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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1905
Page
2
Special correspondence from Roonestes notes a 46 degree below zero cold snap with limited moderation into Monday. Local people travel to nearby districts for mining property, attend G B L club events and Knights of Pythias High Five games, and residents move or visit relatives as winter tightens.
In Willis on February 15 Mrs. W Reichle travels to Butte for her ill daughter and returns improved. Mrs. Math Polich’s trip to visit a supposed sick friend reveals the friend was healthy. Neighbors report cold, 28 below zero, and cattle remain unfed yet in fair condition with old cows being fed to endure winter. Jacob Hartwig slowly recovers from a horse fall.
For over 35 years the manufacturers claim unmatched cures for women’s ailments. They offer $500 in U. S. legal money for any case of leucorrhea, female weakness, prolapsus, or falling of the womb that cannot be cured after fair trial. All correspondence is confidential and medical advice is available from Dr. R. V. Pierce of Buffalo New York. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets promote gentle, effective relief.
Chicago reports a gradual warming across the northwest after a broad cold wave from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Temperatures ranged from zero to 45 below in the north, with heavy snow delaying rail schedules. An estimated two dozen lives lost and cattle losses reaching about 50,000 head in western Kansas, Oklahoma, and the Texas Panhandle, while northern regions brace for better shelter and smaller losses.
Kansas City reports the severest cold of the winter with 21.2 below zero at 6 a m and 15 inches of snow on the ground. Police report a dozen deaths in the southwest from the cold as trains face delays from heavy snow drifts and wind.
Buffalo police report two men named Stantry Wihouski and Thaddeus Urbanowicz arrested over the alleged attempt to shoot Bishop Stephen Kaminski of the Independent Catholic church in Palish on Saturday night.
Dispatches from Constantinople report that the minister of war in Constantinople has ordered all reserves in Macedonia to be called up in anticipation of a spring insurrection. The move signals heightened tension in the Balkan region as authorities prepare for potential disorder.
Rob T. H. Selway a native of England born September 1846 died after a lifetime of frontier work in Beaverhead valley Montana. He crossed to Montana in 1864 taking a 200 wagon train to Beaverhead to establish a ranch later described as one of the county’s best homes. He married Julia Black in 1878 and leaves seven children Maud Earle Roy Mable Warren Julia and Anna. Surviving relatives include T. M. Selway Mrs. W. B. Carter Mrs. W. D. Davin and Mrs. Wm. Buffham with James and John Selway having settled in the valley. funeral Sunday at 2:30 led by Rev. A. A. Luce with Rev. Tait assisting.
Gertrude Metlen takes a vacation for vaccination. At the last Boys Athletic association meeting Jay Baker was elected president Carl Stahl vice president Mr Potter secretary Walter Poindexter treasurer. Juniors elect Bessie Wall president Esther Willard vice president Nevada Wall secretary. Basketball teams plan regular practice. Miss Eleanor Poindexter ill. Mabel Jacobs to move to Oregon. A party for Mabel Jacobs with twenty guests at Lettice Squire’s home.
The Dillon court calendar records many defaults and judgments in debt cases including Morton v Price and Dingley case outcomes, Farley Grocery Co. v Ball, and Graeter and Hall v Stephens. It notes jury panel members, citizenship adoptions for Antone Christiansen and Emil Groshen, and a condemnation decree granting possession upon payment of court awards.
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