The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-27
NORTHWEST NOTES.

William McCune, one of the pioneers
Of the Laramie plains, died last week
at Laramie, aged ~.
BY a cavern of earth in the East
Gray mine, one of the Amalgamated
properties, at Butte. four men were
killed and two injured
Miss Jeneva A. johnson, aged 81.
who has been a sufferer for years from
disease of the spine and brain, re.
sulting from a runaway accident, died
at Laramie Sunday.
A premature explosion of dynamite
at the Virginia mine, near Baker City,
Ore, resulted in the death of Jack
Reese and put out the eyes of his
partner, J. w. Weidman.
A huge block of coal has been loaded
at Basin, Wyo., weighing $500 pounds,
1t was taken from the mine of J. p.
Mcdonald, and is to be placed on ex.
hibtion at the st. Louis fair.
The cyanide mill of the United
States Reduction & Refining company,
two miles north Of Florence, Colo has
been destroyed by fire, entailing loss
estimated at from $4,000 to S125.OOO.
Sam Wigfall, colored man who
attempted a criminal assault upon IL
year-old Helen Kruppa at Rawlins last
week, was taken into court and plead
ed guilty and was sentenced to four.
teen years in the penitentiary.
In an alteration over the payment
Of checks in a faro game at Ontario,
Ore, Walter Lucky of Prineville took
FIVE shots at r. r. Duffin, the dealer.
who beat hasty retreat and escaped
uninjured. Lucky is in custody.
In a running battle with two safe
crackers In Spokane, Patrolman Lo-
gan shot and killed one Of the men,
the other escaping. The officer sur
prised the men while they were en-
deavoring to rob a safe in a saloon.
Michael Sullivan was killed and Pat
rick Harrington probably fatally in
jured by an explosion in the Never
Sweat mine at Butte. The miners had
prepared blast early in the evening
which failed to explode and 1t is
thought they afterward drilled into the
missed hole" thereby causing the ac-
cident.
Sam Wigfall, colored, sentenced
from Laramie to fourteen years in the
penitentiary for criminal assault, was
until recently confined in the Jail at
Rawlins for robbing peddler at Han
ma. A short time previous to that he
was released from the pentientiary,
where he served eighteen months for
stabbing man.
The first lake of oil to be dlscov-
cred in Colorado has been tapped near
Florence. The oil body was encount-
cred at a depth of 2775 feet, and the
we'll viii have the production capacity
of any six wells in that field. The
oil in the new well has risen to within
few hundred feet of the surface, and
/ 500 barrels per day can be easily
pumped.
Alfred Mertz, confidential clerk for
the Donhue Mercantile company at
Missoula. Mont, left his wife a note
saying he was short in his accounts
and meant to commit suicide. Two
hours later his body was fished from
the Mis- lla river. Merits employ
ers say ne is not short, and that he
must have been laboring under men,
tai alteration.
James Martin was sentenced to
hang February 23rd by Judge Nc
Cleernan at Butte, for the murder of
Charles Williams, Northern Pacific
brakeman, at Silver Bow Junction,
Mont, May 10, 1902. Charles Lennox,
Martins accomplice in the crime, es-
capped last summer in a general Jail
delivery, and has not been appTe.
hended.
The urgency deficiency bill reported
In the house carries an item of $500
for completing the monument on the
site OF the Fort Phil Kearney massa-
ere WVOmfnq Tho state ~ NUyn