The Dillon tribune., 1884-11-08
.gLEAslNes rRox THE ROCKIES.
COLOR ADO.


in Chaffee county.
Pixies peak is covered with snow down
to the timber line.
(ohn Paul. of Boulder, has been con-
victed of manslaughter.
The school :nards throughout the State
are vaccinating the pupils.
Salida College will open in the Presoy-
terian Church on November 9th, win SIX
professors.
It is said that the contract has been let
for building railroad from Montrose TO
Ouray.
Potatoes are Is cents per bushel at Gree
lev, and the ranchmen intend to hold them
for better prices.
Three thousand coal miners are now on
a strike in Colorado, and fears are enter"
tanned of :: coal famine.
The Denver Exposition this season
claims to have expended $4,000, and only
taken in one half that sum.
The trails and roads leading 20 the Ctrur
d'Alenes are in very bad condition.
Four acres of land in Canas Prairie
prod uced this season 4o1 Y bushels OF bar
ley.
John Pceke, while chopping wood near
Cold Springs, the other day, managed to
chop half his foot off.
The man Silsby, who gotcut in the back
of his neck, some weeks ago, at Houston,
is reported to be near his death
The Custer Company's mill is working
the custom ores of Yankee Fork district,
in connection with the ores OF their own
mines.
= +. w. Hullett, who met with a nishap
at Silver CITY last week by the explosion
of giant cap, is getting along nicely, and
will soon be about.
The ore in the Buzzo Company's ground,
on Warm Springs Creek, canrot be en-
hausted for wears. The showing is all
that could be desired.
The Bayhorse and Clayton smeltcrs are
keeping up their average bullion yield
This is very prosperous season for both
of the above-named plants.
A half million pounds of apples have
been shipped this season from Boise Val
| lev, and as yet no impression has been APP
parcntlv made on this years yield.
The stockmen of Camas Prairie are
rounding up their herds, preparatory to
driving to the winter range. Fine weather
still continues in the Canas country.
Money is said TO be far from plentiful in
the Lost River country. Many of the pee
pie who have put up buildings there this
wear are said to be owing for the lumber.
George W. Whipplc, a brakeman, fell
from the cars near Tucson, and received
injuries from which he died.
An Arizona surveyor named Shaw
| claims to have discovered mountain of
| alum on the ella river, mile square at
| the base.
Tucson has developed two ghosts, one of
which boards at the cemetery, while the
other hangs around the house Of a Colonel
Toole, deceased, whose ,naterialized ghost
it is supposed to be.
The road agents who so persistently
hold up the Prescott stage, near Gillette,
are evidently not making very profitable
business out Of their ventures. AT the last
robbery four-bit bottle ofpatent medicine
only rewarded their efforts.
UTAH.
During the month of October the Ma
sonic library at Salt Lake loaned out for
home reading 1905 books
The Horn Silver Mining Company still
continues to ship IS cars of ore per day
| from the mines to the smelters. This is
equal to $50 cars month.
! The bullion, ore and lead shipments out
Of Utah for the week ending Saturday,
November 1st, were ~3o cars OF bullion,
985,451 pounds; 5 cars of ore, 151,1oo
pounds; five cars of lead, 1II,125 pounds.
A special from Manti, San Pete county,
states that Hans Ottoson, aged about 80
years, was found in his house last Monday
morning murdered. It is not known by
whom the bloody deed was perpetrated. It
is supposed it was done to get his money.
The Housewives Favorite.