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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1909
Page
1
The second annual Beaverhead County Fair starts next Tuesday in Dillon with more than 50 horses training on the half mile track. The fairgrounds are full, stalls booked, and extra pens built. Special daily themes and round trip excursion rates from nearby towns invite visitors to four days of exhibits, races, and local bargains.
Frank Rylander of Divide was shot after an evening quarrel with a man named Miller in a Divide saloon. A 32 calibre pistol bullet hit Rylander’s breast, narrowly missing fatal injury. he was treated in Dillon after riding a northbound train due to the delay of the Butte-bound conductor. Col Alf Decker and brother Andrew visited from Indiana, impressed by the Bitterroot country and the county’s prospects.
Complete list of harness race entries prepared by Secretary S. S. Carruthers for the Beaverhead County Fair next week. Entry closing Friday, August 20. Featured events include Two-year-old Stake, Free For All Pace and Trot, 2:30 Pace, Three Minute Trot, Three-year-old Trot or Pace, 2:25 Trot, and 3:00 Minute Pace with horses from Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Utah, Washington, and Colorado. Strong Cliff Queen Princess Kentucky Hall among listed animals and owners as region’s fastest horses compete.
The hunting season for wild ducks begins next Wednesday, September 1st, with guns to sound across the region. Sportsmen prepare to be out early to claim ducks on sloughs, ponds, and water-courses, but a new law restricts the kill to twenty per day and must not be exceeded.
Jerry Lowney of Butte origin met a fatal accident in Lima last Sunday night when he attempted to crawl onto a northbound Pullman train to steal a ride to Butte. He died Monday morning at the county hospital near Dillon. His injuries included a severed right arm, four fingers lost, five broken ribs, a broken back, a deep head injury and a crushed ankle.
Beaverhead area news notes a handsome Oregon Short Line depot near Armstead nearing completion. The 100 by 25 foot frame building, partly two stories, costs about 10000 dollars and signals the town's push to grow toward a Dillon-sized center with permanent residences and new business. A new automobile stage line operates 60 horsepower White steamer service to the upper country, as Armstead residents push for incorporation and a formal city government to address local issues.
Coroner L C Ford presided at Armstead inquest into the death of James Doyle killed in a quarrel at the Merry Widow resort. Witnesses testified that Nevins fired the shots, Doyle died from a single abdomen wound, and the verdict urged county officials to pursue all violators of Montana law connected with the disorderly house.
Joe B. Truly of Armstead and Agnus Mardorf of San Antonio Texas obtained a marriage license in Dillon on Friday and were married that evening in the Metlen hotel parlors by Justice of the Peace Hirschman.
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