The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-01
NORTHWEST NOTES

Frosts, causing slight damage, 0C
CURED on the 10th in Montana ant
Idaho.
One of the most successful airshil
flights in the history of aerial naviga
tion was made at the Lewis and Clarl
| exposition last week, when the City o
Portland went up for its second trip
The vessel was in the air for half ar
hour, during which time it covered
six miles in territory without a hitch
Of any kind.
F. A. Heinze of Montana has pur
chased the San Martin copper mines
in the State of Oaxaca. The San Mar
tin mines were worked by Spaniards
centuries ago and prior to the con.
quest of Mexico the native Indians
operated them. In modern times the
mines have always been large and
profitable producer of copper.
The harvesting, stacking and
threshing of spring wheat on low
lands in the northern part Of the
spring wheat region where grain is
fully ripe were interrupted during the
fore part of last week, the fields being
too wet for the reapers. Complaints
of shrunken grain are general from
Washington and western Oregon
Superintendent Hussy of the pro
vincial police, has been advised that
the Chilcotin mail was rifled of $500
in currency and checks shortly before
it reached 150-mile house from Alexis
creek. Robert Machen, half-breed
is accused of robbing the mail bags.
when the driver left them at Sheep
Creek, when en- route to Chilcotin.
A special to the Butte Miner from
Wallace, Ida, says: This city was
thrown into state of excitement or
the Goth by the killing of Oscar Olsen,
saloon man of Burke, by Chief OF
Police Beck, in the Western saloon
shortly after o'clock. Beck was try
ing to stop a saloon row when Olsen
attempted to take a hand and was
shot in the back of the head by Po-
liceman Beck.
Samuel Studzinski, fur buyer and
pawnbroker, was murdered in his shop
at Lewiston, Mont, being beaten to
death with blunt instrument. While
robbery is believed to have been the
motive, on the breast of the dead man
was found a small card on which,
written in blood were the words tx.
c. No. IT," A similar card was found
in front of a small heating stove in
the room.
A special from Lewiston, Mont
reports the disappearance of Deputy
Sheriff Silverthorne, who started into
the wilds of eastern Fergus county
after an alleged horse thief named
Corners. Corners rode into Lewiston
the belt and gun of the dep.
lty, which he said he had taken from
him while the latter was asleep at a
roundup camp about las miles from
lewiston. Corners is in Jail.
At its last regular weekly meeting
he Seattle chamber Of commerce, by
unanimous vote, adopted the report
presented by special committee, OF
which Judge Thomas Burke, was
chairman, relative to the Chinese ex.
,lusion laws and their enforcement.
rhe resolutions favor, first of all, a
trict and literal enforcement of the
avs in so far as the provide for the
hutting out Of all Chinese coolies or
The holy jumpers" of Denver have
cen adjudged a public nuisance, and
lev. Kent White and wife, who con.
uct the mission, fined $50 each for
disturbing the peace Residents in {
be vicinity of the mission protested
gainst the noise.
G. P. Davis, former chief deputy in .
he sheriff's Office at Pendleton, Ore, ]
as arrested last week on the charge
larceny of $4,000, on complaint OF
heriff Taylor and William Blakley.
avis returned from Portland and said I
lat he would fight the case.
An extra stock train, bound east,
as wrecked at Essex Sunday night, =
nd six cars of cattle telescoped Fire. .
an Fred Johnson was pinned under +
Is engine for two hours with bolt 4
trough his leg. Engineer Harrington h
I'd his fireman were also badly hurt. n
Judge John P. Mullins, in the dis v
let court at Denver, has removed c
enry M. Beatty as assignee of the n
'estern State bank and named the A
ontinental Trust company to act in.
cad. The Trust company immedi v
ely filed bonds in the sum of 81 1885,,
o.