Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-09-23
NORTHWEST NOTES.

seriously wounded by a sheepherder
damed Gus Kael, on Fox Creek, fifty
miles north of Cheyenne.
The members of the Stockgrowers
| association of Western Wyoming will
make application for membership to
the national Stockgrowers association.
Mrs. Matilda Bartine. mother of ex-
Congressman Bartine, died at Carson,
age of 81 years. Her father was a
| soldier in the Continental army.
The contract for the construction of
the new state capitol building at
Helena, Mont, has been let to Jacob
! Soss, of Butte, for $500, 900. There
were ten bids in all, running up to
s404 900.
The task of moving AGO. 900 sheep off
the summer range in the Big Horn
mountains, in Wyoming,is now in pro-
gress. The first snow of the season
fell last week The early winter will
cause much suffering among the fiocks-
John J. Neary was instantly killed
and his cousin, j. F. Neary, received
injuries from which he died in a few
hours later, by blast in the Green
Mountain mine at Butte. The men
we're preparing a round of II holes
which exploded before they could get
out of the way.
Work is to commence at once on the
company. 1t was suspended June LIST
by a heavy rise of water which threat
ened the new structure. The dam is
500 feet wide and is to supply electric
power for Butte and vicinity. 1t will
be the biggest in the west.
The big forest fires which have been
raging in the Laramie Peak region,
in Wyoming, have been extinguished.
A large force of men, aided by the re-
cent damp weather. were enabled to
extinguish the flames, but not until
miles of valuable timber.
The Wyoming petroleum industry is
TO be enlarged by the introduction OF
new capital into that field. An Eng
lish syndicate and the Burlington &
Missouri railroad company are buying
up all the available oil land in the
Casper district, and the principal re-
inery at Casper is soon to be enlarged
to a capacity of 500 barrels per day.
Forty men are at work in the pre-
liminary construction of a railway
from White Cloud district. Humboldt
county, New, to connect with the Cen
trail Pacific at Lovelock or some con-
venient point on that line for the pur-
pose of shipping iron and other ores.
The Union iron works of San Fran
cisco is said to be interested in the
project.
w. p. Campbell superintendent of
the Wind River Indian school, Wyom-
ing, at 81 400, has been transferred to
similar position at the Warm Springs
school, Oregon, at $1,000, in place of
Eugene C, Nardin, transferred to Vino
River. Mrs. Nardin has been trans
ferred from matron at Warm Springs
to matron at Wind River at $500 per
annum,
Quite large number of sheepmen,
of Humboldt county, New, are dispos-
ing of their bands of sheep as rapidly
as possible, principally to Utah buy
ers. They give as their reason for so
doing the fact that this season has
been so exceedingly dry in this country
that they fear they would be unable
to carry them through the winter, as
the hot dry weather has left no grass
for them to feed upon.
One of the interesting features of the
Trans-Mississippi exposition is a Ne
braska sod house, constructed under the
direction of Mrs. 5. Bowser of Norfolk,
Neb. II is ;tu exact imitation of the
house in which Mrs Bowser lived
when she first took up her residence in
the state, many years ago In this
primitive structure the mistress serves
coffee and biscuits to several hundred
visitors every day.
Daniel Palette, an Italian miner
about 40 years Of age, was killed by
fall of earth in the Original mine, at
Butte. The accident occurred be-
tween the fifth and sixth floors over
the 1000 level Palette was working
with several other men mining on the