The Dillon tribune., 1885-05-30
MONTANA CONDENSED.

The Territorial Fair opens in Helena on
August "a.
The Jefferson county grand jury indicted
some Of their county officers.
There will probably be no change in the
Butte postotfice until the commission ex-
pires.
Billings has an insurance agent who in:
IDENTITIES policyholders for bites received
from rattlesnakes.
District court is in session at Billings.
There are eighteen criminal and fifty.four
civil cases on the docket.
The total loss to insurance companies
at Billings and Miles City, from the recent
fires, will aggregate $4,000.
William Evans claims to have killed
near Helena last week rattlesnake which
contained seven whole rabbits.
James King estimates that he will, this
season, clean up about $4,000 in placer
gold from his Diamond City diggings.
A hunter took some beaver skins to
Bozenan last Tuesday to sell them, and
was at once arrested for trapping out Of
season.
The Utah e. Northern company is pre-.
pairing to put in new bridges over all the
streams which they cross between Silver
Bow and Garrison.
The Lewis and Clarke county commits.
sioners advertise for sketches and plans for
court house, Sox1,o feet, the cos, not to
exceed $I25,ooo.
The Granite Mountain Mining Compa-
ny, Of phillipsburg, on the 7th inst, paid
its second monthly dividend Of 10 cents per
share, aggregating $4,000.
A large number Of final proof papers are
held and suspended at the Helena Land
Office, because Of the imperfect manner in
which attorneys send in papers.
w. +. Ford brought an eight.leggcd
lamb to White Sulphur Springs few days
ago. The H"sba"dmam says it looked like
two lambs going in different directions.
1t is said that special agent will soon
be sent out from Washington to investi.
gate the charges against Carpenter, the
superintendent of the Yellowstone Nation
al Park.
A crazy Frenchman, named Champagne
who has lived in Helena for the past fifteen
years, committed suicide at Elkhorn, re.
Gently. He locked himself in cabin and
blew his brains out.
The Hmsbaudman thinks that many O
the farmers daughters fail to appreciate
the fact that good horsemanship on tn,
part Of woman is an accomplishment tina
ranks with the fine arts.
Mrs. Isabella Bowman, OF Ruby Hill
Eureka county, Nevada, wishes to know
the whereabouts Of her son, Reese Jinkin
who left Nevada two years ago for Mon
tana and was last heard from in Butte. H,
is y years old and Of light complexion.
The Governor has issued pardons to Id.
Jones, a female penitcntiary convict con
fined in the Lewis and Clarke county Jail
and three Indians confined in the Custe,
county, Jail. Ida Jones was sentenced fo
one year on a charge Of grand larceny.
Sitting Bulls stamping ground where h,
fought General Custer will now be irrigat
ed by the ditch now being constructed
near Reno Crossing Of the Little Horn
and the Sioux will now pursue peaceful
avocations on the very ground where the,
slaughtered the heroic Custer and his gal
liant men.
The spiritual wants of the citizens o
Bozeman are now certainly we'll provided
for. There are at present lao less than 81,
separate and distinct religious dcnomina
,ions, who hold regular services, viz: Meth
odist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Baptist
Catholic, Methodist Church, South, Will
an occasional German Lutheran servic,
on the side
The New York X,v0l' of the ,1st inst
says: Yesterday James NJ. Reynolds, q
Montana, challenged the winner OF the rae
now in progress in London. whoever h
may be, toa six. day roller skating rac
FOR $500 4 side, the race to be open to al
for Il sweepstakes of Sloo each. Mr.. Ton
Davis is backing Reynolds and the ciiito
of I"yt, E;tH "~d Farm, who holds Mr.
Davis's money, is authorized to make tn
match
More Than u Million.