Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-02-17
NORTHWEST NOTES.

uc TcccuJ SHOW SIOrn throughout
the northwest is the heaviest known
for some years.
Old-timers at Neven, Colo, say that
this is the most severe winter had since
1872 Stockmen are suffering severe
loss.
At Trinidad and many other points
south of Denver, the mercury fell so
deg rees in two hours on the night of
the 10th inst.
The loss to the railroads throughout
the northwest occasioned by the recent
snowstorms will reach up into thous-
ands of dollars
The blockade on the Denver & Rio
Grande in Colorado has been raised,
and through business is now being
handled without delay.
Jake Klein, the well known capital
list of Carson, died in San Francisco
Sunday night, February 5. He leaves
an estate valued at $50, 900.
The Nevada. California & Oregon
railway, north of Reno, will be ex-
tended to the Madeline plains in Lassen
county, California, this year.
Ex-senator Carey of Wyoming enter
tanned the members of the state legis-
lature on the 9th. The reception was
attended by upwards of 400 guests.
The Miners State bank, which failed
at Cripple Creek in the spring of 1897,
has paid 20 per cent dividend to stock
holders This is the first dividend and
probably the last.
c. Avernon of Cripple Creek, Colo,
has been sentenced to fourteen years
in the state penitentiary for crime
against his ive-year-old daughter.
This is the maximum penalty.
railroad man in the United States
senate. w. A. Clark of Montana is
president of the United Verde & Pacific,
of which R. G. II. Minty, late of Ogden,
is auditor.
The Deremer theater, at Pueblo,
Colo, was destroyed by fire, Sunday.
Frozen water plugs interfered with the
work of the fremen. 1t was 20 below
zero when the fire was burning. The
loss will reach S54 200.
Consignments of medical supplies
for the American soldiers and sailors
at Manila were forwarded on the
steamer Coptic, from San Francisco,
which also carried thousands of letters
to the men in the Philippines.
One thousand miners, armed with
picks and shovels, cleared the snow
from the railroad tracks at Leadville
so that the coal famine might be ended.
There is no further apprehension from
a coal famine in that city now and the
people are happy.
All who were connected officially
with the boxing match in Teutonia
hall, San Francisco, on the night of
February 10, when John Farrell was
knocked out and seriously injured by |
blow on the jaw from John O'Brien,
are to be prosecuted for prize-6ghting.
John Boyle, section foreman at
Fort Bragg, Gala, during fit of
delirium tremens, dropped a lighted
lamp upon the floor of his cottage near
town and burned to death his two
grandsons, aged five and three years,
respectively, who, with their mother,
resided with him.
Sam Rumble, a miner, on returning
to his home in Meaderville, the eastern
suburb of Butte, found his wife
lying at the bottom of the steps, frozen
to death. The woman had evidently
started out during the night and
had slipped and fallen, stunning her
self. and being unable to move or call
for help, was frozen.
Traffic is so heavy on the Central
Pacific that three extra dispatchers
have been ordered out at Carlin. They
will handle the old Humboldt division
tracks from Winemucca to Wells. Og-
den dispatchers will handle the district
betweens Wells and Ogden. and the
Wadsworth boys will look out for all
the trains between Winnemucca and
Truckee.
A plot to blow up the new Florence
hotel at Butte, was discovered one
day last week in time to prevent
its execution. There were between
300 and 400 guests sleeping in the
hotel, when the Waterman discovered