The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-15

season over 5000 horses have BEEF
sold and shipped to eastern markets
President Alec Fairgrieves of tn,
Montana Federation of Labor, ad
dressed 5000 union men at Butte OF
Labor day. There was the usual pa
rade.
John Hancock, the murderer of DR.
Englebrit and a man named Edmond
sen, on the Nevada desert, was hanged
at the state penitentiary at Carson
Nevada, Friday OF last week.
Fire has again broken out in the
forests east of Mill City, Mont. A
logging camp in the Cascade noun
tains burned last week. The men
barely escaped from the camp with
their lives.
Fire destroyed the Warner hotel,
Roberts's general store and ware.
house, and the postoffice at Cascade,
about fifty miles from Helena. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, with
$1,000 insurance.
j. F. Barnes, who shot and killed
Patrick Hanley at Butte, and to lynch
whom mob attempted to storm the
Silver Bow county Jail but were driv-
en- off by officers, has been taken to
the state prison for safe keeping.
James Reed, horse thief, was shot
and killed by officers near Malta,
Mont. Reed had been surprised and
relieved of his weapons, when he at
tempted to escape by running, and
was shot down by one of the officers.
The federal government has begun
to take testimony in fourteen cases
of alleged violation of the continuous
residence feature of the homestead
law by commuters in Skagit county,
Washington. The evidence Is taken
before the superior court of Mount
Vernon, and forwarded to the depart
ment
Emil Rude was found dead in Ia |
coma, having apparently fallen from |
a window on the second floor of the |
Grand Central hotel. His feet were
pulled through the armholes of vest,
which the police think he had mis-
aiken for trousers, and in trying to
out them on, stumbled and fell
through the window
Two violent deaths of little ones
lave occurred in Burns, Ore, the past
week. Eight-year-old Ruth Tetreau,
probably by curiosity, ate
he contents of bottle of strychnine
md died in great agony. Three-year-
I'D Della Thornburg in some manner
ccidentally set fire to her clothes and
vas SO badly burned that she died
Moritz Tohmsen, president of the
centennial Mill company, Seattle. es-
mates that California will use 6,OOO,-
90 bushels of Washington wheat this
ear. He also states that orders for
pproximately 100000 bushels have
cen received from the United King
ON. The present harvest in Wash
lgton is estimated at 35,OO0,OOO bush
Is.
A special from Livingston, Mont,
ays DR.. Coventry travelling eye
oecialist of Deadwood, S. D., while
uniting bobcats near Clyde Park, Is
lies from Livingston, accidentally
lot and killed his wife. She had fol-
wed him unknown to him and was
)proaching in the brush when he
istook her for wild animal and
red.
F. R. Chase was arrested in San
rancisco as he landed from the
Gamer Spokane from Portland, a
large of embezzling 5000 having been
dyed against him. 1t is asserted by
re Portland police that he is pos >
ssed of important information re-
riding the shooting of Kaspar Van
ran, saloonkeeper and also the
ling of Mrs. Van Dram.
A fire in the mountains near Mill
ty, Oregon burned three farm
uses and spread into the timber in
e mountains. A large amount Of :
bod and several 'culverts on the Cor a
Ills G. Eastern railroad were d
rned. a
More Americans have visited the n
'llowstone national park this sum- +
Or than ever before according to
H. Albin, manager of the Monida.
llowstone stage line. Fully 10000
rsons have visited the park since
3 season opened.
A human skeleton, the bones of an
imal, presumably bear, and re-
Inns of an old-fashioned rifle found
the woods four miles north of Aber.
en-, Wash, by a woodsman tell the sc
e of an encounter which ended in "i
ath to man and beast. al
fully $4,000 people Witnessed. the n.
I'm naval battle at the Lewis and G.
ark exposition last week. The spec.