Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-08-04
NORTHWEST NOTES.


b. premature blast In the Leon
ard shaft at Butte. Matt Hohta was in
stantly killed and Ben Wilson badly
injured.
Elwood Mead has resigned his posi-
tion as state engineer of Wyoming to
devote his entire time to his new posi-
ton of irrigating expert
President A. l.. Mohler of the Ore
gon Railway & Navigation company
has been asked TO take the presidency
of the Big Four at salary of S35, 200
year
Indian Agent Clapp of the Pine
Ridge agency denies the reported bat
tie between cowboys and Indians on
the Cheyenne river, which was re-
Gently sent out.
Charles w. Rymen of Cheyenne has
been recommended to the president
for supervisor of the census for the
district of Wyoming, by both Senators
Warren and Clark.
The old fountain geyser in the yell
lowstone National park has broken out
in another portion of the crater The
eruptions, which are enormous,
throw out rocks and pieces of wood.
According to the Reno Journal, or.
ders have been received from Wash
ington for all the silver at the Carson
mint. There are eight or ten carloads
of dollars and bullion. in storage
there.
Near Pine Grove, Wyoming, Gus
Smith was engaged in hauling wood
when the wagon tongue broke, his
team ran away, the wagon was upset
and Smith landed underneath the load,
killing him instantly.
Another big shipment of cattle from
White Pine county, Nevada. was sent
out last week. The herd was composed
of all kinds of range cattle, having
quite per cent of cows and calves.
They were shipped to the eastern mar
xet.
Montana authorities are looking for
Frank Boyle, former Salt Laker, who
IS accused of swindling Montana men
by representing himself as an agent of
The Western Loan & Savings company
If Salt Lake and selling stock, pock
,ting the proceeds.
The steam shearing plant of Messrs.-
'hurtliff & Houtz at billiard, Wyo.,
vas destroyed by fire Sunday. The
oss is $1,000 with no insurance, and
Includes thirty shearing machines,
ngine boiler and buildings. The fire,
S believed to have been accidental.
Senator Warren in response to an.
INQUIRY made by him to the war de-
artment, received the following re-
ly from the Acknowledgements: "Wyo--
ling troops will leave Manila as soon
S Grant can be coaled. Delay has
cen caused by heavy rains and de-
tructive typhoons."
The barbed-wire on ranch fences in.
Gala, is being utilized
nth success for telephoning between
owns. r. c. Dickinson of Stockton,
ut in batteries and boxes and tried
lie novel system. 1t was about four
tiles over the line and he claims that.
lie sound was carried better than by
lie regular system.
There are now hundred men en-
oyed on the site of the new town
ear Truckee, New, where the pulp
ant will be built These are prin-
pally engaged at present in building
for the employees of the.
'mpany. Excavations have also been.
ade prepatory to building the dam
divert the water from the river.
hirty carloads of brick for the build
G have been ordered.
The supreme court of Colorado has
firmed the validity of the law estab-
shing the new county of Teller,
hich embraces the Cripple Creek dis.
let. The county was formed from
'rtions of Ell Paso and Fremont coun-
IS by the last legislature and citizens.
the latter county resisted the action
/ the ground that it was contrary to
e constitution of the state.
Fred Harvey, 10 years old, was gored
death by bull on a farm about
even miles from Spokane. The bows
dy was found in clump of bushes
his father. The lad had crawled
tree, pulled himself to half-re-
ming position and died in that atti-