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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1896
Page
5
OCR notes several freight train numbers and routes including No 77 bound west and express 58am, No 80 through freight to Butte at 1130 pm, No 21 through freight to Butte, No 20 north via Sare Helene, and No 98 local freight on a local line.
Local items include T. H. Hamilton improving. Crowell's cheese and nut treats. visits by W. L. McIntosh, Dan Shively, M. Dowling, Herman Jackson, and others. New post office Jackson in Big Hole basin. Flag Day decor. wedding of Miss Florence Chandler and R. C. Beard. daily mail to Polaris. election day notices and county institute arrivals.
Thieves entered the Salvation Army leaders’ residence between 9 and 10 Monday night, forcing a side window and ransacking the home while the residents were at barracks. They took four dollars in cash and two silver watches, one belonging to Lieutenant Southall given by her dying father, and the other to Lieutenant Slome. No suspects are known.
Ed Rivers, a Dillon colored boy, lost his right hand after a shotgun discharged while he examined a new firearm held by Harry Loughridge. The accident occurred near the river while other boys fled. Tommy Neagle applied a tourniquet and the two fetched a doctor. Doctors amputated the hand just above the wrist.
On an early Halloween night thirteen young ladies visited Esquimaux villa invited by the Esquimaux. At 11 o clock they began serenading their gentleman friends with horns drawing a crowd of small boys who pelted them with snowballs forcing them back to the Villa. They resumed their rounds through mud and snow visiting friends while gentlemen offered little response and one man claimed his watch stopped at the serenade hour.
At the clerk and recorder office the new set of United States standard weights and measures is exhibited. Brass vessels, lacquered to prevent tarnish, include a lever scale with level and adjustable screws, plus an iron column and brass components. Measures range from 650 pounds to one ounce for liquid and from half a bushel to one quart for dry, with a velvet lined brass yard measure in the case.
Arera John T. Fackler, a bicycle machinist at the Dillon Implement Co, completed what is likely Montana's first bicycle. The self designed model features an enamel finish so flawless it nearly stood as the final look, reflecting credit on Fackler and the Implement Co.
In Bannack last Sunday at 5 p m Ruah Beard and Miss Florence Chandler were united in marriage by Rev E G Catter mole both residents of Bannack. Beard, in charge of the electric dredge, is well regarded. They departed Monday evening by train for Ohio to begin their honeymoon.
Taxes will be delinquent on the first Monday in December at 6 p.m. unless paid prior, with a 10 percent penalty added. Payment location is the treasurer's office in the courthouse, Dillon Montana, Beaverhead County. Signed by J. G. Shannon County Treasurer.
On November 5 John Doe was arrested and fined five dollars for drunkenness and paid the penalty. Hazel Morton, inmate of a disorderly house, was fined fifteen dollars and paid.
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