Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-05-12
NORTHWEST NOTES.

1880 ASSci'Su ny thc cAplOSlOu Oh a
gasoline tank Friday.
The Colorado G. A. r encampment,
by resolution. denounces the efforts of
the Anti-Imperialistic league to ham
per the government.
Robert, Fulton, an engineer working
in the yards at Rock Springs, com
mitted suicide by taking morphine.
He left note saying he was tired of
life.
The superintendent of the mint in
San Francisco, in his official report,
places the total production of gold in
California in 1899 at SIS, 9O6, 47s, and of
silver at s414,o55.
A tragedy occurred at Bayfield,, Colo,
Sunday morning, in which w. E.
Brinckley was shot and instantly
killed by William Wieland The latter
is in Jail in Durango.
Jack Hayes, an old-time Wyoming
miner, died last week. Hayes was a
well-kpown character of the state and
has made several fortunes, but it is
said he died in abject poverty.
The Municipal Traction company
has been incorporated in Denver with
an authorized capital stock of s1,000,-
600. 1t will fight the combined COM
panies by putting in new system.
Senator Livingston of Carson. New,
has wired the managers of Fitzsim-
mons aud Jeffries that he would give
$4,000 for the fight, to take place in
Carson, under the management of the
Carson Arena club.
United States Senator w. A. Clark
of Montana, who has been in Paris for
some time, making an effort to form
an Anglo-French copper combine, has
would give no details, however, stat
ting that the necessary information
would be made public in due course of
time.
Governor Thomas of Colorado is do
ing everything in his power to have
the volunteers now in the Philippines
released. He declares that they are
being unjustly detained, as they en-
listed for the Spanish war, and de-
clares that under the constitution the
volunteers would be perfectly justified
in laying down their arms and return
ing home.
A company of California capitalists
are figuring on raising the water of
Blue lakes, near Carson, Nevada, for
Oakland, and also transmitting power
to the City of Oaks. 1t is understood
that they are completing arrangements
to begin work on the property, and
have put in considerable time hunting
up teams in Carson valley to do the
hauling.
In accordance with the recommen-
dation of Major Foote, Governor Rich
ards has promoted Sergeants Tom
Williams and Walter Pinney to be
lieutenants in the Wyoming infantry;
Second Lieutenant Cheever was pro-
NOTED to a first lieutenancy. The
governor also sent request that the
cannon captured by the Wyoming boys
at San Pedro Mecati be turned over to
the state of Wyoming.
William Casey, a former inmate of
the insane asylum of the state of
Colorado, is out with an affidavit alleg-
ing that while living temporarily in
the state in '9S, he was sent as pa
tient to the insane asylum, and that
the treatment of patients was outra-
geously inhuman and brutal; that the
inmates were knocked down and
kicked, and that incidents of this
character were matter of everyday
occurrence.
AS result of feud of long stand
ing, Andrew Salmon shot and instant
ly killed George Haas, near Lander,
Wyoming, on the 9Th inst. Haas had
recently been confined in the county
Jail upon warrant sworn to by Sal
mon, and upon his release threatened
to kill Salmon. On the day of the
shooting he went to Salmon's ranch
with a Winchester, and a duel was
fought between the two men which re-
suited in the death of Haas.
On the 9th inst. a man was found in
an unconscious condition in a cellar at
st. Louis, Mo-, and died short time
after being removed to the hospital
There was an air of mystery surround |