The Dillon tribune., 1884-04-12
GLEANINGs FROM THE ROCKIES,

The London Bank, Oimited) at Salt Lake
City, has been attached and shut up.
Wild hogs are becoming numerous on
some portions of Howell mountain in Cali.
tornia.
The Ldaho Register, successor to the
Blackfoot Register, is published at Eagle
Rock, Idaho.
Within six weeks seventy five people
have met with violent deaths in Gunnison
county, Colorado.
Thompson Falls, which month ago
had no existence, is said to now have 15o
houses and fifty tents.
The SIN claims S,ooo, 1000 bushels of
wheat for Consa county, Gala, this season
If no untavorable symptoms manifest them.
selves.
The White Plains, Nevada, artesan we'll,
ON the line of the Central Pacific Railroad,
is down 1913 feet 1t is now in the hardest
kind of rock.
Immigrants are arriving at Portland,
Oregon, over the Northern Pacific at the
rate OF about 900 per day. They are prin.
cipally farmers.
Robins have been very plentiful around
the foothills Of California this spring.
San Francisco market.
The railroad bridge across Snake river,
near the mouth Of Burnt river, will be an
elaborate iron structure, which will require
several weeks yet for its completion, says
the Idaho Statesman.
Caldwell Udaho) TyibMxc: The country
along the Snake river is being laid off into
mining districts. There is gold there and
when the mining boom sets in Caldwell
will be lively place.
w. II. Armstrong, hospital steward at
Fort Walla Walla, committed suicide on
the night of the ,3d ult, by taking an over
dose OF morphine. He was an old veteran
aud generally respected.
The San Diego (Cala) Union says that
some good placer mines were exposed by
the recent flood at Mesa Grande, near the
Shenandoah mine. Twelve Mcxicans are
working them with with rockers, and are
getting good returns.
Arizona papers are beseeching General
Crook, now that he has the last of the
Apaches in his power, to recommend their
removal to the Indian Territory. Itwould
be good idea to get them little further
away from the boundary line.
Geo. w. Conkling, of Reno, Nevada, who
shot and killed Haverstick in New York,
who was the para,nour of his sister, Mrs.
Uhler, is dying at the Bay of consumption.
The suicide OF his sister is said to have
fastened the course OF the disease.
A San Francisco youth has found a way
to beat faro and stud poker. He has a
number Of counterfeit checks made, ,strolls
in and plays for while, cashes his bogus
checks and departs. He took SHY out Of
a kearney street game the other night.
When the Nevada Indians get hungry
they ''herd" few cattle on the railroad
track. They thus get all the beef they
want ready butchered. The Indian may
have an untutored mind, according to Mr..
Pope, but he is very "hy" on the beef ques-
ton.
The $1,000 breach. of promise suit Of
Miss Jennie Clarns against William Doran
began in the State Circuit District Court
at Portland on Friday OF last week. Doran
is one Of the Oldest steamboat engineers on
the river and has accumulated about 500.
GOO worth of property.
There was a colt born at Livermore,
California, last week whose head resembled
that Of a large hog with jaws and ears, and
its tail had bunch of regular hog bristlcs,
and the skin is as clear and clean as that of
scalded hog. The mouth stanus open,
and the front or upper jaw is horribly de.
formed.
Tucson (Arizona) Star: The miners at
the Quijotoa placers are waiting with
anxiety to see what the dry washers will
do when they are worked in the Horseshos.
The placers have heretofore been worked
by the Indians in primitive way, con-
sequently no opinion Of their real worth
can be formed.
The worshipers at the Fairfield, Solano
county, California, church went out last
Sunday night as usual to service, but
found that the bats had taken possession of
the house, and were so thick and aggress.
i've that the service had to be postponed
Tuesday the church deacons inagurated
bat hunt, and behind one OF the window
castings found and killed AL of them.
At the recent meeting OF the Grand En-.
and Montana, held in Sal: Lake City, a
resolution was passed declaring it to be the
unanimous opinion of the G. a. r. of this
department that the right OF suffrage should
be taken from the people Of Utah Territory
until such time as the majority were able
and willing to exercise the right as becomes
free American citizens.
Three large companies Of Eastern cap.
italists have incorporated to work the
Snake river gravel beds, and are buying up
everything that they cannot locate. Many
old timers have been doing annual assess.
ment work in that region for several years
and are now offered good sums for their
for $4,000 and portion Of another for
$e,soo
a highly accomplished daughter Of Hon.
W. H. Mccoy, residing at Looking Glass
Greek, Oregon, for twenty years, was ac-
cidcntally shot on the lst instant. Her
little sister I'layfully pointed loaded pistol
at her, when the weapon was discharged.
The ball entered the temple and passed
through the brain, She never spoke after |
the shot was fired. The dreadful tragedy
h -. .lr;,..n tho parents nssarlv ipcana