The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-11-11
NORTHWEST NOTES.


Peter Decook, prominent residen
Of Lovelock, New, ended his life b.
taking cyanide Of potassium.
The secretary of the interior has d
rected that $4,000 acres Of land Il
eastern Oregon be restored to settle
ment, and be opened to entry ate
ninety days advertisement.
A party of fifty Japanese who hav
been working in Tacoma and vicinity
have been summoned home, In re
Spouse to the call for the first reserves
for military service.
Safe blowers took $1.120 in cash ant
other plumber from the Office of tn.
Golden West hotel, in Spokane. Thu
robbers poured nitro-glycerine into thu
Office safe. which they had wrapped IL
portiere.
With the departure Of four Japanese
for their native land to enter the army
an exodus Of Japanese from Pendle
ton, Ore, in response to an order from
the Japanese government has com
menced.
James Chesser, foreman of a log
ging camp on the Grande river, near
La Grande, Ore. shot and killed man
named Webster in dispute over q
small sum of money and then killed
himself.
Former Governor Benjamin Harrison
Eaton died at his home in Greeley,
Colo, on the 10Th, OF ola age and
3right's disease, aged II years. He
was elected governor of Colorado on
the Republican ticket in 1884.
"China Joe," resident Of Phillips.
burg, Mont, for the past twenty years,
committed suicide by cutting his
throat with a handsaw. The China
man had been sick for some time and
imagined he was going to die.
Ernest Weber, native of Milwau-
kee, Wis.,. but a lumber worker in
Montana for the past few years, was SO
badly crushed at the Camas camp of
the Blackfoot Milling company, near
Missoula. that he died two hours later.
Mrs. Elvina Leveen, Of Tacoma, is
dead as the result of a shock sus-
tanned from a boating accident. The
boat capsized and Mrs. Leveen was
but died two hours later from
heart disease, aggravated by the shock.
The records in the trials of young
Charles w. Walton, of Portland, con.
victed on charges of attempting to
murder Police officer Ole Nelson and
Of highway robbery, do not show that
the boy was allowed to plead. His at
torneys will contend that under the
law the accused boy should now be
given his freedom.
Paul Strain, a dry goods merchant
who has recently established store
IN Pendleton, Ore, was mobbed by $50
clerks because Strain refuses to close
MS store at 6 o'clock p. m. Strain en-.
leavored to make a speech, but the
clerks prevented this by hurting bricks
and rotten eggs at him until he de-
sisted.
There is a prospect that H. st. John
Dix, who is serving term in the peni.
for wrecking the Scandinavian
National bank of Bellingham, Wash,
will be released. Ever since Dix was
his wife has worked un-
to secure his liberty, and
her efforts are about to be crowned
with success.
A passenger train on the Northern
Pacific was thrown from the track near
Lind, Wash, every car on the train
except two leaving the track, but for.
no one was killed, although
several were injured. The wreck was
caused by some new work that the
section men had just done not being
properly tamped, letting the rails give
way.
G.. Wakimoto, who is in charge of
hundreds Of Japanese employed as sec.
ton men and in other capacities on the
Union Pacific railroad, has been noti-
fed by the Japanese consul that all
of the First and Second army
are ordered to return home
at once for active service. Mr.. Waki.
motto says that over fifty members of
the two reserves are located in Colo
RADIO, over GOO in Utah, and about 500
on the railroads in Wyoming.
Charles Walton, the seventeen.year-
old boy robber, who shot and seriously
wounded Policeman Ole Nelson Sep
TENDER /, while attempting to hold up
3 street car in Portland, has been
found guilty of assault with intent to
kill.
The Utah Construction company Of
Ogden, Utah, has filed suit against the