The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1885-10-03
The Aillon Gibnne.
MONTANA CONDENSED.

The Northern Pacific will repair the
Park branch next spring.
Helena livery stables have bar tenders,
according to The Herald.
Yellowstone county is to have a new
court house, to cost $1,000.
The Missouri river at Great Falls is now
lower than it has ever been before.
The poor fund Of Lewis and Clarke
county has SIT, 900 banked to its credit.
Wolves are becoming abundantly nu.
merous on the Montana stock ranges.
Livingston forwarded 6,ao6 car loads
of freight for the year ending August 3ist.
The Butte Gas Company now supplies
about sixty.five stores and dwelling houses
with gas.
II is estimated that the output Of the
Butte camp for 1885 will be about $I5,ooo,.
ooo-in copper and silver.
The total valuation Of assessable prop.
erty in Montana last year was $4o746,.
,6S91, against $44,6oS,46I.2S for the pre-.
vious year.
The best sales Of Montana cattle thus
far reported at Chicago was $5.,5. The
animals weighed in the neighborhood Of
,,cso pounds.
Marquis de Mores has been acquitted Of
the charge of murder and will resume the
shipping Of Montana and Dakota beef to
the Eastern markets.
A contract for building the new school
house at Corvallis, in Missoula county,
was let on the 21st ult. to Martin & Jones,
who take the contract at $4,6S9.95.
The Fort Ellis Comedy Company has
volunteered to give three performances
for the benefit Of the Catholic church edi.
flee soon to be erected in Bozeman.
There will be $500 head Of beef cattle
shipped from the Judith in a short time
They will leave Ross Fork about October
for Chicago, via the Northern Pacific.
The prices of Montana wool in Chicago
have not materially changed since last
week. The ruling quotations in that mar
ket are for fine, ao@22c; medium, IL a4c.
The City Of Helena has concluded a
contract for the ensuing year with the Hell
ena Electric Light Co., for supplying the
city with sixteen lights at SIS per month,
each, or $a,8so per year.
A. Grussey, a well-known resident ol
Butte, who kept saloon on the corner o
Main and Granite streets, was shot and
killed Friday evening Of last week by 8
man named Antoine Ludwig.
The Livingston ENTERPRISE gives the
total number Of car load lots shipped from
that town for the year ending August 31s
at 3o,. The total number shipped from
Billings in the same time was 1,438.
At Anaconda, on the a3d ult., Anna Har
rington and Black Hills Jennie, both dis
reputables, had fight, in which Jennie
stabbed Annie, inlicting mortal wound
A man Of loose morals was the cause.
The Utah Central now furnishes lao.
tons of coal per week to the Anaconda
smeltcr and 600 tons to the Parrot smelte
at Butte. The coal Is brought over the d
Il R. G. from Pleasant Valley to Prove
transferred to Utah Central cars and take,
to Ogden, where It is again reloaded o.
Utah & Northern cars.
A dispatch from Helena announces ths
Col. w, f. Chadwick, a prominent an
wealthy old.time lawyer of that place, die
at two o'clock last Tuesday morning. Hi
death was sudden. Colonel Chadwick va
man Of many good qualities, was as kim
hearted as woman, and was his own wor
enemy. Drink was the cause Of his dealt
a car load Of ore weighing $1,000 Il
GO tons), left HALEY for Kansas City a te
days ago, says the HALEY Ndaho) Times
the ,lst ult This was, by about nine tor
the heaviest load ever taken away fro