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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1890
Page
1
Beaverhead County Montana holds a commissioners meeting documenting its accounts and expenditures for the year ending February 28 1890. The record outlines financial actions and official actions taken by county authorities.
A dated warrant statement records redeemed warrants on specific dates and shows outstanding balance figures. It lists sums like 953 87 and 185 27 and notes redemption and balance progress through 1889 with scattered ledger entries and dates.
Official report filed shows balances across county funds led by general, school, and state funds totaling 39 23 69 5. Proposals for pauper care awarded to J T Dingley per capita pay, medical contracts granted to T D Toms with bond, road construction discussed with Silver Bow county, and various appointments and resignations filed including new road supervisors and a new county board chair. Warrant cancellations and purchase option for old court house site noted.
Ex congressman Preston Taulbee of Kentucky died at Providence hospital after being shot in the head by Charles E. Kincaid in the Capitol building on February 28. An autopsy will locate the ball and track the wound. Kincaid, out on bail, was jailed after Taulbee’s death and will face the court. he offered to surrender if the shooting proved fatal.
An explosion at the Norsa colliery in Glamorganshire Wales entombed about a hundred miners and cut off all contact with them. Rescue efforts are hindered and authorities fear all may die before aid arrives.
The Senate privileges and elections committee spent the day on the Montana case and backed seating Wilbur Fiske Sanders and Thomas C. Power, with a partisan split among Republicans and Democrats. The majority cites the Republican Montana House as legal, while the minority disputes the outcome and Gray plans the minority report. Debates will extend over weeks before a final vote. Turpie suggests remitting to Montana for action.
From Oklahoma territory reports indicate hundreds of prairie schooners head toward the Cherokee strip. Single men with guns seek land, boomers groups form in Kansas and Oklahoma as government efforts to curb the movement seem unlikely to succeed. Colonists reportedly plan a coordinated invasion on April 22 despite Indian police orders.
Washington March 106 The House committee on coinage weighs the Windom silver bill again with four members absent. Two amendments pass: free coinage when silver hits one dollar per 371.5 grains, and preserving the legal tender status of the standard silver dollar. Final action postponed to next Monday.
The Seattle and Montana Railroad company is incorporated with 10000 shares of capital stock. Officers elected include President A D Gilman and Vice President Treasurer Edward G Graves. The firm gains a city and state franchise and will make Seattle the western terminus of the Great Northern system. Meanwhile floods batter the Mississippi tributaries causing extensive damage.
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