The Dillon tribune., 1885-02-07

aLEAHINGs FROM THE ROCKIES
Farr Brothers, Of Ogden, have failed LOT
$4,000; assets, $4,000.
Washington and Oregon became the
home of 1868 immigrants in 1854
A father and daughter have been arrest
ed at Provo, Utah, charged with incest, and
lodged in Jail.
Senator Foley has introduced bill in
the Nevada Legislature to provide for the
registration Of electors and prevent fraud
at elections.
Governor Adams, of Nevada, has ap-
proved the bill to provide for the licensing
Of all banking games, which includes stud
horse poker.
Mrs. Shrine, OF Salt Lake, was beaten
almost to death last Saturday by tramp
chair mender named Stringfellow. His
object was robbery.
A new Democratic daily will be started
at Salt Lake about the 10th inst, with a
capital Of $4,000. 1t will be the organ
Of the anti-polygamy wing Of the Democ-
racy. ..--.--..--
Colorado Springs claims to beat the
world for viriableness Of temperature. The
thermometer is said to have shown varia-
ton of - degrees in "a hours in that place
recently.
The Pioche Record says: The cotton
wood trees in Pahranagat Valley are now
covered with large buds and the grass is
beginning to appear from beneath the
ground.
The Union Pacific coal miners at Car
bon, Wyoming, have demanded an increase
of p x cents per ton for mining the coal.
They are out on strike, the company
having refused to accede to their demands.
Boise Statesman: Hope and anxiety
for divorce bills before the Legislature will
probably end in vain delusion to the
would.be reconstructed parties before they
pass the Council. No such bill has yet
been passed by that body, and none are
likely to.
Phoebe Record: About two-thirds of
our population are afflicted with distemper.
They 60 around running at the eyes and
nose, and present as sad spectacle as a
band of condemned Government mulessI
afflicted in like manner, that have been
turned out to die.
Leadville, Colorado, boasts OF possess
ing more moderate drinkers than any town
in the country. It has one hundred drink
ing saloons, and yet it is said there is less
than in many places Of its
size, and the Police Court has compare
lively little to do.
Ogden is considerably exercised over the
coming municipal election. The City
Council has recently passed an ordinance
providing for the punishment of all per-
sons who commit or attempt to commit
any kind of fraud at city election, or adj
wise others to do so.
Indian Dave, who was convicted last |
November Of numbering a Chinaman at
Keyser's Springs, Nye county, Nevada, on
the 5th Of August, 1884, was executed at
Belmont on Friday, January 23d. This is
the first case on record in the history Of
Nevada Of the hanging of an Indian by the |
whites.
Cheyenne San: A young man named
Axe shot a son of Chief Waskaskie, near
North Fork, on the 10th, in the thigh, in
(licting dangerous wound. The young
buck and two other Indians, while drunk, |
went to the house of the Axe family, and !
abused the young mans grandmother and |
himself.
In the polygamy trial of R. B. Young
At Salt Lake last week Aggie McMurran,
one of the defendants wives, swore to
some things which were not sustained by
he facts, and she was bound over in the
'um of $1,000 to explain to the Grand
Jury what she meant by saying she didn't
when she did.
A Wyoming paper declares tina: at least
Is per cent Of the children born in Lara
ME during the past three months have
heen Of the female gender, and attributes
he fact to the divinity who presides over
The distribution of the sexes having recop-
nized the gallantry Of the Territorial Leg
stature in granting the franchise to the
Bear river, Utah, has been partly stock
d with white fish from the Wyoming fish
hatchery Otto Gra,n,,, <ho E:~h 49,