Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-07-04
NORTHWEST NOTES.


the 2sth, considerable damage being
done to Strawberries and vegetables.
The rainfall of last week in eastern
Wyoming. from the Montana to the
Colorado line, is estimated to be worth
million dollars to stock raisers and
farmers. Good crops are now assured.
The remains OF Horace Ia msey, who
has been missing for about q month,
were found in the Missoula river last
week. The body had become lodged
in some brush and was discovered by a
fisherman.
The Marion, gasoline launch, took
fire and exploded off Richmond beach,
succeeded in reaching shore, through
timely aid on the part of fishermen,
but the remaining two persisted.
Sandy Young. nephew of State Coal
Mine Inspector Noah Young of Chey-
enne, is dead from the effects of injur-
les received last week. A horse he
saddle was crushed into his chest.
j. c. Mclaughlin is under arrest at
Butte, charged with tapping the wires
of the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany in order to secure information
which enabled him to beat the pool
rooms at that place out of goodly
sum of money.
At Casper, Wyo., E. s. Murphy and
Harry Martin, charged with murder
ing Fred Kassahan on the night of
June 14th, have been bound over to
the term of the district court commence
ing July 18th. Kassahan was killed
on Sheep creek, eighty miles north of
Casper.
In Denver an electric street car
loaded with people returning from
suburban resort, jumped the track and
overturned. eleven persons being SER
iously injured, four of whom are likely
to die. There were about eighty per-
sons on the car and all were more or
less injured.
Governor J. K. Toole of Montana
has sent to the Worlds fair manage
ment communications showing that
the international mining congress,
which will sit at Butte, Mont, during
the first six days of September, will
have representatives from every state
in the Union.
Congressman Mondell has been
petitioned by the residents of the Bat
tie Lake and Grand Encampment min
ing districts to secure Federal aid to
extinguish terrific forest fire which
had been devasting the timber land
near the Wyoming-Colorado line for
the past two weeks.
The largest shipment of wool handled
by the Union Pacific this year passed
through Cheyenne last week in
special train of twenty-six cars. 1t
was the clip of Cosgritf Bros. of Car
bon county, and weighed 1,200, 600
pounds. The shipment is consigned to
Boston commission men and sold for
S145, 900.
w. S. Raglan, a prominent farmer
living south of La Grande, Ore, was
poisoned by strychnine in sugar used
in his coffee. He took salaratus as an
antidote and will recover, but his son
Otis, aged about 20, ate one of the
strychnine crystals and, as a result, is
dead. The presence of the strychnine
in the house is a mystery.
The citizens of Saratoga, Wyo have
raised fund to be-used in prosecuting
violators of the state fish laws The
statutes provide that no person shall
at any time have in his possession more
than twenty pounds of game fish, but
it has been a common practice here
this spring to catch from fifty to 100
pounds of trout from the Platte river
in single day.
The report of S. B H. Tatem, asayer
in charge of the United States assay
office at Helena, to the director of the
mint for the year 1901. just issued,
shows that the value of the gold,
silver, copper and lead produced in
Montana that year was $50, 3S7, 619.01.
OF that amount S4.s02, 71739 was il
gold, SIS, 1874, 452. 90 silver; $50, ISL, s37. "a
in copper and s4ss, 622. OF in lead. AS
compared with the production of 1890,
the decrease is about $4,000, 900 due to
the lessened production of copper.
The case of Grant Smith of Saratoga,
Wyo., is puzzling physicians. Two
weeks ago he was knocked down by