The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-05-05
GLEANINos PROx THE ROCKIES,

The Denver & Rio Grande Railway will
be completed to Ogden by the 18th Of May
A fair at Santa Fe, N. NJ, last week for
the benefit Of the Sisters Of Charity, netted
$t,Soo.
The d. & R. 6. have carried over 100
cars Of. Utah potatoes to Colorado In the
past two weeks.
There are two men in Jackson county,
Or, awaiting trial on charges Of killing
their own fathers. y
Work In the Wood River Branch rail.
road is progressing as rapidly as men and
means can push it.
The construction Of the Silver City, Dem..
ing and Pacific Railroad in New Mexico
cost $4,000 mile. ~,
Professor A. F. Bandolier, reported cap.
tured and murdered by the Apaches In
Sonora, is at Fort Apache,A A. T., alive and
we'll.
The Insane asylum At Reno, New, con.
tains 1877 patients. A dance is given one
night every week ana the lunatics are said
to enjoy 1t.
The Lakeview (Cal) Examiner says:
"There is in Surprise valley ,Modoc county,
q marine monster that walks off with full.
grown Angora goats"
Chapman and Perry, Presbyterian mis-
sionaries, and an Indian boy, were drowned
last week BY the upsetting Of boat at
Wales Island, Alaska.
In fight between rat and rattlesnake
al Portland. Oregon, last week the rat was
victorious. The snake was in a weak con.
dltion from want of food.
A poison spring has been discovered in
Red Mountain district, New. Around the
spring are found many dead doves, rabbits,
squirrels and mountain rats.
John Frank, a convict in the Utah Pen,
made his escape Tuesday evening. He was
engaged in working In the field, and man.
aged to get into the brush and hide.
A German girl in Mason valley, New,
picked giant powder cup with a pin last
week. She now mourns the loss Of two
fingers on her left hand and both thumbs.
A lot Of wood choppers were routed out
Of their camp ON Quigley Gulch, Idaho, by
three cinnamon bears. The bears took pos.
session and the choppers fled to HALEY Tor
guns.
John I. Sullivan was shot and killed at
Calico, CAL, last week, BY John Williams
The homicide was the result Of Sullivan's s
abusing one Maloney, who found de-
fender in Williams.
The bill granting franchise to foreign
capitalists to build and operate rail road
and steamship line in Kootnenay district, b
c., has passed a third reading in the local
Parliament of Victoria.
Eastern ladies have raised $1,000 for a
wing to the Methodist Seminary, at Sal,
Lake, to be erected on the fine lot east OF
the Methodist church. Work will be COM
menced on the building early in May.
Miss Ida Andrews had leg broken near
Courtland, Gala, last October. She was
thrown from buggy and lays it all to an
ill.kept road, and now brings suit against
the township for $4,000 damages.
The Reno 1o.v~al says there is no hope
of renewal Of work on the Nevada and
Oregon Railroad within the next two years.
The New York bond holders have institu-
ted in the United States Circuit Court pro-
ceedings 10 foreclose.
The body of little Charlie McComas, who
was carried off BY the Apaches at the time
Of the murder Of Judge McCo,nas and wife
in New Mexico, has been found. The body
was found about six miles from where the
parents were killed, with the skull crushed
In.
A pack horse loaded with Giant powder
fell over bluff between Washington and
Omaga, Cal, last week. A boy in charge
had presence Of mind enough to cut loose
from ~ animal, which fell 200 feet and
was instantly killed. Strange to say the
powder did not explode.
The other day, near Blackfoot, Idaho, an
Indian picked up bottle alongside the
railroad track which he supposed contained
whisky. He sold the bottle to another In
dian, who drank some Of the liquid, which
proved to be an acid Of some kind, and he
died from the effects thereof in short time.
A horrible accident occurred at Malad,
Idaho, last week. A little six.year-od girl,
the daughter of Mrs. Cecilia Reese, while
playing around a fire in the back yard, Set
her clothing on fire. Flames extending
upward severely burned almost her entire
body. After several days Of intense sui-
fering she expired.
Elko, New, Isdefesde~t: 1t is stated that
never before in the history Of Moromnism
were so many young girls going into po.
lygamy as at present. All this after the ap.
plication of the Edmunds bill and under the
eyes OF the United States Government.
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