Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-08-08
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Ernest Sprague was drowned in a
pond while bathing near Ashland,
Mont Sprague dived from the bank
and failed to come up. His remains
were found later stuck in the mud.
1t is now thought that w. j. II.
| White, the absconding treasurer of the
San Francisco board of public works,
is in Seattle. Whites wife has returned
to her parents from Chicago via Sc
attic.
Oliver G. Davis, a member of the Sal
walton Army of Portland, Oregon, is
under arrest in that city on charge
of embezzling $500 from school dis
trct at Oberlin, Decatur county, Kan,
eight years ago.
George w. Baldwin, the ninteen-
year-old lad who in Portland, Ore,
fought duel with bare fists recently
with Frank Carlson, in which the
latter was killed, has been booked on
charge of manslaughter.
IN Leyden gulch, four miles north of
Golden, Colo, and also on Crozier
mountain. twelve miles north of Estes
park The extreme dry weather is re-
sponsible for the spread of the flames.
A Lander. Wyo., dispatch says big
forest fire is raging on the headwaters
of the Popogiac and the Lander valley
is covered by dense smoke obscuring
the sun, giving the appearance OF an
eclipse. A large amount of timber is
being destroyed.
Major Charles E. Ewing, a surgeon
in the United States army, stationed
at Fort Preble, Me-, has located his
brother, Ephraim b. Ewing, who
recently disappeared in Wyoming.
He is at ranch near Alexander, Wy
oming.
]. w. Perry, known throughout the
eastern Montana ranges as BLACK
Perry" notorious cattle rustler, was
shot and killed last week by James
Haynie, foreman of the Hysham Cattle
company. Haynie has given himself
up to the authorities.
At Helena, Mont, a lone highway
man held up Samuel Travis and James
Randall, and after he had robbed them,
compelled Travis to stop street car,
tie handkerchief over his face and go
through the car The robber secured
$50 and made his escape.
E. E. Starrett, of Battle Mountain,
New, accidently shot and killed bis
wife while the couple were on fishing
expedition at Rock creek, twenty-five
miles north of Battle Mountain. While
unloading a gun it was discharged, the
contents entering his wife's body kill
ing her instantly.
Don Martinus, Mexican sheep
herder, was shot and killed near Cop
perton, Wyo., by M. A. Steep, miner,
better known as California Red.
Another herder was also shot at, hut
escaped injury Steep went to Battle
and gave himself up. He claims the
shooting was done in self-defense.
Nine-year-old Anna Christensen, OF
Cheyenne, attempted to start IRA
with kerosene and the can exploded in
her hands. Enveloped in flames she
rushed into the street screaming and
neighbors extinguished her clothing,
but not until she had been frightfully
burned She died in terrible agony.
Jesse johnson, a well-known stock
man of the Sweetwater, killed Kirk
Bowman at Pacific Springs, Wyo., in
the New Fork country, in self-defense,
and came to Lander aud gave himself
up. County Attorney Hardin and
Coroner Schoo Immediately left for the
scene of the shooting and held an in
quest and the jury exonerate johnson.
The trouble arose over a woman.
j. E. Wilson, night tender at the
Missoula electric light plant at Bonner,
was found dead by the day watch on
their arrival at o'clock He lay be-
side the brush, which he had been |
cleaning, in a pool of blood. A huge |
wound in his side showed where some |
portion of the machinery had dealt the |
man a terrific blow and knocked the |
life out of him, probably before he |
realized what happened.
Harry Grum, a laborer, met fright
full death while engaged in moving a
barn at Butte. Grum was on the ridge
of the barn and grasped two wires that
were in the way with the intention of
removing them, when he received
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