Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-04-19
NORTHWEST NOTES

been chosen in Carson City The
finest residence in the state will be
erected.
Theodore Tronquet a Rock Spangs
boy. aged Az years, shattered his
hand by the explosion. of a railroad
torpedo with which he was playing.
A. Pazzi was seriously injured by
the accidental explosion OF a box OF.
giant powder caps at the Smith Green.
anthony mine near Mill City, Ney.
Governor Brooks. OF Wyoming, has
designated Friday, April 26, as Arbor
day, and the occasion will be observed
by the children OF the schools with
programme.
Stockmen in Wyoming will make
united effort 10 eradicate mango
which has spread so rapidly among
cattle IN this state and especially il
the vicinity of Laramie.
A passenger train ran into freight
train at Browns siding In Nevada.
as the result of an open switch. En-
gineer Hampton being killed and
number Of others injured.
The Utah Construction company has
just commenced work on the construc
ton OF thirty-five miles of new double
track between Green River and
Granger, on the Union Pacific.
The machinists at Anaconda have
signed the five-year contract with the
Amalgamated Copper company. All
unions employed at the Washoe smelt-
ing plant have signed the contract.
A pioneer of Nevada, J. S. Shoe
maker, a former clerk of Washoe
county, is dead in Oakland, Cal, aged |
81 years. He was at one time grand
master of Odd Fellows of the state.
The Ninth legislature of the state
of Wyoming, which convened Janu.
airy s. 1907. passed more bills rela.
tive to the schools of the state than
any legislature has done for many
years.
Governor John Sparks has signed
the bank taxation bill, passed at the
last session of the legislature, and
from now on National banks in Ne
vada will be taxed the same as other
financial institutions.
The city council of Douglas has
granted to Moses BLUR of New York
City, owner of the extensive oil fields
near that place. hfty-year franchise
to pipe gas into Douglas and through
the streets of the city.
John o'Rourke. pioneer placer
miner and one of the wealthiest mer
chants In Butte. whose home has been
In Montana for more than third of
1 century. died last week in SAM.
arium near Fresno. Cal.
Harold Merriam. of Laramie. Wyo.,
he only recipient of the Rhodes
TO Oxford university, Eng
and. who will complete the three
ears course in that institution in
midsummer, has been offered the chair
# English at Puget Sound university.
Methodist institution, but has not
'et accepted il.
Ora Haley, one OF the largest land
wners in Albany county. Wyoming.
asst week began removing all fences
rom government land in which he is
Interested and will not stop until all
he wires are down. Mr.. Haley says
o will leave the posts, but will turn
very foot of government land he has
ad fenced into open range.
A dam across the lower Laramie :
yer at Gillespies ranch, near Lara =
lie, is being complained against. II :
! about six feet high, and there is r
, little water that the large trout
innot cross 1t in their migrations up
ard. Little fish can leap the dis.
nee, but the large fish are kept
Glow and fishermen are complaining u
Congressman Frank w Mondell, of 2
'yoming. has appointed r. w. Dyer.
young man of Carbon county. as
'ivate secretary to succeed Louis \
eLario. who lost his life in burn =
6 Pullman car near Council Bluffs &
st winter ne
j. c. Hines. who killed Count Pod. II
risky in Goidfield cafe, alleging :
at the dead man betrayed his wife. v
II plead the "unwritten law" as
for his action when the