Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-11-20
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Helena last week and fined 81 fo
splitting on the sidewalk. The complain
was made by man arrested and finet
the previous day, for the same offense
The fine was paid.
A company composed Of Major j. r
Wood, Governor Tanner of Illinois
| President Gates of the Illinois Steel
company, and others, have bonded the
Buffalo Hump mine for $500, 900. These
gentlemen have also purchased the lola
and other properties at Warren Idaho.
Because she would not give him the
money she had earned by a life of shame
Eugene Lane at Butte last week shot
and seriously wounded Josephine
Blancheau, and then fred two bullets
into his own breast, dying instantly.
Lane recently returned from the
Klondike broke. He is said to have a
wife and family in Victoria, b. c.
A verdict for $1,000 was given /. C
Miller, of LARAMIE, in his suit against
Cosgriff Bros Miller sued for SIS, 900
because the defendants grazed sheep
upon lands leased by him from ths
railroad company. The defendants
contended that as the lands were not
fenced there was no trespass. A large
number of similar cases are affected by
the decision
At Pano, small town a mile and
half south of Porterville, CAL, Reese
Martin was shot and killed by his
nineteen-year-old son Frederick. The
young man accused his father of strik-
ing his mother A quarrel ensued and
the son discharged both barrels of
shotgun at the old man causing instant
death. He claims that he acted IN
self-defense
Two mail pouches have been found
cut open on the Sweetwater near Land
er. The contents had been gone through
and completely rifled There is no clue
to the perpetrators of the act, but it is
thought it was done by some one who
on the rear part of the stage ia
the night and cut the lash-ropes that
held them, and were carried away
unknown to the driver.
An Indian, who is accused of murder
ng the wife and infant son of r. Del
Crosse, a ction foreman of the Nevada
Central railroad, has been captured and
AIKEN to Austin, Nevada TO await trail.
The crime was committed on Thursday
Ifter the Indian had been furnished
God and lodging on the previous night.
Robbery is believed was the motive
# the assassin, who strangled both of
lis victims, leaving two-months-old
ably unframed.
An eastbound Union Pacific freight
rain was wrecked by broken wheel
t Corlett, five miles west of Cheyenne,
asst week. Seven cars of dried fruit
'ere ditched and 400 feet of track
amaged. Brakeman John Culberton
as not been seen since the accident
ccurred and it is feared he was caught
nder the wrecked cars. Brakeman Fred
NTH, who was riding on one of the
rocked cars was thrown a distance of
twenty-five feet but escaped with a
wv bruises.
The sanitarium for consumptive
,ldiers, established at Fort Bayard by
he United States army medical corps
now in operation in charge of DR..
aniel NJ. Appel, three nurses and
,irteen assistants. The buildings are
brick, have wide verandas. An
room has billiard and card
bles and library with periodical
i'd newspapers. There are accommoda-
ons for 100 patients and next year
om will be made for 200 more. The
valids are required to spend eight
ours daily out of doors. The sani-
arium is already crowded
The sugar output of the La Grande,
'egon, factory this year will exceed
at of last by at least so per cent. The
reage has been reduced from 5000 to
90. The yield per acre, however has
arly doubled since last year. This
ar the average crop is from seven to
yht tons to the acre Last year the
erage was four and half tons. The
story is still running full blast, en-
Dying about 120 men. and converting
tons of beets into sugar daily. 1t
estimated that the entire beet crop
II be harvested and ground up within