The Philipsburg mail., 1899-07-07
NORTHWEST NOTES.

1Tom UnaL state TINS summer at 400 900
The Bromide mine, near Rock
Springs, Wyo. has been sold to eastern
capitalists for 500, 900. of which $4,000
has already been paid
While leading horse at Great Falls,
Mont, Guy Steffey was caught in the
rope and dragged to death before his
fathers eyes. The boy was 9 years
old
'rbe machine and blacksmith shops
of The Western Iron Works at Butte,
Mont. together with all the valuable
patterns, were destroyed by fire last
week. Loss. S15, 900.
The locomotive Lion. the first engine
owned by the Virginia 4 Iruclee rail
ROAD company. is being retitted and
changed io /" narrow gauge to do duty
III the Carson Il Colorado yard at
A.,ier, Nevada.
y. e. Parker, formerly quartermaster
setgeant Of Grigsbys rough riders,
ual~ "lu uniiotel in South Dakota with
company &, WAS Instantly killed in the
West tu!n:a mine at Butte, by falling
down the shaft
A. Kennel of Milwaukee was run
over by Union Pacific freight train
at Cheyenne, receiving injuries which
viii likely prove fatal. His right leg
was crushed, rendering amputation
necessary. and skull fractured.
Rev. j. n. l.. Goss, of San Francisco,
has been appointed a customs inspec-
tor by Collector jackson. His name
was taken from the eligible list. He
is an Episcopal minister. originally
from Ouray, Colo, and will abandon
the pulpit to enter the government
service.
Bert Phillips, sheepherder en-
ployed on one of the Pole creek ranches
of the Warren Livestock company
near Cheyenne was killed by lightning
last week. His hat and one shoe were
torn in pieces but there were no marks
on him except on the back of the head,
upon which the bolt descended.
A mortgage on the N. G. & O. rail-
way in Nevada has been recorded in
the sum of 81, 500, 900 to Moran Bros. of
New York. The revenue stamps on the
document amounted to $749 so, which
represents what Uncle Sam will get on
the transaction. The money will be
used to improve and extend the road.
Prof. F. j. Van Wrinkle, hypnotist
and formerly a teacher in the normal
school at Weston, Or, is lying in the
hospital with his skull crushed, the
result of an encounter with his brother
in-law, Frank McGhee. The men quar-
relied over family matters. and McGhee
struck his opponent on the head with
a hammer, inflicting probable fatal
injuries.
A fire in the shaft house of the Park
Regent mine at Aspen, Colo, caused
the death of p. A. Headman, who was
working in drift of the mine. A
number of miners were overcome by
smoke and gas and taken out in an un-
conscious condition. All recovered
but Headnan who leaves "a wife and
five children.
The Union Pacific coal company has
purchased the buildings at Camp Pilot
Butte, near Rock Springs, Wyo., which
were occupied by United States troops
until quite recently, when the post was
abandoned. The company will rebuild
the structures and make small dwell
ing houses of them for the employees
OF the coal mines.
There has been a second attempt to
burn the Episcopal church in Carson,
Nevada. The prompt action of the
fire department saved the building, in
which kindling and ceal oil had been
strewn. An investigation showed that
an attempt was made to set fire to the
Catholic church and public school
buildings. A reward has been offered
for the capture of the unknown incen-
diary. There is talk of lynching him
if caught.
A locomotive, when taking water at
tank near Hickman. Colo, on the
Colorado Midland, broke away from it's
crew and started on a wild run down
grade. Near Buena Vista the runaway
crashed into the eastbound passenger
train. Both were totally wrecked.
Fireman George Boswick was killed |
and Engineer Arthur Laloud received |
fatal injuries. The express and bag
gage cars were badly damaged. No
passengers were hurt.
A stabbing atfray occurred at a
sheep-shearing camp sixty miles west
of Casper, Wyo., a few days ago. A
herder named William Quinn went to
the camp from another camp nearby,
and asked the cook, fellow named