Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-02-11
NORTHWEST NOTES.

diet are to be prohibited at the indus
trial school for girls at Denver.
During 1897 about l 900 brands wer,
placed on the record. making in al
about 1900 brands recorded in the
Montana state recorders Office.
Fifteen Anaconda miners will soor
start for KlondiIe. Each man con
tributes his share of years supplies
and 81, 900 in cash, and the profits are
to be divided.
The county assessors held a state
convention at Helena Mont, last week
for the purpose of adopting uniform
schedule of values. Live stock valua-
tions were increased.
Recently, when Ralf and Dick Pc
terson of Ruby Montana went to look
after their traps, they found they had
captured mountain lion that measued
nine feet from tip to tip.
John W. Kelley. an old timer in
Butte, died last week at the Sisters
hospital. He was in the neighborhood
of so years old, and was among the
earliest corners to the camp.
The Montana Land and improvement
company's irrigation canal is being i'm
proved by the substitution of culvert
for the fume across Valley creek
near Park City. The expense of the
improvement will be about $4,000.
Mrs. Rose Schlattman, who has
lived in Cheyenne for three years,
has departed for Dawson City. Mrs.
Schlattman is the first woman from
Wyomining to go to the Klondike.
She has no definite plans but is con-
fdent she can win fortune in the
land of snow.
The Wyoming oil sydnicate is nego-
tating for a well drilling outfit and
proposes to put down test well on its
near Douglas. The Wyo-
ming Oil company has reached a depth |
of 400 feet with its well but is having |
difficulty by reason Of the
saving in of the shale through which |
the well is being driven.
Twelve sticks of powder exploded
n the house of Alfonso Massucci at
Basin, Mont, completely wrecking
he whole house. Massucci sustained
INJURIES which in all probably will
,rove fatal. His right leg was com
,letely shattered, being broken in
lumber of places, while his entire
ody is covered with cuts and bruises
A suit to test the law under which
he Montana state arid land commits
toner's proposes to build the Billings
anal has begun in the supreme court
y Attorney General Nolan. The
ction is a friendly one instituted
} determine the authority of the arid
md comm !ssion, which desires to
now its position before entering up
4 the construction of the canal.
A man whose name is thought to be
ohn Oleson was brought to the hos
tai suffering from terrible injuries
ceived while thawing powder out at
lie fiume tunnel north of Anaconda,
ont. II is supposed that stick of
ant powder exploded while he was
,lding it in his hand, as his right
md and arm was terribly shattered,
that the bones are all broken and
id bare
The Gallatin valley, Montana, is
have new industry. Lyman Wal
u one of the prosperous farmers of
e valley, is going to change his grain
nch into skunk ranch and raise the
finals for the purpose of making 5
,ney out of their pelts, and also the s
from their bodies. AS the skins s
2 worth from IS cents to 81, and the 8
,rease of each female is from six to Z
elve every year, and as the cost of =
,ding them is small. the new enter .
ove may be a success. (
frank Swanson of Rock Springs has 1
urned from Dawson City. He has /
interest in number of Klondike
inns, besides having brought out a
r-sized roll, the result of a years Is
an-up He will return to Klond!ke =
ring the present winter. Thomas =
rtney of Rock Springs sends letter =
m Dawson City to the Miner, in e
ich he states that there is corner r
nearly every article in Dawson. Beer y
IS at S4.3O a gallon, whisky at $40 d
.allon. candles, 81 each. There is q