The Dillon tribune., 1885-08-22
CHE Aillo,, Gribn',t.
MONTANA CONDENSED.

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The Anaconda public school will open
Monday, August 81.
The examinations for departmental SER
vice will be held at Helena, September IS.
The new Chicago, Drummond and Phil.
lpsburg telephone line is now in process
Of construction.
The output OF Butte for 1855 will exceed
that of Leadville 100000, possibly ST.
100000.
Last months business Of the Pacific
Express Company at the Anaconda office
amounted to $1,s5l.,,.
Butte has population Of more than H..
ooo and is constantly increasing. Butteis
the greatest mining camp on earth.
The Territorial veterinary surgeon says
that the horse disease on the Yellowstone
is not the CHAMBERS, as was at first reported.
Unsupported that Indian Agent Arm
strong. Of the Grow reservation, has been
retired and special agent placed ia tenn
porary charge.
Arrangements have been made for the
sale of all the Northern Pacific lands in
the Yellowstone Valley, both surveyed and
unsurveyed.
There seems to be an epidemic OF chol
era morbus among the children at Walker.
vile, and number Of them are and have
been sick with the disease.
The land sales at the Helena Land OF.
fee for the week enoing Saturday, August
IS, amounted to the sum OF $l,742 60: fees
and commissions, $436; total, $c,,SS.6o.
William Bracken, Of Junction, has sold
his ranches and 1000 head Of sheep to
Poindexter y Orr. The ranch property
sold for $1,000 and the sheep for SPAS a
head.
The Herald is urging the project Of
building railroad from Helena to Butte
via Ten. Mile. 1t THINKS both cities should
pool their issues and provide tor the sur
vey OF the route.
The South wing Of the Deer Lodge
Penitentiary should be completed by the
fret Of the year, SO that all criminals serv-
ing sentence within the Territory may be
cared for at home.
Passenger rates over the Northern Pa.
cific to leading places in Montana have
been reduced to 500 for first.class un.
limited tickets from St. Paul or Minneapo.
lis. Second.class, $+2.so.
Renshaw Opera House, Butte, will be
opened September S, by James McDaniels,
Of Cheyenne, Denver, Leadville apd
Deadwood, and will hereafter be known as
McDaniels' New Theater.
Peter Koch and Professor Wylie, of
Bozeman, were arrested on the charge OF
leaving a camp fire burning in the Nation.
al Park, taken before Justice Hall at Low
er Geyser Basin and fined $50 each.
The Helena I~detendtst says the Ma
ginnis mine, at Maiden, shows up four.
foot vein assaying from $4,000 to $1,000
per ton in gold. Governor Hauser and
Mr.. A. NJ. Hotter, Of Helena, are the own.
crs.
The following are the Montana dele.
gates to the American Bar Association,
which met at Saratoga August l6, 1855 j:
W. W. Dixon, Of Butte; Jason W. Strevell,
Of Miles City: and W. F. Sanders, Of
Helena.
AS per proposals invited, the farmers
and cattlemen Of Eastern Montana will
have chance to supply the Cheyenne In.
dams on the Tongue and Rosebud rivers
with $4,000 pounds of beef on the hoof.
and eleven hundred sacks OF flour.
There will be eighty or one hundred
head OF cattle to compete tor prizes at the
Territorial Fair the coming week. They
VIII embrace the following well.known
breeds: Heretords, Polled Angus, Gallo.
ways, Shorthorns, Holsteins and JERSEYS.
with grades Of the same.
Coroner Brown, Of Helena, assisted by
DR.. W. l.. Steele, held an inques: over the
body of Robert Miller ut his ranch ON
Willow Creek, on the old Benton road be.
yond Silver City. The jury found that de.
ceased came to his death by gunshot
wound inflicted by himself:
The following appointees Of United
States Marshal Kelly have filed their
bonds and entered upon the discharge of
their duties as Deputy United States Mar.
shals: J. a. Bailey, Gallatin county; Thos.
II. Irvine, Custer county; A. B. Eastbrook,
Dawson county; a. NJ. Quivey, Yellow.
stone county; and f. W. McNeal, Lewis
and Clark counties.