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


quite heavy.
Eva Proctor has been appointed post
mistress at Ora, Washington county,
New, vice Mary Morris, resigned
Edward Pritchard of Wyoming has
been appointed master mechanic at
s720 per annum in the Nevada agency
school. Nevada.
In San Francisco. Cal. the strike of
pressmen and stereotypers on the daily
papers has virtually ended in a victory
for the publishers. The strikers prac-
tically admit their defeat.
One day last weel. the Nevada sol
diers were paid of at the capitol build
ing in Carson. The companies march
ed up in single file and received their
pay and their discharge papers. Over
$50, 900 was paid them. There was
hot time in the old town that night
Mrs. Celia Barratt. aged 90, died at
Cheyenne last week. For twenty-five
years Mrs. Barratt sold apples at the
Cheyenne railway depot to transconti-
mental passengers and was known to
thousands of western people as Apple
potency in the pioneer period, but lost
it all in later years.
AT Hailstone Basin. about forty-ive
miles from Billings, Mont, a dispute
arose between Daniel Martin, herder
of the Lake Basin Sheep company, and
James Westman. a herder for B. G..
Shorey, about range rights. Martin
shot Westman, whereupn Westman
fired four shots at Martin, each one
taking effect Martin is dead, but
Westman will recover.
The large Touring mill at Grand
Junction, Colo, was destroyed by fire
on the 3rd inst The loss was about
s25. 900, and the insurance will amount
to but sl1, 200. The origin of the fire
is mystery. The mill was the only
one in the valley, and its destruction
will be disastrous to not only the own
ers but to the growers of wheat in that
section. The stockholders will proba-
bly, rebuild at once.
Thomas Jenkins. a miner from Wyo-
ming, committed suicide in hardware
store at Livingston, Mont. He asked
to be shown some reviewers, selected
one and asked the salesman to fill the
weapon with cartridges He then
placed the weapon to his head and
fired, death being instantaneous. No
motive can be ascribed for the rash act
except that he was penniless and de-
spondent
There is considerable bitter feeling
in Cheyenne against the soldiers sta
toned at Fort Russell, on account of the
recent shooting affair in that city. A
force of thirty extra policemen has
been sworn in. and the officers at the
fort have decided to cooperate with
the city officials with a view of sup
pressing further depredations. In the
future soldiers will not be allowed to
carry fire arms when in the CITY,
Richard Rising, of Virginia City. for
thirty years district judge of Nevada,
died of heart disease at the Grand ho-
tel. San Francisco, on the 9th inst. He
had just come down from his home on
California street. On arriving at the
hotel he said he was not feeling well,
and stepping into an interior room lay
down on lounge to rest. He had
scarcely stretched himself out on the
couch when he died.
The Rudefedha copper claim, near
Wyo. known as the Haggarty
mine. in the Battle Lake district, is
proving to be a record-brealSer. At
twenty-five feet from the surface the
vein was seven feet two inches in
width. After going down fifty feet
,ross-cut vein was started. At last re-
port twenty-five and half feet had
been gone through solid body of cop
per and the other wall had not yet
been reached.
State Examiner Henderson has is
,ued comparative statement of the
business done by the state. national
md private banks of Wyoming, as
hown by the books of the various in
titutions, on September 20, 1898. The
otal deposits upon that date were S.
ls3. s37. Sc, gain over the amount on
deposit July 20, 1897, of 1868, s2s,44.
rhe total amount of loans and discounts
,,,l,,, S.,,tenher % 1905 wEs So O46-