The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-05-19
GLEANINas FROM THE ROCKIES.

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James K. Polk Brown is in jail at lack.
sonville, Or, charged with committing in.
cest with his seventeen year.old daughter.
Wheat spectators estimate the surplus
Of this season. crop in Oregon and Wash.
ington Territory at from 100000 to 3ouooc
tons.
Garfield county, w. T., contains 66S, ,6o
acres Of land and Of this number 1900
acres are under cultivation, principally in
grain.
Portland, Oregon, has adopted the high
license system for liquor shops, and the re.
sultis that twenty y.two saloon keepers have
taken out licenses, while l38 are fighting
the law.
In Sutro, New, the constable has thrown
up his position, which was contingent on
arrests made. He has not earned a cent
since last November, and expended 50 in
Office rent.
Two miners at Adams Hill, Nevada,
lately found a fine vein Of ore while digging
cellar under their cabin, assaying $50 per
ton. Instead Of making cellar they are
now sinking shaft.
John Hayes, alias William Nash, was the
name Of the man who was burned to deatt,
in the calahoose at Wadsworth, New, last
week. He had been honorably discharged
from the United States army and was in
receipt of a pension Of $7+ month.
Many prospectors are travelling toward
the new mining district lin Utah) ON the
Colorado Desert called the "Poorman's." )"
Several locations have been made there
already, and specimens Of rock assayed are
said to be exceedingly rich.
The contemplated railroad, starting from
the junction Of the 0. S. L. and o. R. 4 NJ,
will run up the Payette and Boise rivers
BY the way Of Boise City and Atlanta, to
the Wood River country. This will give
Idaho an outlet to the Pacific, where she
naturally belongs.
The San Diego Union says: "W. C..
Greenleaf Of Jamul (Cala.) Is a much.con.
graduated man. On Tuesday a son was
born to him-a fine twelve.pound boy; his
COW had twin calves;a sow Uttered eight
pigs;a turkey hatched fifteen eggs, and a
hen brought ten chicks off the nest.
A California farmer, who drove into San
Jose the other day with a load Of grain, be.
came frightened at peculiar sensation in
his side, which he took to be twitching
of the muscles. Fearing paralysis, he went
to doctor, who found live mouse in the
fellows inside vest pocket.
The Utah artesian we'll at the Mingo
Furnace, Sandy, Utah, after having reached
a depth Of 1918 feet, had work on it sus.
pended short time ago. The company
have received 500 feet more Of pipe and the
work of sinking is progressing again. 1t
is the intention to sink until good supply
Of water is obtained.
A couple Of prospectors believe they
have found the old channel Of the stream
which deposited thegold in Weaver Dis.
trict A. A day or two ago they took $ls
from few pans Of gravel. At various
times since 1862, pieces as large as hens
eggs have been found in Weaver district,
which is about forty. five miles west Of Pres
colt.
DR.. Newsom IL about to invent drill.
ing machine, says the Silver City A7w1a"c1c,
that will drill through fifty feet Of solid
quartz In an hour. The machine will be
constructed in such manner that two
miners can operate It. The drill will be
turned fifteen thousand times minute,
and will have to be supplied with stream
Of ice cold water to keep the point OF the
d, i'll from heating.