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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1901
Page
3
Local items note visitors from Glendale and Willis, births, marriages, and social visits. Store ads offer groceries at cost for cash, toning bath for photographers, and a new Chamberlain remedy for biliousness. Community updates include Dr Willard Osteopath, assorted drugs, and recent arrivals and departures in Dillon.
A jailed man, F W Dearborn, pleads for a second chance to reunite with his wife and children. The letter describes past abuse, drinking binges, and manipulation by illness, while promising reform and asking Chief Stone for help to secure work and improve home life.
An old advertisement likens children to plants and promotes Scott's Emulsion as a fertilizer for growth. It claims the product helps flesh, strength, blood, mind, and happiness and offers a free sample from SCOT & DOWN at 409 Pearl St, BY.
Farmers National congress at Sioux Falls elected George L. Flander of Albany as president and named officers including Har vey Jourdan of Georgia as VP J Reynolds of Michigan as treasurer John M Stahl of Chicago as secretary with assistants E A Ohlahan Albany NY and Joel M Roberts Nebraska Also chosen as vice presidents were Samuel B Jones Iowa L L Young Nebraska and John Armstrong South Dakota Resolutions urged immediate steps for a Nicaragua canal under US control and mourned President McKinley’s assassination.
Nearly half the funds needed to ransom Ellen Stone, the missionary, have been placed with Kidder, Peabody & Co. The amount is 45,543.40 dollars in cash and 7,500 dollars in pledges. The firm sent 35,000 dollars to the state department for forwarding to consular agents. Officials of the American Board of Congregational Missions met and decided against paying a ransom to avoid encouraging brigandage. The state department will take charge of the ransom and collections will continue while Miss Stone remains missing or until news of her death.
E T Sweeney former consul general to Turkey warns Miss Stone will be killed if ransom is not paid. He says the kidnapping was political in nature and the captors will release her only if paid while promising escalating mutilation if refused. He asserts he knows the bandits and their methods.
Vienna reports Mr Dickenson of the American mission met Prince Ferdinand at Sofia to pursue Miss Stone abducted under Macedonian committee orders. US Consul Dickenson and a missionary envoy arrived Saturday to press ransom terms as brigands extend payment by one month.
George D. Meiklejohn former assistant secretary of war testified before the senate military affairs committee in Washington about Major Hawkes appointment to a Philippine service post. He said Hawkes’ promotion rested on Hawkes own record as a soldier and on Meiklejohn’s assessment, not on the Heistand dispute. He denied signing the To Whom It May Concern letter introducing Hawkes.
The notice describes corner points for lode and desert land claims in Beaverhead County Montana with boundary courses and total areas 13.07 acres and 2.76 acres excluded. It records location in the United States Land Office at Helena and lists John Kent of Dillon filing to prove irrigation and reclamation on desert land claim 5402 with witnesses and date November 4, 1901.
A feuding group at Big Springs Union Baptist church in Middlesboro Kentucky killed four men and wounded two others during a 30 minute clash near the church as 600 worshippers listened. Tip Chadwell Rush Morgan and James Chadwell Henry Morgan were killed while Henry Overstreet and Jones were fatally wounded. Sheriff James Brooks was wounded attempting an arrest. Authorities warn more bloodshed may follow as both sides hunker behind barricades.
Philadelphia police arrest Howard K. Sloan Horace Wallace J Knight Findlay and Oscar S Punlap on a serious charge for kidnapping a woman Mrs Mabel Goodrich proprietress of a North Tenth street establishment is claimed to have been held prisoner four days robbed of jewels over 2000 and forced to sign bank checks. Hearing set for today.
Louis Klopsch reports the Christian Herald has raised 2000 dollars for the ransom of Mise Stone. The subscription mentioned is not included in the Boston report.
United States Land Office Helena Montana issues final proof notice for Eliza A Mangon sole heir of Dillon B thalogotis Beaver head Montana to locate land claim Nos for in and Ft on Sec 31 Tp 68 Range 12 before L J Prioca US Commissioner Montana on the 28th day of Hesence witnesses Mike Breele Thomas Buivers Bannack Mont Frank Lewis E Mee ay
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