The Dillon tribune., 1884-04-26
GLEANINGS FROM THE ROCKIES.
The smallpox has broken out at Cone

The smallpox has broken out at Cone
jos, Colorado.
The town of Wadsworth, Nevada, was
destroyed by fire last week.
The country along the Snake river in
Idaho, is being laid off into mining dis
tricts.
The salmon run in the Sacramento river
is unusually light SO far this season, and
the prospects are not f1attering.
Seven large rattlesnakes, one of them
having nineteen rattles, were killed on
ranch near Red Bluff, California, last week.
Judge Yeaman sentenced eight Bent
county (Colo.) cattle thieves to the peni-
tentiary for terms ranging from three to
ten years.
A party of thirteen Lutheran ministers,
of Rock Island, Illinois, have been in Del
Norte, Colorado, locating fifty thousand
acres of land for a Swedish colony in the
East.
The court house and jail at Silver City,
Nevada, burned last week. Two men con-
fined in the Jail perished. One WAS white
man, Fred Woodward, and the other was
Chinaman.
'Fourteen ducks at one shot, and don't
feel much on the shoot to-day either"
Who says that there are not some pretty
good single handed duck liars around Eagle
Rock, Idaho.
John Roy of Phoenix, Arizona, has been
sentenced to tea years imprisonment in
the penitentiary. He pleaded guilty to
having committed incest with his thirteen
year old daughter.
F. S. Parker, a Chico, Gala, school
teacher, picked his teeth with piece of
poison oak switch last week and his head
and face swelled to an enormous size, in
addition 10 his almost becoming blind.
Mining towns in Colorado are excited
over an alleged important gold discovery
in the vicinity of Pixies Peak, seventy-five
miles southwest of Denver. Crowds OF
people from neighboring towns are flock
ing to the new camp.
Idaho Azulanche of April 5th says: A
number of gentlemen OF this place left
Silver City Monday morning to search for
the body Of James Wilson, supposed to
have been murdered and cached away in
the jumpers near the three forks at Owyhee.
Robert Harris, President of the North
ern Pacific, recently sent the following dis
patCn 10 James NC1NduSht, d. >'e"tt'e
:'You may say to the people of Seattle that
it is the policy Of the company to push the
Cascades division to completion as speedily
as practicable"
The Navajo Indians in Arizona number
1900. Their agent gives aattering ac-
count of their prosperity. He says that
thev have large balance in the United
States Treasury, and that they own 1,coo,-
600 sheep, 10000 horses, 5000 cattle, and
possess other goods valued at $I5o,ooo.
A Chinaman recently took an Indian
squaw as wife at Hawthorne, New aca,and
the tribe to which she belonged have de.
clared that they will either have the squaw
or the pagan's scalp. The Celestial has
barricaded his house and hireo body
guard, and is waiting an opportunity to
leave with his bride.
Arizona quail are very susceptible oi
domestication. Although very wild when
first caught, kindness soon subdues them,
and they may be handled with ease. A.G.
Butler, of Tucson, had a pair last season.
They were easily tanned and atterward set
free. Whenever frightened, they invariably
seek the house for protection.
Says the Cheyenne SIN, of April 18TH:
1.-TWO car loads of Mormon missionaries
and a few red-headed women, went east
ward yesterday, bound for Europe. Each
was armed with Mormon bible and a
highly illustrated album containing delus-
i've pictures of Salt Lake City, the taber
nacle, and Utah scenery, wherewith to
rope in the foreign suckers to become the
converts to the polygamous faith