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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1903
Page
6
A heavy early season storm coats the Beaverhead valley with snow, crippling sidewalks and breaking branches. Ranchers report crushed alfalfa and oats, ruined crops, and losses between two and three thousand dollars per ranch, with Beaverhead county damage near fifty thousand dollars.
Reports show $8,461,494 credited to the reclamation fund from public land sales and fees in 1893, with total receipts of $16,197,836 from 1901 to 1903 for irrigation projects. 1903 state receipts include Arizona $43,832, California $783,844, Colorado $510,072, Idaho $642,219, Kansas $18,417, Montana $551,168, Nebraska $118,839, Nevada $12,465, New Mexico $150,128, North Dakota $1,224,044, Oklahoma $816,077, Oregon $1,884,780, South Dakota $238,421, Utah $184,520, Washington $1,099,980, Wyoming $272,824.
Rev J L Johnson the Scandinavian pastor of Anaconda has preached his farewell in Anaconda and will depart Montana for Wella Minnesota around September 25. Dillon Scandinavian church members regret his departure as his work here is highly valued.
Rev Henry F Cope reports permanent relocation to 320 E 58th Street Chicago near the Field Columbian Museum and close to the Illinois Central station. He notes his magazine not yet launched but promises substantial literary work and asks Dillon friends to remember his family.
Heavy sheep losses reported in a mountainous district as two to three feet of snowfall blocked grazing and access to food. The harsh winter impeded sustenance for flocks in the vicinity.
Charles Daniels of Kansas City known as Niel Moret sold his popular piece Hiawatha for 10000 with publishers offering 5 cents per copy royalty. If the first offer had been accepted he would have earned 50000 as over a million copies sold. Daniels, modest and camera shy, once played a dance after receiving the check and never sat for a photograph. The love inspired origin tale links Hiawatha to a Kansas sweetheart, and the song remains a best seller at the Tribune Store in Dillon.
The new pastor E. C. Horn, appointed at the M. KE Church, is expected in Dillon next week. A former pastor of Alliance Nebraska, he is 32 with a wife and child and brings lecturing and pastoral experience. He graduated from Ohio State Normal and Ohio Wesleyan universities and taught at U. S. Grant and Depauw universities.
Denver excursion plans outline round trip first class fare plus 200 with Oct 5 6 7 sale dates and ten day transit limit returning by Oct 31 1903. Includes agent signature and notes on transportation and baggage handling for students and dormitory moves.
Mr D P Daugherty of Mercer and Sumner counties West Virginia narrowly escaped death from diarrhoea after two doctors offered little relief. A neighbor offered Chamberlains Ocho Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy which cured him in under a day.
If you travel east this summer visit Salt Lake City and Denver with Colorado scenery by the Rio Grande system. Enjoy excellent service and good accommodations with only one car change between Butte and Chicago and St. Louis. Request rates and a copy of With Nature in Colorado from G. W. Fitzgerald, General Agent, Butte, Montana.
Parties may bring suitable specimens to the First National Bank in Dillon for care and shipment to Butte for onward freight with other Montana exhibits. Each sample must be clearly marked with mine name owner ore type and related details for identification, under Commissioner B. F. Ware.
The Tribune Store in Dillon lists new supplies for amateur photographers. Clearing Compound for hypo bath hardens negatives and improves printing color. fixing salts for Velox Dekko paper and films. restraining tablets to save overexposed plates. intensine to strengthen weak negatives. reducing powders for dense negatives. flash powder for interior night shots. Albums and passe-partout mounts available. 8x10 mounts at 2 cents, 10x12 at 3 cents. Cameras, tripods, ruby lanterns, plates, paper, mounts, developers, hype trays and more always in stock.
An advertising promotion touts the Rio Grande line the World's Scenic Route featuring the Canyon of the Grand praised by Cy Warman with lines about mountains valleys and hills. G W Firzanraup general agent at Butte Montana invites readers to write for rates and folders.
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