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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1905
Page
4
A correspondence letter intended for the editorial department is directed to Epiror Tribune. The message outlines the writer’s views and requests consideration by the editorial staff.
Tribune urges readers who do not receive their newspapers on schedule to notify the office. The notice emphasizes regular publication and the expectation that subscribers receive the paper consistently.
A Helena Rate association letter mocks Missoula merchants for backing unequal freight charges. The Dillon business scene backs the reform push for fair rates, noting railroads set costly, uneven prices. December 14 Helena meeting urged for progress.
Beaverhead business leaders back sending two Dillon representatives to Helena next Thursday to oppose railroad impositions. The Beaverhead Club commercial committee will decide the two names soon and Dillon may appear on December 14. Congressman Dixon introduced a bill to relinquish state lands for Bedrock lakes irrigation and replace them with other lands. Roosevelt’s message to Congress is summarized on another page as a statesmanlike plan for national policy.
Helena Record criticizes William A. Clark a New York City and Paris resident as a nonresident senator for Montana. It argues Wall Street and railroad magnates would not represent Montanan interests and calls his restraint in touch with local sentiment a humiliation. The piece ends with a light note on Virginia City and Sheridan baseball teams resolving a small expense dispute.
The Dillon city council rejects contractor B E Jacobs’s demand for $10 000 in extras on the $61 000 water works contract. Officials say no extra work was authorized without a council resolution and pledge to pay only what was agreed plus honest, justified extras totaling about $1 303.35. The dispute may go to court if Jacobs pursues relief.
McCurdy, president of Mutual Life, saw his annual pay of $150 000 reduced by half and he resigned citing ill health. The note comments that a $75 000 cut would trouble many, and recalls tame fisticuffs in Virginia City compared with Alder Gulch memories of the 1860s. An exchange asks about earnings from cordwood at $7.50 a cord, estimating roughly a quarter per day if interpreted as their meaning.
Deputy Henry Gleed orders 90 day quarantine for flocks of Messrs E. O. Selway J. E. Morse Harry Gilbert and Jones Davidson at Twin Bridges to prevent spread of scab. Bucks from Pontiac Michigan were dipped and distributed among bands improving Beaverhead county sheep stock.
John P. Schmit, state land office registrar, reports 1905 rental income rose by 15,600.35 over last year. Leased acres total 2,035,731.57 with annual rental 207,392.91. Timber and land sales declined, timber sales 16,756.36 from 28,485.60, lands 122,817.50 from 156,647.54. Sundry timber permits 7,023.00 and timber trespass 666.80.
A sheet and pillow-case dance will be held Christmas night December 25 1905 at the Grant Opera House. Tickets including supper cost 2 dollars and 50 cents.
It transpires that no November bride of Beaverhead County was the subject of thankfulness on Thanksgiving day. Not a license was issued by Clerk Hazelbaker last month.
Planning a festive meal, shoppers are invited to view the store’s pretty dinnerware and place cards, highlighting seasonal decor ideas at the Tripune location.
The Beaverhead Club met last evening in Poindexter block to discuss city and county business. The committee favor sending representatives to the Helena Rate Association meeting in Helena next Thursday and will finalize the delegates.
A brick addition is being built to the rear of the Montana Mercantile company’s place of business, expanding its storefront operations and space for storage.
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