Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-11-13
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Litigation over the title to $50 mule
between Churchill county, Nevada.
ranchers, has cost $500 and is still in
progress.
At Silver City, Idaho, Cornelius B.
Murphy has been convicted of murder
in the second degree for killing Joseph
Shields at that place on October 10.
The Northern Pacific has plans drawn
and adopted for very handsome new
depot and terminal station for Seattle
The improvements will cost about
$500, 600
Jessie Norris Hicks, student of the
California State University, is dead as
a result of injuries received while en-.
gagged in game of football played be-
tween two college teams.
Thes soldier. boys from Big Tim Der
Mont, who served in the Philippine,
were accorded royal reception or
their return home. Each was given
gold watch suitably engraved
The miners at bonanza mine, Baker
City, struck last week. They demanded
a reduction of time from ten to min.
hours onsthe night shift and were re-
fused. All except one employee walk
ed out.
On January 1, 1900, San Francisco
will cease to be the shipping and gen
eral business center of the Pacific Coast
Steamship company, and all of the
local interests of the concern will be
moved to Seattle.
The N. c. 0. railway people are MAX
ing large improvements in Reno, for
the purpose, it is believed, of accom-
modating the large traffic over the road
that will result from it's extension
north into Modoc county, California.
The jewelry store of R. Rehnke g.
Bro, at Ellensburg, Wash, was burg
larized shortly after noon one day last
week. The burglars secured watches
and diamonds valued at $4,000. The
store was closed for lunch less than
half an hour and during that time the
burglars d1d their work.
When Judge Stockslager of Idaho
went to Oregon after his band of 5000
sheep about four weeks ago, says the
HALEY Times, the man from whom he
had bought the sheep a short time be-
fore offered to return him the 5000 that
he had paid on account and pay S1)60
besides to back out of the transaction.
Judge Stockslager refused the money, |
and took his sheep away.
The Aberdeen Packing company's |
creamery at Fairhaven, Wash, was
destroyed by fire last week, the loss
being estimated at $500 The fire I
originated from an explosion probably |
in the lacquer room. The Fairhaven I
Canning company's store house nearby |
was partly burned, and part of S4o,-
600 worth of salmon damaged.
d. Mcmillan of Chicago, and Louis
Cannon of Kansas City, wrestled at the
opera house in Butte last week, for the
championship in mixed wrestling.
Cannon secured the first fall, Graeco-
Roman, in thirty minutes. The next
fall, catch as-catch-can, was secured
by Mcmillan in seventeen minutes.
The third was Graeco-Roman. After
wrestling twelve minutes Mcmillan
got body hold and threw Cannon,
securing the fall In falling Cannon
struck on his head and was SO injured
he was unable to go on with the other
two bouts, and the decision was given
to Mcmillan.
A dastardly attempt at murder was
Sunday night at Red Fork
of Powder river in Wyoming. Some
miscreant placed quantity of giant
powder, fused and capped in the fire
box of George Garland's sawmill boiler
and engine standing on one of the
branches of North Fork of Powder
river The fires were lit under the
boiler, and the crew, consisting OF
George Garland and William A. Soma
maker, the owners of the mill, and
Harry Smith, the engineer, and Frank
Weber, went to breakfast. They had /
barely entered the cabin when the {
charge exploded, scattering the boiler
and engine into fragments. Had they
remained two minutes longer around
the boiler all four of them would prob
ably have been killed.
Harry Eads, miner, was instantly I