The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-15


State Senator John McGill and Mrs
Fannie M. Settele were married In
Laramie last week. Senator McGil
is author of the anti-gamblin law OF
Wyoming, and one of the largest
:anchmen in the state.
D. A. Griffin, a prominent hotel man
and pioneer politician OF Deming
Wash, has been sentenced to fourteen
years in the penitentiary for criminal
assault on Winnie Johnson, 16-year-
old domestic in his household.
J. H. Mason, one of the best-known
men in Bellingham, Wash, Il heavy
property owner in the city, is dead
as the result of fall at 10 o'clock at
night from the top OF box car, strik-
ing his head on the pavement sixteen
feet below.
Harry H. Bowden, for two years
bcokkeeper and cashier of the lumber
department of the Bellingham Bay I'M
provement company, arrested at Bell
ingham, Wash, on the. charge of lar
ceny was surrendered by his bonds
men and placed in jail
It is asserted that $4,000 worth of
non-negitiable securities were stolen
from the store of the Coey Mercantile
company at Rockford, Wash, by
three blowers. They also got
about $1,000 cash So far as known
no clue to the robbers has been found.
The suit of Adolph Hanson to re-
cover $4,000 from Martin Woldson, a
wealthy railroad contractor, of Spo.
game, for alienation of Mrs. Hansons
affections, has been dismissed, Han
son having disappeared. Woldson had
planned hard fight claiming it was
blackmail
Remarkable presence of mind in
boy of eleven years prevented what
might have been a serious accident to
a Northern Pacific passenger train
near Kalama Wash, Sunday night.
Vincent McKennon discovered two
horses firmly caught in a trestle across
the Kalama river and tagged the
train
While struggling with his wife for
the possession of revolver in their
room in Butte, Bud Lavassour shot
the woman three times. She will die.
He was shot in the head, but only
slightly. Lavassour says the woman
was under the influence of liquor and
he was trying to take the weapon
from her.
Congressman Van Duser of Nevada
has introduced the following bills: To
prevent agreements on United States
contract work for convict labor; for
a postal savings bank; appropriating
$4,000 for sinking artesian wells in
Nevada to establish a fish hatchery
in the state, and to establish United
States mint at Carson City.
Firm in the belief that the minimum
punishment fixed by the last legisla-
ture to be melted out to convicted
gamblers is too severe, the jury which
heard the testimony against Edward
Hill of Butte returned a verdict of
not guilty, although convinced beyond
a. doubt that the prisoner had COM
mitted the offense charged.
The report of the United States as
say office at Helena shows that Madi-
son county is the only one which re-
veals an increased production of gold
in November over October. Madison
is second on the list for November,
with $3O,95721, an increase Of $4,000.
Fergus leads with $S5,121.22, and Lew
is and Clark is third, with $22,377.96.,
Thomas B. Neuhausen, inspector of
the surveyor-generals and the district
land office, has received information
from Washington in recognition OF his,
services in connection with land fraud
investigations in Oregon. He has
been appointed special inspector OF
the interior department
A caboose broke loose from North
ern Pacific freight train in Tacoma
and ran down the hill through the
railroad yards nearly a mile, colliding
with switch engine opposite the
Headquarters building. Engineer
Charles Johnson was caught in the
wreck and badly scalded.
Ben Harris, an aged sheep-herder,
who was lost in the recent storm, was
found frozen to death on Marias river,
fifteen miles north of Fort Benton,
near Chimney Rock, Mont Harris had
recently been released from the Fort
Benton hospital and had been herding
sheep for several months.
Aged Wess Hosselkuss and his wife,
well-known residents of Susanville,
north of Reno, Nevada, while trying
to corral a band of wild horses near
their home recently, met with injuries
tbat will prnha bly result in their |