Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-10-24
NORTHWEST NOTES.

The city council of Butte has hung
up the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
franchise indefinitely.
A discovery Of gold was made while
Butte. pan will show many colors
to the glass.
Telephone communication between
Cheyenne and Thei mopolis is COM
pleted and that city is now in toach
with the outer world.
Thomas Clarity met with peculiar
accident at the Pueblo Steel works by
which a bar of white-hot iron pene-
trated his right thigh to the bone.
James Martin. who was to be exc
cuted at Deer Lodge, Mont, next week
for the murder of Brakeman Williams,
has been granted stay Of execution
Two railroad men have discovered
reef of rock in the Tobacco Root range,
situated not far from Butte, assays
from which show s22, 900 in gold per
ton.
The cornerstone OF the new Elk tenn
pie at Cheyenne was laid last week
with imposing ceremonies. Visiting
Elks were present from Colorado and
Wyoming points.
at Golden, John Ebenhack stabbed
Charles Belts in the back with pocket
knife, inflicting painful but not dan
Rerous wound. The quarrel was'sover
receipts at Labor day picnic.
Boulder, Colo, oil we'll operators are
rejoicing over the incoming empty
tank cars now appearing in the yards
there. The shortage had put them at
a disadvantage for some time.
A party of about twenty tourists
arrived at Meeker from Buford, Colo,
one night last week. On one wagon
load were sixteen bucks. Four wagons
were loaded with forty-seven deer.
A blacksmith named Chase, camping
with his wife near Glenwood Springs,
Colo, accidentally shot himse in the
right leg above the ankle, breaking
both bones. His injuries are considered
serious.
Dan Cunningham Camp Bird miner.
crazed by pow der smoke, chased Hugh
McKenno, foreman, about the shaft
house with a revolver and two sticks
of dynamite. He was finally over
powered.
The Butte Miners union last week
forwarded 1859 to headquarters for
the benefit of the striking coal miners
of Pennsylvania, while the mill and
smelter men of Anaconda added $3.50
to the fund.
1t is announced that work on the
new sugar factory at Winsor, Colo, 10
be built by the Winsor Sugar company,
will begin November 18th. The build
ing is TO cost $3.50, 900 and have daily
capacity of 500 tons.
John Dunn. charged with the killing
of Fred Brammaier, boy, on his
fathers ranch on South Boulder creek,
at point about six miles from
Boulder, Colo, last spring, is on trial
in the district court at Boulder.
Moses Decker, a well-known farmer
10 the central part of Gallatin valley,
Montana, met sudden death last week.
He was on top of a load of grain. He
was dragged off and two wheels OF the
wagon passed over his body just below
the heart, breaking nearly all his ribs
on the left side.
The three-yesr-old daughter OF Mich
ael Mccormick. former police officer.
fell from the back porch of the third
door of a building in Dutte, distance
of forty feet. and miraculously escaped
instant death. A physician WAS called
and found that the legs OF the child
were broken, but that she suffered no
internal injuries.
The Atlantic & Pacific Oil company
has issued an order that employees
must not smoke or for any reason light
matches in the engine-house or about
the vicinity of the well now being
driven in the Spring valley field, for
the reason that the great amount OF
gas which is escaping from the well
may cause an explosion
The supreme court has denied the
application for writ of maudamus OF
John W. Sammon to compel secretary
of state of Wyoming to place his name
on the official ballot as a candidate for
Judge of the Third judicial district on
rrrNf f0 a
valid election for judge of the Third
district in November next, regardless
and entirely independent of the ques-
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