Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-01-02
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Stantly killed IN rdllTOdu WIech near
Kalispell, Mont.
William Myers, brakeman at Raw
Inns. Wyo., had his hand cut off while
cupling cars at Wamsutter.
d. C. .dendenhall, miner, had his
left hip crushed while at work at the
O'Neill mine, Gilpin county, Colo.
William Weber died at the county
hospital in Cheyenne of injuries re-
ceived near Archer station, east Of
Cheyenne.
John Singer. stonemason of Den
yer, and his wife are dead as a result
of drinking oxalic acid, thinking it was
epson salts.
The Helena, Mont, Herald, has
passed into the control of the Record,
and will be issued as an afternoon edi-
ton of that paper
The Elks' lodge of Rawlins had two
Christmas trees and gave to every
child in the city between the ages OF
and IA years a nice present.
Joseph GugIielmo. Portland saloon.
keeper, was stabbed to death by an
Italian whom the saloon man was at
tempting to eject from his place OF
business.
Because his wife objected to his
mother living with them, Otto Erd-
mann. an engineer at the Portland City
waterworks, committed suicide by
shooting himself.
E. E. Johnson, who recently had
both feet frozen while walking from
Montezuma to Breckenridge, has been
declared insane and ordered COM
mitted to the asylum.
Fred Stidd. the 20-year-old boy who
shot Ed Cameron, the deputy sherlff,
at Thermopolis, was captured on the
Red desert in Carbon county and
placed in Jail at Lander, Wyo.
Francis Hayes, a taxidermist of New
Castle, Colo. was arrested last week,
charged with shipping a deer head
out of season. The head was discoy-
cred at Colorado Springs. Hayes was
released on bond of 500.
Shooting deer from a baggage car
was the novel experience of a few OF
the employees of the Northern Pacific
railroad near Missoula, Mont, a few
davs ago. a large buck being shot and
killed by the trainmen.
A brother of Alexander Gordan, the
young man who is supposed to have
committed suicide at Archer station,
east of Cheyenne, on November 3, be-
Iieves his brother was murdered, and
is investigating the affair.
The Pueblo Council refused to pass
a resolution discharging ]. G. Hunter
of Denver, consulting engineer for the
construction of Pueblo's proposed
storm and sanitary sewer system.
Hunter has been drawing 5000 month
for seven months.
Two miners, George Bridge and
Fred Goldstine, were killed in the OJo
mountains, Cal, day or so ago by
DELAYED blast. The men thought the
fuse was not burning, and after wait
ing for an hour, approached the spot
as the blast exploded.
The discovery of natural gas thir-
teen miles west of Douglas is regarded
as the most important event that has
occurred in the industrial development
of central Wyoming. The gas was
struck in an oil well and it shot gravel
and sand far above the derrick.
Charles Summerers, formerly OF In
dependence, Colo, is suing for divorce
from his wife, Anna Summerers, now
residing at that place, on the grounds
of cruelty and desertion. He alleges
his wife threw him out of the house
and would not let him return.
The Great Northern main line track
from Everett, Wash, east from the
Cascade tunnel, has been abandoned
since Wednesday. owing to the bridge
at Madison being carried away by a
snow slide and the tremendous snow
slides between Madison and the tun-
mel.
Word has just reached Denver OF
the death of Professor P. H. Vandiest
at San Luis, in the extreme southern
part of Colorado on Christmas day.
He dropped dead at the feet OF MS
son. although apparently in the best
of health. Professor Vandiest was one