Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-06-13
NORTHWEST NOTES.

did considerable damage to the North
ern Pacific company's track.
Fire at Wadsworth, Nevada, did
damage to the amount of $50 900. The
fire started in the kitchen of a hotel.
At Lamona, Wash, Mike Lahey fell
between two cars and his body was
almost cut in twain. Death was in
Simultaneous.
At Noblesville, Mont, the Brooks
family came near meeting death in a
fire which destroyed their home. Two
| girls when rescued were almost suffo-
Gated.
coroner's inquest reveals the fact
that the body of the man found near a
smelter in Butte last week was that of
John Reed and that he had been MUIR
dered.
Senator Clark of Wyoming has been
authorized to report favorably on the
bill for the opening of the Ute Indian
reservation in Colorado to the free
homes act
The Building Trades Council of Den
yer has called off the strike which has
paralyzed all building in Denver for
the past two weeks, directly affecting
5000 mechanics.
The first suit in Wyoming in regard
to the right to use water for irriga-
tion was begun at Laramie last week.
The ranchmen are watching the suit
with much interest.
Doctors who have been investigating
| the cases of spotted fever in the Bitter
Root valley, Mont, give the opinion
that the disease is caused by the bite
of tick peculiar to the district.
1t is expected that Chief of Police
Reynolds will begin to wage war on
the gamblers of Butte who are main
tanning houses in direct violation of
the state law and the city ordinance.
Joseph Turner, a saloon keeper of
Butte, engaged in pistol duel with
George Casey, whom Turner claimed
money. Neither of the men were hurt.
John Moen. Butte miner, was in
stantly killed by the explosion OF
stick of giant powder which he struck
with his pick while loosening quanti-
! ty of rock before shovelng into car.
Bessie Tristler, a ffteen-year-o
school girl, of Puyallup, Wash, at
tempted suicide by jumping from
bridge into the river, but was rescued.
The act was the result of an ailment
of the eyes.
William A. Morgan of Frannie, Big
Horn county, Wyo., has commenced
suit in the federal court at Helena,
Mont, against TIVE MY i've residents of
Carbon county, Mont, to establish his
right to the waters of sage creek. He
bases his claim on priority of location
and use.
N. NJ. Parsons, of Rawlins, Wyo.,
carries valuable relic of the war of
the rebellion. 1t is ladies' gold watch
ldr. Parsons took from the dead body
of General T. T. Tracey, c. S. A., at
India, Miss, September IL, 1862. The
case bears the inscription: From
George to Marth Washington"
Grand Encampment special says
that within the next six months the
Ferris Haggerty mine will be giving
employment to more than 300 men.
The company has decided to install
500-ton capacity concentrating plant
at the mouth of the mine and repre-
sentatives are now in Denver purchas-
ing machinery.
While excavating in Cheyenne, work
men uncovered the complete skeleton
of man. The bones lay under two
and half feet of tightly-packed earth
and were badly decayed. The absence
of buttons or vestiges of cloth about
the bones leads the authorities to be-
lieve that the body buried at the spot
was that of an Indian.
The Union Pacific Coal storage
building at Echo, Wyo., was destroyed
by fire last week. The origin of the
fire is unknown, but it is thought to
have caught from the sparks from
passing train. The track was de-
stroyed for 200 feet on each side of the
building, the rails being warped and
twisted by the intense heat.
The smelter for the New Rambler
mine, forty miles south of Laramie,
Wyo., has arrived from Denver. 1t
will be stored in the city until the
roads to the mine are in q condition