Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-10-31
NORTHWEST NOTES.

c. r. Wright of Ruena Vista, Colo,
is seriously i'll from the bite of some
kind OF reptile that came in bunch OF
bananas.
Doc Proctor, a stockman living
north OF Las Animas, CAL. drank car
bolic acid by mistake and died several
hours later.
John Mumm. charged with the shoot
ing of James Petere, has been bound
over to the district court at Rawlins in
the sum Of 1000.
Dr. H. A. Cayley, who. it is alleged.
was shot by Editer j. W. Kelly of the
Butte Inter- Mountain, on the night OF
October 18th, died Friday last.
Fossil experts have collected car
load of bones of prehistoric animals in
the Medicine Bow district for the
Carnegie museum at Pittsburg.
John Maepac and Mrs. Peter Sechob-
ich, clippers, were arrested at Cheyenne.
The woman declares she loves her par
amour better than she does her hus-
band.
The formal acceptance of the Grays
harbor jetty by Major Mills, in charge
OF the government engineering work.
marks the completion Of a contract in
volving 81 900, 900.
Employees of the Southern Pacific
railway company will soon submit
demand for higher wages, which it is
said will include every person in the
employ of the road.
Paul Rizech, a carman employed At
tho Butte Reduction works, fell forty
feet in an elevator shaft and still lives,
though he is minus his right arm and
his skull is fractured.
Tho jury in the case of George
Smith, colored. on trial for shooting
and killing his white wife in Portland,
Ore, returned verdict of murder in
the first degree. The penalty is death.
Mrs. Sarah A. Kanouse. the first
white woman TO live in Fort Benton,
Montana, is dead Of heart troubles, ut
an advanced age. She located in Fort
Ben ton in the early 7o's, coming from
Peoria, Ill.
The school census Of Mssoula, Mont,
for the current year, as taken by the
clerk of the school district, shows 2,275
children of school age. The increase
over the school population of last year
is nearly 500.
Mrs. j. MCGEE Of Cherry Creek,
Nevada, claimant to an estate valued
at million, is laid up in Salt Lake
recovering from injuries received in
jumping from a stage at Wells,
Nevada, during runaway.
Owing to an epidemic of smallpox
among the Cree Indians on the reserva-
ton near Havre, Mont, the authorities,
advised by the state board of health,
have decreed compulsory vaccination
and quarantined against the Indians.
The latest freak case of animals in
Helena Is that of an old hen who has
assumed the responsibility of raising a
pair of tiny black kittens, starving and
crying because Of the unmotherly con-
duct of their parent in DESERVING them.
In the forthcoming report of State
Veterinarian NJ. E. Knowles, of Mon
tana, he will present his claim that the
Office of veterinarian pays for itself
many times over in the course of one
year through tho number of free doses
of blackleg vaccine that are given out
to stockmen.
With courage that would have done
credit to any man, Robert Bowie, IA
years Of age, rescued Msbal Stetson,
years Of old, from q vicious Newfound.
land dog on Main street. Meaderville,
Montana, last week. Had it not been
for the courage OF the lad tho little
Qirl would undoubtedly have suffered
serious injuries.
For several years Col. W. f. Cody has
annually participated in hunt for big
game in tho Big Horn mountains OF
and has invariably chaper-
oned distinguished party Of hunters
to the mountain Businesses of that Sec
lion. but the colonel will be compelled |
to forsgo the trip this season on &C
count of Ill health.
Private william Campbell, company
E, Eighteenth infantry, had = remark-
= bls escape from death in the hallway
Of tho Cheyenne opera-house building.
He was intoxicated, and in trying to
reach the balcony, pitched headlong
over the railing of the stair and fell