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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1903
Page
3
Reading notices list 20 cents per line for first insertion and 15 cents per line for subsequent insertions. Business locals charge 10 cents per line then 8 cents per line. Standing ads rates available on request. Church festival notices with admission or gate profits priced at 5 cents a line. Card of thanks eight lines at 5 cents per line.
Ineffect November date small fragment notes a southbound departure toward a place name obscured by OCR errors. The fragment hints at a schedule change or bus or train movement with unclear origin and destination references.
Local notes record Edgar Ferris visiting Dillon and a staged quip about a millionaire tramp. Citizens, traders, and visitors including George Gould, T. B. Craver, Dan Shively, and Mrs. A. Pierce are noted with business and social mentions across Dillon and nearby areas.
Extensive delivery of trout fry is planned within weeks to stock Blacktail Creek. Leadville sub station supplies the black spotted fry, with 10000 fish promised. William Cushing acts as principal applicant coordinating release into the designated stream near Dillon.
Monida dispatch reports William Shoemaker and Frank Burnett near Henry's Lake forty miles southeast of here racing in separate boats. Burnett drowned. his body recovered after the craft upset and Shoemaker was found unconscious and nearly frozen. Burnett long a trusted Jackson Hole guide. his brother resides in Lander. No cause given.
Roy Butler of the Meat and Provision Company reports he slaughtered and delivered to Fort Keogh a steer weighing about 1103 pounds dressed, 69 pounds heavier than the previous Miles City record. Butler estimates the live weight near two thousand pounds, noting typical dress is about fifty percent of live weight. The Golden Rule Store in Dillon sells W. L. Douglas men’s shoes.
Paul Jahnke and his two brothers own a block of copper claims at the head of the south fork of the Big Hole river. They formed a company to raise capital and Jahnke is marketing stock in the East. He says development is progressing, the district is new, but the properties show strong prospects and he expects a mineral boom in the area.
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