Local notes from Sheridan on visitors and events
Mrs. Z Cheeney and children visit Romulus Brown as Mr Cheeney hunts. Earle and Lyon stop en route to Brandon smelter. Henry Elling, Mrs Jones, Dr Featherstone, and others visit Lesterville and Virginia City. Millinery plans form. piano and school news. John Nesbitt killed in Knoxon saw mill. Bishop Brondel to lecture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snorray
Z. Cheeney
Lesterville
Romulus Brown
Anna Hall
Dillon
State Normal School
Anna
John Nesbitt
Knoxon
Missoula
Postmasters Uphold Card Size Rules For Mailability
Postmaster General clarifies mutilated or cut postal cards are not mailable as cards and must be sent as letters. Private alteration of size is not allowed though any card size can mail with proper postage. Rate varies by weight and whether printed matter or writing appears. Stationer urges using good stationery for better presentation.
Labor unrest and sympathy strikes threaten coal regions
The Sept 4 1897 letter from Probitable Washington warns that coal miners face insufficient wages and may spark a broad sympathetic strike. It cites leaders Debs Ratshford and Sovereign and notes injunctions inflaming labor. The piece also covers ethnology plans with Captain Scott studying sign language among northern tribes and William Hamilton. Weather note closes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washinaton
D. C
Ratshford
Debs
Sovereign
H. M. Beadle
Washington Times
West Virginia
Jenkins and
Martin
Minera
Gourlaarg
Hall
W. J
Smithsonian
Prof
Motey
William Hamilton
Montana
Stillwater
Hamilton
Ethnological Bureau
Scott
U.S. Army
McGee
Aia
Cascarets Candy Cathartic Ad Claim
An old advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a pleasant medical discovery that cleanses the entire system and cures constipation biliousness headaches fevers and colds. It promises quick relief with boxes priced at 10 25 and 50 cents and guarantees cure by all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.C
Blank forms stock at TarBuns office in Dillon
Legal blanks including Quartz location Placer location and other blank forms stored at TarBuns office in Dillon, ready for use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gale
TarBuns
Dillon
Dillon Fairs And Races Preparations Under Way At Local Track
Dillon fairs and races board met to award track privileges with top bids for refreshment, saloon, programs, shooting gallery, bear exhibit, cane rack, and paddle. Horsemen arrive with names like Scotch Pirate and Temple Maid. Indians from Lemhi reservation planned for Indian races. hurdles built under N E Hammer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon Fair and Racing Association
Carrol Jewell
Will Dingley
Austin
Bill Howard
Jack Gagan
McPryor
L. Cooper
Yreka
Wm. Singleton
Tammany
Dan Rochester
Temple Maid
Daniel Connolly
Burnese
Hymn
Madison County
Twin Bridges
Lemhi Tudinan Reservation
N. E. Hammer
Hatters of General Interest to Meat Readers
Judge Smith of Helena upholds the anti gambling law as constitutional. A mammoth electrical plant is being built on the Big Hole river near Divide with over 150 workers. It is expected to generate electricity by next March. Barley prices in Gallatin county rose to 1.15 per hundred last week. Annie Garrity, Lafayette house proprietor, sues Inter Mountain Publishing for 10000 damages over a false publication about her business. Frank Decor killed Abee Dresser in Anaconda. details indicate age and context. The public works and legal notices reflect local tensions and rising costs, while deaths and insanity rulings affect local communities. James Hancock of Jefferson county dies after a mill accident. Fred Opperman’s suicide near Beartooth Complex attributed to insanity. Louis Lumberg of Butte declared insane and sent to Warm Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Hole
Divide
Gallatin County
Annie Garrity
Lafayette House
Inter Mountain Publishing Company
James Hancock
Jefferson County
Montana
Fred Opperman
Butte
Beartooth
Helena
Louis Lumberg
Warm Springs
Parks Cough Syrup Promoted for Children’s Colds
At age 80 readers are urged to keep a bottle of Parks Cough Syrup on hand. It is advertised as unequaled for group, whooping cough, and common colds to which children are subject, sold at N. M. White Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. M. White
Candy Cathartic promised cures for ailing digestion and liver
An advertisement touts a laxative product as a remedy for biliousness feverish headaches furred tongue piles and constipation claiming it is a guaranteed cure or money back. It promotes sample booklets and a discount price and stresses drugstore distribution.
The Wonders of Isolenge Free Cure Offer
An eminent New York chemist offers three free bottles of his New Scientific Treatment for consumption and lung ailments. I A Slocum of New York City promises cures proven by gratitude letters and will mail the medicines from 98 Pine Street to afflicted readers who request them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. A. Slocum
New York City
T. A. Sloenm
M.D
Pine Street
New York
Dien Tribune
Ely's Cream Balm Advertised as Catarrh Cure
The ad offers Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh and hay fever with a ten cent trial request. Customers in New York City, Great Falls Montana, and Helena Montana are noted as endorsers. The balm is claimed as a positive cure with no mercury, priced at 50 cents. Blank books and office supplies from Dillon are also advertised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ELY Brothers
Warren St
New York City
John Reid, Jr
Great Falls
Mont
Ely
Francis W. Poole
Central Press Church
Helena
Notice for Final Proof in Montana Land Claims
Notice announces final proof filings for multiple settlers in Montana. It lists names William Haines James Innes Alfred H McVay and Alfred Hatten with witness details and dates in Dillon Missoula Wisdom Pax and other towns for timber culture and land claims, with officials and dates in 1907.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mosouliy Mont
James Innes Haw
Price
Dillon
Montana
A. H. McVay
Wisdom
George Ki. Smith
Quitman Owen
A. J. Noyes
United States Land Office
Mitsoula
Mont
Alfred H. McVay
Js. J. Price
U.S
Township
Range
Missoula
Mon
Ecttler
W. A. Francie
Witdom
Alfred Hatten
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Levi Strauss & CO
San Francisco-Cal
Madison CO. News
Sheridan
The
Tribune
John Hall
Win Bridges
Lott
Rochester
Asa Cornforth
Arthur Thomas
Gaylord
Hagenberger
John Hatfield
Bald Mountain
Bowman
Amos and
Frink
Ioines
Hairis
Good Templars
Bishop Brondel
H. D. Rossiter
Seattle
Hersey
Courtney & Co
Kress & Barker
John R. Porter
C. JR. Stanchfield
Geo. Lenkersdorfer
B. W. Pookes
Daniel Blivens
Uncle Joln
Judge Smith
Tough Kim
Frank Howard
J. W. Clark
Hyman
John Reily
Valiente
Linville
Beaverhead
Madison
Lewhi
Ruby Messengen
Herdgman
Mca Yard
Coato
Levy Strauss
Mother Hubbard
Congress
Infante
State News
Smith
Eton
Aliman Mercantile CO
Altman
Reguar
Altman Mercantile
Neagle Hotel
Dillon National Bank Building
Dillon, Mont
Prince Alberts
Tan
Tars- One
Monte
Apt
Tober
William
Waltiwatien
Hutte K _ lever
Heupel
Bbane
Eeichard Haines
Bann Quienss
Wil 'R. Coxyi
Joan M. Jivans
Withoesen
James Innes
Quitman
John M. Evans
Mining and Scientific Press
Market St
San Fran
Cat
John Welderburn & CO
Washington, DC
Th. Tit. Kichityke’ Chater
Atbaka
Rinato
ODN
Oficia Caite
Klondyke Countey
Bend Hiscenta
W. B. Conkey Company
Dearborn Street
Chicago
Wedderburn
National Recorder
Washington, D. C
Reuben Saxton
Gro. Staudauer, Gr. J. Staudauer
W.L Molgross
Red Rock
Selway
Kansas City
St. Joseph Ob. Paul
Minneapolis
Western
Raihway
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