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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1906
Page
3
Anaconda reports county deputies in Montana plan to urge the next legislature to raise salaries by about 25 dollars per month per deputy. They are individually interviewing lawmakers, arguing higher pay is needed due to the cost of living, despite lacking a labor union council.
W L Rawls of Bells Tennessee swore by Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for twenty years of nasal catarrh. He reported swelling and soreness in his nose disappeared after applying the salve to the sore surface, with no return. Sold for 25 cents at R L Riley Druggist.
The treasurer reports the Game Warden Fund at 56 thousand 172 dollars 14 cents, up around 12 thousand dollars for the year. Warden Scott says about 30 000 fishing and hunting licenses were issued to residents and about 200 to non residents, with department income near 25 to 30 thousand dollars annually and expenses roughly half that amount.
J B Waterman of Watertown writes his daughter who suffered epilepsy was cured by Dr King's New Life Pills. She has had no attack for over two years. Advertises best body cleansers and life giving tonic pills at R L Riley's drug store for 25 cents.
Before leaving for the east, Augustus Heinze arranged a Thanksgiving gift for Aetna Banking & Trust Company depositors. Receiver Wilson declared receipt of a $100,000 check from I. Augustus Heinze, former bank president who withdrew in 1903, with many depositors in mind.
The text notes a withdrawal unknown to many though widely advertised, with friends possibly losing money. Mr. Heinze states in a letter to Mr. Wilson that he contributes one hundred thousand dollars to the bank's assets and forwards a check for that amount, a move that would raise the bank's assets by about thirty percent.
Caution urged against unknown remedies for coughs and colds. Foley's Honey and Tar is advertised to cure coughs colds and prevent pneumonia, with a warning to refuse substitutes and seek the genuine product in the yellow package at City Cruc Store.
Butte barbers voted to raise service prices this week in the tensorial departments of the city. Shaves rise to 25 cents for those without their own blade, haircuts to 50 cents for long beards, and massages to 35 cents, ending the era of cheaper 15 cent shaves and 25 cent massages.
James Donahue of New Britain Connecticut writes of using Foley's Kidney Cure after diabetes and kidney issues. He reports improvement after two bottles and full cure after five, enabling a life insurance exam. Foley's Kidney Cure is claimed to cure backache and kidney and bladder troubles through City Drug Store.
The document lists capital sums for multiple firms including Butte Cable Copper and Gold Mining with $1,000,000, Columbus Land and Water with $50,000, and Barnes King Development with $2,000,000. These figures reflect assigned capitals for each entity.
Mrs Mary Larkin widow of Thomas Larkin died Tuesday evening at St Anns hospital. She leaves a daughter Katie 13 and brother P C McInerny of this city. A longtime Anaconda resident she was prominent in St Peters parish and Catholic circles.
Mrs. Thos S Austin of Leavenworth Ind faced severe female troubles and stomach bowels catarrh. Her husband delayed an operation and she状 used Electric Bitters, achieving a complete cure. Claims include torpid liver kidney disease biliousness jaunndice chills fever debility nervousness and blood poisoning. 50c at R L Riley's drug store.
Helena D W Bateman and H J Skinner with T E Collins filed a demurrer to the complaint in the district court in the state treasury suit brought by Attorney General Albert J Galen to recover interest on moneys in the treasury. T E Brady of Great Falls represents them claiming the complaint fails to state a cause of action. The note adds an ad for Foley's Honey and Tar cough medicine from City Drug Store.
Secretary of State Yoder filed six new articles of incorporation this week in Helena. Three are mining companies, including Wisconsin and Montana Mining Company with a $50,000 capital, and Richard A. Harlow Company based in Helena with $40,000 capital to buy and sell land and handle livestock and merchandise. The state agent for the Wisconsin firm is A. O. Nichols of Superior, Montana. Billings Milling Company appears among the filings with capital details noted.
Publicity on bottle wrappers lists all ingredients for Dr Pierce medicines asserting open formulas ensure honest practice. The ads claim endorsements by leading medical teachers and insist formulas are non secret and safe for women and children. They promote Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription with notes on use, risks, and confidential correspondence from Buffalo New York.
Notice to the People of Dillon announces N S Wood is back on the streets with a quick delivery wagon. He handles baggage express and light freight to and from the depot and city areas including the Normal college and Dormitory. He sells stove wood and dry kindling with a clean coal dust free wagon and prompts attention to orders or checks at the Tribune Store or phone lab.
Red Lodge mayor T. P. Austin reports being punched Tuesday night by Paddy Doran saloonkeeper and Lewis Thomas miner on the town’s main street. The pair were arrested and charged with assault in the third degree with $500 bond each for next Friday. The assault stems from prior tensions over Doran’s city ordinance violations.
Public address interrupted as coughing disrupts a speech advertising Foley's Honey and Tar. The ad claims the product cures coughs and colds and prevents pneumonia and consumption without opiates, mentioning a yellow package from City Cruc Store.
Three Years in Deer Lodge penitentiary handed to Butte-Frank Farrell by Judge Donlan after a recent highway robbery conviction. Nine jurors urged leniency citing youth, first offense, and ill health.
W. L. Hill rose from 90 to over 180 pounds after using Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds. He credits the cure to twelve bottles and claims complete recovery from a terrible cough. The medicine is sold by R L Riley with a trial bottle free.
The Associated Charities of Butte faces closing this week unless the remaining members’ plans succeed. Members claim there is broad support to continue the charity, but the group may disband if efforts fail.
The society laments reduced support as officers consider a step. Dues sustain weekly work with forty to fifty children seeking assistance each Saturday, but limited funds force fewer generous disbursements and many needy participants are turned away.
Lewistown reports 2,500 ewes of the Sage Creek Sheep Company killed or sickened by loco weed. The herd traveled from Forest Grove to Flatwillow for care after loco poisoning. An offer of 10,000 dollars was rejected. This marks a rare large scale loco outbreak in the area.
Food Commissioner's Report from the Minnesota Dairy and Food Commission finds Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar and Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar contain opiates and croton oil. It warns against these products and urges acceptance of Foley's Honey and Tar in a yellow package, noting Foley's contains no opiates and is the recommended cough and cold remedy sold at City Drug Store.
A Helena man identified as G. O. Yergy of Yergy Lumber Company was killed Saturday at 6 pm when his car crossed Benton and Lindale streets and was struck by an electric streetcar. The collision crushed his skull, broke his arm, and caved in his chest, killing him almost instantly.
Limit. Butte William P. Farrell once chief clerk in the District Court Clerk’s office received a 28 year penitentiary term on two forgery convictions. He signed fictitious names to warrants for jury service, with two counts upheld.
An almost fatal shooting occurred Wednesday evening as Charles I. Gardner entered his East Billings home. A bullet narrowly missed his head from a cellar under the house. police conducted a swift search but could not locate the shooter.
The Christiansen ranch of 160 acres on Wisconsin creek sold at auction for 2500 with three heirs to the estate as purchasers. Nearby the Fay Curtis ranch of 600 acres in Waterloo, largely flooded by a spring, was bid in by Lincoln Foster at 4600.
A Dillon Montana ad notes Yeaman's offers a full line of guns ammunition and fishing tackle with a post office building location in town.
Montana gold receipts at the Helena United States assay office for November totaled 257 061 12 dollars, up from 162 532 61 the previous year, reflecting strong mining industry prosperity outside of Butte. Assayer B H Tatem praised the large increase as Montana counties listed include Beaverhead Broadwater Chouteau Deer Lodge Fergus Granite Jefferson and others with varying sums.
A list of county figures shows Madison 64056.22 Missoula 1222.12 Ravalli 255.89 Silver Bow 1231.93 Park 404.35 Powell 3559.18 Lewis and Clark 42582.12 and total Montana 275061.12 with last year 162532.61. The data includes multiple county and state totals for the year.
The Dillon Public Library offers book distribution from 7 to 9:30 p.m. on Mondays Wednesdays and Saturdays. Friday 4 to 6 p.m. and Saturday 3 to 6 p.m. plus Tuesday and Friday evenings for readers. In Solomonville Arizona flood devastates Clifton with 18 dead and rising after a reservoir break triggers a mountain flood.
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