Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-04-28
NORTHWEST NOTES.

/ ton convened in Denver last week
Mrs. J. f. Fintch, of Laramie. has
been elected vice-president of the
Womans Baptist Foreign Missionary
Society of the West.
Lieutenant Gustave Nickel of the
First Montana regiment has arrived
home from Manila and will receive an
honorable discharge
Frank Smith of Pueblo. Colo, driver
of soda water wagon, shot and killed
bis wife and himself as the outcome OF
divorce suit recently brought by the
woman.
1t is said that money has been Sc
cured for the building of the air line
from Denver to Salt Lake City. Col
orado people have been talking of this
line of road for years
The employees in the train and yard
departments of the Midland Terminal
company of Colorado are on strike
for shorter hours. About 200 men are
affected The road is tied up.
Governor Thomas of Colorado will
veto the bill passed by the general as
sembly at its recent session providing
for the indeterminate sentence with
parole privileges for prisoners
William Harris and John Tell were
fatally burned by an explosion of gas
in the Colorado Fuel and Iron COM
panys mine at New Castle, Colo. The
mine is considerably damaged.
Dan Lucy, charged with the murder
of Patrick L. Regain, near Butte, in
September, 1898, has been landed in
the Silver Bow county Jail. he having
been captured in Cripple Creek, Colo.
An insane man. Richard Willis, con-
fined in the Yuba, Cal, courthouse.
managed to fire the building. and was
himself burned to death The county
Jail. adjoining, was also completely de-
stroyed.
The citizens of McMinville, Ore,
have petitioned the president to dis
charge the soldiers from that town
now serving in the Philippines, and
protest against their retention in that
country.
Floods caused by melting snow in
the mountains near Sheridan, Wyo.,
did an immense amount of damage in
that city. Five buildings were washed
away and the main supply pipe of the
water works broke, shutting off the
water supply.
Paride Fransoi, a miner. was killed !
in the Union Pacific coal mine at Rock |
Springs on the Goth, By fall of coal. /
His partner escaped the same fate by
going out of the room for some oil for /
his lamp moment or two before the I
coal fell.
A fight, is on in Grand Junction, I
Colo. regarding licensing saloons All 1
licenses expired on the nth, and the 1
new council has refused to grant Ii
censes, the marshal being instructed to
close all saloons. The matter will be
settled in court
Harry Brasure. aged 40. was drowned 1
in Bitter creek. Wyo.. last week. He I
had been gam bling and drinking and 4
was last seen alive at 10 o'clock in the
morning Two hours later his body
was found in the creek There is some
suspicion that he was robbed and
thrown into the creek
Cheyenne woman applied to the
district court one evening last week
for a divorce from her husband and in
less than twenty hours after fling the
application the case was tried. the
woman granted divorce. with s1,7oo
alimony. This breaks the record in
divorce proceedings in Wyoming
The management of the Globe Smelt-
ing company, at Denver, declares that
the plant will not be closed down. but
that on the contrary more men will be
than ever before, and that
che old scale will be paid. but the men
will not receive as much for eight
hours work as they did for twelve.
Two colored miners, Henry Moore
and Mark Miller, quarreled at Rock
Springs last week, and Moore shot
Miller through the thigh. iniicting
dangerous wound. As a sequel to the
first shooting, William Shortridge
,coloredl attempted to kill his wife.
because she visited Miller after he was
shot, jealousy being the cause of all