Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-03-22
NORTHWEST NOTES

The report comes from Pine Ridge
wyoming. that the body of an un
known man has been found, the mar
having been frozen to death.
Joseph Smith, a brakeman EN-
ployed by the Southern Pacific com.
pany at Nina. New, was run down by
his own engine at that place and in
DtantIy killed.
No lumber Is now obtainable at
Portland, owing to the strike Of saw
mill employees, and 1t is merely
question of days until all building op
erations in the city will cease.
Il Is announced at the war depar--
ment that the post of Fort Washable,
In Wyoming. will be abandoned May
/ next and the reservation and build
lngs turned over to the interior de.
partment for disposition.
Japanese papers received at Victor
ia, b. c., by the steamer Athena, pub
lish a report that fishermen took live
mermaid off Yacyma. Luchu islands.
and the mermaid was brought to Toxic
and exhibited at Yeno park.
The labor troubles at Goldfield are
being felt by the railroad companies.
AS a result of the inability OF the
people of that camp to get men to
unloa< their products from the cars
t-f, al
Tonopah & Goldfield road.
1t Is stated that Edward T. Tilton,
chief engineer of the Salt Lake Route
will within a short time visit Meadow
Valley wash, in Nevada, for the pur-
pose of selecting a new survey de
signed TO avoid the section that has
on several occasions crippled the sys
tenn and tied up traffic for several |
weeks at time.
The twenty-year-old controversy
between the Northern Pacific Rail
road company and Jacob and Mar
garet Slaght. over the possession of
lands In the town of Palouse, Wash.
on which are located the company's
warehouse, water tanks. etc, was
decided by the supreme court last
week favorably to the Slaghts
The supreme court of Montana
holds that the trial court of Silver
Bow county exceeded it's jurisdiction
in sentencing Andrew f. Graves to
the penitentiary for fourteen years on
the charge of throwing corrosive acid
In the face of woman, on the ground
that the verdict of the jury did not
show that the act was wilful.
Angry at his two sons, Milton and
Fred. because they built fence
when he had told them not to do so,
3. q. Crow. farmer at Empire, Ne
gada.. secured a rifle and shot both
sons, injuring them seriously. His
older son. George, was standing near
md, grabbing another rifle, shot the
ather through the head. killing him
Frank ]. Keefe, when released from
he state prison at Rawins last week.
having served four years sentence
or killing John Baxter. Rawlins
on the night of April 20
SOB, was arrested on a warrant
him and his brother. Will
lam Keefe, with the murder of Tom
King. a railroad trainman, at the
anne time.
The Butte members of the Inter
ational Typographical union finally
oted down the proposition of the
lutte and Anaconda newspaper pub '
shers that the compositors return
FORK at last years scale. which
lould mean a reduction of 80 cents
er man per day This leaves the
ewspaper situation where it was =
hirty days ago.
John Arbuckle, the New York cof
pc king. has ordered the manager of b
is big "P. o." ranch, containing
5000 acres. and lying north of Chey- h
nne, to sell the ranch at once. to. b
ether with the stock. which consists n
{ Sl25,000 worth of cattle and horses
5 result of the governments ac- b
on In forcing Arbuckle to tear down I,
'rty-tive miles of fences erected on +,
overnment land. =
Charles Kelly, a longshoreman. was Il
hot and probably fatally wounded In
irIy Sunday morning by two masked
len on Townsend street near Third IN
rect, San Francisco. Kelly refused IA
} accede TO the demand OF the men s
, hand over IS.
Jack Walsh. formerly a railroad q,
shot and killed Charles r.