Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-07-08
NORTHWEST NOTES.

/ explosion in the Poorman la-lne, about
forty miles from Helena.
During state fair week in Helena
next October the bankers of Montana
will organize State Bankers associa-
! ton.
The Agnes Memorial sanitarium,
nary tuberculosis. was opened in Den
yer last week, with fitting exercises.
The first excursion out of Lewiston
over the Montana railroad was run last
week to Moore, twelve miles south,
1870 persons going out to the new town.
The state of Montana added $780,
276,355 to the value of the visible sup
ply of precious metals produced in ths
United States during the calendar year
1903
Word has been received in Butte
that William Trantner, a former resi-
dent of that city who recently attempt
ed suicide at Montgomery, Ala, has
: entirely recovered.
The Grass dance by the Cree In
dams, who invited other tribes to cele
brate with them. was held on the old
medicine ground east of Havre, Mont
on the End. 3rd and 4th.
John Emery, who has been hunting
near the headwaters of Black Tai
Deer creek, in Montana, has killed
eight bears in the past three months
He said he caught all the bear in steel
traps and then shot them.
Michael McAdams is the name OF
the man who was run over and killed
by train in the yards of the North
horribly mutilated. 1t was with great
difficulty that the body was identified.
The saloon of Invernezzi and Massa.
in Walkerville, suburb of Butte, was
held up by three masked men and
81 900 in valuables and money taken
at the point of a revolver from the
proprietors and inmates. The robbers
escaped.
Policeman Robert Harmon was IN
stantly killed and Sheriff Hubbard
shot through the hand at Billings,
Mont, by two holdups whom the of.
ficers were attempting to arrest The
men had just held up a crowded sa.
loon, securing $4,000 They made their
escape.
Jack Cannon, a section hand on the
Great Northern, near Portal, Mont,
was almost instantly killed by 8
draught of prussic acid administered
by hobo who is believed by the au
thorities to be demented. The hobo
gave Cannon a bottle. saying it con
tanned whisky.
The dead body of Gus Erskine, for
merry a waiter at the Delmonico res
taurant at Harlem, was discovered |
lying along the tracks of the Great |
Northern railway near Nashua, Mont.
From appearances he had been MUIR
dered, robbed and thrown from train. |
According to the report of the Unit I
ed States assay office at Helena for |
the month of June, the total receipts |
for the month amounted to S202.- /
1858, as compared with SIT, O66.99 4
for last year in June. OF this amount
s177,026.31 was from Montana, or an
increase for this state over the same
month last year of s52,43702
Miss Margaret Fink, aged 90 who
lives in Box Elder, Mont, is dying
as a result of a wound inflicted by a
4-year-old boy, Arthur Giles, who took
up a loaded shotgun during the
Fourth of July celebration and dis
charged the weapon full in the girls
face, blowing part of her head off.
The boy was too young to know what
he had done.
The Southern Pacific and Western
Union Telegraph companies are, ac
cording to San Francisco paper pre-
pairing to stretch an aerial cable con.
tanning nineteen wires across Great
Salt lake, on the line of the Lucern
cutoff. 1t is estimated that the cost
will be about 100000.
Henry Cunningham, the hobo who
was shot by officer Bittle at Forsyth
Mont, in April, for rersisting arrest
has been turned loose. Cunningham
and his partner, Quill, threatened
train crew coming from Billings and
an attempt was made to arrest them
when the train arrived
A cyclone did considerable damage
I1 Weston county Wyoming. Trees
were uprooted. ranch houses blown