The Philipsburg mail., 1899-07-21
NORTHWEST NOTES.

work in the mines.
James Green wanted at Seattle, fol
the murder of ca abman, and in Walla
Walla for buncoing farmer ont o1
So, 900, was arrested at Harrisburg. Pa
OF the men to whom permits to work
in the mines at Wardner, Ida, have
been issued. nearly all are native born
Americans. Previous to the strike
about 50 per cent were foreign born.
Antoine Heneken. a we'll known min
| ing man of Butte. was accidentally
killed last week. He was work. ing on
a new house, and fell from staging,
a distance of twelve feet, breaking his
neck.
The Honey Dew mine, near Boise
City, Ida, claims to have produced the
largest nugget from a quartz ledge
ever taken out in the country. 1t
weighed four pounds, three fourths of
which is solid gold.
1t is announced that the Denver &
RioGrande will spend 50 900, 900 in i'm
provements in Colorado in the next
year Among other improvements the
company will build a line through the
San Luis Valley to Del Norte.
Captain Nickerson, agent of the
Shoshone Indians of Wyoming, is in
Washington with delegation of nine
members of the tribe to negotiate a
new treaty which will permit the tribe
to sell million acres of it's lands.
The 3-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
M. c. Hull of Boise was burned to
death last week. She with other
children were playing with matches.
This is the second child the distressed
parents have lost in this manner, an
other being burned to death several
years ago.
A big gold proposition has been dis
covered near Banner. Idaho, in a new
district. A very rich and extensive
ledge has been opened and the prop
erty bonded to Boise people The ex-
perts say the new district will rival
any district in the state, Buffalo Hump
not excepted
The Lucky Boy mine at Idaho City,
Idaho, is of such immense size, and the
ore all good, that the owners are con-
temp ating putting in Il 25-stamp mill
orb TO fol 1,, Il ~, n
stamps now running. The width is
not yet known, although it has been
cross-cut distance of fifty feet.
The conference held in Butte be-
tween the officers of the Oregon Short
Line and those of the Great Northern
resulted in a satisfactory adjustment
of the difficulties that had arisen on
the piece of road between Silver Bow
and Butte, which is owned and oper-
ated jointly by the two companies.
Troops will be maintained in the
Occur d Alenes indefinitely. The per-
manent detachment of 200 dsmounted
cavalrymen, who have arrived from
Fort Riley, Kans., are under orders to
be in readiness for a stay of several
months, and the officers are settling
down with the expectation of making
their homes in the district until snow
falls again.
Two horses were stolen from Cripp's
stable at Rock Springs on the Goth, the
Guild Mercantile company store
broken into and burglarized to the
amount of about 500 worth of mer-
chandise and jewelry, and the cellar of
the seclion house at Blairtown was
also broken into and quantity of
provisions stolen The police are kept
busy, but no clue as to the thieves.
The state of Idaho has received four
flags. One of them. handsome
banner 6Xl2 feet, is to be presented to
Mrs Sinclair, the Wardner lady who
rushed in between the rioters and the
men whom they were numbering, when
the Bunker Hill mill was attacked and
destroyed. The other flags were 1Ox1s
feet. One is for the capitol, one for
the penitentiary and the other for the
soldiers home.
The Miners' Union of Butte which
has been collecting subscriptions for
the benefit of the families of the Occur
d Alene mines, has returned contri-
button of s. which was made by Gov.
Smith of Montana. The grounds for
the action was that the governor had
approved the course of Gen. Merriam
in letter to that officer in allowing
men to be taken out of the state with.
out requisitG;n to answer charges of
rioting at Wardner.
At Idaho City. Idaho, three hundred
tons of ore that has lain on the WASH
ington dump for nine years has been
put through the mill. 1t yielded S12
per ton. When the ore was east aside
bV the former owners hpv did not ba