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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1903
Page
8
Leon's Place advertises school supplies and fruit cake for Thanksgiving. Dillon and Silver State chronicle visitors from Lima Bedrock Dillon and Helena with mining claims Ell en Emma and Boston lode near the Dark Horse mine. Local residents seek work study and travel to Alberta or Chicago while merchants publish sales and services.
Mr and Mrs R H Selway and their young daughter returned last Sunday from a trip to the Pacific coast visiting Washington and Oregon around Puget Sound. They found the country almost ideal and the weather perfect. Mr Selway was especially interested in the fruit industry thriving across the region.
A suit filed in district court by plaintiff Alex Big Knife challenges whether an Indian may leave his assigned reservation to hunt game. The case raises a key legal question and may go to a higher court.
The article explains that NEWBRO’S HERPICIDE kills the microbe behind herpes and dandruff, claiming it stops itching scalp and hair loss. It notes the product is sold by leading druggists and offers a 10 cent sample by mail from The Herpicide Co. Detroit Mich.
A. J. Noyes has purchased a near new ten-stamp mill formerly near Hailey Idaho for the Ajax mine. It will be shipped to Divide and then ferried to the mine where a Helena expert will set it up. The mill, weighing 1050 pounds per stamp, doubles the output of last winter and should be ready by November 1 though Noyes expects earlier operation.
Charles Sassman and companions hunted near Birch Creek lakes and found three bears a cub and two adults. He killed the cub and the mother and brought both to town. A seven dollar bounty on each bear is hampered by the requirement to claim the heads. Sassman sold the flesh to Deputy Bros and the small skin to Fred Oliver while keeping the large bear skin.
John Gill was fined fifty dollars by Justice Rich for petty larceny after a trial in which John Morris testified Gill stole thirty seven dollars worth of jewelry from Mrs. Morris. Gill was jailed but offered to reveal a jewelry cache, which patrol found without success at Hansen ranch. The article also notes school enrollment rules and Graeter Electric Light Company officers as Dillon prepares to receive new electric service.
At the fourteenth annual convocation of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons in Helena on Tuesday, Dr. M. A. Walker of Dillon was elected excellent grand master of the first veil. He serves as High Priest of the Dillon Chapter of Royal Arch Masons.
E. W. Slack has appropriated 100 inches of Blacktail creek water to be diverted below the canyon ditch. The seepage water will be carried by the T. M. Selway ditch, which will be enlarged to serve the purpose.
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