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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1907
Page
1
The city council met to organize the new body. Mayor White and members elected from wards one through three were confirmed, with O. M. Best retiring. New officers include City clerk J. B. Poindexter and various department heads.
Dillon will send twenty students and teachers to the Inter-scholastic meet in Missoula on the 15th to 17th. The declamatory winner is George Melton, with Hortense Paul and Anna Adams as runners up. The Beaverhead high school girls octette will perform at the Missoula events.
W F Cobban, manager of Park Mining, toured the Park mine in Elkhorn district and expressed strong confidence in future copper prospects. He described a two lead system from the 80 to 200 foot levels with significant surface width and planned drifting, expecting ore extraction by June. Additional plans include tunneling from Wise river and expanding work at Washington Elkhorn claims.
United States revenue inspectors destroyed 5200 gallons of beer at Dillon Brewery after finding unstamped kegs. The beer was emptied into Blacktail Creek, worth an estimated 1200 to 1600 dollars, with motives linked to legal disputes and efforts to deter locals from drinking the product.
County Clerk Baker reports April receipts of 1907 reaching 190 440 dollars the largest for over five years at the courthouse. Comparisons show April receipts of instrument recording in prior years 1903 60 25 1904 125 10 1905 66 30 1906 134 40.
Chelsea Knapp of Lisbon North Dakota leaves May 6 to join the Nome Base Ball club after visiting his aunt Mrs R A Reynolds since December.
The Dillon Ball Team will host the Ryan & Newton team of Butte next Sunday at the new ballpark. Dillon strengthened by E. H. Ford, who will join from the Butte league, aims to show the visiting side how the game is played. A special train rate to June 1 for Modern Woodmen initiation will bring hundreds from Butte for the June 2 clash, while Sam Engelspjeld reports Elkhorn Springs thriving with mining men and plans a two week visit from eastern capitalists.
Judge Callaway dismissed a string of old criminal matters from the calendar inclining Territory of Montana cases against John Utley and John Greggs and several Montana and State cases. Numerous defendants were stricken from the docket and a damage suit Olsen vs. Thompson was continued. The re trial of Clayton vs. Schuler was dismissed as settled.
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