The Dillon tribune., 1883-08-04
GLEANINGs FROM THE ROCKIES.
Ogden is infested with foot Dads.

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Garroters are becoming bold in Ogden.
Californians were treated to a small
earthquake this week.
Burglars are "working" Salt Lake City,
successfully IN most cases.
The price paid for the Salt Lake brewe.
ry Is said to have been $4,000.
A little child died this week at Salt Lake
from eating concentrated lye.
A cloud burst at Sunny side, on the Den.
yer and Rio Grande did an immense
amount Of damage Saturday evening.
A brute in Salt Lake shot his $ 200 horse
because it didn't go to suit him. lie was
under the influence OF liquor.
Salt Lake saloonists are being hauled up
and fined for violating the ordinance against
Sunday liquor selling.
Ogden wants paper mill. One paper
mill in the Rockies ought to pay hand
somely.
There is great excitement at the old gold
mines in the Yankee Fork, Idaho, country
over new and rich strikes.
The parties who have lately purchased
the iron mines in the Warm Spring dis.
trict, Wood River, Idaho, contemplate
erecting smelling works soon.
The new smelter, at Ketchum, Idaho, is
nearly completed, and will be ready to be
blown in two or three days. The masonry
work is all completed, and only few pipe
connections remain to be made.
The coaches for seven large stage lines
make HALEY, Idaho, their headquarters
now, and are arriving and departing daily.
Besides tn, r: are several extras. All in all
these lines Of coaches are helping to keep
up the boom.
The Nicolai and Richmond hotels and
the grand stables were burned in Portland,
Or, on the evening Of Tuesday last, and
the entire block destroyed, except the
brick corner. Loss, about $loo,ooo.
Harvest is about over in the Salt Lake
valley. The wheat and oat crops are very
large and Of excellent quality. Farmers
have had fine weather for harvest and the
crops have been secured in good condition.
"Poker Jack" a Siwash gambler, won
200 horses and three squaws at the recent
Indian horse.racing match near the Idaho
line. "Cuitans" are cheap at present among
the Indians and can be obtained for So or
S., such as they are.
A human skull, few bones, switch OF
blonde hair and portion of the dress Of a
female were found on the banks OF o creek
near Bodie, Gala, last week. Rusty hair
pins were still sticking in the switch of hair.
The remains are supposed to he that Of a
courtesan known as "French joe" who
wandered off in a fit Of insanity in the tai!
Of 1851.
During the week ending July :Sth, in
elusive, there was shipped from Salt Lake
forty one cars Of bullion, IS, ,,c6+ pounds,
sent East; two cars ore, 5s,44o pounds,sent
West; twenty eight cars ore, 81 600 pounds
sent to Colorado, and one car white lead,
,3,5oo pounds sent West; making grand
total Of seventy.one cars, aggregating l..
S,3,:o3 pounds.
r. u. Clarke, superintendent Of the
Geddes & Bertrand mine, Wood River, says
that Red Fish Lake, in the Saw!ooth range
Of mountains is SO named from the fish in
it. MIR. Clarke has lived in that country
and is familiar with it. He tells us that
Humboldt, the great scientist, visited the
lake once, and was much interested in the
queer fish he found in it, dog-headce, red.
dish, mongrel species Of salmon.