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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1894
Page
4
The piece lists local officers and candidates including THOMAS M O CONNOR and JOSEPHUS RICH with positions and payments. It discusses party conventions, fusion debates, and remarks on Helena as a center for capital fights, plus praise for Charles S Hartman and jabs at rival papers.
A Georgia political debate targets Populists with criticism of Lewelling and Waite, citing dire national conditions. Hoke Smith attacks Populists at a Democratic meeting in Atlanta, warning the state against disloyalty and urging party unity to confront economic woes and party derision.
Great Falls endorses Anaconda for the state capital with strong mass meeting support. Butte voters favor Anaconda, and Madison County, Ruby Valley, and Southern Montana residents rally for Anaconda despite Helena subsidies. Sam Word’s paper railroad is cited as a foil to lavish promises.
Sept 8 reports travelers returning to Licnic Springs camping in cold nights. Attendees include Prof. Wade and wife Miss Hattie Willard Dillon Sam Clark F W Allen 8 Lees Butte Mr and Mrs D B Beck Virginia City Beck’s mother and sister Fairfield Iowa Miss Winn Mrs D R Beck’s aunt Wisconsin Miss Hughes Butte Miss Weldon Miss Ramsdal Salt Lake Mrs David Beck and four sons James Wilsey from the Ruby helping Will Metzel cattle Gus Clemens son of Sam Burnside Monida Alaska bound for winter Dick Murray Lake Idaho partners with Burnside Ed Blake expects his mother and husband from Butte to visit him and the park Jack Shambow hurt using hay loader James Blair filed on his Virginia City homestead.
The Chicago Union Pacific and Northwestern line touts best accommodations for travelers to Chicago. Through trains offer fast time sleeping cars colonist sleepers dining cars reclining chair cars and day coaches.
The Helena based critique denounces a pamphlet urging Bannack, Virginia City, and Anaconda as state capital sites. It rebuts claims on lodging, health and historic moves, arguing Anaconda and Helena both shaped by mining era shifts and political clashes. Virginia City accuses Helena of one man town tactics echoed by today’s Anaconda debate.
For sale a house and lot in a desirable part of town on Atlantic Street at a low price. Partial payment in stock considered. For details contact Ww. Crart at 87.4 Dillon, Montana.
Travel ad promotes Pullman and Northwestern sleeping cars and dining cars for passengers headed to Missouri river cities. Describes elegant cars and comfortable coaches as part of the route. Also includes a sheep sale notice from Beaver Canyon Idaho by J. D. Woon offering rams ewes and fat wethers with sale or exchange terms and delivery by October 5.
A fragmentary historical page lists wholesale produce prices, a Grand Lodge annual meeting in Billings, a round trip fare note, the Montana State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts opening in Bozeman with tuition details, and a Red Rock postal letter list. It also mentions Polishene furniture polish and a no shooting warning on a ranch.
Notice is given by the administrator of the estate of Louis Lowe deceased to creditors and all persons with claims against the deceased to exhibit them with vouchers within four months after the first publication to the administrator at Henry Pond's store in Glendale Beaverhead County Montana. Dated September 5 1804. First publication Sept 7 1804. Louis Lowe deceased.
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