Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-03-15
NORTHWEST NOTES

,fhe Industrial tie-up at Butte wa
accumulated on the 5th by a walk
out of drivers and transfer wagons
The men demand an increase from
SO to $3.50 per day.
F. H. Newell, chief engineer of thu
government reclamation service, hal
been selected to succeed Charles d
Walcott as directors of the United
States geological survey
Four of the largest sawmills II
Portland have shut down and viii
make no further efforts to keep In
operation until a settlement OF the
wage dispute with their employees Is
settled Fifteen hundred men are at
fected SO far
Montana has a new gambling law.
The measure is one of the strictest
imaginable, and holds players, own
ers of the buildings, proprietors OF
the games and peace officials equally
responsible for the violations, which
are made felonies.
Nevada is to have a Mormon colo
ny, according to the statements OF the
Reno Gazette. A deal has just been
closed whereby the Mormon church
has secured control of a tract of 49,,
900 acres of land in White Pine
county, which will be used as a place
of settlement by members of the
church.
Governor Sparks, of Nevada, has
signed the bill giving him the power
to appoint three railroad commission.
ers at $4,000 year. The commits
sion is empowered to regulate rail-
road rates and to hear and inquire
into railroad abuse complaints. There
has been very bitter fight against
the measure by the railroads.
Maria Becker, apparently crazed oy
the tedium of a journey across the
continent, leaped from car window
OF aeNew Central express train near
Yosts, N. Y. Her dead body was found
upon the ice of the Mohawk river,
where it had rolled down a steep EN-
banlSment. 1t is said she came from
Chehalis, Wash.
Lumbermen in the Puget Sound re-
gion have complained to the inter-
state commerce commission that they
have been unable since January to
obtain transportation of their pro
ducts to eastern points because of
the stated inability of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific rail
roads to handle the traffic.
The stereotypers and pressmen of
Butte being willing to return to work
at the wage scale prevailing before
the last raise, only the printers now
stand between the local dailies and a
settlement. But concessions on either
side are still improbable, and despite
rumors to the contrary, an rapproche-
ment is not Immediately at hand.
The Anaconda Copper company has
cut the big Anaconda vein at depth
Of 2,400 feet in the Never Sweat mine,
the same depth at which it was cut
about year ago in the Anaconda
mine. The ore body is about the
same width, about 60 feet and 40
feet is nearly all copper glance, run
aing about 60 per cent copper.
While Antoine Meyer and his son
we're working for the county on the
Zillah road, two miles from North
Yakima, Wash, they uncovered the
BODY of a young woman buried by the
The woman had been dead
or year. She had brown hair, gold
Hing in her teeth and a brown dress |
# wooden material. The skull was
rushed.
1t is announced that Ole Elliot,
southern Nevada mining magnate. |
vas in Reno last week for the pur-
,ose of closing a deal by which ne
viii enter with his associates into
he complete control of the coal job
ing business of the state and that
he consolidation of the deal involves
n outlay of s2500O0 on 49, part of
he daring Goldfeld Spectator.
The letter carriers of Butte, Mont,
rho resigned in body because Of
he small compensation paid by the
overnment, now desire to remain in
he service. A telegram has been re-
eived' by the postmaster general say
lg that in view of the legislation
roviding for graded increases for
employees, they would with