Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-12-04
NORTHWEST NOTES.

David Higgins, pioneer who cam
TO Seattle from California, and estab
Iished the Daily Intelligencer. is dea'
1t the age Of 76..
Sixty single producers. In session
ct Everett, Wash, agreed to form
combination and the price OF shingles
will be advanced.
A Portland, Ore, messenger DO.
was entrusted with 800 to purchase
theatre tickets, and lost the amour
playing faro bank
Sol Fuiks general store at Battle
wyo.. wac destroyed by fire last week
The store was one of the largest IL
that section of the country.
Tom ODay, the bandit, II safe II
fail At Casper, Wyo-, and reports o.
plots to rescue or lynch him are dis
credited. Half the horses stolen By
ODay's gang have been recovered.
Under direction Of United States
Senator W. A. Clark, the directors OF
the Paul Clark home, established by
the son of the Senator, have estab-
lished free souphouse for the desti-
tute of Butte.
Dan Nichols, who is alleged to have
stolen bunch of horses near Dillon,
Mont, last summer and driven them
to Market Lake and sold them to q
resident Of Kearney. Neb., was con-
victed on the first count.
Almost the entire works of the
North American Copper company and
the mine at Grand Encampment, Wyo.,
are closed down. The mine is in ex'
cellent condition, and it is mystery
to the public why it has been closed.
Information received from Sunlight
mining district Wyoming, just across
the Montana line from Red Lodge,
says United States Senator Kearns OF
Utah has secured twenty-six OF the
most promising mining claims in tho
district.
At Dillon, Mont, George Pollack, the
convicted murderer, was given the
limit, ten years, for manslaughter. He
asked the judge to be lenient and was
told that the jury had already been
ienient and that he deserved much
severer sentence.
Rev. Thompson L. Smith, said to be
the oldest of the ex-Confederate chap
lains, died in Denver last week. He
was 80 years old. Mr.. Smith was chap
lain of the famous "Stonewall" bri-
gade and was the intimate friend OF
Lee, Jackson and Early.
Frank Rhodes, a Rock Springs man
65 years of age, is under arrest
charged with rape, his victims being
two girls not yet in their teens.
Rhodes has waived preliminary hear
ing and is held for trial in the Dis
.rict court on $4,000 bonds. J.
The terms of the will Of the late
Henry Klein, a well-known Montana
capitalist, have been made known Be
Ifdes liberal behests to relatives, he
dives to the Wesleyan Methodist uni
rersity and st. Johns Roman Catholic
hospital, both of Helena, $4,000 each.
The attorneys for Frank Keefe, the
lawlins merchant sentenced to four
ears in prison for manslaughter, an
ounce they will take the case to the
supreme Court. While drunk he shot
nd killed officer John Baxter and
brakeman Tom King In his store at
.awlins-
William e. Morse, ranchman on
Try creek, in Wyoming, met death in
n extraordinary manner at the ranch
{ C. H. Eads. During windstorm
svere gust of wind dashed board /,
trough the air, which struck Morse
n the back of the head and crushed
/ his skull. /,
w A. Parsons has been arrested at
arland, Wyo., upon the complaint OF
ia father-in-law, charged with having
10 too many wives. Parsons recently
arried the daughter of A. G. Hickey,
prominent ranchman, and it now de-
slops that Parsons has another wife
the east.
Gay Harshman. self-confessed par
cipant in the fruitless attempt to
I'D up and rob the Oregon Railroad
Navigation company's overland
ain at Corbett station last Septem-
II, has been sentenced to serve a
rm of IL years in the state peniten-
Try.