Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-12-11
NORTHWEST NOTES.


Colonel W. F. Cody is arranging
with wyoming state officers to re-
claim 10000 acres of land in Big
Horn county.
A regiment of the seven companies
of the Montana national guard, the
first since the Spanish war, has been
organized at Butte
A shooting ARRAY occurred last week
In the Bates Hole, Wyo., district, be-
tween Pat Sullivan and Matt
schraeder, ranchmen, Sullivan being
wounded.
Carl, the 3-year-old boy who was
wounded on the head by his father
In Laramie when the latter made mis-
murderous attack on his family on
November 18th, is dead.
Dick Lewis, a colored lad from Spo-
kane, fought a twenty-round draw
with George Siddons of Chicago at
Helena. Lewis was very aggressive
and took a great deal of punishment.
The Rock Springs, Wyo., city coun-
ell has appropriated $500 toward
fund which will be raised by subscrip-
lions for the building of fine road
between Rock Springs and Vernal,
Utah.
David Crismon, a miner, was killed
at Golconda, New, by a premature
blast. Crismon is the man who, about
eight years ago. was imprisoned in
mine near Winnemucca by cave-in
for forty-six days.
The Western Hardware company,
conducting a general hardware bust
ness at Great Falls, Mont, has made
an assignment for the benefit OF its
creditors. The concerns liabilities
are about $1,000.
The bond of Charles Weston, state
auditor of Nebraska, who is under ar
rest at Casper, Wyo., for receiving de-
posits at the Denecke bank, after that
institution was insolvent, has been
raised to $4,000.
Seventeen bodies remain In the
Hanna. Wyo., coal mine. 1t is expect
ed these will all be taken out this
week. The last bodies found were
skeletons, identified by the mine-tags
around their necks.
James Spencer, who was sentenced
last week to two years in the state
prison at Rawlins, Wyo., for forgery,
has admitted his fondness for prison
life, and prefers Incarceration to his
liberty. This is his fourth term.
An important Wyoming gold strike
has been made on the south fork Of
Encampment river by the King Min
ing company. 1t is said that twenty
six-foot vein has been encountered, as
saying $50 in gold to the ton.
James Spencer, the self-confessed
forger. who walked twenty-five miles
to give himself up, has been SEN
fenced at Rawlins to two years in the
penitentiary. Spencer declared that
"it beats h that a man going to
the penitentiary for the fourth time
on the same charge only gets two
years."
P. Bowman, well known resident
of Laramie, Wyo., has been arrested
under a state warrant charging him
with cruelty to animals. Angered at
their laziness, he left team of horses
in his stable without food or water
for several days, the animals being
almost dead from exhaustion when
discovered.
]. Ahern, who has been in charge
Of the Investigations by the geologi-
cal survey in the section about Cody,
Wyo., has completed his work and
left for Washington. He intimated
before he left that the great Shoshone
river project had been determined
upon and accepted. This will reclaim
over 10000 acres of land.
In Cheyenne last week remark
able wedding occurred, when Judge
Alfred D. Gamble Of Hartville and
DR.. l. C. White of Denver were made
one. Judge Gamble is an octogenar-
ian, being "a years Of age, while the
bride is 35 years old. Judge Gamble
was one of the pioneers Of '49, and
later located in Wyoming.
Mary Fitzgerald, 14-year-old
daughter of Policeman Fitzgerald OF
Rawlins, Wyo, is at the point OF
death as the result of a practical joke.
She ran into a barbed wire which