Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-06-24
NORTHWEST NOTES.

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: ident OF Helena, shot and killed him
), self while temporarily insane
d A purse amounting to about $1,000
IS bAs been raised for horse races in
II 4. Iispel, Mont. on the Fourth of
d July.
d President Roosevelt will be urged
/ by $4,000 Butte miners to interfere in
the present deplorable state of affairs
G in Colorado.
The largest crop of fruit ever grown
; In Flathead county. Montana, will be
S gathered this year, so the many fruit
growers predict.
While playing with giant powder
cap, Harold McKeen, an Anaconda
boy. was severely injured. the cap ex-
pIoding and tearing his left hand to
shreds.
During fight over woman at Mis-
soula, Gilbert Turner, colored sol
der, sIashed Private Patterson with
knife, infiicting probably fatal in
juries.
William Enright, prominent min
ing man of Goldfeld, New, committed
suicide by drowning himself in the
city water tank. No reason is as
signed for the act
The new tabernacle built by the
Latter-day Saints at La Grande. Ore,
has been formally dedicated. The
new tabernacle is the finest owned by
the church outside Of Utah.
Deer Lodge, Mont, officers have
wired Chief Hayes of Kansas City to
hold William Miles, the self-confessed
murderer of John Edwards, railway
brakeman, killed nineteen years ago.
The police have arrested nine sus-
poets supposed to have been impli-
Gated in the robbery of freight car
In the Northern Pacific yards at
Helena The car contained beer and
tobacco.
A unique feature of the dedicatory
ceremonies at the Oregon state build
Ing at the Worlds fair was the ar
rangement for the speakers to deliver
their addresses from the roof of the
building.
James Hanley has been sentenced
to life Imprisonment in the Wyoming
penitentiary for killing Henry
Schroeder at Sheridan, Hanley killed
Schroeder during quarrel over tar
get shooting.
The grand jury at Denver one day
asst week returned in the neighbor-
lood of twenty indictments for cleo
ion frauds committed at the election
or supreme justice last fall and the
everal charter elections.
A head-on collision on the Northern
'acific at Whitepine, Mont, caused
he death of Engineer Brown. He was
INNING a light engine, which ran
ito a freight The fireman escaped
cath, but was badly injured.
The section house at Greenville, a
umping station seven miles east Of
awlins, Wyo.. was destroyed by
re on the 18th, also burning large
mount of clothing and food belong
g to the Japanese laborers.
On condition that he abstains from
luor William H. Starkweather has
zen granted his liberty from the
ontana penitentiary. While intoxi-
ted, Starkweather threw board at
lother man and struck q woman by
istake.
Pouring coaloil on a smouldering
e out of a five-gallon oil can was
e cause of the death of Mrs. 8. B.
tsford at Rawlins. She had kin
I'd the kitchen fire, which had died
t except few Goals, and pouring
on them formed gas which ex-
,ded and the oil inside the can be-
NE ignited and exploded.
excitement has been
lated at Rawlins, Wyo., recently
sr the discoveries In the Ravlins
ming district which tend to prove
It within a few miles of Rawlins
ne very fine bodies of ore are to
found.
The dead body of R. F. Dillon,
Ellington telegraph operator, was
nd on top of coal car . near
Ring. Colo. There were no marks
violence on the body and the
nner of death is a mystery, al
ugh foul play is suspected.
Within two miles of Rawlins, Wyo.,