Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-09-18
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Miss Sarah E. 6talter of Salt Lake
City has been appointed kindergarten
In the Warm Springs school, Oregon,
It $500 per annum.
The log drive of the Rock Springs
Lumber company, down Green river,
includes $50, 900 railroad ties for the
Oregon Short Line, 200, 900 ties for the
Union Pacific Railroad company, and
zoo, 900 props for the Rock Springs coal
mines.
A plan is on foot to construct sub
stantial dam in the bed of the Truckee-
river at or near the foot of Virginia
street, Reno, to impound the water so'
as to make lake for bathing, fishing
and boating in the summer; skating
and ice yachting in the winter.
william Duncan was killed and
Charles Odds seriously injured by the
explosion of threshing machine boil
er 1T Yerington, Nevada, last week
Duncan was formerly employed as
engineer of the steam saving machine
at the v. & T. railroad woodward in
Carson.
DR.. A. M. Webster, young dentist.
supposedly because Of love unrequited~
shot himself through the heart at Twin
Bridges last week, dying instantly
Webster was about % years of age,
and had been in Twin Bridges three
months, coming to that place from
Salt Lake City.
An effort is being made by residents
of Sierra county to induce Captain J.
B. Overton to extend the line of his
railroad from Truckee, Gala, to Over
ton to Sierraville, only four miles dis
tant, thus giving the traffic of that
fertile valley railway connection with
the Central Pacific
A bad freight wreck occurred atPine
Bluffs station last week, on the main
line of the Union Pacific. fifty miles
east OF Cheyenne, caused by an east
bound gravel train on the main line
being run into a California freight
for hours to clear the track
Dorothy K. Holiday, an 11-months'-
Did Salt Lake child. treated by Chris
tan Scien fists, died last week ard was
buried without permit. Investiga-
ton revealed that the child had been
sick three weeks without medical at
Mt nd T.
scientist, is to be prosecuted.
William ]. Bryan, who delivered .
speech at Carson last week, was given
The largest reception ever rendered
public man in that section The mines
of Virginia City were closed down
Ind all the western part of Nevada
N fete. From Lake Tahoe Mr.. and
Mrs. Bryan were brought to Carson in
me historical coach occupied by Horace
ireeley on his trip to that city and in
which q. S. Grant was also driven.
Michael Klapak, Slavonian coal
miner who was crushed by a Union
'acific freight train in the yards at
lock Springs recently, died at tho
wyoming general hospital One arm
vas mashed to a pulp and the head and
ody badly cut and torn. Klapak had
yer 5000 on his person at the time of
he accident The coroners jury re-
urned verdict generating the COM
any from any blame in the matter.
Joseph W. O'Neil. secretary of tho
hsyenne fire department, has been
charged with incendiarism.
. confessed to having started two
res during the past month. He had
motive, he said, but simply could
OF Withstand tho impulse to set the
aildings on fire. During the past two
barn there have been fifty incendiary
res here. He used bicycle to got
1t OF the vicinity of the fires after
arting them. He has been an active
reman for two years and it is believed
ring that time have started most of
10 incendiary fires.
The Nevada Power company has
zen organized At Reno. Nevada, and
opposes to transmit power from the
nyon east of Reno to the comstock
pumping and other operations. ~
Ill ~ distribute power to Reno and
rinity. The canyon IL eleven miles
Arer to the Comstock than is Floris-
q, the point from which . similar
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