Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-10-03
NORTHWEST NOTES.

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closed.
| R. M. Whalen was killed at Butte on
wires, he having come in contact with
wires carrying current of 2,20o volts
The employees of the Rocky Noun
| tain Bell Telephone company have
been called out and strike inaugurated
| in the states of Montana, Icaho and
| Utah.
Livingston, Montana, is to have big
smelter plant. A document has been
filed appropriating $4,000 inches of
water from the Yellowstone river just
south of the city.
Oscar Helde, seventeen-year-old
boy, accidentally shot himself in the
| mouth with 44-calibre Winchester
The bullet came out at the top of his
head.
The east and west-bound flyers col
lided at Tonka, Just east of Carlin, Ne
vada, on the 2srd. Engineer Warner
was fatally hurt. None of the passen-
gers were injured and traffic was not
seriously delayed.
A Butte dispatch says the Oregon
Short Line is contemplating an extern
sion of it's st. Anthony branch to the
National Park, and work on it will be-
gin next spring. A portion of the
route has already been surveyed.
Major M. L. Bridgeman, who was re-
Gently removed as Indian agent at the
Fort Belknap, Mont, agency has been
arrested on charge of classifying his
accounts. The Federal grand jury has
indicted him on thirty-nine counts.
Martin Dale is the nominee for con-
gress of the labor party of Montana.
The conference committee will effect
naming of the nominees for associate
justices of the state supreme bench.
Since the Great Falls, Mont, land
Office opened for business on August 1st
more than POS final entries have been
made on homesteads and desert land
entries. The receipts aggregate to ex-
coed $50, 900 and are steadily elm bing-
At IL o'clock Saturday night two
masked men held up the Natatorium,
securing about 5000. Four guests were
relieved of their valuables, one being
struck over the head with pistol be-
cause he did not move quickly enough.
Colorado is taking up the scheme OF
Salt Lake, carried out years ago, when
Utah car made the tour of the east.
The Colorado people win send out
whole train, erything grown in Colo
RADIO, from the locomotive to the rear
platform.
A monster benefit for the striking |
miners in the Pennsylvania coal fields ,
is being arranged by Butte miners,
with the sanction and assistance of |
President Dan Mcdonald, of the Amer
lean Labor union. 1t is expected that
$1,000 will be raised by the coming
benefit.
j. M. Harris, postmaster at Altyne,
Mont, while examining mining prop
was being lowered in bucket when
the cable broke and he was precipis
tated to the bottom of seventy-foot
shaft. Several bones were broken
and he was badly shaken up.
The most important work done by
the Union Pacific since the construc-
ton of the main line from Omaha to
Ogden, it is stated on good authority,
will be commenced at Cheyenne early
n the spring of 1903 and will be the
louble tracking of the line from
omaha to Ogden,
John M. Davis was shot and killed |
~ William Norvel at Hinsdale, Mont.
rhe men had been drinking and from
oking arose the quarrel. Both men
'ulled guns. Norvel shot twice. one
+ the bullets severing the jugular
Elm. Davis gun was found cooked
~ unuiecndrBc Gu, having idiieo W ~
fl.
President Mayer of the Western Fed
ration of Miners declares that the
ondition Of the camps in the Fernie
!. c., district, from which he has just
stunned, is as bad as Siberia. Mr..
layer says the companies own every
hing in camp and and even exercise
Mr.. Mayer declared, on
hat their employees should read. !,
The nineteenth annual session Of the
rand lodge, Knights of Pythias, of
Yyoming, was held in Rock Springs