The Dillon tribune., 1885-02-14
MONTANA CONDENSED.

Inc new NHIIssid' S'"
finished.
Helena Migrants are utilized to work on
the streets.
The Yellowstone river is being bridged
at Gardiner.
A horse which crossed the plains in 1877 I
died il Missoula few days ago.
Mrs. Duffy's boarding house at Butte
was burned on the night of the 9th inst.
Fuller Hot Springs, Madison county
are advertised for sale by the adminlstra-
tor.
At Stuart the Utah and Northern Com
panv has put in a $4,000 gallon standard
tank.
A Sun river resident has invented per-
petual motion machine and runs grind
stone with it.
In Alder Gulch, in the Little Rockies
bedrock has been struck, with satisfactory
results-75 cents to $1.5o PAN
AT depth of So feet in the Pedo m'ne'
near Sheridan, Madison county, sixteen
inch BODY of 5000 ore has been struck.
Lung fever has appeared among the
horses on Sweet Grass range with sutfl-
Gent frequency to be considered prevalent
Frank Goyette of Miles City, who was
shot in the leg few days ago by jack
rabbit hunter, had the injured limb ampu,
tated.
A curiously interesting event took place
at M;ssoula recently, in the marriage OF
Charley Lum Fung to Sophie Walton, a
squaw.
The entire family of children: six in
number, of Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbault, of New
Chicago, Deer Lodge county have died OF
diphtheria.
The other day, near Billings, hand Car
collided with the squaw of Spotted Tail,
the Crow war chief, badly banging up her
classic features.
Charles Becker, Of Miles City, who was
bound over last fall on charge of perjury,
has skipped the country, and his bailsnen
are $500 loser.
In Lewis and Clarke county last year
county licenses aggregating So, 2o4.25
were collected. The gamblers paid $3.50;
of the amount.
Indian Agent Armstrong has advertised
Tor sealed proposals for the building of an
irrigating ditch on the Crow Reservation
eight miles long.
There are more tramps, pickpockets
bnmmers, thieves, thugs and murderers in
some parts Of Butte to-day than there are
in all the rest of the Territory.
The devil has lost his grip on Stevens.
vile, Missoula county. About 10 people
have been converted there in the past
month, and the Methodist revival is still in
progress.
Territorial warrants to the amount Of
$50 were sold at the Auditors office, in
HI lena, to President Hirshfeld, of the
Merchants National Bank for 9SH cents
on the dollar.
At Augusta teacher logged small
boy severely for calling her an "old cow y
| wasn't SO much that she objected to be-
ing called a female bovine. It was the adj
jective that made her hot.
On Monday morning last Thomas Bren-
ton killed a mountain lion in Dry Gulch,
four miles east of Helena. The lion was
large animal, measuring nine feet from
the tip of his nose to the end Of his tail.
The question of branding cattle is again
heing considered by Montana stock men.
A hide not branded will bring ST. to $1.5o
more than one side branded, and the pres
ent custom is estimated to cost Montana
breeders alone 100000 year.
At the Silver Bow county Jail thirty
honorable prisoners are now feeding at the
expense Of the county. Every one Of them
claims that he has been unjusty incarcer-
ated, and was wrongfully accused Of the
crime for which he is now serving GU: his
time.
Governor Carpenter has appointed B. F
Potts, 6. Z. Swallow, Granville Stuart
]. H. Mills, DR.. Mussigbrod, Henry Sieben
r. S. Ford, Dan. Flowerree and w. B. S
Higgins as Montana's delegates to the Ma.
tional Agricultural Convention to meet a,
New Orleans on the goth inst.