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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1903
Page
11
Five subscribers at the Dillon post office are entered for transmission as second class matter. Subscribers who do not receive their paper regularly and on time should notify the office. The paper is published regularly and readers should receive it reliably.
The issue reflects on a merry Christmas season in Dillon and Beaverhead county with widespread cheer and prosperity. It notes miner shutdowns sparing the town, growing ranch and stock fortunes, and fewer illnesses, while Madisonian in Virginia City publishes a holiday edition with town sketches and industry notes. It also reports a ministerial exchange: Rev A A Luce to Grand Island Nebraska and Dr Horn to Dillon, with Luce’s background and Horn’s health-related move outlined.
Vaughn Tella of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company outlined Dillon progress and future rural expansion. In year the city grew from 92 to 147 phones with three operators. October and November saw $4,000 in improvements including cedar poles and five miles of news phones. Next year rural lines within ten miles will be built with $2.00 monthly rancher service and metallic circuits to connect to Dillon. A special solicitor will begin visits in late January to enroll ranchers.
Madison county surpassed Beaverhead by convicting Alex S. Sheley of murder and sentencing him to life imprisonment. A noted forger was captured at Livingston last week as the Montana towns consider adopting the Beaverhead district court’s stance on criminal forgery. The Livingston Post printed a expanded Christmas edition, praising some localities while offering broader state interest reading.
Edward Lee sixteen year old stepson of Charles Pfifer of Dillon died last Friday night in a fire suspected to have started from batteries in a cabin in Pocatello. He was found on river ice after falling over an embankment. coroners ruled death by suffocation. Funeral held in Pocatello after arrangements to move body to Dillon.
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