The Dillon tribune., 1886-11-12
MONTANA CONDENSED.


Helena. e0 ~
The Lexington, Of Butte, announces ,b,,
us net profits for the frs, six ,nonths =,
this year were $4,000.
The Anaconda employees refuse to oc.
cep' Marcus Daly's proposition, and the
smelter will be closed down till the frs,
of May next. - .
james Brown, Of Helena, former ex.
press messenger for Wells, Fargo & Co
was struck with paralysis Sunday nigh,
while walking along the street.
Wil'den Pinkham, Chairman Of N. D..
publican Committee of Silver Bow county
was presented with a handsome cane a,
Mondays meeting Of the Butte Republ;.
can club.
q permanent Republican club is to be
organized in Butte. 1t will establish a Ii.
orary and reading room, and secure ,
course Of lectures during the win.
ter by prominent parties in the territory.
a band Of $50 head of beeyes started
from Z Cottonwood valley, Meagher county,
last week to be delivered under govern.
ment contract for the benefit of the Gros
Ventre Indians. ..=
Missouri valley crops have yielded mucl,
better than was expected. The Weld of th..
valley will be about as large as last year,
and as prices are good, the farmers vii! re.
a'ize more than any previous year.-lladi.
Soni0u.
The wages Of employees at the Anacon.
da smelter have been reduced 90 cents per
day all around. Skimmers now get ST. 90
fire and furnace men So; all others S.. 60
The work will start up Thursday next,
provided the men will work at the reduced
rates.
The report Of the public schools OF
Helena for the month Of October: Mum.
ofboys enrolled, $40; number OF girls en-.
rolled, 81; total number enrolled, 717;
average number belonging, 657; average
daily attendance, GIG; per cent of attend.
ance, 90; number cases Of tardiness, O..
A gentleman from Bull Mountains,
while examining our bottle Of petroleum
from the No Wood oil region this morning,
said he is satisfied that there is petroleum
in the Bull Mountains, as he has frequent
ly noticed grcenish yellow oil floating on
streams in that Billings Gazette.
A man named Thompson, recently ar
rested at Helena on charge Of forgery tried
to escape. The grand jury found him
guitless of the crime with which he was
charged, but his trying to escape renders
him liable to imprisonment in the peniten.
tiary.
J.J. Thompson, E. S. Newman, Gran.
vile Stuart, J. w. Streville, H. NJ. Taylo
r. B. Harrison and B. F. Potts have been
appointed as delegates from the Montana
Stockgrowers' Association to the Ma.
ton Cattlegrowers' Association, which
meets in Chicago on the 10Th of this
month
Oats are now being hauled from Maple
creek to Fort Assinaboine to fill the gov.
crnment contract at that post 1t is too
bad that the drouth was such that our own
farmers could not raise sufficient grain to
furnish this post, as the money would have
been thrown in circulation here instead Of
going abroad.-Benton Press.
The Helena /xact,HdrM tells how a
of that town got into a scrape
Monday. The lady provided herself with
a pistol and male escort who remained
on the other side OF the street, while she
walked past the masher. When he tried
to mash, he found the muzzlc Of pistol
confronting him. The lady friend crossed
the street and arrested the old masher.
For the four weeks ended November &,
the money order department of the Butte
postoffice did total business OF $lS,,37..
60, the fees on the same amounting to
The business and fees were di.
yided as follows. First week. $3,3oS.94-
S2,.1,; second week, c,S76.oS-$:1.5S;
S4,S3,.67-$4o.o9; S:,cl9.oo-S6oc+-l".
ter Mountain.
A special to the Helena l"dcfe"7e"f
from Livingston reports a lively earth
quake in the Yellowstone Park Tuesday
morning. The convulsions were plainly
felt in both the upper and lower basins
and at the falls. At Norris the windows
ratified and glassware was in some in
stances broken. Hell's Half Acre was the