The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-02-18
NORTHWEST NOTES.

nho recent snow storm throughout
.ho northwest is the heaviest known
for some years.
old-timers at Neven, Colo, say that
This is the most severe winter had since
1879 stockmen are suffering severe
loss.
At Trinidad and many other points
soutb of Denver, the mercury fell so
degrees 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
ist of Carson, died in San Francisco
Sunday night, February 5. He leaves
an estate valued at 100000.
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 fve-year-old daughter.
This is the maximum penalty.
Chauncey M. Depew is not the only
railroad man in the United States
senate. w. A. Clark of Montana is
president of the United Verde & Pacific,
of which R. G. H. 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 $54, 900.
Consignments of medical supplies
for the American soldiers and sailors
at Manila we're 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
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-fghting.
John Boyle, section foreman at
Fort Bragg, Gala, during fit of
delirium tremens, dropped lighted
lamp upon the floor of his cottage near
town and burned to death bis 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
Tor help, was frozen.
Traffic is so heavy on the Central
Pacific that three extra dispatchers
nave been ordered out at Carlin. They
will handle the old Humboldt division
tracks from Winemucca to Wells. Og-
den dispatchers will handle the district
Detweens Wells and Ogden, and the
Wadsworth boys will look out for all
the trains between Winnemucca and
Truckee.
plot to blow up the new Florence
MOTEL at Butte, was discovered one
DAY last week in time to prevent
lts execution. There were between
300 and 400 guasts s1oanino. :, +l,o