Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-11-04
NORTHWEST NOTES.

will hold a convention in Denver, Jan.
nary 49,
Charles NJ. Mccormick of Pueblo,
Colo, and Robert Lawson of Cheyenne,
Wyo., have been appointed mail
clerks
The Union Pacific now owns 1854
miles of road, OF which it operates all
but five miles, which is leased by the
Southern Pacific.
special courier from Nye county,
Nevada, the scene of the recent Indian
scare, reports that all danger of an up
rising of the Shoshones is past. Fifty
mounted policemen are still on duty,
and it is believed that these men can
quell any disturbance that may arise,
but'hostiities are highly improbable.
Mrs Clara Kluge, of San Francisco,
who claims to have been the contract
wife of the late Adolph Sutro, has com
menced legal fight for some of the
Sutro millions by fling an application
for letters of guardianship over her
two children who are namedin the APP
plication, Adolph Newton Sutro and
Adolphine Charlotte Sutro.
DR.. Edward Bovett, well-known
veterina rian of Denver, and E. Girard,
cook at the clubhouse of the Standard
Shooting club, at Bowles lake, ten
yo11ac co,1tl, Of Dapuat. urara drou,oa1
while fishing in the lake one day last
week. The cause of the accident is
unknown, the first knowledge of it be-
ing the discovery of their overturned
boat by other fishermen.
Messrs. Keefe & Bradley, contrac-
tors of the work of building the public
library foundations at Cheyenne,
Wyo., have been granted an enlarge
ment of their con tract on account of
extra work required to overcome OBJ
stacles encountered by marshy ground.
The original contract was for $3l ,00O
Under the enlarged con tract, they will
receive upwards of $50, 900.
Mrs. Jesse Conway, of Meeteetse,
Wyo., is under arrest, charged with
poisoning her husband. Conway was
suffering from an attack of typhoid
malaria and died. The physician was
not satisfied that the disease was the
cause of death and asked for an inves-
tigation by ii coroner's jury. The jury
decided that Conway had been poi
soned, and the woman was immediate
ly placed under arrest.
George Crawford of Denver has left
for New York, to conclude the sale of
1000 acres of rich mineral land on
South mountain Rio Grande county, to
an English syndicate for 81, 500, 900. |
This property includes mines at Sum-
mitville, formerly owned by Senator
Bowen, which have produced SO, 600, 900 |
in gold. A railroad will be built to the
mines. Mr.. Crawford is also just clos
ing a sale of mines at the Twin Lakes,
near Leadville, for S5O0,O00
A large number of transactions have
been made in sheep during the past
week by Carbon county, Wyo., sheep
men. Carson & Miller sold and deliv-
cred 5000 head of two-year-old wethers
at $3.50 head. X. BraclSenbury
shipped ZOO head of sheep to the Den
yer market. |. G. Miller shipped TWEEN
ty-two ears of feeders from Rock
Creek to his feeding pens in Nebraska.
Shippers are experiencing difficulty in
getting cars for stock shipments
The abstract of the report made to
the comptroller of the currency, indi-
eating the condition of the eleven ma
tional banks in Wyoming, as of date
September Goth, shows an increase in
totals, as compared with July 18th,
from S.. SIS. 900, to S4,l12,O00 Loans
md discounts have increased $1,000
Amounts due from approved reserve
agents increased S325, 900, and individ-
lal deposits nearly 100000 The av-
rage reserve has increased from 1886
% "a. SO per cent.
In the recent failure of the Trades
mems National bank of New York City,
he Rock Springs, Wyo., National
,ank was interested to the amount of
Sc, SEQ rs, having that amount on de- t
'osit at the time of the collapse of the e
astern bank. The amount involved e
5 more than two-thirds of the capitaI t
I the Rock Springs bank and is a i