The Dillon tribune., 1885-05-09
G1EAylyGs FROM THE ROCKIES.

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The fruit crop in Northern Washington
Territory has been severely damaged by
late irosts.
Denver :nil!ers complain that Union Pa
c;ic determinations have seriously GRIP !
pied their shipping o: -four
Cola has been discovered near Medora, |
Dakota. We presume it will prove as
rich as the Bismarck gold fields.
Miss Kate Padden, residing at Seattle, !
w. T.. took the vel. last Friday and became
full ii -9ged Sister OF Charity.
The Reno f\evada) Gazette calls The
Mormon actions in their late protest and
meetings, Trying the bluff game"
The Washington Territorial insane asy'
lum contains 1853 patients; and the institu-
tons expenses this year will amount to
$4,000.
Hoop manufacturing has become quite
an important industry in Washington Ter
ritory. Barrels ought 70 be made in the
same pTOpOTtlOIldtC Qu0HAtS
Last week Jack Spinnett, a laborer !iv
ing a, Seattle, W. T., killed himself by
shooting himself through the head. The
cause was attributed to drink and debt.
At Colorado Springs, last Monday. a
once respectable LADY, named Anna Chalk,
died from the effects OF strong drink. She
had lately fallen heir to large sum OF
money.
From gentleman Just over the North
ern Pacific road, we learn that the town OF
Thompson Falls is having quite boom
and bids fair to become very important
point.
Gilber, Parker, aged nineteen years. son
OF G.. w. Parker. a prominent South Park.
Colorado, stockman, shot and killed him
self at Como, last Monday. Unrequitted
love was the cause.
Miss Head, II years old, went down to
the Deewanish river, Washington terri
tory, last week, to get pail OF water; and
as she dipped, her feet they slipped. and
her parents lost their daughter.
The county commissioners Of Johnson
county, Wyoming, have applied to the
governor Tor 100 stand Of arms and am.
muni,ion for the people to protect them.
selves against a threatened Indian outbreak.
The Los Angeles Herald says that the
thrifty farmer can make his land pay him
at least $500 per acre per year by raising
cabbages for the Territorial and Texan
markets. This is better than gold mine.
Two boys and dog, playing near Chey.
enne on the 18th, dug out Of a bank, where
freshly.dug earth appeared, small box, in
which was the body Of female infant,
with its skull crushed. No clue to the
mystery.
The Oregon Pacific Railroad Company
are not paying their employees promptly at
Newport, Oregon. AS consequence the
company is experiencing considerable
trouble by the spiteful actions of the o..
and injured ones.
News has heer, -e.-ivcu IN Eureka, Ne.
vada, OF shooting scrape at Beowawe, in
which Adam Altenberg was shot and
killed BY ]. X. Boges. Both men owned
ranches, and the shooting grew out OF
trouble over some land disputes.
The Bellevue Idaho) Chronicle is in.
formed BY private letter from Shoshone
Idaho, that J. b. Hunt has sold his big So.
acre placer claim on the banks of Snake
river to New York parties for $4,000
This is one Of the tlour.gold gravel claims
some thirty miles west Of Shoshone.
Mollie Lacy, prostitute, suicided
in Boise, Idaho, on the eth, by shooting
with revolver. She is spoken of by the
Statesman as a large, healthy looking wo
man, Though she had been i'll Just before
her suicide) much better than most of he,
class, and truthful and honest in her deal
ings.
About O'Clock p m, last Tuesday a,
Soda Springs, Idaho, T.. L. Williams. pro
prie,or ofthe Dillon Hotel. at Soda Springs
and j. W. Baker were wrestling, all in the
best OF humor, when little Oscar, the
eieren-year'old son of Mr.. Baker, procured
a pistol and fired at Mr.. Williams. The
ball entering his right breast. passed
through his heart and out at the left side
causing death without word or struggle.
SAYS the Idaho .SH,rr State: Rich pla
Ger mines have been discovered on Slu,
Creek, a few miles above Willow Creek
The gold is coarse and pure and is toune
in paying quantities where water can b.