Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-01-22
NORTHWEST NOTES.

earthed at Winnemucca, New.
Sparks from an engine at Pocatello.
Idaho, ignited number of loaded
| freight cars, eight being destroyed.
the loss being estimated at about
$4,000.
In a head-on collision between
Southern Pacific eastbound passenger
train and freight near Woolsey, New,
the fireman and a brakeman on the
freight were badly injured. None OF
the passengers we're hurt.
A reward has ben offered for the ar
rest and conviction of the murderers
of L. B. Saunders, the representative
of Lilienthal Bros, San Francisco.
who was found dead upon the streets
of Butteville, Ore, Nov. 10 last.
R. O. Spencer. a half-breed Yakima
Indian, was struck by freight train
at Ross Fork. Idaho, and seriously in
jured His home is at Fort Sincoe,
Wash. and he was visiting the In
dams or the reSerVatlOn-
James Little Plume, who killed
seven Indians on the Blackfoot reser-
walton while intoxicated last October.
was sentenced to forty years in the
penitentiary by Judge Knowles in the
United States court. He is "a years
of age
Referring to the devotion of
woman to her husband, though he is
said to have cruelty treated her, the
HALEY, Idaho, Times says: "A good
spanking by somebody not her hus-
band might give that fool woman a
little sense"
Beryl Sargent, the 3-year-old daugh-
ter of George Sargent, druggist, OF
Tacoma, met horrible death. While
the mother had stepped downstairs to
answer the telephone, the child fell
against the alright stove and when
the mother erturned to the room the
child's clothing was in flames. She
died in an hour.
W. F. Butcher, former Democratic
candidate for representative to con-
gress and one of the most prominent
lawyers in eastern Oregon, shot ]. @.
White, a contractor, of Baker City,.
Ore, once in the neck and again in
the arm. White was able to walk for
several hundred feet to secure medical
aid The physicians are unable to
state whether he will recover.
After celebrating nearly forty-eight
hours the jury in the case of mem
bers of the Western Federation OF
Miners who were tried in the district
court at Georgetown. Colo, on infor-
nations charging them with conspir-
acy to destroy buildings on the Sun
and Moon mine property at Idaho
Springs, returned a verdict acquitting
all the defendants.
A Helena special says: The SUI
preme court has denied the injunction
asked by the Boston & Montana COM
pany to stop F. Augustus Heinze from
mining in the Minnie Healy mine
pending final determination of the dis
pute over ownership, and also denied
the Injunction asked by HeinZe against
the Boston & Montana to stop the lat
ter from mining in the Piccolo and
Zambetta mining claims pending final
decision of ownership.
At Salem, Ore, the supreme court
has denied the application for a writ
of probable cause in the case of the
state VS.. Pleasant Armstrong, under
sentence of death for murder. The
law under which Armstrong was SEN
fenced was invaIidated by the adoption
Of new law at the last regular ses-
sion Of the legislature. Armstrong APP
pealed, on the ground that he could
not be executed under an invalidated
aw, nor could he be punished for his
crime under the terms of the new
aw.
The appropriation made by the last
legislature Of Utah for the payment of
counties is exhausted, and warrants
ssued in payment of bounty claims
,annot be redeemed until new legis-
ature shall meet and make provision
or their redemption.
Senator Teller of Colorado last week
speech on the Panama ca
lal question, contending that the
course of the president in connection
With the recent revolt of Panama had
een contrary to precedent and in con-
ravention of international law.
AS the result of a fire which start
a at midnight. the entire business