Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-12-15

/ tracts have been let Tor l,OUU,VUQ ties
and the woods are full Of
Much heavy timber is being IYGhufac-
tured at the mills which will be used
in the construction of large mill at
the mouth Of North Fork next spring.
The mill will have capacity of 100000
feet daily.
MONTANA.
1t really looks now as If brand new
smallpox epidemic had started in at
| Butte.
A. H. Benkendorf, of Smith Valley,
has lost his residence and household
goods by fire.
John Bigando, an employee Of the Bell
mine, at Butte, was painfully injured
while at work in the mine.
A. w. Swaney has been appointed
deputy sheriff at Kalispell to take the
place of Laban Thompson, resigned.
Will Engle, of the lower valley, lost
his granaries and grain by fire the 9TH
err day. About $500 bushels of wheat
and 1000 bushels of oats were burned.
The loss is partly covered by insurance.
! C. M. Weidemann of Butte has been
arrested for not renting SIP he re-
ceived for the Colliery Engineer COM
pany of Scranton, Pa. This is COM
pany which teaches engineering by cor
respondence.
| This year the payment of tax money
has been heavier than ever before in
Butte. Out of the $4S5,O00 due, about
| $472,000 have so far been collected,
leaving less than $4,000 to which the
10 per cent penalty must be added. Yes
terday, the last day to escape the 10
per cent addition, over $22,0 was paid
in, keeping the clerks busy.
Three mining accidents which, while
not fatal, are very painful, occurred in
the mines in Butte recently. P. ]. Hol-
land, was thrown backwards against a
timber, injuring his back seriously.
John Mccarthy, station tender at the
Bell mine. had car fall on his left
leg, crushing it horribly. John Harch
at the st. Lawrence, was setting up a
machine drill when the machine fell,
catching him underneath it. His left
leg was broken.
The police of Butte have received
some information which Is to them one
and all disquieting. 1t is stated that
Jew Jess, the mistress of Robert Shad-
we'll at the time he murdered Red
O'Connor, has returned to Butte, and
is in hiding. She was wanted as wit
ness, but kept away until sentence was
pronounced. And worse still, she Is
accompanied by the equally notorious
and dangerous Black Pearl, who de-
parted from Butte last spring after rob
bling a well known business man of
$1,000.
Professor Malachy Dwyer, an old res
ident of Butte, formerly of Ogdensburg,
N. Y, during a heated religious discus
sion with ]. S. Charlebois, the divine"
healer, attempted to strike the latter,
and Charlebois called on God to pro-
tect him, and Dwyer dropped dead.
The men were in the public library at
the time. Charlebois, who is from Hell
ena, and once lived in Spokane, is a
religious zealot, with reputation as
divine healer, and is editor of a publi-
cation called "The Living Truth" Dur
ing his discussion with Dwyer he made
the statement that he had read the fig
ures 1866" which were marked on the
forehead of the pope. Dwyer said they
had an anti-Christ significance, and
called Charlebois liar and made a
rush for him with appraised hand to
strike him. Charlebois says he stood
up and called on God to protect him.
and before Dwyer could strike he drop.
ped dead. Dwyer was 68 years old.
The coroner's inquest this evening de-
veloped the fact that death was due
to heart failure, produced by excite
ment.
OREGON.
Judge Fraser has decided that Will
liam A. Storey was legally elected NAV
or of Portland by the city council.
Multnomah Athletic club and Olym-
pics of San Francisco proved evenly
matched In a recent game of football. |
A young man named Willard Atkins
was drowned in the Grand Ronde river
last week, while helping to ford some
cattle across.
The first accident at the scene Of
operations on the new portage road at
The Dalles, on the Washington side
last week, when a workman
was killed by blast.
The people of Woods, Tillamook
county, headed by T. j. Lucy, are en-.
ieavoring to raise sufficient funds tn
build freight schooner for their own
use on the cooperative plan.
Ex-Governor VIM. p. Lord, minister
% the Argentine Republic, has left for
lis post of duty. He will stop at Wash.
ngton to receive final instructions
rom the state department.
A man in Junction City gave his dog
o friend in Portland. AS soon as the
log arrived in Portland he struck ont
or his home. He reached Junction
jity, about ITO miles from Portland
n two days.
DR.. e. L. Irvine, who was second nhv.
ician at the Oregon state insane asv.
UNI under DR.. Lane, has again been
Committed as an inmate of that inst;.
ution at his own request. He was dis.
harged last September. Morphine is
ne cause of his downfall.
DIR. F. P. Graves, president of the