Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-06-09
NORTHWEST NOTES.

The total wheat shipments from the
Northwest for the season from July,
1898, to June, 1899, were 24,557 ,s25
bushels.
The Wyoming frontier day committee
has selected August % and "a as the
dates for holding this years Wyoming
frontier celebration
James L. Lassiter of Stafford. Ariz.,
ing by his bed preparing to retire. The
murderer shot through the window.
w. J. Bennett, an architect of La
Grande, while in Union, Or, or BUSH
ness, took poison and died in few
hours. Business troubles is supposed
to be the cause
In a head-end collision between an
eastbound passenger and fast freight
on the Northern Pacific seventy miles
west of Missoula. Mont, an unknown
man was killed and fireman named
English badly wounded.
hB CAL NiilOTus DIT Tile (nc CHIC ito-
ervation in Montana, has called for
additional troops. and fifty men have
been sent from Fort Keogh. Officers
will not talk, and the cause of the
requisition is not known.
The parties who swindled the Jewish
colony of Lyon county, Nevada. out of
$500 have been located in Philadel-
phia, and an effort will be made to get
them back to Nevada under indictment
and punish them for their crime.
The $4,000, 900 combine of Pacific
coast cracker factories has fallen
through, owing to the inability or dis
inclination of its eastern preceptors to
make good the financial emoluments
held out by them some time ago.
John Carruthers, the Lafayette,
Colo, merchant who jumped from a
rapidly moving Burlington train when
mentally deranged, was found wan
dering over the prairie by farmer.
His only injuries appear to be severe
bruises.
Samuel L. Findley, the tax collector
of San Louis Obispo county, Cal,
from where he disappeared in Novem-
Der last with from S12, 900 to SIS, 900
of the county's money, has arrived in
New York from Lima, Peru. He is
under arrest.
John Green, driver of the stage
which phys between Hawthorn and
Bodie. Nevada, was killed last week
when the stage went over an embank
nent. There were no passengers in
he stage and it is not known what
caused the accident.
The interior department having re-
considered it's recommendation that |
Fort Washable be abandoned, the /
order withdrawing the garrison has /
been countermanded and the post will |
,e maintained. The decision causes
,reat satisfaction as trouble with the
indians, it was feared, would follow
abandonment.
A prize fight took place in Butte last
week. As prize fighting in Montana
5 illegal, no tickets were sold, and
My those were admitted who held an
invitation" The fight wound up in
general row in which about a hun
red men took part No one was seri-
usly injured, but courtplaster was
luch in demand.
Otto Gebhour, a German, who was
to the state insane asylum
4 Nevada twenty-five years ago, and
Tho has remained in the institution
yer since, has been sought for years
y relatives who last week discovered
is whereab bouts, and he will be taken
} the Fatherland. 1t develops that
ebhour is member of the German
obility.
A passenger train on the o. r. s. n.
ear Spokane collided with a handcar
'ntaining some Japanese section
ands. A crowbar on the handcar
as driven through the abdomen and
lp of one of the Japanese, protruding
ON his back. One of the men held !
i'm while two others pulled the bar ,
1T. He was taken to Colfax for ,
eatment and may recover. {
The ordering out of fifteen soldiers
it'll carbines and side arms at Miles
ty, Montana, is said to have been
used by some of the Indians resist
g arrest by the Indian police. A de- I
chment of fifty cavalrymen has left n