Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-29
NORTHWEST NOTES.

service in the Cuban war.
Bands of starving California sheep
are now feeding on Nevada's ranges
A regiment of veterans will be re-
Quilted at Butte in case of war with
Spain.
A successful attempt at tobacco
raising has been made by ranchman
living near Cheyenne.
Joseph Jones the well know farmer
of Nevada who died at Genoa, left
property valued at $40, 900.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
sheep will BE- shorn in the neighbor-
hood of Douglass this season.
The streams all over western
Montana have been rising rapidly,
and the railway people are watching
for trouble.
Henry j. Burleigh, the Dillon law
yer, who disappeared so mysteriously
some weeks ago, has been heard from
at Portland.
An offer to purchase $4,000 worth
of Reno water bonds for SO, 900 for the
entire amount, was rejected by the
city council.
A reward of S25 is offered for the re-
covery of the body of Fred Mather of
Carson, who was drowned in Washoe
lake on the 4th.
Agent Nickerson of the Shoshone
agency will have the Wind river canal
put in shape to furnish water for the
Indians, who will perform the work.
Considerable excitement prevails in
Rock Springs owing to the fact that
three men have been arrested charged
with stealing cattle belonging to poor
people about town.
The negro who gave the Denver po-
lice so much concern a few months
ago by his attacks upon unprotected
women, reappeared one night recently
and sandbagged two women on Mob
hill.
R. ]. Conway who lives near Elko,
Nevada, while applying alcohol to a
rheumatic limb, got too near the stove
and the alcohol ignited, severely burn
ing his hands and setting fire to the
house.
Mrs. Lizzie Ward of Vancouver, en-
route to Des Moines, Ia, became de-
ranged while on the train, and was
from extreme nervous pros
tration when taken off at Cheyenne.
She is in critical condition
c. w. Thebo, formerly of Kalispell,
but who now registers from Dawson
City, left Butte last week on his way
back to the gold regions. Mr.. Thebo
aas just completed the purchase of
600 head of cattle and will drive them
over the Dalton trail He will begin
oading in few days at Anaconda.
The second annual Decoration day
upon the Custer battlefield
will be an in terstate affair, Wyoming,
Montana and the Crow agency partici-
Eating. Col. w. f. Saunders of He
ena, Mont, will deliver the memorial
ddress. One of the notable features
will be the presence of 100 Crow and
'heyenne Indians in a war dance.
Charles E. Blydenburgh, county at
orney; H. Rasmussen, treasurer and
ohm Irons, county commissioner of
arbon county. Wyoming, have begun
nit against the county commissioners
D compel them to pay the amount of
heir salaries during the time the Re-
ublicans were holding the same
hese were contest cases growing out
the fact that Firms who could not
cad the constitution were permitted
} vote, afterwards declared uncon-
situtional by the supreme court. Mr..
lydenburgh sues for $1,000, Ras-
lussen for 81, 625, and Irons for $780,
William Hines, stock agent for the
Elkhorn & Missouri Valley
iilroad, has returned from a trip
trough the Big Horn basin, in
'yoming and reports in the Derrick
lat he never saw cattle and sheep
oking better at this time of the year.
he Big Horn basin country is bloom
g. The new town of Thermopolis
Is $50 people and many substantial
iildings. Four large stone store
lildings are being erected. The
wn is quite and orderly and well
'verned. A large number of visitors
III spend the summer at the hot
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