The Dillon tribune., 1885-02-21
Eh< Rino', Gibn''t.
uONTANA CONDENSED.

Eggs are worth six bits doze" over .
Helena.
Counterfeit dollars and half:dollars are
abundant at Anaconda.
The Helena City Council appropriated
SEQ for the relief Of the poor.
Eas, .rn Montanians are only ee'ting
fairlx started for New Orleans.
For the week ending Feb. 18th, Butte
shipped $74,636 in silver bullion.
The new Christian Church at Helena
will be dedicst ID Tomorrow Sunday.
Iohn Wells, an old-timer and prominent
citizen of Fort Benton, recently died at that
place.
Over 100 bills have already been intro
duced in the Montana Legislature this
winter.
Only three deaths have occurred at the
Deer Lodge Penitentiary in the past three
years.
Harvey H. Brown, OF Lavina, was
killed last "Wednesday by his team running
away with him.
A new and needed map Of Montana has
Just been prepared by w. P. Snow, civil
engineer. OF Helena.
Montana is to be congratulated over the
beautiful weather which has visited the
Territory the last month.
Garrison is now having her quartz boom.
Some rich strikes are reported as having
been made on Cedar Hill.
There are 212 civil cases and 36 criminal
ones on the docket at Miles City for trial
at the present term Of court
Iohn Kells will be tried at the present
court term in Miles City for numbering
fellow. soldier at Fort Custer.
Missoula people have presented Rev. w.
A. Shannon, who has recently moved to
Anaconda, with gold watch.
Glendive has had potato race at the
roller rink. The Early Rose won the prize,
because after falling it rose early.
The Mo~tanian, paper which was start
ed at Helena ITO supply all the news" about
a month ago, has turned up its toes.
The revivals still continue at Stevens
Vile, and ere long the Bitter Rooters will
all he sailing under the Christian banner.
The A. 0. u. WIS of Sun River Lodge,
No. ID, which disorganized some eighteen
months ago, are going to organize again.
John Longmaid has resigned the super
in,endency Of the Helena Mining and Re-
duction Company's works in Wickes dis.
trict.
White Sulphur Springs is going to have
a singing society called the Moonlight Rev.
elers. The people of that bucolic burg are
to be pitied. ...... ...
Another row in house Of prostitution
at Bozeman is reported, in which the fe-
male occupant was badly disfgured, b"t
she is still in the ring.
It is understood that Con. Murphy's
brother threatens to return TO Montana
with his two brothers, and ambush, one by
one, the men who hung Con.
The escape Of Hanna, the Meagher
county murderer, is now attributed to out
side aid. 1t is said money helped to secure
the disappearance of the criminal.
Matt Anderson, Of the Bozeman Courier,
had baby left in his charge at the Helena
depot last week, and the mother failed to
return, SO Matt is one baby ahead.
The bill to relieve the captors of Con.
Murphy and to appropriate ST. ,ooof for them
as the amount of the reward offered for
his capture, was downed in the Council re-
Gently.
P. r. Bennett is wanted in Choteau
county for selling $4SS worth of hay be-
longing to his employer, George L. Har-
vey, and for forging check for consider
able amount.
The Helena Independent says that the
ranchmen Of that vicinity have been sell.
ing oleomargarine to the innocent people
Of that burg, claiming that it was fresh
ranch butter.
There is rumor Of a well.digested plan
to build railroad from Bozeman to Butte
for the special purpose Of carrying the coal
and farm products Of Gallatin county to
supply the Butte markets.
Kittie Warren, demi-monde Of Boze
man, accidentally dropped lighted match
into the folds of her dress, which ignited
her clothing, causing fatal injuries. After
suffering intense pain she died about moor
last Sunday.