Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-05-09
NORTHWEST NOTES.

| Ballard, Wash, was caught in the
machinery of the Stimson mill and in
stantly killed. His right leg was torn
, from it's socket.
Thomas B. Douglass, Of Columbia
Falls, was struck and killed by North
ern Pacific passenger train near Eddy,
a small station west OF Missoula. His
remains were quite badly mangled.
Hilary Hieky, aged 10. was shot in
the head and instantly killed at Dem
yer by companion. A. P. Leonard,
aged II. The two boys were practic-
ing at target shooting with rifle
when the accident ACQUIRED.
Joseph Walsh, tramp, has been
taken to the state hospital at Rock
Springs, Wyo., to undergo an amputa-
ton of both feet. He was crushed
under train at Medicine Bow while
attempting to steal ride on the
brakebeams-
About 300 miners employed In the
Durango, Colo, coal district are on
strike because the operators had failed
to adopt the scale submitted by the
union, which calls for SO day for un-
derground work and So. so day for
outside work.
Mrs John L. Kingsbury. wife of the
foreman of the Superior laundry, Den
yer, poisoned her two children, aged 1
year and years. respectively. and her.
self, at her home All are dead De-
spondency is given as the cause of the
woman's rash deed.
The drought in northern Colorado
has broken all spring records for
length and severity, and unless relief
shall come within week the losses to
farmers will be severe. Other portions
of the state. especially the San Luis
valley, are suffering from lack OF
water.
Wool sales at Casper, Wyo., during
the past week amounted to 1900, 600
pounds. The prices ranged from III
to 10 cents per pound, with the aver
age fraction over 10 cents. Six mill
lion pounds of wool have been sold in
Natrona and Carbon counties this
spring.
Later accounts from Sand Creek,
Mont, the scene of the recent rich gold
discovery, tell of general stampede
to the new fields. The ground for
radius of ten miles has been staked of,
miners leaving their work to make
locations in the vicinity of the rich
strike.
Montana's health officers are inTes-
tigating the mysterious malafy called
spotted fever. which is causing panic
in the Bitter Root Valley. Every case
of the disease has been fatal. and up
to the present time it has baffied all
the physicians who have tried to in
vestigate it.
William Haywood, who month ago
killed Ed Stokes during row at Great
Falls. Mont, over a woman. with whom
both were infatuated, has been &C
Quilted by jury for the crime Hay
wood hit Stokes over the head with an
iron pipe. the act. it was alleged, being
done in self-defense-
The largest rainbo trout caught IN
the Big Laramie river within the MEM
ory of man, and the largest caught in
Wyoming for three years. was cap
tured by John Baille near the Fillmore
ranch, Albany county, last week. The
monster was 81 inches in length, TX
inches in girtb, and weighed l051
pounds.
Private Slater Bolts, troop E, First
cavalry, has been acquitted at Lander,
Wyo., of charge of selling whisky to
Indians on the Shoshone reservation. |
The red men became very drunk on /
the liquor and a rough house
resulted. The Indian police were
called in to quell the disturbance and
two of the braves were seriously in
jured. For several days so intense
was the feeling that the troops at Fort
Washable were kept under marching
orders.
Now that the fockmasters of the
central part of Wyoming are getting
their scattered sheep together for the
first time since the storm of two weeks
ago, the fact that losses were very
severe is apparent Just after the
storm it was estimated that $4,000
sheep had persisted in the state, bu.
later reports place the number killed
in Natrona county alone at over 20. ooe-
The Joss sustained by fiocknasters OF
the state in general is now conceded |