The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1886-12-17
MONTANA CONDENSED.

Telegraph ilnes are completed between
Livingston and all stations in the National
Park
Several dives were set fire to and de.
stroyed in Billings last week by the ,e.
spectacle citizens Of that place.
AT Anaconda, last Thurday week, in.
cendiaries tried to burn Cornelius Browns
saloon, and the Sherman House.
The new court House at Deer Lodge
was informally dedicated by Judge Gal
braith in neat speech, last Monday week.
| The Anaconda correspondent Of the
Butte Miner says that the population OF
Anaconda has increased 900 within the
last month.
James Morris, a brakeman on the Mon.
tana Union Railway, had his shoulder
fractured Sunday, in coupling cars at the
Butte depot.
The appropriation for Methodist mis-.
sions in Montana is $1o,5oo for the ensu.
ing year, which is $500 more than the ap.
propia,on last year.
Hon. Alfred Meyers has discontinued
the contest OF the election Of his opponent
E. G. Walters, as Joint Councilman for
Yellowstone and Dawson counties. 1t
was found that only informalitics existed.
Judge Wade decided the motion to dis.
solve the injunction in the water case
against the city Of Helena. The court
held that it is beyond the powers ola mum
icipality to make such contract under
its charter.
/ Word was received in this office ycstcr-
day that an Indian had shot and killed an.
other Indian at Ravalli on the Feather
head reservation. Cause, squaws and bad
whisky. One more good Indian added to
the roll-Benton Press
There have been more deaths at Fort
Assinaboine since the 1st Of April than al
any time previous that date since the es-
accidental deaths Oour Of which were
fractures Of the skull, producing almost
immediate death), and six natural deaths.
The mortality is something remarkable
l1izer Press.
In Nevada Creek, Deer Lodge County,
Monday of last week, John Finn came up
behind man named Jefferson Harrington
with an AK raised to kill him. Harrington
caught glimpse OF him over his shoulder
and lodged, at the same time throwing
back his hand, with his Cngers clasped.
The AK came down and cut the fingers off
from both his hands. Finn fled, but was
captured at Missoula and brought back.
Another petition largely signed has been
forwarded to the Superintendent Of the w.
+. Tel. Co. at Omaha, asking the establish
ment of town telegraph office in Deer
Lodge This has been tried twice before
this year, with favorable propositions to
the company, but was rejected. 1t is Just
possible now, that with the probable early
establishment OF the Rocky Mountain line
connecting via the Canadian Pacific, and
town office Of that company here, the W.
L. I. Co. may be more disposed to accom-.
modate us. The present situation is very
bad-Nr7, North. H'cH
Dr. G. n. Bowie, who arrived from
Philipsburg, via Drummond, informs us
that Justice Ferguson, of New Chicago, on
Sunday morning held an inquest on the
body of an unknown man who pcrishcd at
Bear mouth under peculiar circumstances.
1t appears that on Sunday smoke was dis.
covered issuing from an apartment over
the water tank at Bear mouth, which can
through a man hole. This apartment is
very close and partly filled with saw dust
presumably as protection from frost.
When the fire was discovered and cxtn-
guished the parties doing SO found on the
saw dust the body Of man. lie was dead
and probably had been for some ii ne, He
was not burned but was suffocatcd by the
smoke. A box of matches was found with
him. There was no clue by which his
identity could be discovered. 1t is pre-
sumed that on one Of the cold nights he
went up into the apartment to sleep; that
from pipe which he had lit or by match
the saw dust was ignited, that he had gone
to sleep and was strangled by the smoke.
The room was very close, and DR.. b.
thinks the man may have been dead IS or
as hour uls.-4Nc,p Worth. Nest,
Mr.. Jacob Froehlich, a well-known tailor
of Cincinnati, o., after suffering for years