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

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vania Melted in the neighborhooc Of
50, 900.
A Chinaman who had leased the Sal
mon creek placers, near Baker City
Ore, found gold nugget last week
worth $1,000.
Two trains collided on curve be-
tween Columbus and Park City, Mont,
two men being killed and the engine
and mail cars wrecked.
Patrick Kelly of Helena, aged s.
years, fell dead in the hallway OF the
first floor at the Finlen hotel at Butte
on Friday as result of heart failure.
An eighteen-year- boy who was
cut in two by Union Pacific train six
miles east of Cheyenne has been identi-
fed as Albert Trudeoo of Sioux City,
Iowa.
Henry Breitenstein, editor of the
Labor News and Socialist candidate for
governor, has left Wyoming, and the
Socialists will have to find another
candidate.
Thomas Mccormick, rancher living
near Laurel, Mont, was thrown from
his horse and dragged a considerable
distance, receiving injuries which may
prove fatal.
While Charles Booth, aged s, was
la -, . a a<.I-c q
Falls, Montana, he was struck by q
switch engine and instantly killed, be-
ing badly mangled.
A man entered a saloon at a railroad
camp near Carlin, Nevada, and ordered
the proprietor to throw up his hands
Instead, the proprietor whipped out
revolver and shot the would-be hold-up,
killing him instantly.
John w. Burns, Labor party candi-
date for sheriff and for thirteen years
a miner in the Rocky Fork mines, was
killed at Deer Lodge. Mont. by falling
from ledge of rock to the floor of the
room, distance of eight feet.
The ordinance recently passed by the
Cheyenne council making gambling
misdemeanor punishable by fine or i'm
prisonment was last week enforced for
the first time when three proprietors of
gambling houses were fined 500 each.
The coroner's jury that Investigated
the Union Pacific wreck that occurred
at Rawlins, Wyo., in which four men
lost their lives, returned verdict that
the wreck was due to gross carelessness
on the part of the railroad. The wreck
was caused by the failure of the air
brakes of freight train TO work.
Hop-piclsing in Washington is now
practically over. Hop-growers are
disappointed over the yield, which is
ope-fifth below what was expected.
Dry weather prevented the hops from
maturing. Oregon crops are just re-
versed and will reach 1000 to 90, 900
bales as compared with 10000 last
year.
resolution has been introduced in
the Portland city council allowing
gambling houses, slot machines and
disorderly houses to run under police
regulations. 1t is claimed that the
revenue which the city will derive from
these various sources il the resolution
is passed will be in excess OF $4,000 |
per month.
A riot occurred at Fenelon, Nevada, |
one day last week, as result of which |
]. C. Sullivan sustained a serious gun
shot wound. The riot occurred be-
tween about thirty Greeks and Sulli-
van, who Is sub-contractor. The |
trouble arose over a misunderstanding |
about wages. The Greeks attacked
and in the melee he was shot.
Boyd Kirk, an engineer at the cleo
trio light house at Rawlins, Wyo was
killed by an electric shock.
No one was in the room with him at
the time of the accident, and it is not
known just how it happened. 1t is
thought that Kirk, in making the
switch, lad taken hold of the rods with
both hands and received the full force
Of 1900 volts through his body.
The Colorado & Southern has COM
menced the strengthening OF the
bridges OF its Wyoming division pre-
paratory to the hauling Of heavier
shipments of ore from the mines at
Sunrise to the works Of the Colorado
Fuel s. Iron company at Pueblo. At
present about $50 tons day are
hauled, but after November LIST the
output is to be increased to 1000 tons a
lay.