Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-08-25

for the year 1878. 1t is tne nS' Ill Tim
tho history of the office that the million
dollar mark has been reached.
twenty-five wealthy farmers from 'ne
middle states left st. Paul to buy MONIES
in the vicinity of Seattle and Iaeonia'
and a party numbering 100 Hollanaers
from South Dakota will go to these points
soon to see where they can locate
Eight hundred cloakmakers OF new
York, employed in Is shops joined LIE
ranks of the strikers, increasing the nun
her ON strike to total OF ABOUT oooo
The strikers demand better wages ana d
reduction in the working hours.
The British ship Westlothian, captain
Curtis, which arrived at Cardiff from Ia
coma via Falmouth, reported that during
a gale encountered east of Cape Horn On
June she lost her top gear and saiis' anu
the second mate jumped overheard.
A crowd stoned Big Consolidated car
in Cleveland. The conductor OF the car
Law down ON his seat and fired several
shots at the crowd with revolver. NO
body was hit, but the shooting had the
effect of dispensing the mob in short order
Young Critic, the once famous Aus
tralian pugilist, is dying in the Dunnins
insane asylum, where he was sent few
months ago. Physicians say he can not
live more than two weeks, as ne has re-
Gently become violently insane and sui
fered a breakdown.
In East Middleburg, VT, a man named
Eastwood went to the home of his moth
er-in-law and shot his wife and her moth
err killing both He then drove to Mid
dleburg, went to the residence OF Frar&
Fem, shot him through the heart, killing
him instantly, theE4 shot at Fen's wife
and Just missed her. He then went to the
residence of his wifes brother, E. D.
Brown, evidently intending to kill him,
but could not find MIN. Eastwood es-
capped.
!, The Milwaukee bridge has been wreck
ed by dynamite. Men hunting for the
bodies of NJ. Swanson and Carl Rylander,
who were drowned recently, decided to
use dynamite to bring them to the sur
face. One charge of go sticks of the ex-
plosive was exploded in the water directly
under the bridge, which is Of iron and so
feet high.
After one of the most vexing pursuits
in the history of Montana, Clinton Dot
son and Oliver Benson were captured near
Central Park, Gallatin county. They are
believed to be the men who robbed and
murdered Eugene Cullinam, pioneer and
placer miner, near his cabin in American
gulch recently.
Reports from Okotsk sea gives the
catch of the whaler Charles w. Morgan
as 1860 barrels Of sperm oil and 65 pounds
OF ambergris, and the California 800 bar
rels of sperm oil, 1850 barrels of whale oil
and 5000 pounds of whalebone. Captain
Smith reports that on May boat was
capsized by whale and Martin Cosgrove,
a native of Hartford, Conn, was droW ned.
Government commissioners have eff
tected an agreement with the Crow In.
dams which will become a treaty when
ratified by congress. About a million
acres of land will be purchased on the
northern end of the Crow reservation.
from Fort Custer to Yellowstone river
and from Pryor creek to the eastern
boundary of the reservation, embrac.
ing the Little Big Horn and other
streams. This leaves the Crows $500.
600 acres and will make them indie.
pendent in time, and furnish homes for
thousands of civilized people.
Hugh Kennedy of San Francisco
who has just returned from Kotsebue
sound, Alaska, brings a report of the
probable murder of several prospectors
last winter. L. w. Martes of Santa
Rosa, CAL, disappeared on the Noatok
river. He was known to have had
about $500 on his person, and It ia
thought he was murdered. The Pick.
lnny brothers of Kentucky were muir.
oered by natives while prospecting on
the SllaWik river. A man known "a
Diamond Dick and o. Austenberg a
whaler, were killed by natives of Cane
Prince of Wales. Kennedy also brings
news OF the drowning of an English.
man named Morris and suicide of
Cnarles Becker Of San Francisco.