Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-06-21
NORTHWEST NOTES


oche railroad, which has been sus
pended, will Immediately be res umed
In a premature blast at the TUNE
No. 2, thirteen miles south of Butte
three men were instantly killed ant
two we're slightly injured.
Mrs John Crumley, a negress, liv
ing at Laramie. Wyo., last week gave
birth to her eleventh child, daugh
ter, she being but "a years old.
Edward G. Becker suicided at Gold
field taking morphine. Becker, who
was a former resident of Bingham
Utah. had been drinking and became
Respondent.
The magnificent new building Of the
Goldfield Mining stock exchange is
open for business. The edifice is all
stone, and would grace the main
street of any city.
David Harry, wiper in the engine
house at Sparks, Nevada, touched
live wire Saturday afternoon and was
instantly killed, the full current pass
ing through his body.
H. K. Mason, one of the Oldest and
most trusted locomotive engineers on
the San Pedro road, lost his right eye
by the bursting of the lubricator On
the engine at Caliente, Nevada
Harry NJ. Diffenbaugh, Goldfield
mining man, has word from Washing
ton that his patent, dumping device
to do away with topmen at shafts, is
likely to make him millionaire.
The directors of the Washington &
Columbia River railway, meeting in
Walla Walla, the headquarters of that
line. formally transferred the Wash
ington & Columbia River line to the
Northern Pacific last week.
Patrick Gibbons, supposed to oe
insane, brutally assaulted Mrs. Chris
Jorgensen, aged 81, at Anaconda,
Mont. A crowd of women attempted
to lynch Gibbons and would have sue
ceeded but for the officers.
Wells Morton, a prominent broker
and promoter, has been found by the
Goldfield mining stock exchange to be
insolvent. The failure was caused by
short interests in Jumbo Extension
and other rising securities.
]. Ross Clark of the Salt Lake
Route states that trains should be
running into Goldfield by Sept. 1, and
that rights-of-way are being secured
through Columbia, Diamondfield and
other towns on the way to Tonopah.
While pursuing two Montana horse
thieves, Sheriff Guy and posse from
Johnson county, Wyoming, shot and
killed one of the robbers that held up |
/ Northern Pacific passenger train at |
WEIGH Spur recently. The other man
For the first time in the history of |
he Wells-Fargo Express company
anywhere, it has made shipment of
tructuIal steel in carload lots by ex-
ress. Two carloads of iron and steel
o be used in the completion Of the
ew Goldfeld News building was
hipped from Reno to Goldfield by ex-
reSS.
The Bank of Ouray, Colo, mas
losed its DOORS Its liabilities are
bout 100000 and the creditors are
lainly small depositors. The assets
re not stated, but are said not to
quail the liabilities. The failure was
recipitated by run. on the bank in
hich depositors withdrew about
$4,000.
The train dispatchers of Sparks,
erdi,l and Reno complain that the
Sutbern Pacific. company is not obey
tg .sthes eight-ho,fr law in regard to-
1erators and dispatchers passed by
lie last Legislature, and have asked
istricts Attorney Moran to take &C
on against the company to enforce
e law.
Benjamin Maxfeld, county: commits
oner of Jefferson county, Montana,
as killed in an automobile accident
axfield had recently bought the ma
line and was learning to operate it
hen it overturned, crushing him to
ath.
Deputy Sheriff Ole Mosberg has ar
5ed at Buffalo, Wyo., with a priso.' sr I
10 is said to be the Montana train S
bier and horse thief whose compan- c
1 was killed recently near Sheridan t
lille attempting to escape from the |
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