Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-02-03
NORTHWEST NOTES.

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voir at Arcadia, Gala. The negro had
become crnzed from an attack of Ia
grippe.
A snowslide occurred near Apex,
Colo, in which three lives were lost,
Mrs. Rudolph and her two children.
aged two and four years. Mr.. Rudolph
and six-year-old son escaped.
The sixth annual convent ton Of the
Northwest Fruit Growers association
was held in Spokane last week. Prom
inent fruit growers were in attend
ance from Oregon, Washington and
Idaho.
Nevada having been transferred from
the Utah to the California Episcopal
diocese, the new bishop, Rev. w. Fl.
Moreland, will take the place of Bish-
op Leonard of Salt Lake in the direc-
ton of affairs in this state.
A young girl who says her name is
Lulu Patterson and that she is daugh-
ter of United States Marshal M. v.
Patterson of klamath Falls, Oregon,
attempted suicide at Los Angeles by
taking morphine. She was saved at
the receiving hospital.
The Colorado g. Southern proposes to
erect two large hotels in Platte canyon
in Colorado in time to catch the 1899
tourist travel. 1t is estimated that
there were 5000 tourists who failed to
stop over in the canyon during the year
1898 on account of the lack of hotel &C
comodations.
Forty-two horses were driven by a
band of wolves over cliff fifty feet
high, ten miles south of Sand creek,
Wyoming. The terrible fall broke the
bones in the legs of the poor animals,
and while many were killed by the fall,
the rest suffered great agony before
death relived them.
The bodies of Charles O'Hara and
wife, of Barr, Colo, have been found
buried in one corner of their ranch.
The heads of both were crushed in as
Frank Harold, who was employed on
the place, has been arrested, charged
with their murder
Hon. D. N. Stone, who was deputy
state comptroller of Nevada for four
years, and later deputy secretary of
state, died very suddenly at his resi-
dence in Carson from heart failure. He
was president of the state university
when it was at Elko, and was state
senator in 1877 and 1879.
George W. Plummer, aged 4S, beat
his head to jelly with rock near
Baker City, Ore, and then ran half
mile to a ranch, and securing a knife,
cut his throat from ear to ear. He died
almost instantly after cutting his
throat. He had been i'll with la grippe,
and it is thought became insane from
the sickness.
The Fremont Hot Springs company
of Alcova, Wyo., have forwarded an
offer to the managers of both Sharkey
and Fitzsimmons, offering a purse OF
$40, 900 for fight, to take place any
time in June, July or August. The
only condition attached is that the
training shall be at Above, health
resort in Wyoming.
James Maher, an engineer on the
Union Pacific, met with a serious ac-
cident at point midway between
Hampton and Church Buttes. While
running at high rate of speed, the
driving rod of the engine broke, tear
ing through the cab and striking
Maher in the back of the head, infict-
ing probably fatal injuries.
Great excitement exists on the min
ing stock exchange al Colorado Springs
over fabulously rich strike in the
Isabella mine at Cripple Creek. Assays
from the strike run from $780, 900 to
500, 900 to the ton The stock jumped
from 971k cents to 81. so per share, over
100, 900 shares changing hands Six
weeks ago the stock sold at % cents.
c. S. Fitzpatrick, Harrington, New.
sheep-raiser, was found in a room in
Kansas City, one day last week, nearly
dead from inhaling gas and from drink
ing morphine in some mixture. He
says he does not know how he came to
take the morphine, nor who turned on
the gas, and he denies most emphatic
ally any suggestion of attempting sui
eide.
band of twenty-six men wearing