The Dillon tribune., 1885-01-10
MONTANA CONDENSED.

Montana are not t1attering.
During the past fortnight there have
been two or three cases Of scarlet fever IN
Deer Lodge.
Nearly ,5o wood teams deliver fuel at
the mills, smelters. places OF business ano
dwellings Of Butte, daily.
! +. Stats, BOzeman attorney, mas
been indicted for alleged illegal lnfernnea"
tiors on filed document.
Rev. George NJ. Fisher has succeeded
Rev. w. A. Shannon as pastor OF the Mis-
soula Methodist Church.
Among others there is one lady app''
cant for the Missoula postoffice under the
| Cleveland administration.
The amount of wool shipped from Fort
Benton and vicinity during the past season
aggregated 1872 pounds.
The first number OF the daily E,e"'"e
| Nontaniun made its bow to the Helena
! public last NiO1OdS evening".
The Northern Montana Indian reserva-
tons consist Of 3J.7oo,ooo acres OF tine
grazing and agricultural land.
Rev. George Stewart, Episcopal minis
ter al Misso ula, received rs Christmas
| y,ft S116 from his congregation.
E.A. Hettinger has resigned as post
| master at Drummond, and Mrs. Efhe
Dodge has been appointed in his stead.
The Townsend Tyanchnnt has com
| ,nenced its second volume, and it looks a.
th,uph the Zyouchauf would be triumph
ant.
A letter from Bozenan tells Of the suf
ftri,.g Of the live stock in Montana from
the deep snow, and suggests serious losses
| to owners.
The project of building railroad from
Butte to Bozeman is still on The tapis and
NAV resolve itself into material tcrm-,nat
| ter bv spring.
The number of children in Deer Lodge
| county is 1,47o. This years apportion-
| ment of school funds in the county foot>
up $l6s22.So.
| Thomas w. Thompson, sent to the Pen
itentiary last fall from Bozeman, has been
adiudged insane, and sent to The Warm
! Springs Asylum.
How much beef Montana will consume
from January until June is a problem for
Montana farmers to figure on, in which
there is promise Of reward.
Assessor Evans, Of Deer Lodge county,
received $4422.8s for making the county
assessment and collecting poor tax. good
Office for POOR man to have.
Mrs. E. A. Mead. who formerly lived al
Virginia City, but whose present address is
unknown, is wanted at Eddyville, Iowa
Some money has been left her.
The Catholic fair at Helena was com.
plete success in every way. The net profits
were over $4,000, which is doing very vel
when the hard times are considered.
The January term Of the Supreme Co 'r'
of Montana began at Helena last Monday
It is reported that there is considerable
business before the Honorable Appellate
Judges.
Hon. Granville Stuart, President of the
Montana Cattle Growers Association, ha>
issued call for meeting of the Executive
Committee Of the Association, on January
18th, at Helena.
The press Of Montana is very properly
asking the Legislature to specifically EN-.
power the Governor of the Territory to
appoint notaries public in the interim Of
Legislative session.
Messrs. Mcintyre & Hayes have issued
their prospectus for new 6ve-column
| folio daily newspaper, independent in poll
tics, entitled the Morning Call, to be issued
in Butte on or about to-day, January 10th,
The Eastern Montana Stock Association
has done more to stop horse stealing in
Montana within the last six months than
was ever done before in the Territory, and
as matter Of course they have spent con.
siderable money.
Rev. T. w. Fleming, the blind temper.
ancc orator Of Illinois and an old pionee,
OF Montana, one of the discovers of Car.
penter's Bar, Blackfoot City, Eureka
Gulch and Sullivan Gulch and an early set
tier of Last Chance is lecturing in the Ter.
ritory.
OF all the old-time residents of Fort
Benton in the winter Of l862-63 but four.
teen are known to be alive. Four were killed
BY Indians, two committed suicide, one
Henry Bostwick-was killed at the battle
Of the Big Hole, and ten have died from
4 ~. A.