The Philipsburg mail., 1899-08-04
NORTHWEST NOTES

bulldlngs were destroyed.
At Oakland. Ore, fire destroyed two
entire blocks of store buildings The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Collector of In ternal Revenue Lynch
announces the total receipts for the
First district of Ca alifornia for the fiscal
year ending June 30, at S3, 724,47s
George Hyde was held up by two
men near Lakeview, Wash. He re-
sisted and one of the robbers shot him
in the hip, inhicting serious but not
fatal wound.
The main building at the White Sui
phur Springs, near Elko, New, was
destroyed by fire last week. This is
the second time the place has been de-
stroyed by fire.
Emile Anderson. fireman, fell from
his engine between Boric and Chey-
enne. Wyo., and was horribly mangled.
He was not missed until the train ar
rived in Cheyenne.
The Burlington surveying corps
operating in Wyoming has now reached
the Elk Mountain coal fields, where
the company is interested to the ex-
tent of $1,000 patented acres.
At Victor, Colo, five tons of dyna-
mite was exploded on the Fourth, in
blasts of 200 pounds each, the last
charge consisting Of 500 pounds. The
shock was felt at Pueblo, eighty miles
away.
About 100, ZOO pounds of Nevada wool
was shipped to St, Louis last week
This is the first Nevada wool to go to
the eastern city, the greater portion
heretofore being sold to San Francisco
merchants
According to reports received at the
adjutant generals office, fifty nine
members of the Second Oregon volun-
teers have been killed in battle or
died of disease since the regiment
left, on May 1G, 1898.
The officials of Winnemucca, New,
have brought to the notice of the war
department the outrages committed by
soldiers of the Tw ty-fourth while
en- route to the Philippines, and the
guilty parties will probably be appre-
hended and punished.
While wor1men were preparing to
solder leaky kerosene can at the
Continental oil works. Butte, case
of gasoline exploded, burning Robert
l.. Langstatf one of the employees. so
badly that he died. John Gillston
was badly burned The other men
say there was no fire near the stuff at
the time.
The old wagon road from Lake Ia
hoe to Sacramento is to be put in first
class repair at a cost of $50. 900 to the
state of California. 1t is one of the
most beautiful roads in California.
as it does, through the higher
Serras, along canyons of great depth,
and commanding views of surprising
grandeur
A relief expedition is being organized
to search for Messrs. Henry Neleigh,
John Hanna and Hanson, who left
Virginia City, Nevada, nearly three |
months ago on prospecting trip. The
last heard from the party was in the
early part of May, when they were
camped in the vicinity of Pine Grove,
Esmcralda county. Henry Neleigh,
the captain of the party, is an expert
enced backwoodsman.
Dan Lucey has been convicted at
Butte, Mont, of numbering Patrick
Reagan. Lucey and Reagan left Butte
on September , last to go to British
Columbia for work Reagan had con- !
siderable money with him. His body
was found next day some distance from
the railroad track in the canyon. The
head had been smashed with a rock
and the pockets rifled. Lucey was
caught later in Victor. Colo.
The Nebraska, Wyoming & Western
railroad has filed articles of incorpora-
tion with the secretary of state of
wyoming This company is engaged
in building line of railroad south
from Alliance Neb.. to the main line
of the burlington, which enters Den
YER. From Camp Clark, on the Platte
river. and about forty miles south of
Alliance, line is now being built to
the Hartville iron mines and on west
through Wyoming
Near Bozeman, Mont. on the night
OF the 4th, bicyclist, supposed to be
w. f. Rhoada Of Sparta, Wis, was
shot and killed. lie was attempting
to enter the cabin Of William Adams
and had just pried open the shutter to
the window. when trap gun was dis
charged and he received the full force
OF its contents in the left side. The
ga bin had baan rohhed Sauara1 +;r,oe