Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-01-29
NORTHWEST NOTES.

BY q caye-in OF earth In the Eas
Gray mine. one Of the Amalgamate'
properties, at Butte. four men wer
killed and two injured.
Miss Jeneva A. johnson, aged 81
who has been a sufferer for years from
q disease OF the spine and brain, re
sulting from runaway accident, die
at Laramie Sunday.
A premature explosion Of Dynamite
at the Virginia mine. near Baker City
Ore, resulted in the death Of Jacl
Reese and put out the eyes Of hi;
partner, ]. W. Wefdman.
A huge block Of coal has been loaded
at Basin, Wyo., weighing $500 pounds
1t was taken from the mine Of ]. P,
Mcdonald, and is to be placed on ex-
hibition at the St Louis fair.
The cyanide mill OF the United
States Reduction & Refining company
two miles north of Florence, Colo. has
been destroyed by fire. entailing loss
estimated at from $4,000 to s125.00O.
Sam Wigfall, colored man who
attempted a criminal assault upon II
year-old Helen Kruppa at Rawlins last
week, was taken into court and plead
ed guilty and was sentenced TO four
teen years in the penitentiary.
In an alteration over the payment
of checks in faro game at Ontario.
Ore, Walter Lucky OF Prineville took
five shots at R. R Duffin, the dealer,
who beat hasty retreat and escaped
uninjured. Lucky is In custody.
In a running battle with two safe
crackers in Spokane, Patrolman Lo-
gan shot and killed one Of the men,
the other escaping. The officer sur
prised the men while they were en-
deavoring to rob a safe in a saloon.
Michael Sullivan was killed and Pat
rick Harrington probably fatally in
jured by an explosion in the Never
Sweat mine at Butte The miners had
prepared a blast early in the evening
which failed to explode and it is
thought they afterward drilled into the
missed hole" thereby causing the &C
cident-
Sam Wigfall, colored, sentenced
from Laramie to fourteen years In the
penitentiary for criminal assault, was
until recently confined in the Jail at
for robbing peddler at Han
na- A short time previous to that he
was released from the pentientiary,
where he served eighteen months for
stabbing a man.
The first lake OF oil to be discov- i
cred in Colorado has been tapped near
Florence. The oil body was encount- /
sred at depth of 2775 feet, and the /
we'll viii have the production capacity I
If any six wells in that field The !.
Ill in the new well has risen to within !
! few hundred feet of the surface, and /
800 barrels per day can be easily
pumped.
Alfred Mertz, confidential clerk for
he Donhue Mercantile company at
dissoula, Mont, left his wife note
aging he was short in his accounts
nd meant to commit suicide. Two
lours later his body was fished from
- nj
rs say he is not short. and that he
must have been laboring under men
al alteration.
James Martin was sentenced to
ang February 23rd by Judge Nc
,leernan at Butte. for the murder of
'harles Williams. Northern Pacific
at Silver Bow Junction,
Iont-. May 10, 1902. Charles Lennox.
Iartin's accomplice in the crime, es-
aped last summer in a general Jail
and has not been app-e-
ended.
The urgency deficiency bill reported
, the house carries an item of 500
II completing the monument on the
tie of the Fort Phil Kearney massa-
re. Wyoming The state of Wyo-
ing has ceded the site to the govern
Ient, located on Massacre hill, and
le 500 carried in the bill. together
it'll $500 previously appropriated, viii
3 sufficient to complete the monu-
emit
Ben" Northington. for years q
ointment figure in Rawlins. died on
lie 22nd of old age, in little cabin
st outside that city. Northington was
! old prospector and saloon man. and