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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1900
Page
4
Postmaster General Smith plans a six stamp series for the 1901 exposition. Dillon notes summer weather at the Normal school and discusses Salt Lake City hosting a National Live Stock Association convention. Also mentioned are curfew laws, the Daly-Clark feud, and calls for Dillon manufacturing ventures to revive commerce and pull in eastern markets.
A 1900 era discussion argues one third of U S lands are public and could be reclaimed by irrigation. At $1 25 per acre the 71 000 000 acres would be worth 88 750 000. irrigated at 10 per acre the value rises to 710 000 000, boosting arable area and taxable property for growth of farming communities.
A Philadelphia real estate broker, alone in a vacant home, cried out in alarm upon spotting a burglar. He discovers the intruder is his own reflection in a large drawing room mirror, then attracts police who detain him while he explains the error.
The article notes Halley's comet was last visible in 1835 and is expected to return in 1910 or 1911. It highlights the event as a major celestial appearance for the twentieth century observers.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy that cures catarrh at all stages. It claims the medicine works internally on the blood and mucous surfaces to destroy the disease's foundation and strengthen the patient, with a $100 reward offered for proof of failure.
The month sets a new Helena weather record with temperatures never dipping below zero. In Helena the Michael Davitt mine case ends with M O P company verdict. Other items include deaths of Mrs Curtis and Cyrus Horton, a fatality near Cascade, a Livingston bond vote, Great Falls dispatch on Transvaal Indians, and a ruling to hang two condemned murderers for the Fergus and Glendive killings.
The 1900 class of the Normal School at Dillon Montana declares a humorous will detailing gifts to students and faculty. It bequeaths the Faculty Beehive to preparatory students, the Monroe Doctrine skeleton to physiology, and various study aids, notes, and a vase to 1901 entrants.
Early 20th century ad copy touts Bucklen’s Arnica Balm as best in the world for burns cuts and bruises. It promises quick pain relief and healing for sores fever sores ulcers boils felons eruptions and skin eruptions.
News reached Dillon on Tuesday that E. M. Track died in Red Rock. Details are unavailable. Trask, about 55, is remembered as a pioneer of Montana and a former prominent figure in county and state business affairs.
Lord Beauchamp the governor of New South Wales attends a Bible class in Sydney parish. London papers praise the late Lady Salisbury as a brilliant conversationalist among women of her era. Florence Nightingale notes illness deters her from aiding the wounded in South Africa. The khedive earns ten thousand pounds yearly with private investments in Nile delta farms and cotton plantations.
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