Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-07-19
|N0RTHWE NOTES

midnight taking $3.50 from the crap
table and sl6s from the cash register.
An increase Of about rs per cent
on an average for all Of the Wyoming
coal fields is the demand that will be
presented 10 the mine owners al the
meeting with the Representatives OF
the United Mine Workers Of America.
which will open this week in Denver.
In a circular 10 its patrons in Butte
the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company announces that it may
have to discontinue service" because
OF the strike OF linemen and operat-
ors in sympathy with the Utah
unions. The system is paralyzed in
Butte.
H. o. Morrigan. notorious Montana
thighwayman. died Of chronic alcohol
ism at Las Vegas. New, last week He
was arrested and convicted in 1889.
and afterward fell heir TO $4,000. For
the last three months. commencing at
Goldfied. he has been trying to drink
up ali the whisky on the desert
Seventy-fve Greek laborers ON the
Laramie. Hahn's Peak & Pacific rail-
road have struck. They claim that
some Of their number had to pay fare
travelling from Laramie TO the grading
camp at Centennial and refuse TO re-
turn to work until the money has been
refunded their brethren.
Mrs. Lorena McLainster. an aged
inmate of the Patton Home for the
Aged, in Portland, was so severely
burned that she died two hours after
the accident The woman, who was
IS years old, had been smoking her
pipe. and it is probable her dress
caught fire from the pipe.
Guy Button and Charles Forquist.
prospectors. we're suffocated by fire
damp in the shaft of an abandoned
coal mine near Cokeyille, Wyo. The
two men who met their death in the
mine were in a party Of four pros
pectors WIZ were visiting various
prg~erties near Cokeyille.
A jury in the United States court
returned a verdict finding F. d. Coop
er, well-known northern Montana
stockmaD and former member OF the
board Of commissioners of Cascade
county. guilty of unlawful fencing OF
government lands. Sentence will be |
announced later by Judge Hunt.
Postmaster Watson Schriner OF
Spanway, Wash, awoke about 2
O'Clock in the morning, to find a |
burglar in his room. The robber |
dealt him a stunning blow, cutting
an ugly cash in his forehead and
knocking him senseless. The robber
took s74 from under the pillow and
escaped.
Three burglars, one a woman, dy-
namited the safe in the postoffice at
Columbia, suburb of Goldfield. Ne
vada. Officers attacked them and two
Of them got away in a fusillade from
pistols Charles Morton, the
third burglar, fell and drew his gun
but he was overpowered before he
could fire a shot.
An autopsy at Billings. Mont. on the
body of G. H. Crandall, a telegraph OPP
orator, discloses that the man was
I
N dying condition to hotel con-
iucted by Chinese, by two unknown
men. a room was engaged and the un-
conscious form of Crandall thrust into
I on the floor, the perpetrators OF the
rhine then fleeing.
I'VE are quite certain that the To
lopah & Tidewater road will reach
ahyolite in October" is what G. j.
ennis, general agent for the Smith
Dad, is quoted as saying a few days
go: Construction work is proceed
ng rapidly, and unless something I'M
Oreseen happens, we will be here at
he appointed time"
The United States land Office has
eceived the report from Special
gents Scott and Alton of an exam
lation made of land enclosures of the
warren Livestock company. Wyo-
ling. It completely exonerates Sen
tor Warrens company from the
large of Illegally fencing government
nds in that state.
Word comes from Portland that
arney Oldfield tried TO commit sui
de after being arrested in Portland
1 the charge of taking automobile
ices. Oldfeld took the matter to
cart and brooded over the troubles
ltil at o'clock at night, the day
ter his arrest, when he attempted
jump out of a window.
]. Larson, liveryman and garage
yner OF Bellingham, Wash. was
ushed to death in an automobile acct !
mt He attempted to turn the ma
ines in narrow road and backed
er a forty-foot embankment. Glenn
yatt. capitalist. and D. E. Piggs. a 4
cal physician. who accompanied Lar (
n. were not seriously injured.
The large Armour icing plant at
s VEGAS Nevada was entirely de-