The Dillon tribune., 1886-07-24
MONTANA CONDENSED.


n. Helena salt mine did not pan out.
coonty division is stirring up the Bitter
Rooters.
rhe Deer Lodge Brass Band is to be
uniformed.
w ". Coles circus will exhibit at Glen.
dive August 9Th.
The Fourth.of:July blowout a, Great
Falls COS. nearly 5000
Mail service has been reinstated be-
tween Martinsdale and Ubet'
The work Of grading on the Walker.
vile railroad has commenced.
The pay roll Of the Anaconda Company
for ,he month of June was almost $780,
The Cboteau Calumet announces that
hereafter it will be published regularly
each week.
The contract tor building the new
school house at White Sulphur Springs
has been let Tor $1e,3oo.
Virginia City was treated to cloud.burst
las, week which did considerable damage
TO III. gardens and to the water works.
The horses and mules stolen from the
Parrot Company, at Butte, some time
since have been returned to their owners.
new road has been built through
Maiden gulch to connect with the Collar
road. by this new road the Mayinnis hill
Is avoided
Five hundred new stock cars, fitted with
Westinghouse automatic air brakes, he>
longing to the Northern Pacific, are being
shipped west.
A cowboy working with the Powder
River cattle company at Big Horn station
was drowned whise driving cattle across
the Yellowstone at that point
Arrangements are about completed for
areturh cricket game by the Butte eleven
against the Gallatin eleven, to take place
at Three Forks in about month.
Last week Great Falles had its firs|
shooting affair. Jake Harris, better
known as "Jew Jake" shot Henry Smith
in the groin. Smith will probably die.
In consequences OF the competition be
tween rival coach lines, passengers are
being carried from Townsend to tht
Springs for 80 cents, or 81 Tor the roune
trip.
Several prairie fires have been observed
in the Bull mountain range, but by tn
vigilance of stock men they have beer
stopped without having done seriou
damage.
A natural bridge eight feet high ha
been discovered by prospectors in tn
Big Belt mountains. 1t is said to rival II
grandeur and perfection OF architectur
the natural bridge of Virginia.
The engineering force which has bee
at work on the Walkerville railroad sur
vey has now completed the same and wi
20 to Anaconda to make the survey
new branch line contemplated there.
Saturday night Alice Benson and Len
Stanley, members OF the Bozen'an dem
monde, had jealous quarrel resulting
the latter being shot through the breas
with results that will probably prove tata
The Mabrey Cattle Co., started to sh
one hundred and fifty car loads OF be
cattle from Mingusvillc on Thursda
This is the first large shipment made fro
Dawson county, and will be followed
several other large shipments this seaso
-Arg"S.
Some impecunious wretch, for the sal
Of obtainining the paltry sum offered
the county officials as bounty, has ST
en- Tom Flanigan's pet coyote, just VIII
he had conquered its wild feroc'ous sp'
and taught it to love him-B'lh~
Gazette.
Itis rumored that the Montana Un'e
corporators-Charles Francis Ada"
Jr., Fredrick L Amcs, S. r. Callawa
Robert Harris, Benz. P. Cheney Jr. Lev
Harris and N. J. T, Dana-will be in Bu
on August l, to formally place the road
charge Of manager Dana.-Mi~er.
Crop reports from different sections
the county indicate that the harvest I
season will fall below the average.
would be merely guessing to now es'im
the decrease. Failure to irrigate prope
is said to have been one Of the princi
causes Of inferior looking grain.-lM'sso
Times.