The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-07-20
NORTHWEST NOTES,

Eon, was drowned near MehAma, Win.
attempting to ford the river.
A. W. Rynearson, one of the wealth
lest ranchers in Oregon, was drowned
In the Grand Ronde river on the 2srd.
The rivers all over Wyoming, ana
especially the North Platte and RI,
Laramie rivers, are rising rapidly. An
streams are higher than for many year,
past.
Notice has been given of a general
increase of 10 per cent in wages at th.
Bessemer Steel works of the Colorado
Fuel & Iron company at Pueblo. About
1,700 men are benefited.
Engineer stridley, who is in charge
of the large party of Union Pacific sur.
veyors engaged in the work of survey.
ing the Athol hill cut off, south o,
Cheyenne, has issued instructions 10
rush the work as rapidly as possible.
Pete Horn, the colored soldier who
has been on trial at Denver for the
murder of his comrade, Private Albert
Pemberton, at Fort Logan on April 10,
was found guilty of manslaughter.
The extreme penalty for manslaughter
is three years Imprisonment.
During the past few weeks a number
OF cars of inf1ammable merchandise
have been destroyed by fire while pass.
ing over the Wyoming division of the
Union Pacific, and strict orders have
been issued to all conductors to haul
cars of inflammable freight in the rear
end of trains.
At a session of the Cumberland
Presbyterian assembly, a speech was
delivered by the Rev. Chalmers Bourne
Of Texas, denouncing the Roman Cath.
Ollie church. He stated that it was
very difficult for Protestants to do
successful proselyting where the Cath.
Ollie church had established missions.
Solomon Bachart, young man liv.
ing near Marks Prairie, Oregon, was
found in the woods last week having
shot himself. Miss Hilton, aged II.
living near Marks Prairie, was as
saulted and dragged from her horse by
Bachart She reported that Bachart
tried to kill her. Bachart belongs to
q respectable family.
{ The Butte trades and labor organ.
/ izations have adopted resolutions in
, sympathy with the Wardner miners,
and in which they declare that "a
reign Of terror prevails in the town
: and vicinity of Wardner, Ida, brought
about by un- American, tyrannical and
, outrageous mandates promulgated by
| General Merriam"
Charles W. Whitney and Frank
Whitney, brothers, were drowned at
Palouse rapids, about three miles be-
: low Grange, Wash, on the construc.
ton line of the Snake River Valley
railroad They were shooting the
rapids in a canoe, when it struck
r rock and capsized. Both men were
4 carried down by the strong current
The order for the abandonment OF
0 Fort Washable, Wyo., has caused con-
). sternation among the people of Ian
ders, which is in close proximity to the
Wind River reservation, upon which
o are located some 1000 Arapahoe and
Shoshone Indians. 1t is feared the re.
!, moval of the troops will be the signal
r for an outbreak between the two
l. tribes, who are not on very friendly
$ terms.
70 The unwatering of seven great silver
% mines of Creed, Colo, was begun IN.
y expectedly when diamond drill,
which was being operated in the Nell
', son tunnel, tapped the bottom of the
= Chance shaft. Seven big mines will be
- drained by the Nelson tunnel, includ-
IS ing the Chance, Commodore, Amethyst,
% and New York. The lower workings
p Of these mines were all abandoned
" some time ago on account of the water
which was hundreds of feet deep
II An attempt was made upon the life
>. Of Captain William c. Brown, COM
=. mander of Fort Washable, by one OF
a his men, Private James r. Workman,
), Workman imagined that the captain
N had not treated him right, and filling
n. himself up on beer, went after the cap
20 tain. He was discovered by the guard
>. before he had done any damage and
= disarmed and thrown into the guard
~ house. Workman subsequently suf-
fered from severe attack of deliriun
tremens.
While fording stream near Lusk,
30 Wye, Elliot w. Brown foreman of the
y. New York livestock company, and one
al Of the best known men of the state
I'd met death in very peculiar manner
"a. The current was very swift and carried
q. the horse which Brown was riding
he off its feet The animal was rolled
nd over, throwing Brown against rock
"a knocking him senseless. The men Of
IN his outfit got him out of the stream
es after he had gone down three times
n An attempt was made to resucitate him
but without avail.
The remains of man were found OF
the 22nd ult., near Tie Siding, Wyo
=. Deceased had evidently been lost in
:. storm and fallen over precipitou