Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-12-12
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Two miners were killed and an i'm
mense amount of damage done by a
snow slide near Cornucopia Wash
Mark Kelley, convicted at Butte of
highway robbery. has been sentenced
to fifteen years in the penitentiary.
A movement toward the municipal
ownership of street railways was de
feated at special election held in
San Francisco last week.
During a windstorm at Ilwaco,
Wash. Miss Brumbach, a teacher, was
caught by the wind and hurled against
the building, suffering broken arm.
Through the death of his mother at
Placerville, CAL, Charles Deigleman,
a reporter on the Butte Miner. has
fallen heir to fortune estimated at
about $4,000.
The body of Japanese baby with
it's throat cut from ear to ear was
found in a box on Mount Pleasant, a
suburb of Vancouver. The child was
only about day old.
Harry Johnson, mate of the steamer
Reliable, was drowned in Shoal Water
bay, Washington. Johnson fell back
wards into the water, drowning be-
fore assistance could reach him. The
Ten Northern Pacific freight cars
jumped the track near Homestake,
Mont, and bounded 100 feet down an
embankment, being reduced to kind
ling wood. No one was hurt.
Citizens of Great Falls, Mont, have
inaugurated a movement intended to
secure regular sessions of the Unit
ed States court in that city. The
court now meets at Helena and Butte.
Commissioner of Industry Ferguson
reported that in the last statistical
year Montana saw mills cut 100000
600 feet of timber The lumber alone
had a value of nearly two million dol
lars
Charles Edward Simonis of Eagle
Valley, Ore, convicted of having
poisoned Lena Howell and Nora Wal
lace, two young women, has been SEN
fenced to three years in the peniten-
tiary.
]. w. McDole, an employe of the
Pacific Express company in Butte, is
under arrest, charged with stealing
funds of the company. 1t is asserted
his thefts amount to several hundred
dollars.
Jimmie Michaels, private detec-
tive. was assaulted in Butte by I'M
known persons and is in a critical
condition. Another private detective
G. H. Lufkins, has been arrested on
suspicion.
A store at Springwater, Ore, was
entered by two masked men, one OF
whom held the occupants with two
revolvers while the other robbed the
postoffice which is in the store The
robbers obtained only so cents.
The bill of exceptions in the district
court ruling against new trial LOT
Horn. the convicted murderer OF VII
lie Nickel. will not be taken to the
supreme court until day or two be-
fore the date set for his execution,
January 8, 1908. stay OF execution
until the bill is considered Will then
be demanded
Governor Toole of Montana has or
dered a special election, December
goth in Yellowstone county, to elect
a member of the Legislature me
election was made necessary because
More (Dem.) and Bever (RepD each
received the same number OF VOTES
and is the first instance in Montans
of the kind.
The board of directors OF the Lewis
and Clark Centennial exposition mas
decided to address a letter to the gov
ernor of every state west OF the MIS-
sissippi river inviting them to ask the
cooperation of their states and the
transfer of their exhibits from ST.
I.ouis in 1904 to the Lewis and Clark
centennial.
John Farrell of Butte was found In
the streets in dying condition Far
reu arrived at the house. some time
during the night and 1t is presumed
attempted to climb the stairs to has
room and. overbalancing, fell back
ward to the bottom bursting blood
vessel.
The two paper mills at Oregon City.
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