The Dillon tribune., 1885-04-18
ELEANlNGS FROM THE ROCKIES.

Joseph Sparger, miner, had his eyes
blown out at Aspen, Colorado, last week
by the premature explosion of a blast.
Louis Meyers, the murderer Of Pat
Brennan, suicided by shooting himself
through the heart last week near Union,
Oregon.
Fred Prentice, a we'll known sport and
criminal of Leadvilie. Colo, was shot and
killed in quarrel in West Virginia. short
time ago.
Last Tuesday 4 young man named Jas.
II. Ward fell off an ore wagon near the
Forepaugh mine, at Leadville, and was
instantly killed.
The Boise Democrat wants the address
Of Calvin Mcdonald, who formerly taught
| school at Falk's store, and at Middletown,
in Ada county, idaho
The LAYING Of the corner stone of the
| Episcopal church at Salida, Colorado, last
Monday, was done with imposing and APP
propriate ceremonies.
The Arizona Legislature appropriated
$1oooo to aid Territorial industrial Ex-
position, and society has been formed to
put the object in motion.
Mrs. Lille Mayham has been arrested
in Leadville on charge Of advising and
encouraging William Penfield to kill her
husband at the Forepaugh mine last week.
A convict named Dingman, son Of
| Colorado minister, and who was sentenced
in 1888, to serve ten years at the Laramie
penitcntiary for stage robbing,. was par
doncd Tuesday by President Cleveland.
The Colorado Legislature just adjourned,
passed bill authorizing the taxation OF
| the net product Of mines. 1t was sly
bill and nobody but the author Of it seemed
to understand what would be it's effect,
until after it was passed
The town Of Kokono, Colo, ado, had
population Of nearly four thousand in 1851,
and it was then in its height of glory and
prosperity. 1t has now declined to an in.
/
| souls.
John Nelson, Il rancher on Soldier Creek,
near Cheyenne, Wyo., was killed BY the
! breaking Of a rope while he was being
hoisted out OF a well he was digging for a
neighbor. He fell to the bottom, twenty
feet, and broke his back.
| Reports from the San Juan country, in
Colorado and Utali, are fattering. The
winter was fine, stock came out in good
shape, and now the fine, warm, growing
weather has made the ranch,nen laugh,
many being through seeding.
1t is reported that company is being
organized in Virginia City, Nevada, to turn
the Carson river, near the Santiago mill,
the project being to clean out the bed of
the stream and capture the tons Of quick
silver and amalgam that are supposed to
he there.
| Jack Embree, the man who assaulted
Mrs. Dixon, of Laramie, a short time ago,
and afterwards fired three shots at her hus-
,and, has not committed suicide as some
supposed. He was caught the other day
At Fort Collins, Colorado, and is now in
the custody OF the officers.
II. NJ. Parish, fruit tree dealer, 6s years
old, suicided Oh Sunday morning at Bliss,
IA station thirty miles west of Shoshone,
Idaho,) by cutting his throat Family
troubles, the separation from his wife in
Omaha several years ago, and the reck-
less conduct of his two daughters drove
him to the deed.
Thomas llealy, bridge foreman on the
Rocky Mountain division of til. Northern
Pacific Railroad, was instantly killed bv Il
mos, frishtiul fall. lie was engaged with
force OF men working on Il viaduct, and
losing his balance fell a distance of nearly
200 feet. Every bone in his body was
crushed, and the body was mansleti bevonei
recognition.
The first murder in Ouray county, Colo,
was last week. DAN Mcdonald Wa, drink
ing, and invited Bleweit Redus to the bar
Redus took CT gar, which irr;tatcG Mic
Donald, and he Knocked it out Of Redus's
mouth. Then Redus made pass at Nc
Donald with his knife, cutting his sid.
open so he died three days after from tn.
wound. Redus tried to commit suicide
but was arrested.
Another dark and mysterious crime i.
reported in the Cheyenne (Wyo) papers O
the nth. An old German named Frit,
Hummer, living near Buffalo, was foune
murdered in his house, where he had long
been living Il solitary life on Il small ranch
I,he visitors who found him saw, e,i.l.nc.