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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1890
Page
5
Local advertisements urge shoppers to visit Fyhrie & Co and O K Lewis for bargains on groceries clothing undergarments and stoves. Reports cover weather sleighing influenza and the Hotel Broadwater closing condition along with community notes on births marriages and visits from regional figures.
A survey of Dillon Montana secret orders notes new officers at Dillon Lodge No 30 A F and A M Apollo Lodge No 15 C O Fy Oldest groups meet in Masonic and Odd Fellows halls Prospect Lodge No 29 I O G T U meets weekly with two weeks to the next election Dillon Lodge No 7 A D U W consolidates Hecla Lodge No 12 A O O W earlier and Occident Lodge No 5 K of P meets weekly with $10 sickness indemnity Steedman Post No 5 G A R updates officers Post rooms in Union block Dillon Restaurant changes hands with sale to Kake Hing who advertises meals from 2 cents upward and invites debts settlement and new patrons.
Old Jim Harby recalls Bannack in Montana’s early mining days when flour sold for $100 a sack and tobacco cost $7 a pound. A pilgrim with $1.35 receives a letter with a tied postage, a witty misaddressed note from Jake Henderson, and the postmaster lends dust until funds arrive. The tale spotlights scarce goods, a rough frontier mail system, and frontier humor.
Sheriff Rose visits Glenda le as Hecla smelter restarts after idle week. J Barnbus residence damaged by fire caused by overheated stovepipe. Public school resumes after holiday. Rev G M Ryder and Miss Mabel French teach. Lagrippe lingers amid deep frost. Week of prayer meetings led by local figures. Hecla Mercantile and Banking annual meeting elects directors and officers. No recent weddings. a local man studies a furniture price list. Several Glendale residents ill with lagrippe. Infant daughter of Mr and Mrs J T Sweet dies and is buried at Melrose. Mose Smyther moves to Melrose for work. Jan 18 1889.
Kinney's 1889 report shows Montana's property valuation up by about 13 million dollars and treasury cash over 30 thousand dollars. Major expenses include insane asylum support, convict upkeep, militia maintenance, animal bounty, and care for deaf mute blind and imbecile persons. Cash resources are estimated near 375 thousand dollars, ample to cover expenses.
The Helena land office reports its record year with total receipts of 201000 plus cents. Quarterly land sales include 18667 acres under pre-emption law yielding 29126.79, mineral law 3362.13 yielding 12747.50, coal law 1600, desert land act 4965.07, final payments 13643.70 totaling 62085.06. Fees and commissions from all sources were 5465.75. Washington leads railroad mileage with 398 miles, followed by Georgia 356 and Texas 343. Montana expanded by 136 miles while Massachusetts added 2. Immigrants at Castle Garden totaled 315,228, down 58,387 from 1888, with Italy contributing large declines.
The W C T U annual report for 1889 lists a paid up membership of 142 348, up 3 821 from 1888. The Hecla Consolidated Mining Company reports Bullion product for 1889 and has paid $180 000 in dividends to stockholders during the year.
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