Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-06-05
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Reno, New, last week. Heart failure
was the cause of death.
The Audubon society of Wyoming
is preparing to take steps to enforce
the state law prohibiting the killing
Of song birds at any season.
Marvin G. Tufford, an old soldier 65
years of age, with only one leg, was.
run over and killed by an electric car
on the Piedmont line at North Albina,
Ore, last week.
Ten suspected crooks who were ar
rested and held in Cheyenne during
the visit of President Roosevelt, were
released from custody after the depar-
ture of the president.
coroners jury sitting at Noxon,
Mont, returned a verdict to the effect
that Paul Wagnitz, the missing coun-
ty assessor, whose remains were
found in the river, was murdered. His
skull was crushed in.
elected congressman in the First dis
trict of Oregon last week to succeed
the late Thomas Tongue, defeating
A. E. Reames, Democrat, by approx
mately 1900 plurality
By a vote of 33 to 81, the delegates
to the convention of the American La
Dor union have voted to retain the
headquarters at Butte, Mont. The
proposition was to remove the head
quarters to Denver.
John Flynn, a wealthy farmer living
near La Sale, Mont, was found dead
in a saloon in La Sale at a. m. one
day last week. He was known as
peaceable man, and it is believed he
was murdered for his money.
The saw mill of Sclagel Klingen-
smith, at Athens, Mont, burned to
the ground one day last week, entail
ing a loss of $4,000. Flying sparks
set the plant of Kelsey Brothers afre,
and that mill was also destroyed.
Edward Spencer, convicted at Spo-
kane of the murder of Ella Mundt, has
been sentenced to thirteen years in
the penitentiary. Spencer was paying
attention to the young woman, and
shot her while crazed with drink.
James S. Keerl, one of the best
known mining engineers in the North
west, was found guilty at Helena last
week of murder in the second degree
for killing Thomas Crystal, a bar
keeper, several months ago. Keerl
had been on a protracted spree, and
after quarreling with Crystal, shot the
latter
At Walsenburg, Colo, the house of
Claudis Martinez was struck by light
ming and Mrs. Martinez was instantly |
killed. Her husband was shockingly |
burned and four other members Of the |
family were more or les hurt. A re-
ma1kable incident was that baby |
escaped without scratch.
Nimico Guieau, a Frenchtown ranch
hand, has caused the arrest of Jules
Gabriel, a rancher of Missoula, Mont,
who, he says, hitched him to plow
md drove him beside mule. Guieau
says he was in debt to Gabriel, and
hat the latter detained him by force
ind made him work the debt out,
lsing him as a beast of burden.
The Wyoming Louisiana Purchase
exposition commission has placed with
7. E. Stimson, official photographer
or the Union Pacific, an order for
he finest collection of Wyoming pho
ographs ever gathered. There will be
welve large colored views of scenery
u each of the thirteen counties, and
welve views taken in Yellowstone
ark
The seventeen prisoners who have
zen in the auxiliary prison at Lara
ME were removed last week and
laced in the state penitentiary. There
re now 1876 prisoners in the institu-
ion, and a few more not yet SEN
enced.
Hailstones as large as partridge
ggs covered strip of country mile
tide and three miles long near Dixie,
six inches deep, on the
light of the 1st The sound of falling
all could be heard four miles distant
y ranchers.
The remains of Patrick Riley, who
from Livingston, Mont,