The Dillon tribune., 1885-10-31
MONTANA CONDENSED.

-, 600 forest trees.
Each week Anaconda eats e calves, Ct
beeves and $40 sheep.
4 Three Piegan Indians were indicted a,
Bozeman for horse stealing.
The Montana exhibition at the New Or
leans Exposition should be full.
Col. J. p. Pierce, National Bank exam
liner, is making an official tour Of Montana
Nat. Y. Hoss, formerly Of the Inter.
Mountain, has connected himself with the
Anaconda Rc1Te1v.
A lodge Of the Knights of Labor, forty
strong, has been organized by p. B. Bo.
land, Of Butte. 4, Deer Lodge.
Wild strawberries, it il said by an ex.
change, are ripe in Sun River Valley. 1,
IL certainly time for them to be.
Five tunnels will be run on lodes in
Sheep Mountain, upper district of Emf.
grant Gulch, during the coming winter.
1t is estimated that Montana contains
1886 sheep, worth ST. ,6o3,14s, an increase
Of 47H per cent. over the figures Of last
year.
Virginia City PAID out $1,s7s last year
in salaries for school teachers. School was
taught for 145 days. The district contains
eo9 pupils.
Since the discovery Of fossil beds in Vel.
lowstone county nearly half the residents
Of Billings have taken up the study Of
paleontology.
John Murphy, champion middle weight
Of Montana, has published card Offering
to fight Tom Manning, the Portland bruiser,
for ST 900 side.
AT Billings ten pounds Of luscious Con-
cord grapes Can now be bought tor dol
lar, while sweet potatoes cost only four
cents per pound.
All the crops in the Lower Yellowstone
fulfilled the promise # the early part Of
the season and those who had in crops
reaped rich harvests.
w. \. Clark has presented to the Silver
Bow Club souvenir Of the New Orleans
Exposition, in the shape Of the first silk
handkerchief woven there.
The National Park season is closed.
Wakefield & Hoffman have taken off their
stages, and trains now run but three times
a week on the Park branch.
1t is reported that Bozeman is favored
with Congregational minister, who Is
looking over the field with view to e..
tablishing himself in Bozeman.
VIM. Warfield, formerly Of Butte, has
been appointed by Governor Murray, Of
Utah, alternate commissioner to the New
Orleans Exposition from Utah.
The Anaconda smelter now purchases
custom ore in lots Of one ton and upwards.
This will prove great boom to the
small mine owners in that vicinity.
Typhoid, or mountain, or malarial, or
some fever, BY whatever name It may he
known, seems to be quite prevalent at
Deer Lodge and elsewhere just at present.
Mrs. John Richli, temporarily stopping
with her mother, Mrs. Barbara Zaugg, who
resides opposite Alex. Belongs place in
the He'll Gate Canyon, suicided BY drown.
ing.
The smallpox scare that broke out in
Missoula last week has subsidized. The
only case thus far is a little son Of Mrs.
Boissoli, a county charge at the Sisters
hospital.
Elmer Cannon and VIM. Riley, two Of
the murderers Of "Opium Jim," at Butte
some time ago, were sentenced to eighteen
and twenty years hard labor in the peni.
Tertiary.
NJ. Goodman, second hand dealer in
clothing at Helena, committed suicide on
Oct. :3d. The deed was accomplished bv
means Of quart Of whisky and ss.cal.
ibre pistol.
Owing to the high price and active de.
mand for Montana beef in the eastern mar.
kets, there are now many thousand head
OF cattle being pushed that way as rapidly
as possible.
Myers Bros, of Shields River, have sold
about 1000 head Of one, two, three and
four year old steers to the Murphy Cattle
Company, of the Musselshell. The price
paid was $33 per head.
Drs. Mitchell & Mussigbrod are erect.
ing in place Of the recently burned build
ing at the Insane Asylum, a large brick
building, which will be as nearly fire.proof
As building can be made.