The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1886-05-08
MONTANA CONDENSED.

were S.b,ocO.Oi.
The Northern Pacific now uses coal OF
its trains west OF Helena.
Gallatin county oats are no drug in the
Bozeman market Il, S1.7s.
The Helena daili.s hay. rcduced their
subscription price to 81 per month Ivy car
rier.
The Bozeman people are ayitai:'s the
county fair question. Gallatin >h"ul! get
up good one
Miles City is to have "a system Of water
works and a free reading room. Bully for
the COW town.
! A boy one year and eight months old,
son OF Thomas Dunston- of Jefferson. fell
! intD the we'll and was drowned.
| A Chinaman was found dead III the
river near Misstula, Monday, April 10th.
None Of the local Chinaman knew him.
Prof. Davis, late principal Of the Butte
schools, has been appointed 10 similar
position in Bohemian at a salary Of $4,000.
The next meeting Of the Montana Stock.
growers Association will Ike held in Helena
on the third Tuesday in August--fair
week.
1t is reported that deposit Of fire clay
has been found at Cooke, and the Great
Republican Mining company will have
bricks made of it.
The concert at the Methodist Church in
Butte, for the benefit of Mrs. Lee was a
complete success and netted quite nice
sum tor the lady.
Editor Robertson of the Boulder .Scuf;.
net has got "a four-legeed chicken but it has
only two wings. He is long on walking
but short on flying.
Agent Williamson, Of the Crow reserva.
ton, has ordered all stock removed from
the Indian country, and it is being re-
moved as rapidly as possible.
The ranch of Robert Rurdess. ut the
mouth Of Divide Greek, on Big Hole Riv.
er, was sold by Cobfan brothers to vii.
liam Woodward, Of Butte, tor the sum Of
$1,000
Eastern papers are noting marked i'm.
provement in the Territorial press Of Mon
tana and accounting for it on the ground Of
the rapid development Of its material re-.
sources.
This is the second case Of the kind: The
grand jury at the term of court Just con-
cluded at Benton failed to agree on their
report and were discharged without hav.
ing made one.
4 Territorial Sunday School Conven.
ton is to be held in Helena, July 3, con.
tinuing three days. "a number Of promi-
nent Sunday school workers will be pres
ent ON that occasion.
Horace Marshall, a draughtsman in the
employ OF the Montana Central Company,
was drowned in the Missouri River.
near U'idia,on May End, and his remains
have not yet been discovered.
1t is reported at Miles City that the gov.
ernnent has ordered the removed of all
private property and business from, the
Rosebud reservation, and contemplatcs
the erection OF permanent agency build.
ings.
The quotations OF Montana wool in the
Boston market show no change from quo.
tation> a week ago. Late advices from
Boston say that Montana wool is about
out OF the market, only one small lot re.
naming.
This is prediction BY the 4Ns4;som;,u.
which 1t is hoped may yet be realized:
"Five years will develop more paving loties
between Alder yulch and Sheridan than
are to be found around Butte to-day.
Mark the prediction"
Peter Koch, of Bozeman, has been an.
pointed by the court commissioner to e>.
anime and arbitrate the account Of Custer
county against Yellowstone county, de.
tcrminins how much is due The former
county by the latter
r. Is. Wilson, the live stock agent OF the
Northern Pacific, SAYS there will be- about
$4,000 head of cattle shipped from the west
coast to Montana this season, which is a
large increase over the number imported
from that quarter last wear
y. Stevenson, the former Clerk of the
Probate Court, OF Lewis and Clarke coun
ty, and who was censured bv the Grand
Jury last year for gross irregularitv was
arrested ON the Srd inst. on a warrant
charging him with converting to his own