The Dillon tribune., 1886-05-15
MONTANA CONDENSED.

Engineers are surveying line from
Helena via Clancy Springs.
Five steamboats, will do the business
Of the Upper Missouri this year.
Another fire at Butte, Monday ,nornny,
destroyed Fox'> grocery and EoyAn'> "a.
loon.
On Saturday tn Helena Board o, Trade
passed resolutions ayain>; placing ~s"'' o"
the free list
The grand Lodge OF Montana, knights
Of Pythias, will meet in Helena ON Tues-
day, the 18th proxirno
Horace, the l3.year.old son n MIR. and
Mrs. II. +. Brown, formerly ct Butte. dis Il
at Spokane Falls last week.
Eli Perkins, the alleged humorist, in.
flictcd his presence upon Montana aud.
fences at various points this week.
. Brother Bob Su,hcrlin, Of the Hushand.
mar, again says that the Board OF Nfcagher
Count ? Commissioners are liars.
The grade OF the Rimini section OF the
Montana Central is two.thirds completed,
and will he ready for steel in month.
Its runored that the Mountains View
mining property at Butte has been sold to
English capitalists for million dollars.
Two daily journals are soon to be start
ed in Anaconda. Hass Bros. will start
new sheet and the Rc;Ye.:' will issue a
daily edition.
The difficulty over the title to the Gard
liner townsite has been settled, and i. is not
Improbable that the Park branch NAV Ike
extended to that point.
1t is run,orcd that Fort Ellis is to t,e
abandoned at no very distant date. 1t is
thought the post will b. located further
west, possibly near Helena.
The efforts Of the Butte Knights Of La.
Dor to assist the Southwestern strikers have
been most successful, and $1,000 was re-
allied from, the recent ball.
The Northern Pacific has issued cir
cuar closing its agency ut Naxon ON the
Rocky Mountain division. Shipments to
that point must now Ike prepared
Settlers on the Boulder to the number
offorty have signed and forwarded a pe.
tition to the postoffice department for the
establishment OF Il po>totfice at McCloud's
ranch, to be known AS McCloud.
The stockmen assembled at Miles CITY
raised the sum Of $l,oc5 for the relief of
the suffers from the late {. lone at Sank
Rapids and St. Cloud, Mimi, and tele-
graphed the money to Governor Hubbard,
OF Minnesota.
Theo. Gibson, a son of Paris Gibson, of
Fort Benton, and agent of Denny Rice Il
Co, Boston wool merchants, says that the
wool clip OF Montana this year will amount
to about 100000 pounds, the largest of
any year in the Terri'ory's history.
George Helm residing near the mouth
of the Bitter Root, believes he is the owner
OF the biggest colt ever born in the county.
1t measured ; feet loH inches hig:, on
the day OF its birth. The mare is a Clyd.
esdale weighing 1890 pounds. The cslt
was sired by Joe Iou'ie's horse.
Andrew Whi,esides, OF Hellgate canyon,
Montana, has bovine monstrocty in the
shape OF a woody calf. This animal is a
perfect calf, but instead OF being covered
with hair is covered with heavy fleece OF
black curly wool, that tor all the world re.
sembles the coat Of black sheep.
\ messenger has arrived at Benton,
from the Sweet Grass placer digginss
ninety miles north OF Fort Benton, bring.
ing the news Of the murder of a man
named Morcl.y, by Frank Mcfarland
The killing was done with knife. Three
wounds were inflicted, and death resulted
almost instantly.
On the nth inst, an alteration occurred
between Michael Doolev and Jas. O'Brien
at the latter's farm six miles southwest O.
Erumnond, in which Dooley was fatal,
shot. The trouble originated over RICH.
OF way for an irrigating ditch, which
Dooley was attempting to force through
OBricn's premises.
Three men were drowned on the 1o.l
inst while crossing the Yellowstone rive,
trom Junction, in a small >kifl, opposi,,
the cantonenen,. They are privates {. Il
sanwick, Company K 18th Infantry
Tony kcinkand, Compan. s,h Infantry
and Edward Mosten, Troop X LIST Cavalry
Five men were in the boat when