Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-11-19
NORTHWEST NOTES.

D The balance in the Montana school
fund is So, DAB.
It. P. Newton of Butte has invented
a horseless carriage.
! Judge James D. Blackburn, m old
resident of Silver City, New, died
November II. His death was sudden
and unexpected.
The Tahoe (Nevada) Lumber and
Flume company got out about 100000
feet of lumber and about $4,000 cords
of wood this season.
Negotiations are pending between
the Butte football team and the Chi
cago Athletic club for game shortly
after Thanksgiving.
Thirteen members Of Battery A at
Virginia City, New, have been arrested
for disobedieuce, in refusing to parade
on the fourth of July.
John Wade, an employee of the Water
company of Virginia City, New, was
recently attacked by vicious horse
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George A. Dietrich of Helena, Mont,
was accidentally shot and instantly
killed while hunting deer in Deer
Lodge county last week.
At Butte recently C. E. Wilson fired
shot at his wife. John S. Jones
stepped between them and his left arm
was shot off. All the parties are col
ored
Joseph Thomas, foreman of Che
Crown Point mine, on the Comstock,
and one OF the best known miners on
the Pacific coast, died at Alameda, Cal,
last Tuesday.
Fourteen prairie schooners, drawn
by from eight to fourteen horses, are
hauling freight into Tuscarora. New,
for the past ten years.
Ex-Governor j. K. Toole has resign
ed the Craftsmanship of the Montana
arid land commission and the commits
sion has elected Judge Thomas G. Mar
shall to succeed him.
The refinery in the Carson (Nevada)
mint, which has been closed some time
on account of the small receipts of
bullion. will be reopened on the 1st of
December.
Mr.. Kennedy Of Virginia City, New,
has sned the Heating estate for $1,000
loaned R. P. Heating. He placed the
note in tin box in the mint and there
it disappeared. The estate does not
recognize the claim.
The Anaconda Copper company has
purchased all the water rights In
Hearst gulch, including Lake Hearst,
and is putting in a new water system
for the city of Anaconda The new
reservoir will have a capacity of 80, OOO,.
900 gallons, and the supply will be suf-
6cIent for city of so, 600 inha
Warren McCord, for many years
with the freight department
Of the Union Pacific at Laramie, Wyo,
has been given the position of travel
ing freight and passenger agent for
the Northwestern railway, with head
quarters at Denver. L. l.. Downing,
held this position. but re-
'igued recently to take another posi-
ion.
A deed of trust from the Santa Fe
Pacific railroad to the Union Trust
company of New York was fled for
'ecord at Prescott, Ariz., one day last
week. The amount involves $4,000
l00 and includes the railroad and tel
graph line belonging to the railroad
company, beginning at Albuquerque
nd extending to The Needles, together
With all rolling stock and improve
nents. The instrument is dated july
3, 1897.
Clarence Brown was killed Nov. 10
ear Barringer's ranch, Miles CITY.
iont. He was riding the range in
ompany with two brothers, when two
masked men rode up, one of them shot
'rown'and both rode away. Brown
led soon after being shot. Brown was
witness in George Geddes assault
ase which was to be tried at the next
ERIN of court and had been ordered to
cave the country. Thomas We sh ana
Irs. Geddes have been arrested for the
rime.
Henry Winter Davis of Casper. Wvo..
as made an experiment the past sum-
Ter that has been most successful
e bought nearly 100 bells in the
arly spring, and belled each of his
nall calves as soon as calved. II had
Il.