Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-04-04
NORTHWEST NOTES.

of Colorado have decided to abolish the
farm at the pen.
Mark NJ Ferns, aged 40. came to his
death in Denver, as the result of fight
in which he engaged with John Miller,
aged %.
William Beal, who shot John Swan
son last October in the Hotel Colorado.
Denver. was found guilty of murder II
the second degree
Julius Seefelt, IS years old, was
killed in the shingle mill of Donohue
& Pearsall at Everett, Wash. by being
thrashed about revolving shaft.
Two of the features of the Colorado
exhibit at the st. Louis exposition will
be number of live wild animals and
an aquarium filed with native fish.
c. B. Hopkins of Spokane, has been
formally installed as United States
Marshal for the district of Washington
to succeed C. w. Ide of Tacoma, whose
term expired.
Governor Toole of Montana has set
aside May 10 as Arbor day. In his
proclamation the governor asks that
one tree be planted in the memory Of
the late President Mckinley.
One million eggs of the rain bow trout
will be taken at the collecting station
on the Big Laramie river this spring
and Matched here, breaking all records
at the Wyoming state hatchery
Charles Clark, OF Oakley, Wyo.,
while handling a pistol, accidentally
shot the 1-year-old babe of Mrs. I. w.
Talmage. The bullet has not been ex-
tracted and the babe is getting along
nicely.
An independent telephone line to be
used for local business between Lara
mie and Cheyenne only, and not asso-
ciated in any way with the movements
of trains, is being put in by the Union
Pacific.
John Cobie, head of the Iron Noun
Cheyenne in consultation with the at
torneys for Tom Horn, the stock de-
tective charged with the murder OF
Willie Nickel.
Willie Butler and Frank McCabe,
lads 10 and IL years of age, respective
ly, appeared at the Lincoln school at
Anaconda, Mont, in state of intoxi-
cation. The bartender who sold them
liquor will be prosecuted.
A petition containing AL names has
been forwarded to Governor Toole of
Montana, asking that the life of Clin-
ton Dotson, convicted of numbering his
father, be spared and sentence COM
muted to life Imprisonment.
Mrs. Loretta Orcutt, who has been
held in custody at Billings, Mont,
since the 9th inst, on charge of MUIR
dering her husband, Charles Orcutt,
has been discharged from custody.
The killing is still mystery.
A. B. Cooley, rancnman from Sher-
man, fell on the streets of Cheyenne,
and, striking his chin on the pavement,
fractured the left side of the jawbone
and sustained severe brain conclusion.
He was taken to the county hospital.
Thomas j. Wilson has been acquitted
by the jury at Phillipsburg, Mont, of
the charge of numbering Levi C. John-
son. johnson was formerly deputy
sheriff, and was killed during quar-
rel with Wilson. Self-defense was the
plea.
Charged with the murder of r. G.
Barnum, their former partner, Harry
Banks and a half-breed named st. Clair
were last week taken back from Seattle
to Kalispel, Mont, near which place
the crime is alleged to have occurred
last month.
For the first time in the history of
Montana cattle-raisers have invaded
the eastern market with good-sized
shipment of beeves, an Anaconda firm
last week shipping 1000 head of cattle
to Chicago, and the venture has not
only aroused considerable interest
among the stockmen of Montana, but
will be watched carefully by them.
The members of the Royal Arcanum
of the state of Washington have or
ganized grand council of that body.
This means that the order now has
over 1000 members in the state, that
many being necessary before this ac-
tion became possible.
Portland has more wheat afioat for
the United Kingdom at the present