The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-12-09
STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Columbia Falls is erecting an oatmeal
mill to employ 100 men.
Col. Sanders and wife, of Helena, have
gone to Washington, ID. G.
At Columbia Falls the erection
of a $4,000 school house has begun.
j. j. Caldwell, of Butte, was fined 500
for practicing medicine without a license.
The Missoula schools have been closed
for a week on account of several cases of
d%iphtheria.
The peoples party OF Missoula are
about to begin the issue of a new paper
styled The Populist.
Rabbi Schulman, of Helena. has resign
ed his position to accept a better offer
from Kansas City.
Jacob Zehtner, who came to Montana
in 1860, died last week at his home near
White Sulphur Springs.
1t is reported that an English com
pany will erect a 81 100000 smelter in
the vicinity of the Osburn mines.
Prof. i. A. Steere, principal Of the
city schools at Dillon, will assume the
Office of state superintendent on Jan
uary LIST.
A Great Falls lumber company re-
Gently ordered 100000 feet of lumber
from the Great Northern mills at Col
umbia Falls.
Joe Haincs, a former stage driver on
the Bozeman and Virginia line, is the
newly elected democratic sheriff of
Madison county.
Geo. l.. jewell recently shot IA mount
ain lion IN Bcavcrhead, measuring over
six feet in length and weighing
over 10 pounds.
The Montana Democrat of LewistOwn
complains Of the fact that the daily mail
from Great Falls to that point has been
changed to Il tri-weekly.
About 100 men will be engaged dur
ing the winter in getting out 10000
ties for the Great Northern railroad III
the mountains above Kalispcll.
A. J. Burns, one of the board of com
missioners of Lewis and Clarke county,
died at Helena, last Saturday. Mr..
Burns home was at Ma .sville.
Frank Rcnols. IA young Englishman
living in Butte at IA fast rate. has been
sentenced to five years OF penal servitude
in the prison at Deer Lodge for forging
checks.
DR.. w. A. Rurleigh. formerly IA resi-
lent Of Miles City was recently chosen
a state senator for South Dakota, but
has been stricken with paralysis and
is now in a critical condition,
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company, is arranging to put in tele-
phone lines between Livingston, Mis-
soula and intermediate points. A cop
per wire will be strung the whole dis
tance.
Ben II. Dettmer an Old M%ontanian
has returned to Butte after a two years
s@ojourn in Nicaragua. lie is now or
ganizing a company in Butte for the pur-
pose of carrying On gold mining in
Nicaragua.
The wonan's department Of the
Worlds fair for Montana has chosen the
bitter root as the state national flower.
This is also the state flower of the ". G..
T.. t. The scientific name Of the bitter
root Is lewisia redlvlya.
+. ". PoindcXtcr. ST.. the head Of the
PoindcXtcr Commercial company, OF Dli-
lon. says that the report OF the assign
ment of the company was incorrect. being
founded on the fact that the business
has been transferred to p. II. PoindeXtcr.
Jones Brown. formerly the circuiator
of the Butte Miner. has been sued by the
company and makes a counter claim for
$4,000. alleged to be due him on ac-
count. The defendants answer occupies
nearly three columns Of fine type and Is
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