The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-06-02
oLIANiNGs FROM the ROCKIES.

0LIANlN0S From the ROCKIES.
Seattle, w. T., has population Of 6,64s.
The Nevada State Prison shelter. H.,
convicts.
There are thirteen daily and twenty three
weekly papers published In Nevada.
Hcss are damaging the cemeteries In the
eastern portion Of Virginia City, New.
L. p. Smith, . forger, pleaded guilty At
Los Angeles, Gala, and was sentenced to
four years' imprisonment.
Dead Mans station is the melancholy
name ofa wayside resort near Mammoth
City, in Mono county, Gala.
1t Is reported that about 5000 men will
soon be At work on the Oregon Railroad
between Redding and State line.
Colorado has over 3,uoo miles Of rail.
roads, costing $lo.ooo,ooo. Seventeen dis.
tinct lines are embraced in this enumer.
alton.
Wife No. 5 Of polygamist named Ruth
ertord committed suicide at North Jordan,
U. r., last week. Cause, disgust with Nor.
,nonism.
Since her conviction at Tombstone, A..
T., May Woodman, who killed her para.
mour, Billy Kinsman, has made two at.
tempts ut suicide.
Near Geneva, New, last week, some
miners in sinking shaft discovered cave
sixty feet in depth, containing, 50 far as
explored. two chambers.
E. Chapman, arrested at Tucson, A. r.,
on suspicion Of being implicated in the
Pearson safe burglary, has turned States
evidence and 5000 ot the money has been
recovered.
Grand Junction Meas: "Will the gentle.
man who borrowed spade fiom the News
office, two months ago, please return it"
Bet it was the ace Of spades, and the bor.
rover needed it bad.
q. K. Russell, young farmer residing
near Calf, Gala, visited Stockton few
days ago In search Of q surgeon who could
remove thousand. Legged worm from his
ear. A druggis, poured sweet oil into the
ear with good results.
Uhe White Pine (Col) Cove says: White
Pine may have had 4 good deal of snow
this spring, but people didn't have to take
of the shingles tv get into thei, houses, a.
they did up At Ruby and Crested Butte.
A two.year.old colt belonging to W. V.
Fisher Of Beliota, CAL, disappeared last
week aud three days later it was discovered
alive ir the bottom Of seventy foot we'll.
The animal was hoisted out Of the we'll
very little the worse for the fall.
The Reno (Nev.) Gasette says: A con.
vict WAS taken to the Carson prison from
Austin Wednesday to serve one year tor
stealing bullion from mill. He is man
IS years old, a graduate Of Freiburg Uni.
versity, Germany, and man OF great cul.
ture. Rum got him.
King and another man, now on trial at
Malad, Idaho, II acquitted will probably be
taken to Utah tor robbing the stage last
summer just above Corinne, In company
with the two robbers Nay and Francis.
The two latter are now In the Nevada Pen
for robbing the Central Pacific train some
months ago.
Geo. Schfibner, Of San Francisco, who
had Just returned to Tucson from the new
gold fields in Lower California, confirms
all the reports OF the richness and extent Of
the p,acers. He says the field is at least Is
miles long by 80 wide; that the gold is very
coarse, but OF fine quality. Miners are
returning to Guaymas daily with large
quantities Of gold.
Recently colored barber at Rock
Springs, Wyoming, was found murte,ed
and no clue could be obtained. A Asau
named Lee, said to be relative Of the late
John D. Lee, of Mountain Meadow fame
was arrested at Granger for the crime, and
placed In Jail At Green River. Lee had
been lying around Rock Springs for several
months without any visible means OF sup
port, and lett the town the da, after the
murder.
Whitley, the man who shot Mr.. Green
the agent Of the Utah & Northern railroad
At Eagle Rock, was tried In the District
Court At Malad. The evidence demonstrat
ed that the deadly assault with intent te
murder was totally unprovoked. Whitley
was convicted and sentenced to seven years
imprisonment, punishment plenty light
enough when the character OF the cri'ae II
considered.
WHAT THE OLD MAN SAYS.
Sidney Dillon, president Of the Untos
Pacific railway. passed through Chicago cn