Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-10-09
NORTHWEST NOTES.

4 Four men were seriously injured b,
the premature explosion of blast a
the Bonanza mine, near Whitney, Ore
A three days convention OF that por
ton of the Order of Railway Teleg
raphers west OF the Mississippi was
held in Denver last week.
i The switchmens strike on the B.,
"A. & P. road at Butte has been called
OF and all the old men but five will
return to their old positions.
1t is feared that strike Of carpen.
ters and stone masons at Lewiston,
Mont, is bound to occur, and that
building operations will be brought to
| q standstill.
At Cripple Creek the mine owners
are gradually replacing the union
men, and assert that within month
all the properties will be operating
with full force
| J. Johnson Of Rawlins, while hang
Ing revolver on the wall, dropped the
weapon, which was discharged, the
bullet striking him in tn leg, inficting
= painful wound
The Cornucopia mines near Baker
City, Ore. formerly owned by John E.
Sarles Of New York, have been sold
to New Jersey corporation, capital
lied at 100000.
Mrs. Blanche Russell of Spokane
suicided by taking enough aconite to
Kill! dozen persons, dying in great
agony. III health and domestic trou.
bles was the cause
Major Scott ]. Anthony, one of the
earliest pioneers of Colorado, is dead
at Denver. He first came to Colorado
with an OK team in 1860, locating at
California Gulch, now Leadville.
A forty-stamp mill is to be erected
at once at the property of the Mon.
tana Gold Mining company at Jar.
dine, Mont. This will give the COM
pany eighty stamps in operation.
The saloon owned by John Eng
strom at Rawlins, Wyo., was robbed
asst week of 1896. The guilty ones
lave not been apprehended, but two
oafers about the place are suspected
The thugs who have been attempt
ng to extort money from the North
I'm Pacific company are believed to
70 the men who stole ton Of giant
owder from warehouse near Butte
ecently.
Chief of Police Travis of Helena has
eceived notice that unless the two
len recently arrested in connection
18th the Northern Pacific dynamiting
utrages are released, the city Jail will
Q blown up
Sheepmen in the vicinity of White
uiphur Springs, Mont, are being
fused much annoyance by dynamit-
s, number of focks having been
sstroyed. and recently a number of
tempts having been made.
Charles Crossin, aged 81 years.
one mason by trade and a man well
Town In Montana for the past TWEEN
years, committed suicide in Butte
taking morphine sulphate. No
use Is known for the deed.
Matt Tonga, rancher living near
ID Lodge, Mont, was fatally injured
being crushed under a wagon load
with oats. Tonga was driving and
over the front end of the wagon.
wheels passing over his body.
Victor Janejan, the aged slayer of
liam Perrenton, was sentenced at
ssoula, Mont, last week, to serve a
m OF year and half in the peni-
tiary at hard labor. Clemency was
TO the prisoners advanced age.
)r. L. M. Willard of Loomis, Wash.
found dead in bed. behaving sui
cd by taking chloroform, because
Tears that he was going blind. DR..
lard was the stepfather of Hooper
ing, the noted New York. criminal.
he Northern Pacific railway of.
als are said to have received an
or anonymous letter making q
'at against the company's prom
:. This time the dynamiters pro
to blow up the depot at Livings-
Mont
n assault case, in which Mrs. Roy
9, highly respected and promi-
woman OF Gilt Edge. Mont, was
victim, has been brought to light.
liner named Mcnamara, who has
ppeared, has been Identified az
assailant A lynchinp Ia promieea