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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1891
Page
4
The Dillon Tribune page lists advertising rates and notices, with details on subscriptions, display ads, and classed notices. It then reports diverse items: Mount Carmel air ship work, Missoula bonds, weed concerns, temperance and YMC A delegates, a Sino war scent, storage battery traction, Samoan naval presence, and world and local notes including Prussia game damage compensation, New Orleans lottery mail losses, and Fort Benton plant move.
Discussion on unlimited railroad tickets under the interstate commerce law surfaces as a legal question. A St Paul judge rules that time unlimited but not usable for stopping over isn’t unlimited. Wheat spikes in Chicago before easing, signaling price optimism vs safety concerns. Immigration bureau chief argues contract labor law allows importing skilled workers if enough domestic skilled labor is unavailable, risking deliberate evasion.
A Chicago Herald correspondent from Aurora argues Illinois must fix two evils: poor roads and convict labor questions. Proposes using nondesperate convicts to build and maintain roads under a ticket of leave system, with state prison industries in tile and brick production guided by supervision, to both reduce crime and advance infrastructure.
The author argues for using convict labor to manufacture vitrified brick tile and culverts for state roads. He suggests overseeing, limiting sales to entitled parties, and creating a state organization to regulate convict-made goods to address competition with free labor while addressing moral concerns.
The American Agriculturist predicts a booming harvest with 2,000,000,000 bushels of corn, 500,000,000 of wheat, and 622,000,000 of oats. Values rise: corn $1,000,000,000, wheat $500,000,000, oats $250,000,000, plus stronger prices for cotton, rye, cattle, tobacco, hops, and winter fruit. Export outlook is excellent though subject to unforeseen influences.
Reports from August 17 describe rising tension between the Chinese government and foreign powers over riots against foreigners. A joint naval demonstration by France, the United States, Britain, and Germany could occur if China does not grant redress. Separately, OGden notes a major mineral discovery 25 miles northeast near Paradise Canyon with vast lead and silver, as a sheep herder is offered $40,000 for a quarter stake.
A series of experiments by Thomas Harrison reveals a new metal with very high tensile strength that resists corrosion and acids and can be shaped into spikes and flails. It is white hot or cold and noted alongside other industrial notes from Pierspvge.
In a Boston storefront Mrs. Etta A. Gorr at 61 Terrace Street resisted a clerk urging a substitute. She stated she had tried Hood's Sarsaparilla, was satisfied, and did not want any other tonic.
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