The Dillon tribune., 1885-06-13
aLEASINes FROM THE ROCKIES.

GLEANIN0S FROM THE ROCKIES.
General Kimball, Of Ogden, has sued the
Ogden Herald for criminal libel.
The Government should withdraw the
troops from Arizona and turn loose upon
the Apaches the Southern cowboys.
The wife Of DR.. J. NJ. Booth was instantly
killed on the goth ult. near Oakdale, CAL,
by being thrown from her carriage. Her
neck was broken.
Fort Washakie will be garrisoned the
coming year by companies and 6 Of the
Seventh Infantry, and troop NJ Of the
Ninth Cavalry, colored.
A Portland (Oregon) dispatch of May
31st says: The correspondent Of the Ne7ss
arrived this morning from Josephine Coun'
ty, Southern Oregon reports, there is great
excitement over the gold mines.
President Cleveland has recently ap'
pointed James H. Hawley United States
district attorney for Idaho. The new Of.
fetal will have hard time with the polygs,
but he has promised not to falter.
A den of thieves has been discovered in
a cave mile north Of Cheyenne, accord.
ing to the Sax. An old veteran in the
crowd said they were not all thieves, and
that "as rule," they never stole anything
unless they were obliged to.
While VIM. Scott and Charles Pick were
boating on the lake near Cheyenne on Sun.
day last, they were capsized and Flick was
drowned. Deceased was IS years old, and
an engineer on the Denver & Pacific freight
train. He leaves wife in Denver but no
children.
S. w. Hibbs, postmaster Of Lewiston,
Idaho, issued money orders to the amount
Of 81 1000 or $4,000, payable to himself
and ordered banks in different cities to col.
lect them and forward the money to him,
and then absconded. He was last heard
from at Victoria, B. e.
Van Sickle, the missing Nevada rancher,
turned up at home on the 3lst. He said he
did not contemplate leaving home an hour
before he started, but refuses 20 say why he
went. He said he proposed to have hand
in settling his estate and "believed he must
20 and see the old woman"
Wood River Idaho) Times, 1st: News
comes Of another important strike on the
Horn Silver belt, out in Lava or Cham.
payne District. It was made on the Rattle
snake claim, which is situated about 5000
feet south Of the Horn Silver or MARTIN"
mine, as It Is generally called, and promises
to fully equal the showing Of that famous
property.
Henry Perkins, wl,u,n old Comstockers
will remember as the owner Of the "Capitol"
saloon at Gold Hill, Nevada, in the flush
times, more recently saloon keeper at
HALEY and Ketchum, Idaho, and also the
owner OF freight teams between kelton
and Wood River, shot his wife in Bay.
horse, Idaho, on the 9TH, 'nfiicting flesh
wound, and then committed suicide BY
blowing out his brairs. The woman will
recover. No cause given.
A Oroville (cala.) dispatch Of the sth
says: Last ",ght about ninc o'clock John
Lancaster at Magalia, shot and killed A. !.
Ferguson. Lancaster's wife had left him
on account Of cruelty, and had sworn out a
warant against him for battery. While
.he trial was in progress Mrs. Lancaster
persuaded Mr. Ferguson, an acquaintance,
10 90 with her to Lancaster's house to oh.
tain her youngest child, a baby Of fifteen
months. When Lancaster heard that his
wife had possession OF the child, he swore
he would kill the man who helped to OBJ
tain it. Hc Immediately procured Bal.
lard rifle, and going at once to Ferguson's
house, shot the latter in the back. The
wounded man died at midnight.