The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1885-08-29

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indisposed.
Inc Dillon contractors and carpenters
are all busiy engaged. The building boom
IN the city continues in full force.
In the Butte Miner Hon. Thos. L. Nap.
ton announces that he is not a candidate
tor Judke ofthe Second Judicial District, or
for any other office.
| I. J. Farrell, auctioneer at Virgin ia
City, is an old hand at the business. His
services can be secured to conduct sales in
any part Of Southern Montana.
The inhabitants Of Dillon are educated
to such degree that they know how to
write. There Is an average Of three hun.
dred letters sent from Dillon daily.
The following is a reliable rule for meas.
uring hay in the nov or stack: Ordinar.
ily' with good upland hay closely pressed.
51a cubic feet are calculated for ton.
Charles 6. Noble, dentist, will be at his
Office In Dillon until October I, when he
will be at the Madison House, Virginia
City. All interested please take notice.
Robt. T. Wing, President Of the Dillon
Furniture Company, will have charge of
the business during the absence Of g. T..
Paul, the business manager Of the com.
pany.
Wool seems to have an upward ten.
dency just at present in the East, Montana
medium being quoted at FAC. This will be
good news to those wool growers who did
not sell.
Messrs. Curtis & Majors, Of Butte City.
nave bonded some Of the most valuable
and desirable property Of Chas. Y. Reeder,
In Dillon, which they are about to sell to
parties In Butte.
When curiosity seekers visit Butte thew
should examine the cabinet Of George
Newkirk, on Main street, next door to the
Centennial Hotel. The cabinet is the
best collection Of rich and rare specimens
in the country, except the cabinet at the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington
City.
During the session Of the Press Asso.
citation at Butte, the Daily Miner showed
great enterprise In issuing an edition con.
tanning over eleven columns of solid min.
Ion type, giving the complete proceedings
Of one day. TWAS daily edition that
would have been credit to any Of the big
papers In the Eastern cities.
The article descriptive of the trip of
the Girls Geyser party to the National
Park will not appear. The preparation of
the article euthanasiaed. Instead Of Dill.
lon production we print, In to.day's TR1n.
uNE, an interesting letter written by a
young lady Of Eastern Montana descrip.
tive of visit to Wonderland.
S. D. Beebe, who has been the Dillon
agent ofthe Utah and Northern for several
years, will 80 to Anaconda in the employ
of the Company. Mr.. Beebe has been ore
OF our most esteemed citizens, and he is a
gentleman who will be missed in this
community, where he has host Of friends
who will wish him success in his new
position.
Messrs. Poindexter s. Orr, who we're
notified by the Interior Department, are
removing all their fences inclosing Gov.
eminent land as fast as possible. The
firm has comparatively small amount
of Government land inclosed. The state.
ment going the rounds of the Territorial
press about the number of acres inclosed
BY the firm, is great exaggeration OF the
amount.
An exchange makes the following sar.
donic observations: ave like to hear a
man refuse to take home paper and all
the time sponge on his neighbors for the
reading Of it, We like to hear man
complain, when asked to subscribe for his
home paper, that he takes more papers
than he reads now, and then go around and
borrow his neighbor's, or loaf around until
he gets all the news from it,"
Negotiations are in progress by which
grand excursion from Dillon to Butte and
return will probably be given Friday
next, September 4, under the auspices of
the ladies OF Grace NJ. E. Church. Al
full corps Of committees are at work, and
no efforts will be spared to make the &C.
casion a success. Special cars will be
chartered for the trip, leaving Dillon at
6:,o a. M. and returning at 9:3o p. m.
The party will have nearly seven hours in
which to view the great mines, smelters
and business blocks of the mining metro.
polls Of America.
AT the meeting Of the Press Association
at Butte, the following active members
were elected: John S. Mills, Anaconda