The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1884-05-17
GLEANINGS FROM THE ROCKIES.

Pacific averages 200 meals per week.
The Ceur d'Alene Eagle claims that
Prichard Greek is now yielding $4,000 per
day in placer gold.
AT Bayhorse, Idaho, recently ]. Morgan
was practicing with pistol and accident
ally killed Joe Nolois.
1t is stated that there are $50 pack ami
| mails employed in conveying merchandise
| to the Crur Alene mines from Thompson
Falls.
First-c!ass passenger rates from Ogden
and Salt Lake to all Missouri river points,
were lowered ST. on May 18th, making the
fare $53.
In April the Denver & Rio Grande took
East to the Missouri river 3,S,S'ooo pounds
of Utah bullion. The road carries one
third of all the bullion product OF Utah
which is sent East.
The Northern Pacific Freight Depart
| ment has issued a circular refusing to &C
cept any shipments of ardent spirits des-
tined to points on the line located within
the Indian reservations.
A lively time is anticipated a: the Driv-
ing Park at Ogden on Decoration Day.
ri. officers of the association are making
every arrangement for the comfort of the
la, ge number of people that will attend the
| races.
| Packer, the man eater, confined in the
county Jail of Gunnison, Co'orado' is fa'i'
ing in health very rapidly, and will not i've
long unless released. The last Lake C!tv
grand Jury found an indictment against h'm
for man slaughter.
! At Salt Lake City when Welcome, the
murderer, received the death sentence to be
shot he asked: "Why didn't the Judge
have the decrncy to say MAY God have
mercy on your soul suppose he would
like to see me go to hell
Grizzly bears are killing cattle by the
wholesale in Sprague river valley, w. l.,
lanes Taylor having lost four COWS in this
way in one week. The citizens ot that
section now offer a reward of SEQ for every
grizzly killed in the stock range ct that
valley.
VIII, Clarke. one Of the Oldest stock
brokers in Virginia City, Nevada, was found
in the vault of his office on the 3rd with
bullet hole in his head and his pistol lying
along side of him. Iii health was the cause
His business is in perfectly solvent con-
diticn.
Drummers visiting San Francisco to sell
goods for Eastern firms are waited upon nv
the License Department and reqn'reo 10
pay license ranging from SIS to S1oo, IN
accordance with the business done. Inc
!: festive drummers term the tax blood
money"
San Francisco Post: During the past
: week 1,444 immigrants in charge OF the
State Immigration Association arrived III
this State, OF whom GO stopped OH before
getting to this city. This number is an IN
crease Of 400 over any previous week OF
this year.
, During the month of April the Denver
s. Rio Grande carried sixty-o cars OF ore
aygregating 100000 pounds, from Utah
to Colorado, to be snelted. During the
same time the road brought sixty-tive car
loads Of Colorado ore, 100000 pounds, fo'
reduction at Utah smelters.
: Elko (Nev Indetendent: There isquite
an excitement down at Big Meadows abou
: the Humboldt nitre beds, eight or ten miles
south of Lovelock. The deposits have beer
located for distance OF four or five miles
and notices of great many claims have
been flied for record in the County Record
1 er's Office.
| Laramie boomerang A"S'S ~ oO'-''
little excitement at Green River about th'
petroleum shales which abound IN ina
6 immediate vicinity. These shales are sait
: to be very rich in gas. Tests that nave re
:. Gently been made give returns OF over 81
4 600 feet of superior Illuminating gas to tn
# ton of shale.
IS The streams emptying into Tulare lake
$, in California are full of fine perch, and IN
: farmers are packing them in large guam
# titles, salting them down in barrels. Nv
Y, men with hay forks and gum boots wal
If out into the shoal channels, which seer
y literally alive with fish, and selecting IN
a largest as they pass up, pitch them ou
N loading wagon in an hours time.
:" From all accounts there appears to be
concerted movement on the part OF tn
Mormons to capture Oneida county, ldah'
in the interest of the polygamous church
Upper Snake river valley is being settle
r by Mormon families, sent there by tn
- order Of the priesthood, and these are tai
~ ing possession Of valuable lands. Ne
], stakes have been lately organized at sewers
n places.
~ Denver Tyibune: Colorado's coal, COX
r. and iron product will show loss tor IS$
s as compared with the products OF loo
o. This is considerably discouraging, tor the'
ed interests are vital and are being examine
ed with great care by Eastern investors. II
r. unfortunate quarrel in the Rio Grande Raj
,e. way is the cause, and the loss should n
H. be attributed to failure in the coal az
hit iron mines.
The so-called Mojave Desert, travers'
by the Southern Pacific railroad, is abo
ninety.five miles wide. Some forty
for,y.five miles of this arid stretch is sane
IS, soil. unfit and impossible to be reclaim'
80 for agricultural purposes. The balance
level almost as a floor, extending fro
beyond what is known as New River
AT Carisso Creek, in approaching Cai'forn
no from the Colorado river.
~ San Francisco Aka: It has just be'
.. discovered that Nevada is illegally in Pe
session of strip Of land one mile vi
which belongs to California. If there q
'h- inhabitants on the land, it will be pref
as rouph on Nevada for US to reclaim inc
r;toTv. but it is in accordance with the r.
that from him who hath little, there 50
H. aiken even that which he hath ana
-. given to his bigger neighbor. Nevaoa
- California's meat.
Id On last Saturday night at Silver =,
In T,ntic Mining District, Utah, George :. :
he l.r and James Gardner were o1'nn' 1.'
mo. rather freely in saloon, and aoou. os'.
t .t. SUNDAY morning became very ints,xica'