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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1897
Page
4
Official paper reports on state senate salary cuts for many officers, the Powell county bill defeat, and surprise over weak support for a new county. Mentions Nevada money interest and prize fighting as a source of funds, with Cleveland endorsing Lyman J. Gage after vetoes.
The legislature struggle to pass pew legislation and address routine matters delays business, with nearly two thirds of the sixty days already elapsed and most major work still in preliminary stages.
Senator Ta An Nan of Sweetgrass county introduces a bill to reduce salaries and compensations of state officers deputies and clerks. The current annual expenditure is 207400 dollars and the proposal aims to save about 100000 dollars annually. The measure seeks to ease financial strain and address budgetary concerns.
The passage notes a concern about a local industry and its effects on the community, with mentions of annual outlays and the difficulty of keeping money local. It contrasts export revenue with domestic needs and hints at broader economic imbalances in the region.
A Sunday meeting of the state arid lands commission and house and senate irrigation committees discussed a bill to create districts and bonds for ditch digging to reclaim large unusable areas. The plan faces financial hurdles as the state won’t cover work costs and districts will issue bonds secured by land liens. Proposals envision settlers benefiting after ditches and irrigation are finished, with bond proceeds funding construction and upkeep.
An incomplete OCR snippet shows text resembling a legal or clerical notice with names and references to a clerk or attorney. The legible parts include phrases like Clerk Lecorp and Att'y for Piet, plus scattered fragments and stray punctuation. No clear event, date, or outcome is ascertainable from the readable fragment.
The readable parts outline patent concerns and multiple names in a garbled list. It mentions patent numbers, dates, topics like alanine and wheat, and scattered references to people and places, all in a jumbled stream with no clear single event or outcome.
Unclear OCR fragment mentions a beet scene with pige, a south westend nerve and corner Lee. Details are fragmentary with few readable proper nouns or events.
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