The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1885-12-12
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MONTANA CONDENSED.

l. >. and Territorial District Courts arc
in session at Deer Lodge.
The assessment roll OF Custer county
this year approximates $o.oooooo.
Judge NJ. II. Lott announces his annual
bah at Twin Bridges on New Years Eve.
The Territorial Teachers Institute will
be- held at Bozenu., ON the cOth, goth and
3,st inst.
Anaconda is the iarycs. town in the
United States without Il resident minister
O., the gospel.
The A. o. L. ". OF Virginia City have
determined to have their holiday hop on
christmas Eve.
Oats are worth one cent a pound in the
Judith Valley, aud farmers are unwilling
10 sell at that price.
The returns of the assessor of lewis
and Clarke county show the taxable prop.
ery tn be $7,46l,o7o.
There has been $4,000 SUI scribed thus
far towards bonus tor the extension of
the Gait railway 10 Fort Benton.
Minnie Bachelor, Il patient at the insane
asylum at Warm Springs, died at that in
s'itution last week of epilepsy.
At the Gallatin district court, Thomas
Sur,re> got Il verdict against the Northern
Pacific Coal Company for S,,5oo Tor the
loss Of ali eye.
John Higgins 1T TimEcrlinc, Galla:in
county, has been arrested on a suit OF
$4,000 for alternating the affections of
=. +. Ilanicy's wife.
The Anaconda Company reduced its
force by discharging one hundred men and
shutting down eight mating ana six cal.
ching furnaces last week.
Park City in the Yellowstone Valley is
to have a roller process flour mill. a
company has been organized and will start
will, u cash capital Of S1oooo.
\ million dollars has been spent in i'm.
provemcnts in Butte during the year 1885,
and it is very probable the same amount
or more will be spent next year.
The firm Of Filing, knight T. Co., is dis.
solved, and the hardware business is now
carried on by Filing, Knight Il Buford, in
the Masonic Temple building att Virginia
City.
The Butte school census has been com.
pleted. 1t shows $3.50 children between
+ and ~ years Of age, and about ,,Soo Of
school age, an increase OF y per cent over
last year.
Missoula people have discovered that
they have no title to the land on which,
their graveyard is situated. A committee
has been appointed who will cndeavor to
find out whose name the title rests in.
Since it has been demonstrated by act.
ual test that the harley produced Ia Mon.
tana Is superior, for making BEER, t. that
grown in the States,a new fed q industry
has been opened to the Montana farmer.
Livingston was visited BY another Sc.
.rious conAagration early on Monday morn.
ing Of last week, resulting in the destruc.
tion Of almost an entire business block and
loss Of 100000 to $4,000. Insurance
less than $4,000.
The present season reminds the old
timers Of the winter OF 1877 s when the rive,
ut Fort Benton did not freeze owe, and
hardly storm occurred during the win
ter. lr that year farmers were blowing i,
Manitoba OH Christmas day.
DIR. Foster, (DcmpcraO OF l:ozcn,an. ha,
been elected to fill the vacancy occas,,,et
by the resignation 81: Mayor Sam Lang
horne, recently appointed Receiver OF tn,
Helena land Office. Cook, the Repub.ica,
mayoralty candidate, was downed bccaus,
q! his leaning to sp,ritualiSm,
The Northern Pacific freight depart
lMcnt has decided to do all in his power t,
prevent the indiscriminatc slaughter q
game along the ccmpany's main line an,
branches. Hereafter no special rates viii
Dc given nor will the company make an
rates at all for game shipped in car lots.
\ Twin Bridges correspondent OF III
.NadisonfaH writes: The entertainment a
Twin Bridges on the 18TH ult. was wei
attended. The receipts Of the evenin
amounted to SIS. All were charmed b.
the exquisite music furnished by Mrs
Blake and Mrs. Morris, Of Virginia; Mr..
Award, OF Glendale, and Mrs. Merk, &
Twin Bridges.
Forty years experience, in every clim