Local News Letter Reports Fishing Sport and Local Incidents
May 5 item notes abundant grayling, store name change to Baily Mercantile Co, family travels, clergy visiting Lima, hospital confinement of Mrs Nelson, stock cattle for sale, Italian foreman shooting incident, Northern Pacific employee visit, and 110 head of cattle advertised. Also Hobos Ready to Harvest reports humorous prairie scene, social visits, missing man Engle, and upcoming Bedrock ball team engagements. May 9 update from Reproox describes superb weather and crops. Ryan Canyon May 8 cattle movement through town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. Baily
Baily Mercantile Co
C. I. Huddle
Father van den Broeck
Lima
O. K. Paul
Frank Nelson
Dell
John Thomas, Jr
Salt Lake
Geo. Baker
Dubois
Sunday Trip to Kansas Meadows and Canyon Talks
Sunday en route to Kansas Meadows Idaho. Martin McManemey is home again after several months away. Several crews of Italians are working on the railroad through the canyon. Fred Dingley and John Polla visited the county seat this week. John McManemey passed through the canyon Saturday. Messrs. Hopp of Birch Creek Danistry and Salstrom of Point of Rocks passed through the canyon. Roy Dingley and family who recently returned from Maine reside near Barretts. Dan Mooney sold his cattle for a high figure to parties on the Grasshopper. Geo. Metlen of Dillon passed through the canyon last week. Messrs. Conway and Anderson were in the canyon last week buying saddle horses. Dr. H. O. Miller of Dillon made a professional call at Grayling Saturday. Mr and Mrs Petres of Grayling are happy parents of a 12 pound boy born on the 4th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas Meadows
Idaho
Martin McManemey
Fred Dingley
John Polla
John McManemey
Geo. Metlen
Dillon
Canyon
Messrs
Conway and
Anderson
H. O. Miller
Grayling
Mrs. Petres
Pageville Farmers Busy with Crops and Illness News
Special Correspondence reports Pageville bustling with planting and orchard work amid updates on measles recoveries among Clayton Page's children and pneumonia recovery for Ford Burtch. Social events, religious meetings, and local visits fill the week as weather and health shape daily life.
Pleasant Evening entertains Episcopals in Sheridan
Suenman reports the Episcopal church Guild held a social at the Raymond home with young people attending despite rain. Cards and dancing entertained guests and ice cream and cake were served. The guild treasurer collected about $15. Dr Rightenour advances home improvements with plastering papering and new flooring in his parlor.
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Suenman
The
Episcopal Church
Winthrop Raymond
Guild
Rightenour
Quarantined cases and local disputes reported in Roomstic
Three smallpox cases in Roomstic prompt quarantine under Dr Sutherland as residents face rising illness. A break in Kemphs home leads to a frightened search for the intruder. Land disputes erupt over Largey estate ground with arrests for concealed weapons. Community notices include filings for corporate and mining claims and several property transfers.
Search for missing rancher Engle deepens in Horse Prairie
Charles R. Engle of upper Horse Prairie has been missing since last Thursday. A large search party, aided by neighbors, has scoured the area following his likely bear trail. Clues include a deer hindquarter and six coyote skins tied to a saddle. Engle is described as six feet tall with blue or brown eyes, a reddish brown mustache, and possible beard growth, last seen wearing blue overalls and jumper with a 30 40 Winchester. Reports ask anyone with information to contact the Dillon News office or F L Graves Bannack who will dispatch help.
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Grant
Mount
Horse Prairie
Charles R. Engle
Upper Horse Prairie
Blair
Engle
Enigle
Beaverhead Valley
Nyhart
Point of Rocks
Kate Harding
Dillon
Mr. Engle
Dillon Txrsunn
F. L. Graves
Bannack
Dillon Social Notes Include Visits by Mrs Black and VIPs
The Manse society met at Mrs. Black's home yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Harkness of Horse Prairie is visiting Dillon for a few days. General Passenger Agent Burley of the Oregon Short Line traveled through Dillon in his private coach. On Wednesday evening M S Dean general manager of the Butte Anaconda Pacific railroad with his family rode through Dillon in the private car Salvator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manse Society
Dean
Butte, Anaconda
Pacifico Railroad
Dillon
No Difference Perceptible in a London Answers Quip
A humorous London Answers exchange features a man and Miss Wilpin Smith as they guess conundrums. He asks the woman the difference between himself and a donkey. she replies she does not know, prompting a quick back and forth about knowledge and wit.
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Jones
Wilpin Smith
London
That fellow is a bird said the admiring stranger
A Chicago Post quip recalls a stranger praising a young man, while a native recalls the night they tarred and feathered him about a year ago, highlighting past mob action and current remark.
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Chicago Post
St James Parish House Offers Evening Hours
In St James Parish House, open Twesday and Saturday evenings from 7 ill 1 o'clock. and diseases arising from an impure state of the blood Lachty's Celery Nerve Compound is an invaluable specific. Bold by City Drug Store.
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St. James Parish House
New Bond Given to Develop the Polaris Mine
Hon J E Morse extends a six month bond to ex Governor Rickards and John MacGinniss of Butte. They plan to complete an upraise 225 feet to the old workings and install an air compressor with over 2000 feet of pipe. They have acquired the Old Faithful mill and machinery and intend to put ten stamps in place, aiming to prove ore continuity to 700 feet and elevate Polaris to active production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Morse
Rickards
John MacGinniss
Butte
Rickards & MacGinnish
J. W. Sutherland
Messrs. Rickards and
MacGanniss
Old Faithful
Former Dillon Teacher Stricken With Smallpox
Miss F Adelaide Staves, a schoolteacher formerly in Dillon and now in Ovando, fell ill about ten days after leaving Helena to teach. A doctor confirmed a well developed smallpox case. she is at the Goodfellow hotel with exposure affecting many townsfolk. Her brother Haskell assists in her care.
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F. Adelaide Staves
Ovando
Dillon
Miss Staves
Helena
Goodfellow
Beaverhead
Montana Wesleyan University
Ella Knowles
Haskell
County Pays Bounty for Coyote and Wolf Skins
The county clerk paid 275 dollars in bounties this week for coyote skins. Recipients include Samuel Boyd of Dillon with seven skins, John Jackson of Big Hole with sixteen, Fred M Dingley with one, James Smallhorn with twenty six and one wolf, Amede Bessette with three, and W. 8 Farrows known as Tex with one. The note adds coyotes may become rare, pleasing local sheep men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Boyd
Dillon
John Jackson
Big Hole
Fred Mdingley
James Smallhorn
Amede Bessette
Farrows
Tex
Gold receipts rise at U S assay office in April
The Helena record reports April gold receipts at the United States assay office totaling 154 952 75 with Montana contributing 97 645 96. British Columbia supplied 43 126 49 and other states and territories 14 171 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Montana
British Columbia
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Fishing
New Mercantile Company
Bally
Stock—Local News
L. J. Prog
Real Estate & Insurance
Redrock
the Tribune
M. Barrett
Mr. Nesly
Sam Jaggers
Jules Guyaz
the Praire
Guyaz
Neice
R. Engle
Grandpa Sadler
O. D. House
Bedrock
Mr. Propper
Ryan Canyon
Ribune
L. Kupfer
Dillon, Montana
Huber Brothers
Farley
Pageville
Paanvinuy
Clayton Page
Ford Burtch
Clara
Robert Page
Ford
Maytie Utley
J. Belle Mills
Henry Utley
F. W. VanCredel
Jane
Cora Marshall
Rochester
Charles Baker
O. H. Utley
Charley
Newton Page
Clara Burtch
Twin Bridges
Fred
Ruby Hotel
Howard
Evangelist Hartt
Virginia City
D. Hooker
Christ’s Church
Aaron Hartt
Massachusetts
J. K. Hartt
Wisconsin
Er. Hartt
M. E. Conference
Miss Hartt
Newton Hartt
Chas. Walters
Raymond Rossiter
Raymond & Cary’s
Janette Rossiter
Chas. Hall
Sheridan
Ladies’ Aid
Yoo
Episcopal Entertainment
Albert Stamm
Dillon, Mont
Roomstic
Sutherland
Kemph
Largey Estate
J. Starks
J. Page
Clay Longley
Starke
J. A. Orchard
Spokane
Wash
Macabees
Fred Muller
Chas. Irwin
D. Baker
A. Pollinger
Big Hole Meat Co
Chris Rasmunsen
Wisdom
G. Degenhart
Jackson
Henry A. Brown
Bowen
M. B. Skinner
Pratt Creek
J.E. Morse
L. P. Phillips
Pacific St
Chas
Washington Street
Poindexter & Orr
Jorgen Jorgenson
Edith Jorgenson
Thos. Wilson
C. R. Engle
Cess
Hear
Dilion Public Library
Rick
Ards and MacGinniss
Ovando, Mont
A. L. Stone
Orper
Selway Park
Aummer
H. B. Skuwar
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