The Dillon tribune., 1883-12-22
GLEANINGS FROM THE ROCKIES.

VA0ANANUO nVAM 0OVAkGOo
A cremation society is being formed at
Stockton, Gala.
Adventures still continue to flock into
the Cear d. Alene gold diggings.
The ostriches on the farm at Anahei,m,
Gala, will be plucked in few weeks.
A heavy fog which hung over the Sacra.
mento Valley, for nine days, has finally
lifted.
The whole gang of Southern Pacific
train robbers have been captured and plac-
ed in the Tombstone, Arizona, Jail.
A. c. Ticknor, of Los Angeles, Cal,
claims to have invented an electrical pro-
cess which will do away with telephone and
telegraph wires and poles.
Elko (Nev) INdeteude"t: The students
in the Assaying Department. the State
University are making good progress un:
der the efficient instruction Of Professor
Gignour.
At Durango, Colo, on Sunday night, a
negro named "Big Ike" in attempting to
rob the bank Of Durango was detected. The
negro shot and instantly killed Bruce Hunt,
son Of Ex-Governor Hunt. The negro has
not been captured.
At the inquest at San Francisco, on
Chas. Mclaughlin, millionaire, shot and
killed on the 18th by Jerome B. Cox, the
Coroners jury brought in verdict that
Cox killed him in self.defense. The ver-
dict caused sensation, there being nothing
in the evidence to warrant it.
The San Francisco Record Union: Gen.
Hancock's reception on this Coast has been
a cordial one, and evinces the esteem in
which the people hold their veteran soldiers
and great captains who have fought to
maintain the integrity Of the Union. His
reception at Sacramento was OF the most
marked and cordial character and for an
entirely impromptu affair was surprisingly
successful.
The Id aho 4A,ulanche says that stock
association has been organized in Jordan
Valley, Baker county, Oregon, with mem.
bership of forty persons. y. Z. Goodrich,
a well known stock man OF Jordan Valley,
was elected president, and Dan Connors, IA
young man of rising prominence, was cleo
ted secretary. The association has adopted
bylaws similar to those Of the Idaho Stock
Growars' AsSociatinn
The wife of James Mahoney, watchman
at Shaft No. ,, on the line OF the Sutro
(Nev) tunnel, was murdered on Friday af'
ternoon of last week by blows on the head
with some blunt instrument. The husband
was arrested ON the charge Of having com.
mitted the murder, and was lodged in the
county Jail. The ENTERPRISE says that ap.
pearances strongly indicate that he killed
his wife by crushing her skull with stone.
C.P. Tones, merchant of Malad, Idaho,
visited Salt Lake this week for the purpose
of purchasing goods. On Tuesday after
noon he took twenty.grain dose OF strych'
MIA and though several physicians laborcd
over him faithfully for hours, he died in
terrible agony about seven O'Clock the same
evening. 1t is surmised that considerably
losses at faro, while in the city, induced
despondency which caused him to take his
life.
The Leadville (Colo.) Herald reports AT
important sale OF mining property in the
transfer by George L. Camp, Of that cit,
to B. w. Flack, Of the Standard Oil Com
pany, manager OF the Pittsburg division
of that company) of five valuable gole
pacers. The property embraces one hun
dred and forty.seven acres OF ground If
Taylor Park, Gunnison county, thirtce'
miles north Of Tin Cup. The considera
ton was $4,000. From the work SO fal
done on the property, it promises to be on.
Of the heaviest gold producers in that dis
trict.