The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-05-12
aLEANlNes rRou THE ROCKIES.

6AEAN1N6S FxOA the ROCKIES.
The construction trai,, Of the Oregon
Short Line ran into Bellevue, Idaho, on |
May Sd.
The population Of Salt Lake will in.
crease about 5000 this year, and this Is re.
yarded as very low estimate.
The garrison from Fort Hail, Idaho, ar.
rived At Fort Douglass, near Salt Lake,
after having abandoned that post.
Bishop Brondel Of British Columbia, has
been appointed to the Catholic diocese Of
Montana. Father Jonckan, appointed to
succeed Brondel there, declines.
Dixon and Wi%e, the Seattle Nv. IT, rob.
bers, who were extradited from Victoria, B.
G, after much trouble, have been sent to
The Penitentiary for four years.
In tearing down an old cabin In Shasta
county, Gala, last week, formerly occupied
BY Chinaman who was murdered by In
dams, $500 In gold dust was found between
The walls.
The Central Pacific railroad il trying
automatic brakes on freight trains. The
arrangements are such that II the cars are
the brake Is applied and the de.
tached portion stopped.
It Is proposed to establish Signal Ser.
vice station on the top Of Mount Whitney,
Gala. The elevation Of the station will be
$1,000 feet--more than twice as high as
that on Mount Washington.
The last District Court docket At Sal
mon City was large one, number Of
cases having been continued from previous
terms. There were six criminal and seven.
teen civil cases on the docket.
The average Reno (Nev) man places a
very high price on his wife, especially when
she gets injured by the upsetting Of stage.
Gilner & Salisbury have been sued b.
Reno husband for $4,000 damages because
his wife was thrown out Of coach.
The Idaho fish law comes pretty rough
on the boys who have been in the habit Of
putting In their leisure hours on the banks
Of Snake river. The law prohibits fishing
with hook and line from May Ist to July
1sth. Ofcourse seining and netting are
also prohibited.
It is now pretty we'll understood that the
Oregon Short Line will not run into the
State Of Oregon, but keep down the Snake
river to Lewiston, and from there to the
Sound BY the most practicable route; and
the O. r. & N. Co. will continue their road
across the Snake into Idaho, through Boise
City to Montana.
A reward aggregating $1,4oo is offered
for the capture Of T. F. Cottner, who shot
and killed Walter Coffin Of Boise City at
Dry Buck, I. T., on April 10Th. The out.
law is nearly six feet in height, light build
stands very straight, light hair, inclined to
curl; rather light blue eyes, light sandy
fnoustache, upper lip rather short.
Forest City, Gala, comes to the from,
with the toughest hog story Of the season
It is to the effect that during the recent fire
at that place fat hog was badly burned
and few days ago the animal shed the
whole Of the skin Of its back and sides
This was measured and found to be 37Hx
~ inches in size. The hog is still alive and
active.
Due, the Salt Lake polygamist who drag
ged his fifth wife around by the hair Of he'
head, has been placed in the Utah Peniten
tiary in default of bail. The heads Of tin
Mormon Church tried to gloss over th'
offense, but the wife has prosecuted thu
brute, and seems determined to get as mucl
Justice as can ce secured In the saintl,
stronghold.
Los Angeles, Gala, has had unique
suit, known as the "two bit" case. 1t seem
that Mrs. Jones sent her little girl. to In
butcher-shop for two bits worth Of bcet
steak. The meat did not suit and was re
turned, the girl being told to get a bette
steak or her money. The butcher refuses
to give either. Then the head OF the fami
ly brought suit for the quarter Of dolla
and won the case. A stay Of proceeding
was granted, hut In the meantime the butch
er compromised BY paying costs Of $aa.
The Bear Lake (Utah) Democrat report
smallpox a. prevalent In that locality, CT
pecially in the family Of Joseph NJ. Phi
lips Of Montpelier. A gentleman fror
Evanston, Wyoming, tells Of q singula
case which II is feared has been the mean
Of spreading the disease very widely. II
says the wife Of an engineer on the Orego
Short Line left Evanston, where she ha
been residing, to join her husband at Mon
pelier that soon afterwards she died with
disease called black measles, and her n
mains were taken to Indiana; that sine
then some Of those who waited on the bod
have been attacked with smallpox.
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