The Philipsburg mail., 1900-06-01
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Asa A. Start, aged G' years, whose
relatives live near Spokane, Wash
met instant and violent death on
Vashon island by the breaki1 of a
stump-puller.
The north peak of Mount Lassen,
CAL, is thought to be in state of ac.
tivity. Rumbling noises and a heavy
column of gray smoke come from the
mountain recently.
Joseph Sullivan of Spokane, Wash,
who had recently entered the employ
OF the Northern Pacific railway, was
accidently run over and killed by a
derrick car last week.
The shingle trust composed of nearly
300 shingle miles in Western Washing
tlon has been broken by the refusal of
the big mills to continue shut down.
All mills will resume at once,
AN engine and seven empty cars of
the Santa Fe were thrown in to the bay
| at San Francisco last week from the
new Santa Fe wharf by the breaking
OF an apron. No one was killed.
In Los Angeles the California League
OF Republican Clubs adopted platform
endorsing the administration of Presid-
ent Mckinley and favoring the election
OF Senators by the direct vote of the
people.
The Japanese Consuls in Puget Sound
section are alarmed at the fact that
many OF the Japanese already there
are not securing work and have united
in petition to the home Government
to stop the influx.
Ed. Osborne, Union Pacific tele-
graph operator, was instantly killed
at Hillscale, Wyo., last week. He
jumped from an eastbound passenger
and fell under the wheels, which cut
him in two. He leaves a widow.
Lionel I. Smith of Portsmouth, N.
H. who was found dead in box car
at Laramie. Wyo., recently, and at
first thought to have died from alco-
ho]ism, was murdered and robbed. He
was hit on the head with a blunt in.
strument, the blow being of sufficient
force to cause death.
The wool-growers of Casper, Wyo.,
are holding out for 1s and 20 cents per
pound for their wool but eastern buy
ers say they will not pay more than
Is cents. The wool-growers say they
are confident that the price will adj
vance in the near future and are not
anxious to sell at present figures.
The biggest mining deal that has
been negotiated in the SLOGAN, B. c.,
for many months has just been put
through. Frank Woods, superinten-
dent of the Last Chance, on Noble Five
mountain, has disposed of his one-tenth
interest in the mine for $10o, 900 to DR..
Hendricks of Minneapolis, one of the
biggest stockholders.
An ugly leak has developed in the
Castlewood reservoir, Colo, and there
is danger of it's giving away. The
reservoir contains 1So acres, with
capacity of 1000, 900, 900 gallons and is
brimming full. Farmers living in the
vicinity have been warned and there
are horsemen ready to give further
warning if the dam goes out.
A head-end collision occurred at
Cooper Lake, Wyo., last week between
two Union Pacific passenger trains.
Fortunately no one was injured, but
the engines and a number of mail cars
were bady damaged. The accident
was caused by both trains taking the
siding when but one should have done
SO.
Reports received by John Springer,
president of the National Livestock
association at Denver, Colo., shows
that the spring storms have been very
destructive to cows and calves on the
range. Some Colorado points report a
loss OF 10 per cent in young stock, and
indications are that the loss will be at
least as severe throughout Wyoming
and Montana.
The Superior Oil company has filed
articles of incorporation at Cheyenne,
Wyo., and is capitalized at $40, 500, 900.
The company will enter into competi-
tion with the Standard Oil company
and the Continental Oil company
throughout the territory west of the
Missouri river. They have acquired
the largest part of the oil territory in
the vicinity of Casper, Wyo., and will
expend 5000, 900 this year in the con-
struction of pipelines, pumping sta
tions, storage tanks, refineries and in
drilling new wells.
Secretary e. P. Snow of the state
board of sheep commissioners has re-
Gently returned from Green river
where he caused the arrest of man