The Dillon tribune., 1885-11-28
GLEANISGS FROM THE ROCKIES.

tern Union telegraph line repeater, was
accidentally shot and killed near North
Platte, Wyoming, recently while out
hunting
Isaac n Hibbs, the detaulting pos,
master, Of Lewiston, Idaho who, after
much trouble, was cxtradled from British
Columbia, was indicted by the United
States Grand Jury for forgery.
a week ago Richard F. Cottinyham, a
we'll known resident OF Spokane Fails
was found dead in mis- bed. From tnv
facts developed at the coroner's inquest ii
appears that while sleeping off the effects
OF drunken spree he buried his face in
the pillow, face downwards and sutfocated
without struggle.
Last Friday morning at Delta, Colorado,
]. A. Cameron shot and killed Mrs. VIM.
H. Whalin, an aunt to his wife. The shoot.
ing was the outgrowth Of family diff.
Guilty. All the parties concerned in the
trouble are we'll known and quite wealthy
ranchers. Cameron waived examination
and was committed on bail.
During the past summer 10, mines have
had ore sampled and sold at the HALEY
idaho Sanpling Works, says the Tines
AS many nine.owners shipped direct to
Ketchum or had their ore sampled at the
works there, it is probable that the mum
Der of producing mines on Wood River
this summer will not fall short Of 200.
On Monday evening John Mccoy was
removed from his boarding house, to the
Sisters Hospital in Lea,:ville. He was a
raving maniac and entirely too wild and
unnanageabe to receive the attention of
the good sisters. Officers were sent for
and he was taken to the county Jail.
His sad malady was brought about Through
the effects Of lead poisoning.
Three men, John Cannon, James J.
Smith and J. Harry Gau1, coal miners,
working at the little town of Franklin,
near Seattle, were crushed to death in their
cabin on the 21st They were sitting
around the stove, smoking and telling
yarns, when large tree, which was rotten
at the butt, fell over, crushing the house
and the three occupants within it. There
was no wind. All died within an hour.
A Tusla Odaho) dispatch Of Nov 10TH
says that John Truston and Silas Davis,
two noted horse thieves, were captured by
posse Of cattlenen. While they were
being escorted to the Jail, bold dash was
made by pals and they were rescued from
the sheriff. They then robbed the sheriff
Of his money and two horses, bound the
whole party and left them in. the bushes
and then visited the agency near there and
run off good many horses. In the raid
several Indians were shot and it is believed
two Of them were killed.
Salt Lake 7,i1n~e: A cowboy Just ir
from the north says that "Mother Os
borne" died about two weeks ago ON the
Clarke's Fork Of the Yellowstone, from
the effects Of starvation and cold In thu
years between 1873 and 1879 "Mo,her Os
borne" was notorious name along thu
Black Hills and the Cheyenne stage line
She was the active leader of band o.
road agents located in the Dry Cheyern:
country on the southern borders of thu
Black Hills. She was immensely fat and
immensely wicked. Time and again he,
gang robbed the coaches, and she kept q
bevy OF depraved women ever about her
A private letter to the Hawthorne (Nev.,
Bulletin from Aida Valley says: On the
goth ult., near Pigeon Springs, in this
county, there was perpetrated most cold
blooded and unprovoked murder BY an
Indian known as Montezuma Dick. Hi.
victim was squaw. known as Big Jennie
Dick placed his pistol to her head and lit
orally blew it off. This was the finish o,
wind up of fandango, and the third kill
ing at their annual pine-nut f:,ndango
! within the past three years, but this las
! is the most outrageous, and we now thin,
it time for the law to intcrposc and max,
All example OF Dick, who is regarded b,
i the whites as Il bad Indian, and by the In
dams generally as Il dangerous one.
y Judge Powers of Provo City, Utah, re
L Gently denied the application Tor na:urali
). zation Of Niels Hansen, man who wa