads.
The Grand Lodge Of l. o. O. F., con-
vened at Bozeman last week.
Missoula claims to have $4,000 worth
of buildings erected this year.
Last Monday, at Helena, Olaf Berg had
Ida Jones arrested for robbing him OF ST.
o76.
The total valuation of the silver ship
| ments from Butte, last week, amounted to
! $9,,o96.
| 1t is anticipated that the Anaconda
smelling works will be started up Septem-
| Der 18th.
| The town assessment of Missoula, this
year, will amount to nearly million and a
half dollars.
District Court has been in session at
Virginia City this week, with Judge Co.
burn presiding.
Ed. Hunt, wife beater at Park City,
was fined $40 He should have been tarred
and teathercd in addition.
The contract for building Butte's new
Opera House has been let to Fitch & Coul-
ter, the price being $4,000.
4. W. Barnard will clean up about $751;
900 this year from his placer ground in
Missoula gulch near Butte.
a man supposed to be John McKusick
was killed recently in the Crazy Noun
tains BY the Piegan Indians.
There are fully 10000 head of cattle
ranging now on the north side of the Vel.
lowstone river in Custer county.
Assessor Guthrie states that the assess.
able property of Lewis and Clarke county
will amount to over seven millions this
year.
There are about $50 men at Cooke City,
in the Ciarks Fork mines. Times are dull
there, as not much is being done in the
mines at present.
Sam Scott, Of Deer Lodge, who hasn't
the fastest recorded horse in the Territory
any more, thinks he can get 2:26 out of
Ranchero this fall.
The corn crop of Gallatin Valley is a
comparative failure-a peculiar and hith-
erto unknown worm or caterpillar having
attacked ii in the milk
In repairing the break in the Northern
Pacific east of Glendive last week, 200 men
were brought up from St. Paul and ZOO
went down from the west.
w. ]. McGinnis, a night herder in the
employ of w. H: Watson, in the Maiden
country, had his left leg broken last week
by his horse falling upon him.
Thirty horses were stolen the past week
from John Smiths herd on .Alkali creek
in the Billings region. Twenty were also
stolen from the herd Of Mr. Fields
Major Charles S. Warren, Commissar,
Of Musters, will muster the Emmett
Guards, Of Butte, into the military service
Of the Territory to-day, Saturday, the 3ott
inst.
The wife Of Harvey Bensley, Of Miles
City, gave birth to two boys and two girls
--all in one day. All are doing we'll ex
cept Bensley who meditates application fo
divorce.
Louis Reeder, we'll known old-time
Of Helena, fell from house that he wa
constructing and was carried to the Sisters
hospital with a broken back, and of cours
cannot live.
New postoffices have been established i,
Montana as follows: AtGreat Falls, Che
teau county, Paris Gibson, postmaster; a
!, Washington Bar, Madison county, Geo. +
Cope, postmaster.
Dr.. Long, the cattle inspector employs
BY the Montana Stocxgrowers' Associs
ton, last week inspected two or tire
bands Of Texas cattle recently arrived o.
. the Yellowstone, and found them free 6
any faint of Texas fever.
Ex-President Billings, Of the Norther
: Pacific, Was interviewed at the town {
Billings few days ago concerning the cor