Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-08-28
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Trouble between cattle and sheep
men in eastern Montana resulted In
q pitched battle one day last week.
no one being killed, however
Two big forest fires are raging
above Hamilton, Mont One Is on Old
Horse creek. and the other on Hughes
creek Reports from those sections
are to the effect that much damage Is
being done.
A burglar entered the home Of H.
C. CONT OF Portland, chloroformed tbs
entire family CT five and robbed the
house of silverware and money All
the members of the family have recoy-
cred
Sixteen more bodies Of victims Of
the mine explosion at Hanna, Wyo..
have been recovered and the work OF
the rescuers is nearly completed. All
those taken out were in an advanced
stage of decomposition
James T. Maxim, prominent in poll
tics In western Nor ana, and candi-
date for county commissioner on the
Democratic ticket at the last election,
was killed by a runaway horse at
Ovanda, Mont, last week
Pat Rodgers, one OF the six men
who broke from the Butte jail on the
night of August Sth, has written
letter In which he says he will give
himself up II City Detective jerry
Murphy will fight him a duel
Traces OF Kid Curry, or Harvey
Logan, the Montana desperate, who
escaped from a Tennessee jail, have
been found at Great Falls The lis
soula police have received informa-
ton that Logan Is in Montana
Considerable excitement has been
occasioned in Portland by the an
nouncement that quartz containing
gold, silver and copper has been dis
covered in Marquan gulch. only twens
ty minutes walk from the city dam
Citizens of Great Falls. Mont. were
greatly puzzled last week by great
ball OF fire IN the sky It passed from
the southeast horizon TO the north.
west horizon in about three minutes,
gradually changing and losing color,
and was followed by a broad streak
that marked It's path. lasting for haS
an hour.
D. ]. Tromley. who claims 70 be a
private detective from Michigan. was
taken from the city Jail at Hillsboro,
Ore. by a crowd Of about twenty-five
young men and tarred and feathered
and told TO leave town. Tromley, ii IS
alleged. had been making himself OBJ
noxious 10 the women who resided IL
the vicinity of his boarding house
The remains of twenty soldiers who
fell in the battle Of Bear Paw. twenty
five years ago, we're transported last
week from their temporary resting
place on the old battle ground 10 the
post cemetery at AssinabOine. Mont
The bones Of all the men were found
lust as they had been left quarter
OF a century ago. after the famous bat
tie OF Bear Paw.
The fence about the Fort Belknap
Indian reservation, in Montana which
Is forty miles long and sixty niles
wide. has al last been finished 1t is
probably the longest fence in the
world and has taken years in build
ing. The plan is to protect the focks
and herds of the Grosventres and As
siniboines from intrusion. as well as
to keep them from straying-
Three men are dead as the result Of
an accident on logging railroad at
Peel. Wash. The logging engine was
backing down a grade pulling two 1
cars loaded with logs. when the engine
jumped the track. Five men were on !
the engine when it turned over En-
gineer Hedrick was instantly killed.
and John Hamaker and a man named
Koburg we're so badly scalded that
they died
A great forest fire is raging near
Elk about 225 miles north OF Spokane,
Wash 1t is estimated that LOCO acres
in fine belt of white pine and cedar
has been burned over already and I'M
less rain falls the loss viii be very
heavy.
Crazed with the belief that the af-
iections OF her husband had been
stolen and her home destroyed by
~ aura Graham, Mrs Sarah AL