The Dillon tribune., 1884-02-09
GLEANINGS FROM THE ROCKIES.

The thermometer registered 20 degrees
below zero at Salmon CITY, Idaho, las,
week.
Dispatches state that w. II. Dickson
has BEN appointed United States A,torne y
for Utah.
The sme;ter at Bayhorse, Idaho. is ex.
pected to close down in few DAYS, owing
to lack q. water
Enle, tainments for the benefit OF the
Crested Butte sufferers a,e numerous all
over the State of Colorado.
Frank Settle has been arrested in Leba-
non as being concerned III the stage 'ob
berry at Grants Pass recently.
During freshet in Southern Oregon,
last Week, sixty COWS were drow: cd in
Smiths River, Jackson county.
VIM. Matthias, an aged resident Of Sal
mon City, Idaho, was thrown from his
>ieiyh last week and quite seriously hurt.
There are eight local fire ard marine Or
ganizations in San Francisco and all OF
them are now on a dividend ing basis.
A soup kitchen has Deen started in Wal
la Wala to relieve needy raiiroader>, dis.
charged py the Oregon Construction Co.
Lizzie Lindsay, who poisoned Robert
Prtcher, in Carson, New, a few months
ago, has been found guilty OF murder in
the second degree.
1t is estimated that 10000 French
prunes have been set out in the vicinity Of
Santa Rosa, Gala, last season, aud more
are being ordered.
There are said to be four persons in Or
egon over one hundred years Of age. 1t is
not necessary to say that they are moss.
backed and web-toed.
The Pueblo (Colo) CAz1tiu~ says: The
Southern Ctes must go, and along with
them We suggest the removal OF the Cone
JOS county polygamists.
A Carson City, New, photographer treats
eacl customer who will take it to IL drink
OF liquor, in order to get the proper pleas
ed expression on his Iace.
f. McEvers, formerly editor of the o.
den Pilot, is now located in Lo. al,own,
Colo, where, as pastor of Methodist
chu' Gil, hc is doing a heap OF good.
There are now three towns at the bonan.
"a camp in Arizona, namely: Logan City,
New Virginia and Quiotoa City, witt,~a
few quarter sections OF land yet to hear
During the month of January there
were l26 males, II females and 6 boys ar
rested in Salt Lake, and p dodgers grant.
I'd accommodations at the city's lodging
house.
Writing from Rathdrum, Idaho, a cor
says: At least twenty houses
are in the course OF erection at this writing
and the lumber is scattered over the ground
for more.
AT the Ceur Alene mines the miners,
1t recent meeting, fixed upon the lst day
of June, 1854, as representation day"
umping of claims has been prohibited un.
Ill that date.
Walla Walla Statesman: Fears were en-
ertained that the fruit trees in Oregon that
started to bud in the last chinook would BE-
killed by the prevailing frosty weather, but
% far the cold has not been severe enough
o effect the trees
The yield OF petroleum in Los Angeles
:ounty, California, is now estimated to be
100 barrels per day. a new strike has
'ccn made, vein flight green oil having
'een found within the city limits, not far
rom the court house.
The Portland O,egonia~ says: "Dur-
ng the next few months there will be
rial of strength in the Northwest between
he merchants Of Portland and San Fran
isco and those of the East. The local
men are getting their gripsacks
eady for the summer goods campaign"
Belknap parties are making arrangements
D run line Of stage coaches from the
abroad to Eagle City, in the Ceur d 'Alene
mines. AS the distance is but twenty-fv
niles it looks as though Belknap will be-
ONE the outfitting point on the abroad.
The San Francisco Pest says that Judge
lawyers recent decision adverse to the
reat hydraulic mining industry, as exhibi.
ID in his decree in the Woodruff suit, has
iready commenced producing its fruits
BY cessation of all work in the
ydraulic mines, the withdrawal Of men
nd consequent results.
Fifty women are employed in the mint
San Francisco, and their pay is $e.7s
~, counting all week days and holidays
=, Sundays. The hours are from oo'clock
the morning to 4 in the afternoon, with
'e exception Of Saturday, when work ends
2. Their business is to weigh the gold :
I'd silver after it has been rolled, annealed,
It and washed, and they are known as ad-
sters. II
The Spokane Falls Re.sew ssys: Jesse
aker, Esq, Of Saltese Lake, has qsartz +
aim in the new mining district, and re-