Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-09-25
NORTHWEST NOTES.


II. Sutton was murdered and robbed
OF $500 at Fairfield. near Spokane. by
highwaymen. last Friday. Heresisted
the attempt to rob him and was shot.
passenger train on the Great North
ern railway was Gerailed near Harlem,
Mont, last Wednesday, the engine,
baggage and mail cars and two coaches
leaving the track. Seven persons were
hurt none fatally.
Patrolman Jack Martin of Tacoma
was shot and wounded by two men
whom he was attempting to arrest.
He wounded and captured one of them,
who proved to be Tom Moore of Butte,
but the other made his escape.
Mrs. Truman b. Hicks. the wealth
lest woman in Wyoming. died last
week and was buried at Three Rivers,
Mich, her former home. She came to
Wyoming in 1867 with her former hus-
band, Hon. A. R. Converse. who died
in 1885.
j. T. English of Sumpter, Ore, has
found a pocket of ore in the Golconda
which will make him rich, as he ex-
poets it to run $4,000 per ton, or $780,
900 for the car One carload will be
shipped to San Francisco this week, to
be followed by others soon.
Tho IVvo,nirr buraau Of ;rrination
Investigations have collected Der
of photographs. and is now engaged in
making plans of irrigation works for
exhibit at the Paris exposition. The
photographs and plans will be uniform
in size, being 1sx22 inches in dimen-
sion.
At the trial of the mayor of Tacoma
on a charge of bribery, c. B. Hurley
testified as to conversations with the
mayor relative to signing the ordinance
authorizing compromise of the million
dollar judgment against the Water and
Light company, Hurley svore the
mayor demanded SIP 800, and that he
agreed to pay it.
James B. Clark, Seattle barkeeper,
is under arrest on the charge of at
tempting to murder his wife. Clark
claims his wife shot herself and his
story was corroborated by his wife I'M
til she was warned that her wound
might prove fatal. She then said she
was shot by her husband.
The board of health of Livingston
has declared war on kissing. Notice
has been served in school to the teach
ers that they are hereafter forbidden
to kiss their pupils on the ground that
the practice breeds disease. The Pc
culiar order has aroused considerable
Indignation and ridicule.
Jimmy Tai-Pai-Newt, an Okanogan
Indian held in the county jail at Spo-
kane for trial before the federal court
on a charge of murder. took his life in
his cell last week When found he
was hanging in moose formed by his
handkerchief and blunt stick broken
from the cover of a fruit basket was
stabbed three inches into his side. So
remarkable was his fortitude that the
night jailer. sitting less than ten feet
way, heard no groan.
Private Thomas McVeagh, company
G, First Wyoming volunteers. who was
tried by general courtmartial convened
at linus, p. l.. June last on the charge
of striking his superior officer, and
found guilty and sentenced to be shot
to death, has had his sentence COM
muted by President Mckinley to dis
honorable discharge. forfeiture of all
pay and allowances and confinement at
hard labor for the period of three years
Alcatrez island. California, has been
designated as the place of con 6nement
Joseph Jensen. who is one of the two
men who attacked Blackaby & Parks
store at Jordan Valley on August %,
has been apprehended and is now in
the penitentiary at Boise awaiting
trial. Joseph Lawson. his partner,
was killed at the time of the attack
The postoffice in the store was raided,
which enlisted the government in the
task of running the culprit to cover
Jordan Valley is across the line in
Oregon and Jensen will be tried in
Portland Jensen belongs to desper-
ate gang. one of whom is woman
named Morgan. known as Calamity
.Tane- This woman owed Blackabv &