Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-02-13
NORTHWEST NOTES.

passed both houses of the Oregon legis
lature.
The Oregon legislature has passed
bill limiting the days work for female
to ten hours.
All the gambling houses in Anaconda
Mont, have been closed by order OF tn
county attorney
Walter w. Brooks, Butte bartender
found his wife in room with Oliver
Chevrier barber, and killed Chevrier
The annual meeting of the American
Cattle Growers association, scheduled
to be held in Denver the first week O.
March, has been postponed indefinitely
The second annual Wyoming In
dustrial convention convened in
Cheyenne on the 3rd, 200 delegates be-
ing present, representing every town
in the state.
Two masked men entered saloon at
Reno, Nevada, and robbed the cash re-
gister of trifing sum. There were
about fifteen patrons in the place but
they were not molested
1t is being claimed by some that the
bill introduced in the Wyoming legis-
lature was intended to save Tom Horn,
the convicted murderer of Willie
Nickel, from the gallows.
The breaking of an elevator cable in
building in Denver caused the MAIN
ing and bruising of seven persons, one
of whom may be crippled for life. The
elevator dropped three stories.
Daniel Mcdonald, who was arrested
on suspicion of having shot his room
mate, John Barnbardt, in Colorado
City, Colo, was released, it having
developed that Barnbardt suicided.
Louis Leslie, prominent mining
man OF the San Juan country, was
caught in snowslide near Ophir, Colo,
and is supposed to have persisted. A
large force is searching for his body.
News from Peck, Mich, is that Ira
Presley, tried at Missoula, Mont, re-
Gently and acquitted of having murder |
ed his wife at their ranch near Iron
Mountain, had committed suicide there.
The supreme court has decided that
no franchise tax could be collected from
the Northern Pacific Express company
by the State of Montana, because the
concern was engaged in interstate COM
merce.
Two masked men held up the post
master at Echo, Wash, on the night of
the 3rd and relieved him of $780, Most
Of the money taken was trust funds
left with the postmaster for safe
keeping.
The grand jury called to investigate
The tragedy which occurred at Ely,
Nevada, on January 7, when Mine
Manager Taylor and Caskill killed
hree striking miners, generating the
wo men.
Valentine Casagranda, miner of 5
.eadville, Colo, shot his wife twice, {
probably mortal wounds, and {
hen committed suicide. The couple
we're separated and jealousy was the ,
ause of the tragedy.
the Business Mems Association OF
Billings, Montana, last week sent q +
elegram to the delegation in congress 8
'om that state asking them to do what
yer they could to have the Grow res L
rvation thrown open.
The Epcampment Lum Der and Trans
ortation company, located at Encamp- r
ent, Wyo., one of the largest enter O.
rises of its kind in the west, employ b
x more than hundred men with d
cams, has become insolvent CT
Congressman Mondell has introduced "
bill authorizing the secretary Of the %
terror to issue a patent to the City of =
lffalo, Wyo., for certain tracts OF b.
nd embraced within the abandoned L
'rt Mckinney military reservation. q
From Dillon, Montana, comes the sr
port that cattle are in a deplorable "'
ndition, and that unless warm
'ather sets in at once this will be .,
2 worst winter that has been known nr
the state of Montana for good many eli
ars. Ye
Wolves are being driven from the VI
untains and have begun to attack -
tile near Dillon, Mont. Large packs -.
wolves have come down into the .
ley and are becoming so fierce no
It it is unsafe to venture far un- fms
ned inl