The Dillon tribune., 1885-06-06
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MONTANA CONDENSED.

MONTANA CONDENSED.
The wife of Mr.. Holt at Butte gave
birth on the 26th ult., to triplets-two
daughters and son.
Copies ofthe laws of the Fourteenth Ses.
sion can be procured of Fisk Bros, Helena,
at $2.5o, bound in calf.
The subscription for $4,000 to erect a
smelter in Helena is making good progress
About half the sum is already down.
An attempt was made to burn saloon
near the depot at Missoula, but the fire was
discovered in time and extinguished
The demi.mondes are excluded from the
Glendive skating rink. The cow.country
metropolis is beginning to put on airs.
Bozeman is to have thirty.six hour CO.
as you please, free.for.all, roller.skating
race to commence on the 4th Of July.
The next meeting ofthe Montana Stock.
growers Association will be held in Helena
August 18th. There are ia members.
There will be races on the Butte track
on the 9Th and sth Of July, and another
meeting Immediately after the Helena fair
in August.
The Virginia City skating rink is to be
re.opened, which suggests an increased
number of divorce cases in the "Social
City,"
The people of Deer Lodge are becoming
very much exercised over the existence of
a horse distemper which they think to be
CHAMBERS.
J. w. Cobb, the proprietor ofthe Billings
R~stlev, died on Sunday last of injuries re.
sulting from being caught in the recent fire
at Billings.
The skeleton Of an unknown man was
found on Deer Greek, Judith Basin, last
week. Death had occurred FIVE or six
months ago.
There has been an unprecedented rush
for copies Of the laws passed by the Legis-
lature last winter. The first edition is al
ready exhausted.
The body Of a newly born babe, some.
what cut and hacked, wrapped in foreign
made clothes, was found floating in Tongue
river In gunny.sack.
The Miners Union will appropriately eel.
citrate Its seventeenth anniversary on the
18th Of June. There will be grand pa.
rade and ball at night at Butte.
Petritz, the man who shot at Postmaster
Moore, of Anaconda, was tried at Deer
Lodge on the a3d ult., the trial ending on
Saturday. He was fined $1,000.
The stages between Bozeman and Vir.
ginia City have now entered upon the sum.
mer schedule time-making the trip be.
tween the two POINTS named In one day.
The Commencement exercises of the Col.
lege Of Montana will be held at Deer Lodge
on Thursday, June nth, with examination
OF the classes, continuing until the follow.
ing Tuesday.
Geo. H. Butler (old Ben's nephew) who
spent six months Of drunkenness in Monta.
ma two years ago last winter, has been an
inmate ofa Washington inebriate institu.
tuition for the past year.
Boulder City is now the greatest stage.
center in Montana-three daily, one week.
~ and one tri'weekly line arriving and de.
parting on their regular trips and carrying
passengers and Uncle San,'s mails.
BY an accident at the Bell smelter at
Butte, few days ago, four men were badly
burned by the over-turning Of a car load Of
not calcine matter. One Of them named
Shirley, had both hands terribly burned.
The recent disasters by fire at Miles
City has stirred up the insurance conpa.
nies. They threaten to cancel all their
risks in the city and withdraw from the
place altogether, unless means for the ex-
tinguishment of fires are provided.
Bozeman pays its city officers as follows:
Marshal and Street Commissioner lone per-
son. $65per month; night. .watchman S 100
per month and half the perquisites; Police
Magistrate, S33h per month; Clerk and
Attorney, 1855 per month; Treasurer and
Collector, 6 per cent. OF collections.
The enterprising publishers Of DIR.
FOOTE'S HEALTH MONTHLY have, by the