The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-11-10
Tribune Agent.
CURRENT NEWS NOTES,

tailoring firm in Portland, Oregon.
The inhabitants Of Massachusetts are
worth, on an average, $1,000 apiece.
The Salt Lake Herald has long etlito.
rial on rum. The local scribe was used for
purposes Of illustration
The formal transfer Of the command oi
the U. S. army from Sherman to Sheridan
took place November and.
Two San Francisco men are trundling a
wheelbarrow to New York for a wager oi
$1,000. They are now about entering
Nevada.
Highwaymen stopped the Milton, (Cal.)
stage near Sonora and captured Wells, Far.
go s. Co.'s express box containing over
four thousand dollars.
Twelve masous left Boston last week,
bound for Jeruralem, 10 rebuild the temple.
They took along family, goods, tools, and
all their possessions.
A tin can, containing 100000 in green
backs, was plowed up on the notorious
Bender farm In Kansas. Others are dig
gtng in the hope Of finding more treasure.
II is reported that six men who attempted
to jump claim in the CGur dAlene gold
regions met their death at the hands Of two
men who were defending the rights Of the
locator.
According to the Salt Lake Chronicle,
surgeons in that city, who operated on a
man for cancer, took away his left arm,
bone, shoulder.blade and the cancer.
The remnant Is still alive.
The Walla Walla Statesman complains
Of the scarcity and high price Of farm pro.
duce, butter costs 50 cents per pound, eggs
so cents per dozen and chickens 81 per
dozen. These are better prices than the
farmers obtained before the advent Of the
railroad.
Judge Hoffman, of the United States
District court, hearing the Chinese habeas
corpus case, at San Francisco, intimated
he would decide that all Cinnamon formerly
residents Of San Francisco, who had left
the price Of insurance Of return certificates,
were entitled to land.
Oliver Dalrymple, the Dakota bonanza
farm king, has threshed this season 10000
bushels Of wheat and 10000 bushels ofoats,
getting total Of 10000 bushels more grain
at $1o,ooo less expense than last year. The
crop was raised on o5oo acres Of ground.
a~i,... a. N1o.,.o.. A.,,,... l., %l,> 1o.
six months 7S1 Mormons have died, a3oo
Mormon children have been born, and the
Utah membership numbers l27,ao4, distrib-
uted in a3,oo6 families. The most astonish.
ing item is the number Of the new mem.
bers, a3,o4o, an increase of 20 per cent.
The Bullion (Idaho) Mining Company
held its annual election In this city on Mon.
day and elected the following named stock.
holders as u board Of directors for the ensu.
ing year John A. Hunter, Charles Pepper,
]. c. Conklin, Boyd Park, l.. l.. Baumgar.
ten. The officers elected were, John A.
Hunter, president; Boyd Park. vice.presi-
dent; J. &. Conklin, treasurer; T. c. Horn,
secretary.-Salt Lake Tribune.
The trial of Mrs. Slossen, says the HALEY
Times, who was accused Of having set the
fire, in HALEY, on the 74th Of last Septem.
her, ended with 4 verdict of "not guilty"
This result Is largely due to the efforts Of
Judge Brearsley, the leading council for the
defense, who made every point that he
could, and conducted the case SO ably that
many Of those who watched the trial from
beginning 10 end expected that he would
at least get hung jury, II nothing more.
Gen. Gordon, of the royal engineers, has
written letter to the New York Herald
ON the proposed canal from the Mediterra.
mean to the Dead Sea. He thinks the canal
feasible and can be built for So, 500; but it
will bury many sacred places beneath the
enlarged sea. Bethsadia, Capernaum, IT,
berias, Genneseret, Jericho, and the River
Jordon would be buried forever. The guam.
tity Of water necessary to fill the Dead Sea
and make It a Living Sea will be 3e5 Gu
bic miles.
Under the postal law which went into ef.
feet October 1st, which reduced the price
Of letter postage to two cents, all letters
must be prepaid or they will not be for
warded to their destination. Heretofore the
law has been that one full rate, three cents,
would carry letter to its destination, leav.
ing the receiver to pay whatever balance
there was due. This is now changed, and
the full rate must be prepaid, be it two,
four or six cents, or upwards before the let
ter can leave the home Office.
Election Summary.
New YORK, November 8-The ziases'