The Dillon tribune., 1885-09-26
GLEANINGs FROM THE ROCKIES.

distant ranges to the Oregon Short Line.
A white man was arrested in Boise City,
Idaho, last week for patronizing Chinese
opium den. He plead guilty and testified
that he had spent 5000 during the last
twelve years in such places.
Duncan E. Cook, a stranger and mid
die aged man from Spokane Falls, drop
ped dead with heart disease last Saturday
morning in the St. Louis Hotel, at Walla
Walla, Washington Territory.
Samuel Garter who was arrested ON the
charge of forging Rio Grande and Santa
Fe tickets few weeks ago, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to five years in the State
penitentiary at Pueblo, Colorado.
Ed. Virden, 20 years old, was drowned
in the Gunnison river, near White Water,
Colorado, on the 18th. He tried to ford on
horseback. This makes the ninth drown.
ing there within two years, and two within
month.
Louis Scherrer, charged with the muir.
der of Postmaster Smith, at Bennett, about
the first Of July, was arraigned at Denver
Tuesday and bail fixed at $4,000, which
was given. The case was set for trial Sep
tember 2Sth.
The Attorney General of California has
over million dollars in his hands, being
provisional payments by railroads Of their
taxes, pending the determination of legal
questions which may largely increase the
amount to be paid.
The HALEY Times of the 18th states that
w. w. Forbes, the railway station agent
at Bellevue, Idaho, was arrested that day
on charge of embezzlement and grand
larceny, in applying to his own use various
sums aggregating $4,o42, belonging to the
Union Pacific Railway Company. He
waived examination on the charge, and
was put under S., 900 bonds to appear be.
fore the grand jury.
Constable Oliver and Pierce Dorgan,
says the HALEY (Idaho) Times Of the 14th,
went to Smoky, yesterday, to arrest an old
prospector known as "Doc," and said to be
dentist by profession, on charge of in
cest with his daughter, who is but IS years
of age. This unnatural practice has been
going ON for 3H years, and was made
known by the young girl herself, who told
some prospectors about it.
Good reports continue to come from the
gold belt on Wood River, Idaho. Super.
intendent Doniphan Of the Camas No. :
reports that there will now he plenty d
water till next summer; that he is having
ten stamps more put in his mill, making
twenty, and that whereas mining and mill
ing the orc has cost an average Of 81 pei
ton, he will with the twenty stamps b.
able to mine and mill 1t for $s.so.
A San Rafael California; dispatch Of thu
14th says: A party from 1omalcs was GU
deer hunting yesterday afternoon in tn
hills between that place and Olema, among
the number being Frank Westgate, a cit
izen OF that section, and his son, younl
man IS years Of age. The hunters sep
arated, and about o'clock the father say
what he supposed to be deer and quickl
sent rifle bullet through the object. T
his horror the shot was followed by pierc
ing scream, and on hurrying to the spot til
agonized man found his son writhing i
the last throes of death.
Louis Anderson, who thought he wa
wronged by Mr.. Russell, superintendent {
: the Holmes lime works, near FELTON,, Ca
ifornia, in a publication derogatory to HI
character which prevented his getting worl
shot Russell in the thigh, inflicting
serious though not dangerous wound. II
Holmes Company offered 4 reward
$500 for Andersonsjcapture and CROW
secured the woods hunting him down Il
two days. He was finally shot dead viii
hiding in the brush. 1t is the co,nmc
t opinion that he WAS insane.
The body Of DR.. \. W. Powers w
II found hanging in Il tree in Bear valley,
miles from Hollister, California, on the /
: inst. lie was very unpopular in the neiy
borhood, and though said to have been O,
e of the kindest OF men and fine physici,
c, it was universally believed that vario
N deaths of stock from poison were ca,>
l. by him in revenge on those with whom
l. had trouble, and last week an incendia
b. fire was claimed to be traced to him, t
premises burned being those Of man wi
" whom he had quarrel. The doctor "
4. an old resident OF California, and We
r, known throughout the State.
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