The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-06-08
NORTHWEST NOTES

lest ranchers in Oregon, was drovn.,
in the Grand Ronde river on the 2s,a.
The rivers all over Wyoming a.,
especially the North Platte and r.
Laramie rivers, are rising rapidly. An
streams are higher than for MANY vesr,
past.
Notice has been given of a gensr.,
increase of 10 per cent in wages at tbs
Bessemer Steel works of the COLORADO
Fuel & Iron company at Pueblo. Abou,
loo men are benefited.
Engineer Stridley, who is in ebaroo
of the large party of Union Pacific snr
veyors engaged in the work of survev.
ing the Athol hill cut off, south :.
Cheyenne, has issued instructions 10
rush the work as rapidly as possible
Pete Horn, the colored soldier who
has been on trial at Denver for tba
murder of his comrade, Private Alhart
Pemberton, at Fort Logan on April 10
was found guilty of manslaughter
The extreme penalty for manslaugbter
is three years Imprisonment.
During the past few weeks number
of cars of inflammable merchandise
have been destroyed by fire while pass.
ing over the Wyoming division of tina
Union Pacific, and strict orders have
baap icSuad 70 oil oon5,,o.o.
cars of infammable freight in the rear
end of trains.
At a session of the Cumberland
Presbyterian assembly, a speech was
delivered by the Rev. Chalmers Bourne
of Texas, denouncing the Roman Cath.
Ollie church. He stated that it was
very difficult for Protestants to do
successful PROSECUTING where the Cath.
/ Ollie church had established missions.
Solomon Bachart, young man liv.
ing near Marks Prairie, Oregon, was
found in the woods last week having
shot himself. Miss Hilton, aged II.
| living near Marks Prairie, was as
saulted and dragged from her horse by
Bachart. She reported that Bachart
tried to kill her. Bachart belongs to
respectable family.
The Butte trades and labor organ.
izations have adopted resolutions in
sympathy with the Wardner miners
and in which they declare that "a
reign of terror prevails in the town
and vicinity of Wardner, Ida. brought
about by un-American, tyrannical and
outrageous mandates promulgated by
General Merriam"
Charles w. Whitney and Frank
Whitney, brothers, were drowned at
Palouse rapids, about three miles be-
low Grange, Wash, on the construc.
ton line of the Snake River Valley
railroad They were shooting the
rapids in a canoe, when it struck
rock and capsized. Both men were
carried down by the strong current
The order for the abandonment Of
Fort Washable, Wyo., has caused con-
sternation among the people of Ian.
ders, which is in close proximity to the
Wind River reservation, upon which
are located some 1000 Arapahoe and
Shoshone Indians. 1t is feared the re.
moval of the troops will be the signal
for an outbreak between the two
tribes, who are not on very friendly
terms.
The unwatering of seven great silver
mines of Creed, Colo, was begun un'
expectedly when diamond drill,
which was being operated in the Nell
son tunnel, tapped the bottom of the
Chance shaft Seven big mines will be
drained by the Nelson tunnel, includ-
ing the Chance, Commodore, Amethyst,
and New York. The lower workings
of these mines were all abandoned
some time ago on account of the water
which was hundreds of feet deep.
An attempt was made upon the life
of Captain William c. Brown, COM
mander of Fort Washakie, by one OF
. his men, Private James K. Workman.
; Workman imagined that the captain
had not treated him right, and, filling
himself up on beer, went after the cap
} tain. He was discovered by the guard
J before he had done any damage and
disarmed and thrown into the guard
: house. Workman subsequently SUI
, fered from severe attack of delirium
tremens.
While fording stream near Lusk
Wyo., Elliot w Brown foreman of the
New York Livestock company, and ont
of the best known men of the statt
met death in very peculiar manner
The current was very swift and carried
the horse which Brown was riding
off its feet. The animal was rollet
, over, throwing Brown against rock
knocking him senseless. The men 0
his outfit got him out of the strean
, after he had gone down three times
, An attempt was made to resuctate him
Q but without avail.
The remains of man were found o.
the 22nd ult., near Tie Siding, wye
Deceased had evidently been lost in
storm and fallen over PERCEPTION
ledge. From the remnants of clothin
the body is believed to be that of WI
liam Purdon, a convict, who escape
u November last from Laramie peniten