Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-01-01
NORTHWEST NOTES.


William Cousins pleaded guilty to
forgery at Cheyenne. and was SEN
fenced to one year in prison.
The state of Idaho has a total area
almost as great as New England. with
population thirty times less.
George W. Perry, for several years
publisher and proprietor of the Raw
Inns Republican, has sold the paper to
a stock company.
John H. Hots, living near Snohom-
ish, Wash, was shot through the heart
by a chicken thief, for whom he was
laying in wait The murderer es-
capped.
The Garland bank. of Garland, Wyo.,
has closed its doors owing to a run
made by depositors. 1t is said the
bank will reopen for business in q
short time.
In the case of Levi Milton, charged
with dynamiting fish in Sheridan coun-
/
This is being made test case to put
stop to the practice of killing fish in
this manner.
Cracksmen entered saloon at Elk
horn, Mont, and carried away the iron
safe on a sled. A quarter of mile
from town the robbers blew the safe
open and secured $4,000 in gold coin
and jewelry.
/ Pierre Carriare, a Frenchman, was
killed in smash-up at Ackfor, New.
! Carriare was riding on the pilot of
passenger train when runaway coal
car crasher into the engine. CarTiare
was horribly mutilated.
Joseph Farnsworth, the winner of
the SITS prize awarded by the Idaho
Sugar company at Idaho Falls for the
largest yield of beets from ten-acre
tract, is justly proud of his success as
a beet-grower. The average yield on
this tract was 21.S tons per acre.
News comes from Missoula, Mont,
of the killing of Amilo, Flathead
Indian, on the reservation by Louis
Flying Bird. Amilo, who has bad
record, struck Flying Birds father,
when the young Indian seized a rifle
and killed the old mans assailant.
Charles E. Knapp, formerly secre-
tary of the North American Copper
company, has announced that he has
completed the merger of all of the
big mining properties at Pearl, south
of Encampment. Wyo., and that
Chicago to construct huge smelling |
and reduction plant
and seriously wounded May Woerkel,
a white waitress of Trinidad, Colo,
and killed himself by firing a bullet
into his own brain. 1t is said that
Badger was infatuated with Sadie Cot
fey. a white girl, who roomed with
Miss Woerkel, and mistook Miss Woer
KEEL for the Coffey girl.
Through the heroism Of shepherd
dog the little three-year-old daughter
of John Matsin, residing on the bank
of Crow creek, in South Cheyenne,
was saved from drowning. The little
tot, while playing on the bank, fell into
the stream, and would have been
swept away under the ice, but the dog
dragged her onto the bank and then
ran to the house for help.
Joseph Smith, sheepherder, is los
ing his mind as the result of hold
up. After buying them drinks two
attacked Smith as he left
the Chicago saloon in West Cheyenne
beat him almost into insensibility and
then chloroformed him. Smith was
robbed of his watch and valuables and
bis injuries may make him raving
maniac.
Charles Eckloeff, while working near
attempted to thaw four sticks
Of dynamite, when an explosion &C.
cured. blowing the entire roof of a
OF. but aside from a few
powder burns, Eckloeff escaped in
ury.
A serious week occurred on the
Burlington railroad at Aberdeen, los
niles east Of Billings, Mont Two
reight trains met head-on under full
peed near the east switch An engi-
leer and fireman were seriously In
ured.
Joseph Cheesebrough, an inmate of
prison. received much-ap-