Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-08-28
NORTHWEST NOTES.

chine.
The transport Grant, with the Wyo-
ming and Idaho troops, arrived at
Nagasaki on the 18th, on her way to
San Francisco.
Troops C, Z and of the Third cav
airy, under command of Major VESSEL,
have arrived at Seattle and joined the
other troops Of the regiment at Camp
Robinson.
The dead body of a man believed to
be John w. Walton, resident of AL
buquerque, N. NJ, has been found
floating in the bay at the foot of Sew
enth street, Oakland, Cal.
1t is now known that the man cap
tured at Carlsbad, N. NJ, Tuesday of
last week. after hard fight, is one Of
the robbers who held up the Colorado
& Southern train near Folsom on July
IA.
The store house of the Amalgamated
Copper company at Anaconda, Mont,
was burned to the ground on the 18th,
entailing loss of $50, 600. The fire is
supposed to have been of incendiary
origin.
The Silver King mine in Crook coun-
ty, Or, has been sold to syndicate
represented by f. j. Quealy of Rock
Springs, Wyo., and j. f. Edwards of
Salt Lake. The consideration is said
to be in the neigh borhood of ST, 200, 900.
Augustus Howard, known as the
"Australian plunger,' whose some
what mysterious relations with w. e.
Green, the Denver capitalist, have re-
Gently caused considerable comment,
is declared by San Francisco police to
be an escaped convict
BY the explosion of missed hole at
lime quarry at Anaconda, Mont,
James Mccullough lost his life, Pat
Mcmahon was fatally injured and two
others seriously injured The men
had been warned, but the warning
was UNDECIDED. Mccullough was lit
orally blown to pieces.
Governor De Forest Richards and
staff leave Cheyenne on the night of
August "a for San Francisco, to meet
the returning volunteers, who will ar
rive from the Philippines some time
about September |. During the stay
of the party in San Francisco the Oxi-
dental hotel will be it's headquarters
Two men, Clinton Dodson and Oliver
Benson, were arrested in the Galletin
valley. Mont, charged with the MUIR
der of Eugene Cullinim. They were
rapidly making their way out of the
state. The murdered mans watch was
found hidden in blanket. They
came from the Black Hills and there is
a strong case against them.
Judge Richardson of the Spokane
superior court has made a ruling in
favor of the gas company against the
Street Railway company in noted
electrolysis case. The Spokane Gas
claimed its pipes were dam
aged by defective ground wire sys-
tenn of conducting electricity. The
street railway will be enjoined from
further use of its defective apparatus.
J. Nj. Pickens, grand recorder of the
grand lodge of the A. o. U. w. for
Washington, mysteriouslv disappeared
a few days ago. He left Seattle osten-
sibly for Stellacoom. Nothing has
since been heard of him. Grand Mas
ter Workman Jones has appointed
James t. Bayer of Seattle to fill out
Pickens's term as recorder Experts
ire examining Pickens's accounts.
Large quantities of apples shipped
nto Montana from California aud
Utah are being condemned in Butte,
Anaconda and other parts of the state
because of infection by San Jose scale
md Goblin moth The last legislature
passed stringent law against the i'm
,ortation of such infected fruit, and
he condemnation is made by the state
BOARD of horticulture at the loss of the
shippers.
Foster Hogan. an ex-soldier of tho
rwenty-fourth infantry, has been par
loned from the Wyoming penitentiary
~ Governor Richards. Hogan was
CRYING a one-year sentence for assault
With intent to kill. His record during
he Santiago mpaign is a splendid
me, and as he is suffering with con-