The Dillon tribune., 1883-07-21
GLEANINGS FROM THE ROCKIES,

GLEANlNGS FROM THE ROCKIES.
The daily output Of the Columbia river
sawmills is about 6soooo feet.
John MCGUIRE, farmer, living near
Roseburg, Or, was killed last week BY
stray shot fired by some hunters.
The exports Of flour from San Francisco
in June were the largest in the history OF
the port, reaching total Of 135,ooo barrels.
The Supervisors at Woodland, Cal, have
passed an ordinance prohibiting the main.
tenance OF liquor saloons within zoo feet
OF school lots.
Washington Territory promises to raise
great quantities Of hops. Sixty farmers in
the Puyallup Valley last year raised i ,5oo,-
600 pounds Of the cured article.
Since the passage of the new drummer
license law in Nevada there has been paid
into the State treasury the sum of $500
for licenses.
Round trip tickets, good for thirty davs
sold at 500, during the Exposition.
A strike among the fishermen along the
Lower Columbia is reported. The cause
Of the strike is the refusal on the part Of
the cannery men to pay 90 cents per fish.
A Chinaman caught sturgeon weigh
ing los pounds in Feather river, Gala,
below Orovile last week The tisl, pulled
him overheard, but he was rescued by his
comrades.
San Francisco physicians have discov-
cred 1907 cases Of leprosy among the hood
lum class Of boys who smoke cigarettes
made by Cinnamon.
AS near as can be asccrtained the Nc
Comb Reid toot-race at Ogden was put up
for McCo,nb to win, but at the last mo-
n,cnt it was decided to switch and have
Reid come in ahead.
Near Salinas City. Gala, last week a
swarm Of bees attacked team Of horses
attached to a freight wagon and stung one
OF the animals to death. The driver and
the remaining horse escaped,
Washington Territory ,apers express the
belief that the Oregon S. ort Line will be
rapidly pushed through the Wala Walla
and Yakima countries to Puget Sound.
The Arizona Citizen says: The mes
quite trees are now loaded with their fruit,
which resembles the locust pod and bean,
to which species 1t belongs. The pods
measure from eight to ten inches in length,
and are very edible for Indians and burros.
The new game law in Idaho is very strict
No buffalo, deer, elk, antelope Or mountain
shee? are to be killed between the 1st o,
January and the lst Of September Of each
tain their hides or to ship their carcasses
out OF the Territory.
The folks at Challis, Idaho, are propos-
ing to have some racing on the 18th OF
August. Not to be beaten in their own
borders, they have sixty yard dash, open
for any horse in the world, for purse OF
$500.
The sink of the Carson river, in Nevada,
is great place for pclicans, which are
caught by the sagebrushers for their tcath-
ers and skins. Lines some 900 feet it,
length, strung with hooks and baited with
minnows, are stretched between buovs OH
the lake, and the pelicans there catch them
selves. The carcas,cs are fed to hogs.
A Pluto Indian killed his squaw in Butt.
valley, White Pine county, New, last
week, and the tribe lynched hi,n-not af,c,
the American plan, but after style of their
own. They lassoed him with ropes and
after dragging him around for awhile
hitched the rope to horse and dragged the
murderer around over the mountains IN.
til his body was mangled beyond recogni.
ton.
| Billy Davis, recently from Arizona, in,
forms the Bodic, Cal, Free Press tl.at when
aband OF Apaci,es start out to murder a
party of prospectors, they leave nothing
undone to make the job an overwhelming
and everlasting success. They believe
that what is worth doing at all is worth do
ing up brown. Tombstone, Davis says, il
a stupid place, where the people dress poor
ly, eat inferior grub and play one-horse
games Of poker. The whisky sold there
would corode boiler.iron.
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