Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-10-13
NORTHWEST NOTES

by premature blast in the Raru
mine.
Every building in the town OF Pul
dy, Nevada, has been destroyed b
fire, supposed to have been Of incer
diary origin.
James E. Shannon, formerly of Va
lejo. Cal. and Miss Julia Bones, wer
drowned in the Willamette river a
Portland, the boat capsizing.
State Controller and Insurance Com
missioner S. P. Davis, of Nevada, ha
revoked the license of the New Yorl
Life Insurance company in that state
Detectives in the employ OF tn'
Southern Pacific railroad are endeay
oring to trace dynamiters who OF
Sunday night attempted to wreck
southbound train, just south OF Eu
gene, Ore.
Letitia Wiseman was last week ap
pointed county physician of Laramie
county, Wyoming. This is probably
the first time in the history of the
country that a woman has been ap
pointed county physician.
Mrs. l.. ]. Swab, bride of few
months, was drown while fishing at
Elliott's slough, near Aberdeen,
Wash. With her husband she was
standing on a log which rolled, throw
ing them into the water.
The supreme court of Nevada has
handed down a decision upholding the
constitutionality of the eight-hour
Jaw. The law was passed by the last
legislature and was contested by sew
eral of the large mine-owners.
Word has reached Bellingham,
Wash. that the wife and babe of In
dian Tom" were burned to death in
fire which destroyed their home on
San Juan island, and that the husband
and father viii die from his injuries.
Charles Minter, one of the best
known sheepmen of Upton, Wyo., was
shot and instantly killed by his herder
during a quarrel. According TO report
at New Castle the herder acted in self
defense, though this cannot be verified.
The Great Northern has authorized
a reward of $4,000 for the arrest and
conviction of each man implicated in
the hold-up of the Overland train near
Ballard, Wash. This offer supersedes
he initial reward OF $4,000 for the en-
ire gang.
George Gemmell, an eleven-year-old
Joy, was fatally shot and Constable
sam Klein slightly wounded as re-
suit of an attempt to hold up and rob
grocery store in Seattle. Two OIL
he men implicated in the holdup
we're captured.
Increasing traffic in the Nippeno,
Nevada, mining district has led TO the |
,lacing of another stage line between
yippeno and Searchlight. This stage |
me, which is completely equipped,
I'LL run to connect with Salt Lake
loute trains.
The safe in the Southern Pacific
epot at Dayton, Nevada, was blown
pen with nitro-glycerine. and the
ontents ransacked. The amount Sc
ured was very small. The robber
ad his feet muffied and he was
.acked as far as Silver City. This
the third job of the kind in town
thin the past few months.
Mrs Mary Jane Price, a well-known
,sident of Butte, was electrocuted
lille trying to rescue her son, who
ad fallen over a charged wire in ,
leir barn. The lad is badly burned ]
1t will recover. 1t was at first |
ough that the woman had tainted .
Id her death was not discovered for
'veral moments.
Fire in the kitchen of the Union
lcific hotel, at Laramie. did $4,000
mage and caused the abandonment
the kitchen, meals being served to
tests of the hotel in the lunch room
d passengers on the trains being fed
other stations.
A Japanese laborer named Siyji,
me TO Nevada from San Francisco,
IS killed in the railroad yards at :
arks, Nevada. He was working
ound a switch engine when it start
carrying him against box car and
Ishing out his. life.
!. w Schiller, one of the owners OF 8
Alamosa, Colo, bank, was arrested
I week and sodged in Jail. on the g
,rge of embezzlement of a sum in &