Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-09-02
NEWS SUMMARY.

/ Four masked men held up the pay
master of the O'Rourke Construction
company on the road near Patterson
is N. j., and robbed him OF IS 900.
lg The Car has issued a manifesto
ls granting permission to Firms who have
g left their country without the sanction
ID OF the authorities to return within a
IS year.
q A new manager OF the hotel opened
In New York City some time ago for
" the exclusive entertainment of women
9 has caused strike by Diminishing tn,
Q housekeeper.
A Canadian Pacific official estimates
the wheat yield for western Canada
at sixty-fve million bushels. Three
and half million acres will be har-
vested this fall.
AS the matter stands now it is un-
any action will be taken regarding
Colorado labor situation by the ma
tional government.
The annual report of the pension
commissioner shows that during the
year ending June 80, the cost of main
tanning the pension system of the gov
eminent has been s144,741 1877.
A Toxic correspondent says that the
Japanese minister of war has conf
dentially informed his colleague that
there is no hope of taking Port Arthur
by direct assault, and that long oper-
ations will be necessary.
Twelve persons were injured, two
seriously, in a street car accident in
st. Louis. The car leaped from the
track and crashed into a telegraph
pole sixty feet distant, while running
ut high rate OF speed.
A violent earthquake is reported
from San Martin, in the state of OAK
AGA, Mexico. The shock was accom-
panied by deafening subterranean
rumblings. There was great alarm for
time, but no serious damage was
done.
Fire has destroyed the BENJAMIN.
Schenck homestead, one of the Oldest
houses on Long Island. It was built
mile from Sycamore hill 1872 years
ago. and contained highly priced col
lection Of curious furniture and heir
looms.
In the tornado which has swept So
rento, Italy, the cathedral and mon
astery of San Paoli almost fell to the
ground. One house gave way. burying
three persons beneath the ruins. The
town presents a spectacle of great
desolation.
The I1entsin correspondent of the
London Standard says that placards
have been discovered at Tsinanfu in
he province of Shantung, urging the
massacre of foreign devils after the
seventh moon" and that the native
christians are fleeing.
The forces under Datto Ali, on the
sland of Mindanao, have adopted que
lila tactics in fighting the United
states soldiers. To counterfeit this
departure, Maj.-Gen. Leonard Woods
las organized four crack fighting COM
'anies of 100 men each.
In a fifty-mile relay race between
he Keno wheelmen and the Bay
'ltys OF San Francisco, held at Reno,
'evada, for the championship of the
'acific coast, the Reno team won by
ne and seven-eighths miles. The
ace was witnessed by 1900 people
The appointment of six well known
lontana lawyers to represent the state
the national conference of law ex-
miners to be held at st. Louis on
eptember 26, 81 and %, during the
eeting of the American Bar associa-
on, is announced by Governor Toole.
Oregon again leads all the states in
lie amount of money realized from
lblic lands, having turned into the
easury 1,442,576 in the last fiscal
Ear. This is over 100000 ahead of
e nearest competitor. There were
1874 entries made in Oregon last
Ear.
George Sexton, young farm Ia
rer who was shot during the lynch
& OF the negro Sam Glover at Cedar
rom, Ca. is dead. The shooting Of
'xton occurred during the reckless
ing OF the mob. Whether Sexton
Is taking part in the lynching is not
own.
It Is reported that Samsonoff. the a.
ssin of Won Plehve. has been sem
need to death, and that the sentence
now before the emperor The re-
rtS which have been circ,rlatad