The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26
NORTHWEST NOTES.


! ton convened in Denver last week.
Mrs j. +. Fintch, of Laramie, has
been elected vice e-president OF the
Womans Baptist Foreign Missionary
Society of the West
Lieutenant Gustave Nickel of the
First Montana regiment has arrived
home from Manila and will receive an
honorable discharge
Frank Smith of Pueblo, Colo. driver
of soda water wagon, shot and killed
his wife and himself as the outcome of
divorce suit recently brought by the
woman.
1t is said that money has been se-
cured for the building of the air line
from Denver to Salt Lake City. Col
orado people have been talking OF this
line of road for years.
The employees in the train and yard
departments of the Midland Terminal
company of Colorado are on strike
for shorter hours. About 200 men are
affected The road is tied up.
Governor Thomas of Colorado will
veto the bill passed by the general as.
sembly at it's recent session providing
for the indeterminate sentence with
parole privileges for prisoners.
William Harris and John Tell were
fatally burned by an explosion of gas
in the Colorado Fuel and Iron com.
pany's mine at New Castle, Colo. The
mine is considerably damaged.
Dan Lucy, charged with the murder
Of Patrick l.. Regan, near Butte, in
September, 1898, has been landed in
the Silver Bow county Jail, he having
been captured in Cripple Creek, Colo.
An insane man, Richard Willis, con.
fined in the Yuba Cal, courthouse,
managed to fire the building, and was
himself burned to death. The county
Jail, adjoining, was also completely de-
stroyed.
The citizens of McMinville, Ore,
have petitioned the president to dis
charge the soldiers from that town
now serving in the Philippines, and
protest against their retention in that
country.
Floods caused by melting snow in
the mountains near Sheridan, Wyo.,
Il i,,,p Of Il -,
that city. Five buildings were washed
away and the main supply pipe of the
water works broke, shutting off the
water supply.
Paride Fransoi, a miner, was killed
in the Union Pacific coal mine at Rock
Springs on the Goth, by a fall of coal.
His partner escaped the same fate by
going ont of the room for some oil fol-
his lamp moment or two before the
coal fell.
A fight, is on in Grand Junction,
Colo, regarding licensing saloons All
licenses expired on the nth. and the
new council has refused to grant IL
censes the marshal being instructed tC
close all saloons. The matter will be
settled in court.
Harry Brasure, aged 40, was drowned
in Bitter creek, Wyo., last week. He
had been gambling and drinking and
was last seen alive at 10 o'clock in the
morning. Two hours later his body
was found in the creek. There is some
thrown into the creek.
A Cheyenne woman applied to the
district court one evening last week
for a divorce from her husband and In
less than twenty hours after filing the
application the case was tried, the
woman granted a divorce, with 81, roc
alimony. This breaks the record in
divorce proceedings in Wyoming
The management of the Globe Smelt.
ing company, at Denver, declares that
the plant will not be closed down, but
that on the contrary more men will be
! tlllplONcu undl ever before, ana Unal
the old scale will be paid, but the me q
will not receive as much for eight
hours work as they did for twelve.
Two colored miners, Henry Moore
and Mark Miller, quarreed at Rocl,
Springs last week, and Moore shot
Miller through the thigh intlicting q
dangerous wound. a a sequel to the
first shooting, William Shortridge
(coloredD attempted to kill his wife
because she visited Miller after he was
shot, jealousy being the cause of al
the trouble.
The loss of stock throughout the
northwest is not nearly SO large a.
was at first supposed, all owing to the
excellent condition of stock when the
bad weather came on. The stock a
present are in good condition and ar.
doing well.
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