The Dillon tribune., 1883-11-24
GLEANINGS FROM THE ROCKIES,

The Mormon Temple, at Salt Lake City
is completed, all but the towers.
S. H. White, civil engineer on the Den.
yer and South Park Railway, was murder.
ed by tie-cutter at Robinson, Colo, Sun.
day evening.
Wood is measured in Tuscon, A. T., by
the burro-load, instead of by the cord
Mosquito stove wood sells at four bits q
burro-load.
An artesian well, one hundred and fif
teen feet deep, near Salt Lake City, dis
charges one hundred gallons of water per
minute, and it only cost $4a7.
Cheyenne, Wyoming, has thirty infam.
Gus houses, forty licensed whisky shops,
and nine gambling rooms where gambling
is openly advertised and carried on.
w. w. Gillis was arrested at San Fran
cisco on Friday, on a requisition from Cliff
ton Spring, N. Y, for forging the name Of
Mark A. johnson to promissory note.
The Utah barley crop did not pay hardly
anything this year. Since the cut in rail-
road treights, Eastern barley has flooded
the market. Utah farmers are very blue,
in consequence.
The Winnipeg Timex says the car of Da
kota products sent to Ontario on exhibition,
was far inferior to the car of Manitoba pro-
ducts sent to Boston. The American pro-
ducts were admitted free, while the Cana,
dian was made to pay duties. This was
reciprocity doubly shabby.
A dispatch from Portland, Oregon, says:
Supreme Judge Field indorses Judge B. A.
Deady's decision granting temporary in,
junction in favor of Wells, Fargo q Co,
in their suit against the Northern Pacific
and the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company for equal express facilities on
their roads. @
At Denver, Colo, Sunday night, while
several men were playing poker in barber
shop they became involved in a general
fight, half a dozen shots being fired. Jack
Welderman, faro dealer at the Cliff Bells
gambling house, was instantly killed. 1t
is said the shooting was done by Tom Yea
yer, another dealer.
The Northern Pacific gives notice that
the extension of its line, known as the Pa
louse Branch, is now open for business ts'
the following points: Endicott, Washing
ton Territory, 70 miles east of Palouse
Junction; Coltax, So miles east of Palouse.
Junction. Agencies nave been established
at both of these towns.
An apprentice in the Los Angeles (Cal)
Times office attempted to take the ink from
his clothes with benzine, and vas induced
by brother 'devil" to apply match to
his clothes to take the smell away. He fol-
lowed the advice and was Immediately en-
veloped in flames. A girl employed in
the office wrapped her shawl around him.
and he escaped with no damage beyond
singed eyebrows.
Sunday night, on the Smelling road, nine
miles from Merced, CAL, two highwaymen
stopped Superintendent Drake, of the Far
mer's Canal, as he drove through cut
leading from the main road to the construc-
ton camp. Drake was beaten over the
head, dragged from his blackboard, robbed
of $11o his boots, hat, and all except his
socks and underclothing, and left lying
senseless at the place of the robbery.
The Cheyenne (Wyo) San has an ac-
count OF a very singular accident which
occurred at Schwartz's ranch on Pole
Creek. A telephone instrument was being
placed in position, and Thomas Tierney
was adjusting the wires. A storm was in
progress at the time and he was warned
that there was danger, but he continued
his work. The SIN says: Suddenly three
sharp reports, like TIE intonation of large
rifle, rang through the house, and Iierney
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