Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-02-25
NORTH WEST NOTES.

t vines this spring.
Albert Hoffman of Reno, New, cut
his throat from ear to ear one day last
week, but will live.
The Virginia CNevada) Report says
the only man who is safe in Douglas
county is q lyncher.
John d. Sargent, of jackson Hole
CWyoning) fame, has sued the New
York Herald for libel.
Judge Eunt of Reno, New, has de-
cided that there is no such thing as
contempt Of notary"
Charles Tudor was declared insane
at Bozeman Mont, due to religious
excitement following revival.
There were forty candidates in the
White Pine (Nevada) beauty contest.
Miss Moilie Campton and Pearl Moor
man were selected.
John Gooch Of Butte mourns the de-
parture Of his bride of two weeks. She
attended a ball one night, and he
wants the police to find her.
Ia foreclosure proceedings an order
has been issued for The sale of the mile
race track and grounds at reat Falls,
Mont The Indebtedness is $1,000
The entire plant OF the Helena Cen
solidated Water company was sold I'M
der foreclosure proceedings the latter
part OF last week for the sum of $780,.
600.
Hay is selling at $50 per ton in Ely,
New This is due to the fact that the
visible supply is hardly sufficient to
meet the demand before the next crop
S harvested.
BroOding over a dream of impending
disaster George Beckman. farmer on
Drfalo creek, near Helena, imbibed
freely fell OF his wagon and was kill
Ell one day last week.
NIissoula, Mont, advices say the
chinook which prevailed four days last
week was followed by warm rain,
and all the streams in western Mon
tana are rising rapidly.
Conservative sheepmen estimate the
average loss in Carbon county, Wyo.,
50 far this winter at 20 per cent. A
great many will average far below
that, but others will exceed it.
MurpiT and Beyers of Silver City,
New, are keeping the Pollard mill
on ore from their mine. They
are catching the tailings and they will
be worked in the Jackson cyanide
plant
The Carbon County Wyoming) Wool
Growers association win prosecute all
i, no attempt to skin shea lound dead
upon the ranges as a result of the re-
cent storms and appropriate the pelts
to their own use.
During the progress Of a fire in Chey-
,nne recently, H. \. Clarke and How
lrd Charin came TO- et'ier awheel with
crash Clarke was picked up with
broken nose, minus some teeth and
unconscious.
j. w. Brown, prominent farmer
nd stoc1-raisar, was convicted of
tealing cattle and gwen a sentence of
wo years in the penitentiary. Being
prominent man in Kalispell, Mont,
he case was hard taught.
Antoine and William Trottler have
een arrested at Fort Benton, Mont,
II a complaint charging them with
aving Illegally obtained the state
county on wolf skins. They have pre-
ented 1856 hides for punching, swear
NC the animals were killed within the
mits of Choteau county.
The disease known as scab has made
IS appearance in several bar Is of sheep
eoently brought into Central Wyo-
hing The infected bands have been
uarantined and the local inspectors
nd the owners of the sheep are taking
very possible precaution to prevent
he spread of the disease. The num-
err Of sheep quarantined is $4,000.
The Wind Rive range of mountains
Wyoming, covering an area of
miles by 125 miles, are
,vered with the heaviest fall of snow
lown in the memory of the oldest
habitants of the Lander valley. The
low is six feet deep, and in some of
e clutches forty feet deep. This
,av snowfall is hailed with delight
tie farmers and stocixmen of Ere
ont county, as it assures an abundant