The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-12-07
NORTHWEST NOTES.

injured employees.
L. D. Merritt, a private in battery
B. Third artillery, committed suicide
at the Preside last week by shooting
himself through the head. Merritten-
listed last April at Indianapolis.
News has been received at Boise,
Idaho, of the death at Ross Fork of c.
A. Warner, Indian agent at that place.
He died of consumption. He was 30
years of age and an attorney OF great
promise.
Deputy Sheriff Henry Avere of Silver
Bow county, Mont, has left for Weiser,
Idaho, with extradition papers in his
pocket for j. B. Knight, wanted at
Butte for grand larceny. Knight is
under arrest.
Eff. Fitzhue has struck very rich
| ore in the old Blue Bird claim at Idaho
| CITY, Idaho. The Blue Bird was worked
a good many years ago and turned out
| about as rich ore as was ever crushed
in the county.
4 FQ McuTd" anu Lsuli Va '-h"S 3
CITY. Colo, were blown up with giant
! powder and instantly killed at [ tie and !
| Ulay mines last week. 1t is supposed
the men were loading hole when
the accident occurred.
Edward Boyce, president of the
Western Federation of Miners, who
for the last ten days has been at St.
Joseph's hospital Denver, threatened
with pneumonia, is able to leave the
hospital and return to Butte.
James F. Wardner, an Idaho pioneer,
for whom the town of Wardner was
named, has written an autobiography
of himself entitled Jim Wardner of
Wardner, by Himself" 1t is filed
with personal "reminiscences of early
DAYS and has much of historical inter
est
By a cave-in the excavation for
sewer at Thirty-fourth and Downing
avenues Denver Friday, several la
borers were buried The bodies of
George Hollis, C. A. Carlson and Henry
Nelson have been taken out. 1t is not
known how many were in the trench,
but the foreman believes all are now
accounted for.
The Union Pacific cutoff line be-
, tween Howell and Hutton stations,
west of Laramie, Wyo., has been placed
in operation and from now on will be
| 81 ha ,,ain line nf the
road The cutoff makes difference
of three miles shorter than the old
track. By this change the postotfice
of Oasis and the new creamary works
of Ora Haley are left off the main line.
The remains of William Abbott, who
e disappeared in the spring of 1898, have
s been discovered in Lewis gulch two
n miles from Centerville, near Salem
r City, Idaho. The discovery was made
d by some boys while hunting. There
was nothing but the skeleton and the
n clothing left The bones of one leg
&c from the knee were gone Deceased
a was an old man and was pioneer o.
a that section. The skeleton was iden
l. tilted by the clothing
Justice Boolxst aver in the Supreme
e court of New York, last Friday granted
% temporary injunction on the applica
1t ton of George A. Treadwell, minori
p ty shareholder in the United VERDI
h Copper company, restraining Seeatol
William A. Clark and the other direc
E. tors of the company from selling o
a disposiug of the property or assets o
RS the corporation, or taking any step
IL to carry out the proposed plan of re
pS organization. The company was CAPT
ey The A. ID. & NJ store at tiibbonsvillt
Ut young men named Bert Gilman an
Ut Dan Harkins. who secured about Sl5C
ne At the time there was no one in tn
n store except the manager and tn
clerk The two men rushed in wit
st revolvers and ordered them to thro
ed up their hands while they WEI
no through the cash drawer and the SAT
with the result above stated. In the
ndSLc JuSy ONSIlOohCu q S"oN NNHN'~'
ne ing $1,000. They mounted their hors
nd aud dash ed off up the road before IL
ng alarm could be given. reward
'eo 5000 has been offered for their arres
A freight train coming in on the Nj
hart branch of the Montana Centr
railway rounded a sharp curve OF
mile from Great Falls, Mont, al
struck steer, causing terrible pill
up Of the engine and twelve cars
ban. A. Daniels. engineer; Patrick j. Rile
~ fireman, and Harry A. Edmiston, het
brakeman, were crushed to death
-. meath the cab and the wrecked ca
In within five feet of each other. DAM,
i'm leaves family, Riley was married T.
hat months ago in Canada. and his W
was expected to arrive the day he W
killed, Emission was to be married
three or four days to young lady fr'
Pueblo, Colo.
bsrs. Regarding a report that m lrtial l;
q to would be suspended in the Coe
the dAlenes soon, Governor Steunenbe
da., of Idaho, said: There will be no
aus Taxation by the state of anything
ion, has undertaken. On the contrary,
ting policy we undertook at the first v
au- be carried out as vigorously as ev
ners This decision to release the prison