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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1905
Page
1
Local committees reported strong support for a Big Hole basin telephone line. At a Dillon meeting on April 24, $2,650 was subscribed by Basin residents and $2,500 pledged by Dillon people, with plans to incorporate the company and build the line immediately.
At a Monday evening meeting the Treble Clef club elected Miss Florence B. Mott as president and Miss Pluma Tattersall as secretary treasurer. Executive board members are Mrs. Chas. Thomas Mrs. L. D. Graeter and Mrs. H. T. Poindexter. Mrs. J B McKinney resigns as organizer and director after guiding the club since its start. The club plans for October season. it has invited to join the State Federation of Women's Clubs. Additionally a stag dinner honored Mr. Anson Baxter's eighty fourth birthday with multiple attendees.
Dillon reporters recount surveys by McIbecape Metlen Theodore Nelcott Alf Decker and others on Bedrock river planning a 50 foot Henry Fitter crossing dam or a lakes site. The lakes option would create a 250000 acre foot reservoir covering about thirty sections and boosting beach land irrigation near Lima Twin Bridges and Rattlesnake creek with an assumed six foot dam and much lower cost.
The May term of district court begins Monday May 8 with Judge Lew L. Callaway presiding. Criminal cases include two grand larceny trials for Frank Andrus and Harry Andrus on May 9 and 10 amid Arbor Day holiday closures, and several earlier docket items. The civil docket lists numerous debt and water right actions and several divorces and quiet-title suits among Dillon and surrounding areas.
Judge Callaway informs the TRIBUNE Arbor Day is a public holiday proclaimed by Governor Toole. Trial jurors summoned for district court next week need not appear until 9 oclock Wednesday morning May 10 with all expected promptly at that hour. Benjamin Bond was surveying near Dell last Saturday.
Beaverhead club members hosted a Monday evening reception for friends with over two hundred guests. White and pink carnations decorated spacious rooms. each lady received a flower as punch and wafers were served. dancing began at ten in Dart's hall and many stayed for the rest of the evening.
Anaconda Jesse Day, an electrician, was killed Monday afternoon when he touched a live wire at the top of a thirty foot pole. Two thousand volts passed through him and he hung from a crossbar for several minutes before bystanders noticed. The paper notes the question of the day and invites readers to see how it is answered at the Dillon Theatre on Friday May 5.
The district court finished arguments in the water case D. E. Metlen et al versus Jules Guyaz et al on Medicine Lodge creek. Judge Callaway prepared a twenty page findings decree and delivered an unexpected quick ruling. Testimony also flowed in the quiet title case John Downing et al versus James Patterson et al as the session extended.
Mayor B F White calls a special session to organize the new council. J B Poindexter named city attorney. Alderman Best elected council president. Regular meeting approves appointments including Dr W V Kingsbury city health officer and A C Gruwell fire chief. Budgets and bonds approved. arc light request referred. Also a death notice from Horace McIntyre thanks multiple helpers.
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