Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-01-21
NORTHWEST NOTES.

| IN the Saratoga valley, Wyo.
Fort Steele ice is being put up for
Medicine Bow and Carbon, Wyo.
A county bridge is to be constructed
over Rocky Ford creek, Crook county,
Wyo.
The new seven-day mail service
for Hanna, Wyo., went into effect on
the 18th instant.
Natrona county, Wyo., stockmen
report that sheep and cattle are doing
good in that section.
The shaft house and upper works of
the Leopard mine, east of Tuscarora,
were destroyed by fire last week.
At the annual meeting of the Mon
tana State Bar association at Helena,
Charles R. Leonard of Butte, was elect
ed presid ent.
Editor P. A. Gatchell of the Sher-
idan Journal is slated for register of
Buffalo Wyo., land Office The change
will be made about March /.
Charles Wilson of Sheridan ounty,
Wyo has been bound over in the sum
OF 81, 200 to appear before the district
court on charge of criminal assault, the
victim being a ~ year old girl.
Laramie county's (Wyo.) share, 81, 300
has been raised for a county and state
exhibit at the Omaha exposition. The
full amount was pledged by leading
citizens in few hours,
Hay and Grain shipments from
Missoula, Mont, and the Bitter Root
are heavy this month much of the
stuff going to the Occur d. Alene
country.
The Carson Appeal, the Lyon County
Times and the Tuscan Times
Review have placed the name of
j. Bryan for president in 1900
at the head of their editorial columns
The coming Grand Army fair at
Cheyenne is now an assured success.
Presents have been donated for distri-
button to ticket holders amounting to
81, 900, and will reach the 81, 900 fig
ure before the fair opens.
The offscouring of some of the neigh
boring towns have conferred in Reno.
several of the business men have
,alked the situation over and unless
certain individuals "move on within
! reasonable time something will drop,
The Butte. Ministerial association
which started n short time ago to
wage war on Sunday places of amuse-
nent has not by any means given up
he fight, and from what is said by
ONE of the mem bers there will likely
'e some interesting developments in
he next few weeks.
At Dixon, Wyo., John Jones, Demo-
ratio candidate for county COM
Missioner, who conte ted the seat of
'. A. Clark to that position, and by
ecision of the supreme court was en-
tiled to same under the educational
clause of the state consti-
ltion, secured his bonds during the
asst week.
At Laramie recently several cases of
iphtheria developed in various parts
the city and the school board decided
} close the public schools till further
Otice. The disease is not of a ma
gnant type and there is little ap-
'ehension in consequence. One of
lie cases is that of Miss Mary Wright,
teacher in the high school.
A railroad will be built from the
mel at Whitewood to the coal banks
Sundauce, Wyo. Ore will be hauled
ON the mines at Deadwood, and
lad City, and treated at the mills
lich will be erected on Sand creek, -
d ore, coal and cattle will be hauledY
1m the country around Sundance, \
liking it paying road both ways.
The working force in the Union Paci-
shops at Cheyenne, has been reduced
laying off 40 men, The force is
W smaller in the shops than for
ne years past. Such reduction of
working force is especially felt by
Is of the city, and is not a
nSk for 1898. In picking
aid off in the shops,
earne selected, as
JINGLE men. who
young men.