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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1902
Page
4
The Tribune lists rates for notices and ads including church festivals fairs dances concerts suppers and similar events with a 5 cent per line charge. It also covers cards of thanks obituary poetry and printing orders and reminds readers to report missed deliveries and that the paper is published regularly.
Careless campers start numerous fires each season by neglecting to extinguish campfires, burning hundreds of acres and killing game. Newspapers have urged caution for years, yet fires destroy timber value and threaten forests. Stricter enforcement of existing fire extinguishing laws is urged to deter careless behavior.
Montana shows irrigation gains from 1889 to 1899 with a 117 percent rise in irrigators and 171.3 percent more acres watered, plus 6812 miles of ditches costing 4.68 million. The summary notes a census report, Butte’s Columbia Gardens illustrated booklet, Senator Clark’s playground aid, and regional notices on wool grower pamphlets, revived Meagher County Republican, Louisiana Purchase gold dollar sales, Dillon street improvements, and Forsyth Times commentary on Montana democracy.
Dillon editorial notes praise Prof G M Marsh for principalship and regret for a lost county school superintendent bid. Short items mention a drunken brawl arrestee praised, Pony Sentinel feature on Madison County, a New York man fined for using a used postal card, and editoric jabs at local papers and civic conduct.
The World’s Fair in St Louis will issue 250000 gold dollars to celebrate the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Two designs, Jefferson and McKinley, will be minted and sold at two dollars each with proceeds funding monuments. First two hundred coins per design will be numbered and certified by the mint director, sold to highest bidders. The issue is part of a 5 million dollar federal appropriation. Delivery to exposition authorities expected late fall. Also included is an advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure claiming constitutional benefits and a money-back offer.
The International Mining congress will be held in Butte from September 1 to 5. Mine owners are urged to prepare ore exhibits and ship them to J R Wharton, manager of the Butte Electric Railway, who will pay freight and arrange glass cases at Columbia Gardens. President W A Cuanx of the railway company advocates state wide participation to boost mining interests.
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