Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-05-26
NORTHWEST NOTES.

sA8 son ototc university cloCt0u Jon u
T. Condor dean of the law department.
In Olympia, Wash, Dr. and Mrs. Belle
Howard have been arrested on a war
rant from Peoria, Ill, charging them
with malpractice.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron company
has closed its coal mine at Crested
Butte indefinitely, throwing 800 men
out of employment.
All the great wheat producing coun-
ties of California expect that the yield
will he up to the average, and in some
sections will be exceptionally heavy.
The copper product of the state Of
Montana for the year 1898 was 1927, 604, :
600, while Arizona produced S13, $780,
900, California 81, $50, 900, and Colorado
| $1,71O.OOo.
Secretary Hitchcock has approved
for patent to the state of Wyoming a
list of lands selected under the school
grant aggregating III, s72, acres in the
Cheyenne district
A union of smelter employees has
been organized in Denver for the ex-
press purpose of resisting efforts by
the smelters to reduce wages when the
new eight-hour law goes into effect.
A match has been made between
Kid Mccoy and Joe Choynsh by the
Colorado Athletic club, to be pulled off
as soon as the new prize fight law
takes effect, for a purse of $4,000.
1t has just developed that the regis
tered mail pouch which was stolen on
the morning of May IL, contained four
teen Jefferson county bonds of $4,000
each, numbered 100 to lib inclusive.
1t is expected by the officials of the
Cheyenne & Northern that 100, 900 head
of cattle will move north over their
line during the present season. 1t will
require more than 100 trains to move
this business and many extra men.
Ralph Coates of the First California
volunteers, reported to be missing from
his command in the Philippines, is a
native of Humboldt county, CAL, aged
30 years. He was one of the crack
football players of Stanford university.
Henry Rice,a Nevada, man, has
returned from Manila trip. He went
there to bring home his son, who is a
private of battery B, Utah light artil-
lery, but the young soldier declined to
return, as he preferred to remain and |
see the thing out, as he expressed it.
Former Senator Cannon of Utah and
Senator Teller of Colorado were in
conference for several hours in Denver
one day last week. Both refuse to give
the object or the result of their meet
ing, but admitted that they were to-
gether to talk ''some politics."
Ad Utah
Snow fighters are still at work with
dynamite and shovel on the mountain
system of the Colorado & Southern
road. Without the aid of dynamite it
is claimed the banks will soon dis
appear, before the 9th of July. The
line between Como and Gunnison may
be open this week.
J. W. Edwards and associates are
engaged in completing the contract for
furnishing 400, 900 ties to the Oregon
Short Line Railway company at Green
River. The ties are being cut and
banked on the headwaters of the Green
river and will be run down to Green
River station when the high water SUBJ
sides sufficiently to enable this to be I
done with security.
The past week was favorable one ,
for farm work in Wyoming, and seed ,
ing is now nearing completion in the {
more backward sections of the state. {
Some of the early-sown grain is up in t
the eastern counties. Grass is sup q
porting stock in most portions of the
state, but it is in need of more rain.
In the vicinity of Cheyenne the range +,
enough advanced at present for the 4
stock. Il
A couple of Nevada men have re-
Gently come into possession of curl
,sity in petrified body. The men !.
ound the body in Death valley in south =
I'm California, while they were en- Il
,aged in mining, and by careful work g.
we're enabled to remove it from tho 81
arth without breaking any of the fl