The Dillon tribune., 1882-10-07
aLEANINes FROM THE ROCKIES.

Willard has offered to endow the Oregon
University with $4,000 Ii the State will
Increase its annual allowance from $4,000
10 $so,ooo
The people Of Nevada are made happy
by letter from John Mullan, State agent |
At Washington, that the General Govern.
ment At Washington will pay to Nevada
the sum Of $37a,oo37a.
James True, while stopping at the West.
ern Hotel, Spokane pass, w. T., recently, |
was robbed Of $s4o BY fellow.roo,ner. |
The thief, w. Brown, was arrested at the |
depot. The money was found sewed up
in his shirt.
Idaho World: The price Of flour at this
place has made jump from $2..s to - al
sack. Thare Is q scarcity in Eastern Ore
bon a. well as in Southern Idaho so it will
Be well for us to begin to "taper of" on our
A. d. Gordon Of Kneeland Prairie,
Humboldt county, Cal, was bitten q few
days ago on the end Of his finger by cat.
The forearm swelled up, and very alarming
symptoms were noticed. 1t Is feared that
lockjaw will result from the bite.
A Portland, (Or.,) dispatch Of Sept. e8th,
says: Mrs. Wagner, who was visiting her
parentas Mr.. and Mrs. Adams, on Deer
Creek, near Josephine, was instantly killed
on Tuesday by the accidental discharge
Of = gun In the hands Of younger brother.
Superintendent llallett's railroad town
at the front Of construction on the North.
ern Pacific, west Of Mi<soula, is said to be
the largest city Of the kind in the world.
The population Is about 10000 people, near
" all railroad laborers, about three.tourths
Of whom are Chinese.
The Oregon Short Line road Is expected
to have the gap between Soda Springs and
Pocatello filled up by the ltth inst, and
work will at once begin in widening out
a portion Of the Rad to broad gauge. They
will then have 26o miles Of track reaching
from Granger to seventeen miles west OF
American Falls.
1t II estimated that IN Idaho over 5000
men are engaged IN railway construction,
cutting ties, grading, blasting and tunnel
ing, timbering, numbering and ck-laying
The lines upon which this labor is being
done are the Oregon Short Line, the Ore.
gon Railway & Navigation Co,npany's line
and the Northern Pacific.
a Grass Valley, (Cal.) dispatch Of the
18th ult., says: This afternoon Sim X.
Wilder, one Of our best citizens, had the
misfortune to shoot and kill his little son,
aged 10 years. The two were hauling
sawdust and had with them loaded gun.
In taking the gun out OF the wagon 1t was
accidentally discharged. killing the boy.
The largest salmon on record was recent
" caught at BAY Point, Cal, and weighed
one hundred and eighty-seven pounds.
The largest ever caught in the Columbia,
the most noted salmon ground in the world
weighed but cightysix pounds. Salmon
has been taken from Snake river, in Idaho
| Territory, which would turn the scales at
forty pounds.
Eureka Sentinel, goth, ult: David Fraser
who returned from Il prospecting trip to
Bald Mountain Thursday, brought in With
him some specimens Of gold quartz which
he has H>>;,ved and finds that they run into
| the thousands. lie is II thorough miner
and thinks that the Bald Mountain District
is one of the finest regions in the country
for prospecting.
4 Walla Walla dispatcl, of the ,6th ult
SAYS: About wear since lanes Donoh,e
an old miner. mvsicriouslv disappeared
from Noun, Idaho, and no clue could be
found as to his whereabouts. A States,
man special states that the remains, with
head and arms cut Oft, have been found in
a garden ut Mount idaho, and several
Cinnamon are under arrest charged witt
committing the deed
Winnrmucca Silvar State: Some miner,
on their way to Organ mountains, y. NJ
lately found about two miles off the Tula
rosa rer.da wagon containing the bodies of +;
man, woman and little child. The man an,
woman had each bullet hole through tn,
head. The child's skull was crushed.
watch and other valublcs had not bee,
touched. \ letter and memorandum in tn,
mans pocke' >howad him To- he Georv'
Nr>milh. The others were his wife a,e
child.
There is a curious geographical fact j,
connection with the kootcnai river. 1t
course is the shape of horseshoe. /
. rises in British Columbia, runs into tn
United States and waters a vast region an'
) then circles back into the land of its birtl
and cmptics into Flat Bow Lake. in Britisl
Territory, During its course it passe
within half mile of the Columbia, and
canal of that distance over a grassy prairi
would save it a course of 500 miles betor
reaching its goal