The Dillon tribune., 1883-09-01
Tribune Agent.
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

The towns of v'hatcom, Bellingham, Sc.
home and Fairhaven, w. r., are to be in.
cor2orated under the name Of Whatcom.
Blackfeet Indians have been committing
dep, e lations on Ford's creek, near Fort
Maginnis. Troops have been sent after
them.
Nearly one thousand old soldiers Of the
Confederate and Union armies were in at
tendance at the ex.Confederate reunion, at
Jefferson City, Mo.
There are now 4so4o post offices in the
United States, Of which number 2,176 are
presidential offices, and 6,.7, money order
offices. Since the year 1876 the number OF
post offices have been increased 40 per cent.
General Sherman has recommended that
the s1st Infantry, now on the Pacific coast
with headquarters at Fl. Vancouver, Wash.
ington Territory change stations with the
10th Infantry, now on the lake, with head.
quarters at Detroit.
The Riverside, a steamer on the Hudson,
blew up in New York harbor, Tuesday af
ternoon. There were 100 persons on board
so Of whom were either scalded to death
or drowned. Ten of the persons saved are
in terribly bruised condition.
On the 18TH Of September the military
telegraph lines between the following places
will be sold at public auction at Bismark:
Glendive to Terry's landing, 16S miles;
Bismark to Ft. Buford, saS miles; Fort
Custer to Summit, Idaho, ao3 miles; Fort
Benton to Fort Meade, 169 miles; Fort
Yates to Fort Sully, IL, miles.
On last Wednesday man named Bren-
nan was sitting on horse, on Scott Hill'
near Park City, Utah, near some men who
were surveying some ground, when shot
was fired from a neighboring clump of
brush and Brennan fell dead. a man named
Murphy, with whom Brennan had quar-.
relied, was arrested, and the coroner's jury
charged him with the murder.
Nine men, Of White Pine county Nevada,
Geo. Williams, Patrick Flanegain, w. c.
Fletcher, John Odges, Jake Cameron, P.
keelan, NJ. E. Basset, Daniel Sullivan and
n. b. Dunton, have been bound over in
$1,000 each to await the action of the grand
jury, charged with mobbing and murder Of
Il, c. O'Neil at Osccola, on the Sth Of last
June.
At recent Mormon conference in Salt
Lake City some 200 missionaries were
sent out, making goo for the year. OF these
loogo to the Southern States, whence 200
converts have recently been forwarded to
Colorado. Some idea Of the despotism OF
Mormonism may be seen in the fact that
with populatin Of $4,000 there are more
than $4,000 church officials.
A few days since Mr.. I. H. Congdon,Su
perintendent of the Motive Power and Car
Departments Of the Union Pacific, passed
through Logan. He was asked If there
was any truth in the rumor that the Logan
shops would be removed to Eagle Rock.
He emphatically denied all knowledge Of
such an intention and of the origin OF such
report. The shops will remain where
they are.-Lcs"" 1oar"al.
VIM. Grafton, shift-boss Of the Navajo
mine, New, was suddenly killed, last week,
while ascending in the cage from the $50.
foot level. When the cage came to the
surface he was dead, with his neck dislocat.
ed and both legs broken. 1t is supposed
that he had either tainted, or looking up
suddenly when the light appeared above,
his head had caught in the timters and
thrown him down. Deceased was about
forty years ofage, and has wife at Butte