Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-05-18
NORTHWEST NOTES

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Ross Elrod, Wyoming sheep man,
lin trying to board a freight train at
,crushed by the car wheels. He was
,sent to the hospital at Salt Lake.
The strike of 12O transfers and
:5hovelers at Spokane, resulted in a
victory for the men, the company
agreeing to raise the teamsters wages
to SIS per day and the shovelers to
$3.50
1t is said that fiuorine, the first to be
found in this state, has been discov-
cred in the String mine, copper pro-
position east of Laramie, Wyoming,
considerable of the metal being found
mixed with copper and quartz.
Wilbur F. Pickering, who broke open
the cash drawer in the safe at the
Kuster hotel at Laramie, and who was
captured at Cheyenne, pleaded guilty
in the district court and was sentenced
to three years in the penitentiary.
George Mitchell, the Portland boy
who shot and killed Franz E. Creffield,
the leader of notorious Holy Roll
err band in Oregon, on the streets OF
Seattle, is to be presented with a gold
medal by the citizens of Corvallis, Or,
in recognition of the deed.
A body believed to be that of Mes
Sole, the missing rancher, has been
found in the river twenty miles below
Spokane. Cole, who was an elderly
farmer, living alone, disappeared six
weeks ago under conditions which in
dictated murder by robbers.
1t has been learned that the Short
Line has given orders to build down
the Snake from Huntington, Ore, to
Lewiston, Idaho. Some time ago
contract was entered into to build as
far as the Iron Dyke mine, but the
plans have been changed and the
forces are to go right ahead and put
the road through.
BY reason of the unusual amount of
precipitation, both in the form OF
snow and rain, since last fall in the
intermountain region, it is quite prob
able that crops of all kinds will be
much better than in ordinary years.
The area of successful dry farming
will in consequence be greatly in
creased.
DR.. Grace R. Hebard librarian of the
University of Wyoming and author OF
Hebard's History of Wyoming, a text
book used in the university and
schools of the state, has been informed
that the whole of the second edition
of the book, together with the plates
of the pages and the Illustrations,
were consumed in the San Francisco
fire.
Mrs. w. B. Emmons of Laramie,
one of the wealthiest women in the
state, has given 500 to the University
of Wyoming as a scholarship for stu
dent outside of Albany county. A. G.
Jones gave a similar amount few
days ago, with the statement that
when the second and third such schol-
arships had been provided for, he
would give the fourth.
Earl Odell of Oswego. N. Y, youth
about 81 years old, succeeded in spend
ing bequest of $4,000 left him by an
uncle in two days. Four weeks ago
he worked in an Oswego bakery. He
fell into the hands of bunko steerers
in Denver, Colo, one of whom sold him
a quarter interest in a fake auction
shop for $4,000. He also bought IS
watch at auction for $1,000. He next
lost 5000 in gambling and is now look
ing for work
Indicative of what the railroads are
handling in the way of bales of wool
this season from Utah, Wyoming and
Idaho, the Pocatello Tribune says it is
stated that single firm, that of Else
man Bros, of Boston, has already pur-
chased and partly shipped 1S,O00,00O
pounds of wool.
Howell Reese, aged 20, of Seattle, |
en- route to Leoti, Wichita county, |
Kansas, to reside with relatives, wan
dered from an eastbound Northern Pa
cific train at Warm Springs, Mont,
and was found dead in field near the |
depot the following morning, evident
ly of exposure.
District Attorney John Manning OF
Portland has addressed a letter to
Mcintosh, prosecuting attor-
ney for King county, Wash, in which
he virtually says that the killing of
Creffield, the Holy Roller"
prophet at the hands of George Mitch
ell is justifable.