The Dillon tribune., 1885-01-17
uOHTANA CONDENSED.

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R,zeman has ordered new FIRE engine
The Helena Business College now has 81
pupils. :,
Billings wants to sell its artesian we'll
So does Helena.
Las, week Butte shipped $97.o4s worth
Of silver bullion.
The new conven, at Miles City will be
completed in few days.
Miles City officials have been raid'ng the
opium joints successfully.
Edmund Foster, Of Sheridan, died on
December 29th, aged 70 years.
Missoula farmer this winter butchereo
a hog that weighed 725 pounds.
The rails on the National Park branch
south of Cinnibar have been taken up.
Horse raisers in the Sun river country
talk of fo-mins a roundup association.
Madison coun tvs tax levy for 1885 is IL
mills on the dollar. Last year it was ID
| mills.
The distance from St. Paul to Bozeman,
bv the Northern Pacific Railroad, is 1884
miles.
Mountain lions killed good many cat
tie in Custer county during the recent
storm.
Iohn Murphy, of Butte, is out in cha'-
lenge to the m;ddle-weight sluggers OF the
Territory.
Smith river and the surrounding noun
tains will havea genuine mining boom the
coming summer.
In December the Northern Pacific sold
,6,4 56 acres OF land, 5,676 acres of which
were in Montana.
Stock1nen of Montana estimate the loss
Of aoilgrim" cattle between now and spring
tremendously high.
George Thexton is taking ore from the
Alameda mine, near Virginia City, that as
says from 1900 to $4,000 ton.
| At Billings last week R. T. Gray, who
was charged with the crime OF bastardy'
was bound over to await the action OF the
next grandeur
1ohn Kells, a Fort Custer, Custer coun-
tv. soldier, is under arrest for numbering
Ioseph Aurke, another soldier, on the 18TH
Of last November.
. The different resolutions adopted by the
Territorial Teachers Association are al
good. and deserve the careful consideration
of the Legislature.
In the apportionment of school funds We
l not;ce Anaconda acc, edited with 21Opupil'
OF school age, and the amount apport'onee
the district is $1,36o.4o.
The Judgment of $2o,75o damages II
the suit OF Richard T. Kennon VS.. John l
= Gilmer ct al. was reduced by the Supreme
Court a: Helena to $1o,75o.
R. E. Carpenter, Superintendent OF tn
National Park has gone to Washington t
; attempt to secure an appropriation from
Congress of 100000 for needed improve
4 ,nents.
J. The question o; dividing Missoula coun
: ty BY cutting off tnat portion north an
: west of the Flathead Reservation will un
# doubtedly be passed in the Legislature thi
Q winter.
s Trains are not allowed to run over 81
e miles an hour through the Mullan tunns
!. or over all high bridges and trestles o
o the Rocky Mountain division of the NORTH
: ern Pacific.
Richard Holds, the unfortunate man VIII
, was SO terribly injured last Monday morl
ing in the Star Of the West mine, at Butt
:. died on Tuesday morning at DR.. Viii
= ford's hospital.
% The recent rich quartz discoveries
Emigrant Gulch are attracting deserve
attention, and the camp bids fair to enli
the energy and capital OF miners and cap
tallStS next season.
- At Helena on the 9TH Of Februa'
,e $500, par value, Of Territorial warran
70 will be sold at auction to pay the Decor
Is, Der and January expenses of the De
he Lodge Penitentiary.
he The Apex mine, at Summit, Madiss
It. county, owned by E. +. Jones, has be-
is bonded by Thomas Mofat, of Butte. Il
ut bond runs until the Ist Of next Octob'
SIS and is for $4,000, Of which $500 was pa
down.
The Pioneer Cattle Company, wi
$Iooo,ooo capital, filed articles Of incorE
nd ration at Helena on TIE 9th inst. Its prl
ol- cipal stockholders are S. T. Hauser, c.
ID. Kohrs, A. ]. Seligman and Granvi