Racing Association Holds Important Meeting
Over six hundred shares were represented as new directors were elected to settle the Dillon Fair and Racing Association indebtedness. The 80 acre tract north of town hosts a former grandstand and track as stockholders seek to repair facilities and attract leasing interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon Fair and Racing Association
Frank Cooney
Association
Court House
Leonard Eilel
B. N. Stevenson
Charles H
George P. Wolf
B. F. White
J. W. Morton
W. W. Kingsbury
Matt Orr
W. C. Orr
F. H. Cooney
Chris Snyder
Immigrants Move Through Dillon on Long Trail
A wagon train of about thirty percent immigrants with four horse teams passed through Dillon Monday morning. The party, including several families, travels from Carbon county toward Payette Idaho to scout for homesteads and may head to Oregon if not satisfied. A young man said they began the journey a month ago from Joliett to Dillon and slowed by traveling with cattle until Bridger Canyon where the cattle were left for relocation by rail once a decision on settlement is made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbon County
Payette
Idaho
Oregon
Joliett
Dillon
Bridger Canyon
General Leonard Wood’s Rise Through Army Ranks
General Leonard Wood has completed thirty days of actual service, yet in four years he rose from a captain surgeon to brigadier general, nearing the senior rank among brdgiers. He heads a group of several hundred officers who have served throughout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Wood
Duck Hunting Season Opens With Plentiful Birds and Good Bags
The open season for ducks geese and brant began yesterday with many local sport lovers visiting nearby sloughs and ponds near Dillon. Ducks were plentiful and not very wild promising a strong fall, while hunters complain of access limits on fields and wary landowners seeking protection of game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon
Toms
Dicke
Harrya
Buttinskiea
Montana to Begin Measuring Streams for Irrigation
The Montana state engineer John W Wade and the Bozeman based experiment station will start a multi year project to measure stream volumes on large irrigation sources. They aim to record daily or weekly flows to determine available water and resolve claims before adjudication. The work follows legislation and involves coordination with the US Geological Survey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
John W. Wade
Bozeman
Wade
J .S. Baker
United States Geological Survey
Mr. Wade
George Reeder
Helena
Dearborn Canal
Telephone service improvements scheduled for Dillon area
Bell telephone plans major upgrades including new 40 foot poles and stringing miles of wire. A Sheridan exchange crew will relocate to Dillon, adding a second operator Miss Margaret Moore and enlarging the switchboard. A solicitor will promote inter urban phones to rural residents within ten miles at two dollars a month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vaughn
Bell Telephone Exchange
Sheridan
Margaret Moore
Montana
Twin Bridges
Dillon
Sheriff's Sale Notice for Beaverhead County Land
Sheriff M. D. Gist lists to be sold at sheriff's sale on September 10, 1903 at the Dillon courthouse front door the property of James Dunstan in Beaverhead county Montana. The parcel includes the northwest quarter of section 3 and the northwest quarter of section 4 and the northeast quarter of section 4 and the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter 4 all in township 8 north range 9 west with the west half of the southwest quarter of section 34 plus appurtenances water rights and easements. First publication Aug 26 1903.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Dunstan
David Maule
Towit
North West
North East
South East
Township
Range
Beaverhead County
Montana
South West Quarter
M. D. Gist
Jury pool drawn for Beav erhead fall term in Pollack case
A 50 juror panel drawn on Wednesday afternoon for Beav erhead county fall term is praised as the best yet. The list features representative citizens, raising expectations for an uncomplicated Pollack trial. The Wolff case drew Madison county interest but is noted as a separate matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ventrre
Beaverhead
George Pollack
Wolff
Madison County
Frank St Clair and Anna Miller wed in Big Hole basin
FE M Kellar known as Frank St Clair and Mrs Anna Miller married Thursday morning by Rev A B Martin with Assess Beardsley and Sheriff Gist as guests. Kellar and Anna had been residents of the Big Hole basin for over a year. Mrs Miller had been granted a divorce from W Grant Miller Wednesday morning but soon remarried. The couple will reside in Jackson for now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FE. M. Kellar
Frank St- Clair
Anna &. Miller
A. B. Martin
Beardsley
Sheriff Gist
Mrs. Kellar
Jackson
Big hawk shot by 12 year old at Herman ranch
A very large hawk described as one of the county’s biggest was shot by 12 year old Francia Staudaker with a target rifle a few days ago. The bird, measured at 58 inches from tip to tip, swooped on a brood of chickens at the Herman ranch near town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francia Staudaker
Herman Ranch
Francis
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Dillon Fair
Racing Association
U. S
State Experiment Station
Judge Parker
W. H. Parker
Virginia City
Parker
Smith
Stewart
Jefferson County
East
P. J. Brophy
P. J. Brophy & Co
Plain
Illinois Central Railway
Eat
Ississ
Wvnnor
Omaha, Neb
St. Paul
Minn
Minneapolis, Minn
Kansas City
Memphis
Chicago
St. St. Louis
Peoria
Evansville
Ind
Nashville
Cincinnati
Pacific Coast
Montana Territory
J. A. Foley
South St. Salt Lake Cly
G. T. Paul
F. E. T. Broeck
Edwin Norris
Examiner Ofice
Dillon, Montana
W. V. Kingsbury
Metlen
H. A. Bond, M. D
James L. Jones
Washington and Bannack Street
Milwaukee
Claude S. Williams
Salt Lake City
Utah
A. S. Beardsley
N. G
Cc. W. Scott
Rec
Jeau
C. W. Rosison, C. C. W.E. Waitt, Kofr, &S
Saint Louis
Southeastern Limited
Springfield
Birmingham
Atlanta
Jacksonville
G. W. Martin
Western
Denver, Colo
Kellar-Miller
Loinsa
Siren Ye & Co
Scientific American
Norea
N & Co
Joe Lewis
Senate
KF. Graves
Wm. Roz
A. L. Stones. Cashier
State Bank of Dillon
United States
Europe
F.J. Graves
Wm. Roe
Martin Barrett Jos. Shineberger
A. F. Graeter
A. L. Stone
R. A. Sullivan, Cashikér
First National Bank
Upper
Montana St
Salt Lake Port
Dillon Lumber Co
J. B. McKinney
F.B. Williams
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