The Dillon tribune., 1885-03-21
MONTANA CONDENSED.

Hurdle races on rollers are now in fash
on at Butte.
The District Court Of Custer county is
,till in session.
The Butte City Council has passed
city registration ordinance.
\ happy father wants baby show at
The Miles City roller rink.
The Billings roller skating rink burned
on the 1.th inst. Loss, $4,000.
$o6,75, was the value of the silver bull
lion shipped from Butte last week.
The Montana Stock Growers Associa.
ton meets at Miles City, April I'd.
1t is expected that there will be big
stampede to the Little Rockies this spring.
Forty.three cars Of coal were delivered
to the Anaconda Company in one day last
week.
The Sun river horsemen will meet ON
the 27th inst. to organize horsemen's as.
ISOLATION.
The ice in the Yellowstone river ad.
journed on the same day that the Montana
Legislature did.
Farmers on the Highwood and Shonkin,
Choteau county, have commenced their
spring blowing.
The Penitentiary convic,s in the Helena
Jail will be provided with new suits Of the
striped fashion.
Information is wanted OF John Michael
Donovan, who was in Fort Benton about
eighteen months ago.
1t is reported that man named Joe
Shannon was killed in Big Horn basin a
few days ago by Indians.
The Montana Stock and Mining Journal,
published by George Boos Il Co., Helena,
has been succeeded by the Lire Stock
Journal.
Thethree cowboys who held up train
ut Mingusville were examined at Glendive
last week, and bound over in the sum Of
$500 each.
The IMdcteudcM remarked that Helena
is still cursed with hard cases. That, how.
ever, was before the adjournment Of the
Legislature.
John Vesuvius Bogert has thrown ortho-
doxy in Bozeman into commissions Of nor
ror by delivering an infidel lecture under
church auspices.
The Butte and Bozeman Railroad bill,
which passed the House by a vote Of ID to
9 and the Council by to ;, was pocketed
by the Governor.
The "French womar's house, between
Deer Lodge and Helena, we'll remembered
BY stage travellers Of couple Of years ago
has been burned down.
The cattlemen on the Yellowstone and
Musselshell are congratulating each other
upon the small percentage of loss among
cattle during the past season.
Professor w. w. Wylie, Of Bozeman,
was appointed Territorial Superintendent,
Of Public Instruction, and immediately
confirmed by the Council.
. OF the 81 convicts in the Territorial
, Penitentiary, only Sc can be accommodated
. In the stone prison. The balance have to
be kept under guard in log houses.
The danger Of landslides on the North
ern Pacific between Belknap and Heron
. has been averted by driving two rows o.
, piling at exposed points and planking them
SO as to prevent the peculiar and Preacher
Gus soil from sliding upon the track.
Captain NJ. c. Wilson, who has beer
down to Portland, where he was formerl,
: engaged in street preaching, while mem
, Der Of General Towards staff, has return
ed to his station in Missoula, where tn,
the boys call him "Holy Joe."
, a report from Benton says ex.Count,
r Treasurer Hunsberger, who recently closes
term Of twelve years in Office, is in de
, fault 10 the extent of $4,000 in his settle
ment with the Choteau County Commits
sioners. His bondsmen are said to be re
e sponsiblc.
Reynolds, the champion roller skater
4 writes from Bozeman that he did not los
$ the race with Goettlich, at Miles City, &
stated last week, but won it by half a la]
There was no agreement that he shout
give Goettlich ten laps, and consequent
he did not try to beat him more than ha
g of lap.
II Maurice Sullivan, the man who sh,
:, % Bob Roberts at Miles City last Christina