The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-01-06
GLEANlNGs FROM THE ROCKIES.

~1S0OSN HOsb AS1SAOO ~ f''S~~'O S''s~'N 49,
The two trusties-J. Blevins and Robert
Chinn-who escaped frotn the Nevada
State Prison recently, have been recapt"red
Senator Jones has informed the Carson
| Appeal, that he is member Of a company
that Is going extensively into ostrich farm
ing in Arizona.
Two robbers visited Il Chinese camp at
Falbrook, Cal, last week. and after plum
dering the Monyolians Of $4.o decamped,
leaving no clue.
| An Indian known as Michele is in GUS
tody at Colville, Or, for the murder Of the
old German sa'oonkeeper, Shaetfer, near
that place recently.
| A genuine ghost il said to haunt the
Sterling mine in Prescott, \. T., and can
nightly be heard chopping wood near
cabin on the surface.
The largest boom in marriage licenses
Los Angeles, Cal, has ever had occurred
on Saturday, thirteen couples having re-
ceived official privilege to marry.
Wells, Fargo s. Co. have commenced a
suit OF equity enjoinng the North Pacific
Express Company in Oregon from, interter-
ing with their carving business.
Charles NAV, Of San Diego. Cal, had
his hand 50 severely burned few nights
ago nv the brd.clo,hng Of his bed catching
fire that Il is thought amputation will he
necessary.
The Bcssemer Steel Works. at Pueblo,
Colo. are now making two miles and a
quarter OF steel rails per dav for the Den.
yer and Rio Grande Railway. The output
will he three miles per day after Jan
uary first.
One Of the Indians confined in Jail as
guilty Of the Mulherron murder, turned
states evidence ON the morning OF the 18th
ult. disclosing the whole affair. The parties
confined at Pendlcton, Oregon, are the
guilty ones.
There are 100000 sheep in the Terri.
tory Of New Mexico. About half Of this
number average two pounds Of wool to the
head, 100000 average four pounds ot
wool each, and the remaining 2,W,oooo
average seven pounds Of wool each.
i Business failures In Oregon and Wash
ington Territory, for the quarter ended
December sSth are reported as follows:
Oregon, seven; liabilities $4,000; assets,
$l7.ooo. Washington Territory, eight
failures; liabilities, $+7, Goo; assets, $a3,35o.
In the conrse Of his duty as Deputy
Sheriff Of Grant county, N. NJ, Dan Tuck.
er killed eight men in that county, and sew.
eral in Lincoln. lie is now awaiting cx.
animation for killing man named Burns
which Is the first time he has ever been
: called to account.
Peter Desgarat. a young carpenter living
? at Rockford, w. r., shot his wife through
the head last Tuesday and atterward sho,
himself The marriage was forced upon
the woman by her parents eighteen months
ego. jealousy ON the part Of the husband
WAS the cause Of the shoOfinv
Recently at Ross Fork, Idaho, Poo.
Buck Bannack Indian owned a .quaw
, Poor Buck was happy Indian until
Sho>hone stole his squaw away. Poo,
Bnck chased his squaw and put bullc
through her breast and then shot himsel
through the bowels, and they both went t.
the happy hunting grounds together.
!. New Tacoma, W. T., Is experiencing s
+ boom. The prospect that that place vii
he the terminus Of the Northern Pacific or
Puget Sound has attracted crowd Of peo
pie. The Ledger says that for some time
the hotels have been crowded, and tha
many guests were compelled to sit up al
/, night on account Of insufficient acco,nuia
tons.
4 A "pulling match" to see whether twt
mules could pull bag of sand weiyhin!
i 900 pounds attached to one end of a 900
: foot rope, the wager being $50 side
came off at Prescott, \. r., last Thursday
The mules walked away with the baggage
as easily as il it had been loaded in ligh
!, wagon. Considerable money is said tt
have changed hands.
e A frighttul railroad accident happened
i in the vicinity of Marshall, Oregon recent
e ly, resulting in the death Of J. +. Sherwood
0 an employee Of the \. p. II. X. In at
+. tempting to board running freight trair
j. he was thrown beneath the wheels and ir
$ an instant was mangled so badly that death
could be the only relief Both legs were
). severed above the knee lie lived onl,
: a few hours, and his death is blamcablc tc
: nothing but his own carrlcs~nc>s.
The following story is going the rounds
n in Washir gton Territory: \ curiosity in
l. the potato line is from the cellar Of f. Meek
e er OF Puyallup. y sack Of potatoes thrown
( into a barrel had become withered and
J. were about 20 be thrown out when it was
: discovered that in each and every one OF
$ them was 4 hill OF young potatoes. some
n Of which were pink colored and fresh as a
Y rose, were bursting through the skin of the
t parent potato, and all this apparently, with
out external Sprouting. These young ones
a are in clusters and all sizes less than that
$ OF Il walnut.