Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-08-21
NORTHWEST NOTES.


man Hill severely injured in freight
wreck on the Bitter Root branch of the
Northern Pacific railroad.
AS the result Of lovers quarrel,
George Bond of Denver, killed his
sweetheart, Goldie McKonlxie, and put
three bullets in his own body. Bond
will recover.
The wool season at Big Timber,
Mont, has come to a close with rec
ord of 2,450,0o pounds of wool re-
ceived. Prices ranged from 141l to Is
cent per pound.
The sum of IS, 900 has been raised for
the widow and children of Sheriff
Hazen, the CONVERGE county, Wyoming,
sheriff, who was killed by the Wilcox
train robbers last June.
John A. Hancock of Durango, Colo,
and assistant professor of philogogy in
the Colorado university, has captured
the superintendency of the Santa Bar
bara, CAL, city schools.
The body of Andrew Peterson was
found in ! the woods about two miles
from Spokane last week. A half-flled
bottle of morphine lying by his side
told the story of HE death
The Second Oregon regiment has
disbanded and the men have returned
to their peaceful occupations after if
teen months service in the volunteer
army of the United States.
The tie boom across the Platte river
at Fort Steele, Wyo., broke loose on
the 9Th inst. and 70, 100 railroad cross
ties were lost A number of these
will be recovered, but the loss will
probably reach So, 900.
Last week IS, 900, 900 in coin was sent
from the Carson, New, mint to San
Francisco. The money was placed in
5000 bags containing 81, 900 each. The
money shipped from Carson was coined
there in 1890, since which time it has
been stored in the vaults.
,
voted almost unanimously to continue
its strike until the American Smelling
and Refining company shall agree to
pay the wages awarded by the state
board of arbitration. The two large
smelters in Pueblo, as well as two in
Denver, are closed.
Northern Montana was visited by .
very severe electrical storm on the 7th
At Wolfpoint, near Glasgow, .two,half-
breed girls, Ella Kneer and Daisy
Gerry, aged Is and ID, were struck and
killed. At Great Falls bolt struck
the freight house of the Great Falls g.
Canada railroad, setting it on fire and
destroying it.
A delivery >from the state peniten-
tiary at Deer Lodge, Mont, was pre-
vented by the timely discovery of .
tunnel forty feet long, which for long
time the convicts had been at work on,
probably for months. A depression in
the ground of the yard gave the plans
away. The convicts were within four
feet of the wall and freedom when the
plot was discovered.
At the Carnegie fossil quarry in wy
oming, a huge fossil dinosaus, and
new species of diplocadus, one of tho
dinosaurs, which existed in
Jurassic times, have been unearthed.
The whole length of the dinosaus was
ixty feet, and it stood twenty feet
Ugh at the hips, the thigh bone or
emur, being six feet long and fifteen
inches in diameter. The animal had q
lead like a frog.
No one has yet put in an appearance
o claim the estate of John Walsh.
Walsh, it will be remembered. was
tranger who died suddenly in Gard
erville, New, few weeks ago. After
is death it was found that Walsh had
n his person bank book showing de-
osits to the amount of 1921 in the Hi
ernia bank, San Francisco, and GER
ifcate of deposit of 500 in the Washoe
ounty bank at Reno. He also had
"a. 40 in cash.
At Colorado Springs, William Borden
hot and fatally wounded Miss Mabe
[cKenna because she refused to marry
i'm The shooting occurred while
hey were walking together on Cara
,illo street. Borden escaped and tho
irl was taken to ST. Francis hospital
everal hours afterward, the police,