Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-06-09
NORTHWEST NOTES

| mIS. JOSepH f1dBeTV, Oh buIJe,
whose husband committed suicide last
week after shooting her and her chill
dren, is dead.
Harry Hart, well-known young
man eighteen years of age. lost his life
just west of Livingston, Mont, while
attempting to board moving freight
train.
The year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs
John c. Toland died at Union. Ore.
last week from the effects of the bite
of woodtick. causing paralysis of the
throat and blood poisoning.
While playing in the Cooper orch
ard near Wenatchee, Wash, the two
sons OF Fred Cooper, aged IL and g.
years respectively, were struck by
lightning and killed. Two smaller chill
dren were stunned
While out picking wild strawber
ries on the hills near Portland, Media
Boehrer was struck by lightning and
instantly killed. Her body was found
by searching party, her father being
at the head of the number
A dispatch from Grand Encamp-
ment, Wyo.. says Mrs. Dot Wilson,
alias Miss May Shipley, is dead from
a dose of poison, self-administered.
The woman was once the wife OF a
prominent mining man of Colorado.
Mrs. Clementine d. Roster. aged 3S.
committed suicide at Butte while tenn
porarily insane. She blew her head
off with a 44-caliber revolver Her
husband is foreman of the Montana
Ore Purchasing company's smelter.
According to advices from Reno.
Nevada, large party of surveying en-
gineers has been at work in the neigh
borhood of Beckmith Pass. making
lines for the Western Pacific road
which is to be built through the noun
tains.
double tragedy took place twelve
miles east of Eugene, Ore. on the list.
John Richards shot and killed his sis
ter and her husband, Sanford Skin
ner, following repeated quarrels over
family matters Richards is under ar.
rest
Lancelot Steele, the 1U-year-old SON
OF Thomas Steele of Utica, Mont.
while out hunting with ], ID. Waite, Jr...
and Bradley Waite was instantly
killed by big boulder, which became
over him.
Olevia Staumbaugh, Lakeview,
Oregon. schoolgirl, was fatally burned
on the hillside near the school while
several of the children were playing.
One of the small boys lighted little
bonfire, and the Staumbaugh girls
clothes caught.
Henry Arao, the Japanese murderer
of a Spokane Chinese, Sam Chong,
was hanged at the penitentiary at
Walla Walla, Wash, at an early hour
Saturday. The murderer was unusual
ly brave throughout the ordeal and
died in twenty-five minutes.
Edward Challenger, Joe Johnson and
Lentz Borst, being held awaiting trial
at Choteau, Mont, escaped from the
Teton county jail and are still at
large. Johnson and Borst cut their
way out OF their cells with file made
OF caseknife, procured the jailor's
keys. and weapons from his Office dur
ing his absence, and released Chal-
lenger.
George j. Kindel, well-known man
ufacturer of Denver, has been ar
rested on the charge of having crimi-
nally libeled the late Henry II. Hyde,
founder of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance society. by printing his picture
In circular between those of two
outlaws, over the inscription: kin
del's Gallery of Dead Cheaters."
The dead body of Oliver Atkins, a
young man living in Aldridge, coal
camp near Livingston, Mont, who dis
appeared last winter while hunting.
has been found in a like He evil
IDENTIFY was drowned while trying to
cross on the ice
Killing Ernest Hickman of Oregon
City in, a saloon row at Prairie City,
Ore, six weeks ago, may cost Marshal
w. II. Lucy of Prairie City, term
in the penitentiary. He has just been
found guilty of manslaughter, but his
case will be appealed.
Dick Anwine, owner OF a barber
shop in Casper, Wyo., has been miss
ing for several days and an investiga-
| ton shows that he has left many cred.