Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-03-17
NORTHWEST NOTES.


the bill permitting physicians to prac
tice pharmacy In that state without
examin alton.
During the recent snow blockades 9
number Of telegraph lines were broken
near Laramie by the snow thrown by
rotary plows.
The losses to sheep ia the vicinity oil
Carbon, Wyo, are much less than re-
ported last week. The loss is only
about 10 per cent.
Two miners, Edward Chase and Will
liam Scadden, were killed in the Three
Star mine at Auburn, Gala, by the ex-
plosion of a missed shot
A passenger train on the Cheyenne &
Northern, containing forty-two pas
sengers, was snow-bound for over two
weeks near Iron untain, Wyo.
A fire at Denver destroyed the Hun
garian elevators, rendering valueless
300, 900 bushels of wheat stored there.
The loss is estimated at about $3.50, 900.
The secretary Of the interior has ap-
proved for patent to the state of Wyo-
ming a list of lands selected under the
grant to aid the State Agricultural
college, embracing 22,44s acres in the
Buffalo district.
Governor Smith has vetoed the bill
passed by the Montana legislature per-
uniting twenty-round glove contests.
In his veto message he says: "This
law would be an advertisement to our
state that would do us no good"
There is trong belief in Nevada
that the Carson & Colorado will soon
be extended as far as Darwin. 1t would
open up country which contains vast
quantities of low-grade shipping ore,
which cannot be handled profitably
under existing conditions. 1t would
mean the employment of a great num-
Der of men, with all the attendant
benefits.
Cheyenne is experiencing building
boom. Old mansions which were built
and occupied by cattle barons in early
days are being remodeled and made
into two and three tenement houses.
Many new houses are also going up.
The unusual activity in building is
caused by the increased forces in the
Union Pacif;c ebopS
The purchase by the reorganization
of the Union Pacific Rail-
road company of the company lands
sold in Wyoming under foreclosure OF
mortgage last week will prove bene-
fetal to all of the counties along the
line of the road, as upwards of $40, 900
Of unpaid taxes is due the various
upon these lands.
Communication has been established /
with Charles Reuss and Bert Frenn,
imprisoned in the Bon Air mine at
Leadville, through the caving of the
shaft, by ripping asunder the water
pipe by a charge of dynamite lowered
20 the proper depth. Provisions were
owered through the pipe. A new shaft
will have to be sunk seventy-hve feet
before the men can be reached.
A Denver & Rio Grande engine blew
Up at the crossing of the Rio Grande
md Santa Fe tracks south of Denver,
darch 10, injuring one man fatally and
wo seriously. Engineer White and
Fireman Harvey Payne were badly
calded. The head brakeman was Sc
iously hurt. The engine was pulling
stock train and slipped off the track.
t is thought the explosion was caused
y the jar.
One of the worst storms of the sea-
on ragged in Cheyenne and vicinity
farch 9. Stockmen say this blizzard
the extremely severe weather
( the past six weeks, will doubtedly
ause heavy losses in cattle and sheep {
or range stock some estimate the loss
5 high as so per cent, but with stock
rowers who still have hay to feed and
,elter for their herds the loss will not I
kceed 10 per cent. Z
Very heavy losses arc reported IN
ands of sleeps ranging in the vicinity
Lusk. The various sheep camps are 4
lowed in at low points where the Z
leep were gathered and held for pro-
ction. The herders are short OF =
,tions and iu many cases have been 4
,liged to abandon the herds to reach \
e settlement. Losses in that part of .
80 asf,r,at sd at from so to r