The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-07-30
NORTHWEST NOTES.

instantly killed
]. S. Child. drayman, was seri-
ously injured, one horse was killed
and two wagons badly damaged as the
result Of runaway in Rawlins.
Nelson Olson, while attempting to
swim the Yellowstone river at Miles .
| City, Mont, was sucked beneath the /.
water by whirlpool and drowned.
Work on the construction of the |
| Tonopah.Rhodes railroad was com.
pleted on the goth, and the Bonanza
camp is now in communication with
the outside world.
Despondent because he was so deep
ly in debt that he saw no chance to
| pull out, Gust Piehl, a West Seattle
baker, hanged himself in his barn. The
body was found by Charles t. Palmer,
a lad who was employed by Piehl.
The body of Thomas b. Walker,
travelling freight agent of the South.
ern Pacific company and a resident of
Oakland, has been found in the river
four miles from Mystic, Cal, where
he had gone on fishing expedition
Fire destroyed five houses and two
sheds in yorktown, a suburb of Butte,
on the 21st, and three other houses
were badly damaged. The loss is es.
timated at about $4,000, while the to-
tai insurance will not amount to over
$500.
The jury in the Erickson murder
case at Bozeman, Mont, brought in q
verdict OF murder in the second de-
Erickson during fight, but Erickson
claimed the gun was accidentally dis.
charged.
During a quarrel over a piece OF
rope used to tether a COW, Mrs. James
Kinman of Mabel Oregon, shot her
brother-in-law, w. w. Korn, infiicting
injuries from which he may die. The
woman is held pending the outcome of
her deed.
Parties in a position to give credi-
bility to the story say It is quite prob
able that the government may pur
chase tract of AL acres in Washing
ton, including the southern portion OF
American lake, for permanent site
for a post.
The news comes from Kalispell,
Mont, that Hubert Hartman, cowboy
, who recently became rural mail car
, rier, used sixshooter to compel a
man to receipt for a registered letter,
because the letter carrier did not pro-
pose to travel another twenty miles to
find the man to whom the letter be-
: longed.
At the Belmont mine in Butte three
, miners were drowned by the breaking
of bulkhead which held back the
water of the Cambrus mine. The
dead: John Murphy, single; Phillip
Franklin, sIngie Victor Katamick,
married The shaft is full of water
for several days.
f. August Hsnze and his agents are
now charged with having taken ad.
vantage of underground workings in
the Minnie Hcaly mine at Butte to
loot the rich ore bodies in adjoining
mines belonging to the Boston 4 Mon
tana company. Rhe value of the al
y legged plumber is placed at $5,750,0O0
in suit that was begun last week.
James Shallinger a mine owner, has
, disappeared from Grand Encampment,
Wyo., and his friends believe he per-
ished in the mountains. Shallinger
started out on foot and had sixteen
miles to go to reach his mine. Severe
storms prevailed at the time and 1t is
3 believed that he got lost in the forest
or fell over cliff and persisted.
3 Frank Miller, a well known and pop.
:. ular employee of the Butte postofiice
!. died suddenly in German Gulch where
;. he has been camping for the previous
o two weeks with his family. Mr.. Miller
. died from what is Supposed to have
been fruit poisoning.
b. Alfred Hampton, Chinese inspector,
4 has returned from a roundup in
r northern Montana of Chinese supposed
D to be unlawfully in the United States.
One Chinaman was arrested at Kali
1 spell, two at Columbia Falls, one at
Cutbank and two at Assinniboine
The Touring mill department of the
| big Blackfoot Milling company's i'm.
= mense plant at Bonner, Mont, was to
tally destroyed by a fire, which, for a
, time, threatened the destruction OF at
: least million dollars worth of prop.
erty. The loss will aggregate $25 900
3 Thomas Hayes is dead at Encamp
ment, Wyo., having been shot by
> James MalOney, who was intoxicated
p when he did the shooting A posse is