Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-12-02
NORTHWEST NOTES.


sold for song. 1t cost $4,000 and al
I offer OF $400 has been made for 1t.
~ Fire at Gu'bertson. Mont, destroyed
the Stock Growers hotel. the postoffic'
and drug store. entailing damage t.
the amount OF $4,000; insurance. 81,
900.
Tho EFFORT to carry through huge
mining enterprise is believed to be the
chief causes OF the closing OF the Big
Bend National bank at Davenport,
Wash.
George Flshburn. respondent from
long suffering as cripple, committed
suicide at the Mchugh ranch. near
Lewiston, Mont. by shooting himself
In the head.
At the unusual age OF 107 years, Mrs.
Julia Zounski. the Oldest resident OF
Tacoma. end pre- baby the Oldest white
person on the coast, died in a Tacoma
hospital last week.
One OF the most complete exhibits Of
the mines OF the western part OF the
United States sever grouped together,
will be shown In working order at the
1905 centennial at Portland.
Mrs. T. J. Stanley of Butte drank
the entire contents OF two-ounce bot
tie Of carboifc acid about O'Clock
Sunday morning. 1t il supposed with
suicidal intent. dying six hours later
In terrible agony.
A dispatch from Colorado Springs
says the corcner's fury has decided
that Alexander Biddle. who was found
dead on Cheyenne mountain, came to
his desth from exposure and starvn-
ton. while mentally deranged.
It IL stated In Cheyenne. on good
authority, that II Secretary Hitchcock
of the Interior department resigns.
he will be succeeded by William Rich
ards. commissioner OF the general land
once. and former governor of wyom-
Ing.
Elizabeth Morrison is on trial at |
Butts for the murder OF Richard Fin
negan, Chicago contractor, last
June. Finnegan was brutally muir.
dered, being shot three times, the sup
position being that he was shot while /
he was asleep.
With the exception OF the Govern
ment buildings. which have hardly
mere than begun, and the Forestry
building. which will be under roof this
week. the principal buildings of the
Lewis and Clark fair are to all intents
Ind purposes completed.
In lonely cabin In the mountains at
he head c. Sun river has been found
he dead body OF Jake Ralston. the
veil known guide and hunter of Teton
county. Montana. note was found
,inned to his bresst In which Ralston
tated he had been shot by one James
Usher.
Letson Baliett. who pleaded guilty
o charges preferred by the govern
lent Of using the United States mails
nth intent to promote a gigantic mill
1g swindle. was sentenced at Des
[ones, Iowa. lest week to three c
lonths In the county jail and to pay \
fine OF $500 Balliett was we'll .
nown throughout the northwest.
Neil Kataka. = miner employed in
10 st. Lawrence mine at Butte, was
lught In fall OF ground and so
'riously crushed that he died shortly
ter being taken to the hospital. Two
ustrian miners fell while ascending c.
ladder and one was probably fatally r.
irt while the other was seriously in a
red. .
Tho National Grange. In session at :,
,rtland, decided to hold the next an
lsl session In the State OF New Jer- :,
y. The selection OF the city will be :.
ade by the executive committee. Tho -
nnga went on record favoring indus
al education In the country schools. ia
pecaily in the matter Of agricultural
aiming.
Jung Hand, . Portland. Ore. China :,
IN. employed in a salmon cannery.
mmitted suicide In the county Jail
hanging himself with handker-
ief tied around his neck and the end oh
'de fast to the bar OF the door. r,,
md had been arrested for drunken =.
So. tr
Percy Glenn. - years OF age. acci-
ntallv shot himself while hunting -
ar his home on Mcdonnell creek. ne
mr. Lewiston. Mont. He slipped on a Nj
ne while pursuing some game. and WI
some manner the gun was dis ~
arged. the entire charge taking In
ect in his body.