The Dillon tribune., 1885-02-14
eLEANINGs FROM THE ROCKIES.

Dakota has surplus of $4,000 in the
treasury.
Walla Walla is experiencing scarlet
fever scare.
The Grand Jury just drawn at Salt Lake
contains no matrimonial repeaters. They
were barred out.
The Idaho Penitentiary contains g pris-
oners. the terms of sentence ranging from
four months to life.
DIP. B. Pride has been appointed b,
Gov. Bum to the newly created Office OF
Attorney Generalol Idaho
The Arizona Legislature is considering
a bill to endow printing Office with $1o,-
COO to advertise the Territory.
Northern Wyoming cattle have stood
the rigorous winter well. Only the late
fall arrivals and superannuated cattle have
suffered.
The gross yield or value of the mines OF
Eureka county. Nevada, for the quarter
ending on December 31st, 1854, was
$344,s46S5.
Walla Walla ladies do no believe in the
recently adopted scheme of women serv-
ing on juries in Washington Territory
They want the law repealed.
So terrible are the effects of the opium
habit in California that a bill has been in
troduced and will probably pass the Legis-
lature, making it felony to maintain an
opium joint.
Crested Butte, Colorado is now one OF
the liveliest spots in the State. Her mines
are paying big, and her people are happy
The coal interests are being developed to
some extent.
The Bodie, California, Free Press of the
21st ut., says that the total product Of the
Bodie Mining District since 1877 has been
$16,665, 3S3.o8, and in 1854 it produced
$1,14ASS3.96.
The body of Charles Mccormick was
found in deserted house at Frisco, Utah,
last week. He had been dead several
weeks. Heart disease is supposed to have
been the cause.
During the week ending February 9TH
there were shipped from Salt Lake Fl cars
of ore, 5000 pounds, and IS cars Of bull
lion, 5000 pounds, making a total OF AZ
cars, aggregating l,oS2,S29 pounds.
Houston, Idaho, Press: Wildcats are so
numerous along Lost river that they are a
perfect pest to ranchmen. People residing
in the very center of town complain of the
loss of chickens almost nightly, and attrib-
ute the cause to wildcats.
Arizona contains within her borders
nearly, if not quite, $4,000 square miles of
coal formation, which is computed to be
almost one half Of the coal areas of the
United States. The beds vary in size from
two inches to twenty feet.
William Leonard, native of Wexford
county, Ireland, died last week at the Prov
idence Hospital, Seattle, Washington Ter
rtory, aged 100 years. He leaves widow,
aged 90 years, with whom he had lived a
life OF domestic happiness for Is years.
Trouble with the Indians in Harvey Val
ley, Oregon, is anticipated, growing out of
repeated outrages committed by white men
on members Of Chief Joe Paddy's tribe of
Piutes. These parties are believed to be
whisky peddlers and bad men in general
Alex. Jones, mail carrier from Grants
Pass TO Wilderville, in Oregon, Mrs Geo.
Gibson and two children, and young man
named McClung were drowned on the 9Th
inst, while attempting to ford Apologize
creek, which had been swollen by recent
rains.
The Columbia river is suppl.'ing the
Portland market with plenty of pan fish
smelt in particular-and the Oyegouiun is
jubilant thereat. It says: This appear
ance of the smelt in Oregon waters in
January is another omen Of an. early
spring"
The Nevada Central Railroad has been
placed in the hands of a receiver, c. w.
fiinchclitfe, late paymaster of the road.
This action was taken by the bond holders,
who have been dissatisfied since the Union
Pacific Company stopped paying interest
On their bonds.
Armed Again.
MIR. Thomas T .Rogers, lI6 Spring street