The Dillon tribune., 1883-04-28
GLEANINGs FROM THE ROCKIES.

6LEANlN6S FROM THE ROCKIES.
Smallpox is said to prevail to an alarm.
ing extent at Phoenix, A. T.
The Oregon Short Line will reach Belle. |
vue and HALEY within few days.
Placer mining is begun on the Snake
river near the mouth Of the north fork Of
Willow creek in Idaho.
The freight tariff on salt has been re.
duced to SIS per ton between Ogden and
Butte-a saving Of $4,000 per year to the
milling men.
About 500 Cinnamon are mining on the
Columbia river bars in the vicinity Of
Okanagan county, w. T., and make hand.
some returns.
The Baptists are erecting church In
Salt Lake City almost under the shadow
Of the great Mormon Temple. 1t is=xpect-
ed to cost $4,000
Pablino Garcia, Ios years old, died last
week at Manzana, N. NJ. She was the
mother of twenty-five children and had
been married four times.
Sl.oshone, l. r., the new town on the
Oregon Short Line, boasts Of a population
Of about 2,ooo. 1t Is principally noted for
bad whisky, gambling dens and shooting
scrapes.
James Moore, Of Lovelo.ks, New, tired
Of life last week and cut his throat with a
razor. The job was good one and his
neighbors are now trying to assign cause
for the act.
A jury at Los Angeles, Gala, acquitted
a young man Of disturbing the peace last
week and added the following postscript to
the verdict: "Judgc, instruct the young
man to keep out Of bad company"
The safe Of H. McColley, at Willow
Creek, New, on the Idaho road, was rob.
bed a few days ago Of $500 in gold coi' and
greenbacks. His clerk, a young man
named Upson, is under arrest for the crime.
A man applied to the Astoria (Or) Jail
authorities last week and asked to be put
inside. He procured knife and In short
time dug out a $lo piece from the wall
The money had been placed there BY him
three years ago.
Petitions have been circulated in nearly
every town and precinct in the Third Judi
cial District, In Idaho, as we'll as among ths
attorneys and others at Boise City, asking
for the re.appointment Of Judge Morgan al
Chief Justice Of Idaho.
&c. Hill and William Hill, ex.brake
men on the Central Pacific Railroad, have
been convicted at Winnemucca, New, o
robbing the monopoly by slowing passen
gers away in freight cars and taking re
duced prices Of fare from them.
The sections report Of Ogden City 70
the quarter ending March e1st, 1883, show
that 81 deaths occurred during that period
OF these II were adults and 3 children
males -, females IS. Fourteen Of the dc
cedents were non.residents OF Ogden.
NJ. Michael, glove maker in San Fran
cisco, having had some trouble with one O
his workmen, wanted to fight him, and tn
laborer very sensibly refused. This cause'
such flood of grief to overcome Michae
that he assuaged his sorrow by cutting hi
throat.
VIM. H. Huyck and Thomas Dunki
were arrested for robbing the Elko an
Tuscarora stage few weeks ago. Durin,
the trial of Dunkin in the District court q
Elko, New, last week, Huyck "squealed
and confessed that he and Dunkin com
mitted the robbery.
Grand Junction, Colorado, is one Of tn
liveliest towns along the Denver & Ri
Grande, and is showing what enterpris
can do in the way OF building up cities q
sage. brush plains. Water companies hav
been formed, irrigating canals dug. and til
land is being made to blossom like bi
sunhower.