Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-06-30
NORTHWEST NOTES.

from Joplin, Mo, arrived at Wardner,
! Ida, last Friday. The men will go to
work in the mines.
James Green wanted at Seattle. for
the murder of d cabman. and in Walla,
Waila for buncoing a farmer out of
$4,000, was arrested at Harrisburg Pa. !,
Of the men to whom permits to work
N the mines at Wardner, Ida, have
been issued, nearly all are native born
Americans. Previous to the strike
about so per cent were foreign born.
ing man of Butte, was accidentally
killed last week. lie was working on
new house, and fell from a staging,
distance of twelve feet, breaking his
neck.
The Honey Dew mine, near Boise
City, Ida, claims to have produced the
largest nugget from a quartz ledge
ever taken out in the country. It
weighed four pounds. three-fourths of
which is solid gold.
1t is announced that the Denver &
RioGrande will spend $4,000, 900 in inn
provements in Colorado in the next
year. Among other improvements the
company will build line through the
San Luis Valley to Del Norte.
Captain Nickerson, agent of the
Shoshone Indians of Wyoming, is in
Washington with delegation OF nine
members of the tribe to negotiate
new treaty which win permit the tribe
to sell million acres of its lands.
The 3-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
M. C. Hull of Boise was burned to
death last week. She with other
children were playing with matches.
This is the second child the distressed
parents have lost in this manner, an
other being burned to death several
years ago.
A big gold proposition has been dis
covered near Banner, Idaho, in new
district. A very rich and extensive
ledge has been opened and the prop
erty bonded to Boise people. The ex-
perts say the new district will rival
any district in the state, Buffalo Hump
not excepted.
The Lucky Boy mine at Idaho City,
Idaho, is of such immense size, aud the
ore all good, that the owners are con-
templating putting ina 25-stamp mill
right away, to take the place of the 10
stamps now running. The width is
not yet known, although it has been
cross-cut distance of fifty feet.
The conference held in Butte be-
tween the officers of the Oregon Short
Line and those of the Great Northern
resulted in a satisfactory adjustment
of the difficulties that had arisen on
the piece of road between Silver Bow
and Butte, which is owned and oper-
ated jointly by the two companies.
Troops will be maintained in the
Occur d. Alenes indefinitely The per-
manent detachment of 200 dismounted
cavalrymen, who have arrived from
Fort Riley, Kans., are under orders to
be in readiness for stay of several
months, and the officers are settling
down with the expectation of making
their homes in the district until snow
falls again.
Two horses were stolen from Cripp's
stable at Rock Springs on the Goth, the
Guild Mercantile company store
broken into and burglarized to the
amount of about 500 worth of mer-
and jewelry, and the cellar of
he section house at Blairtown was
ilso broken into and q quantity of
provisions stolen. The police are kept
busy, but no clue as to the thieves.
The state of Idaho has received four
1ags. One of them, a handsome
oanner 6x12 feet, is TO be presented to
Mrs. Sinclair, the Wardner lady who
'ushed in between the rioters and thu
men whom they were numbering, when
he Bunker Hill mill was attacked and
destroyed The other flags were 1OxlS
eet One is for the capitol, one for
he penitentiary and the other for the
oldiers home.
The Miners Union of Butte which
as been collecting subscriptions for
he benefit of the families of the Occur
Alene mines, has returned a contri-
ution of S. which was made by Gov.