The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-01-20
NORTHWEST NOTES.

on the 9Th of complication Of dis
eases, aged 81 years.
Nevada, which for years was at
standstill In railroad building, ha
lately added to its railroad mileag'
close to 300 miles, and today the tota
of the state is nearly 1000 miles.
Enraged by jealousy of Franz
Dunno, whom he believed to have
alienated his wife's affections, Henri,
H. Loomis of Portland killed Dunno
and Mrs. Loomis and then committed
suicide.
Upon motion of District Attorney
John Manning, the indictments which
were returned by the county grant
jury against Mayor George H. Will
liams and Chief of Police Charles H
Hunt of Portland have been dismissed
Charles McGough of Dillon, Mont.
has come to the conclusion that New
Years day fowls come pretty high A
fine of $500 and three months in jail
is the price he will pay for stealing
one turkey and three chickens on the
night of December 30.
William Illingsworth of Billings,
Mont, was blown from passenger
train ear Whitehall and fatally in
jured. He is the fourth member of
the 1llingsworth family who has met
violent death within few years.
Andrew O'Connell, a we'll known
Indiana, Missouri, Kansas and Mon
tana pioneer, died at Helena, aged Is
years. In ante-bellum, days In Missouri
and Kansas he was the personal friend
of Thomas Ewing and General w. T.
Sherman. He was quite wealthy.
The secretary of the interior has
signed contract for the construction
in the vicinity Of Montrose and Delta,
Colo, of tunnel six miles long
through ridge separating the Gun
nison river from the Uncompahgre
valley, about 125, 900 acres of which is
to be irrigated by water from the Gun
niSOn.
At public meeting in Portland,
called for the purpose of indorsing
the efforts of President Roosevelt and
Secretary Hay In bringing about the
reconvening Of The Hague tribunal,
disturbance was created by the ef-
forts of a numerous contingent to pre-
vent the adoption Of laudatory reso-
buttons.
Special Forest Superintendent A. A.
Anderson of Wyoming last week
called on the president and presented
him with set of resolutions adopted
by the Camp Fire club of America,
electing him an honorary member of | (
the club which has been organized ,
for protecting the game and forests of :
the country.
Thomas Teegarden, once a well
known cowboy of that section, engaged :
a room in hotel at Medicine Hat, +
and a few minutes later the sound of t
q revolver shot was heard and Tee .
garden was found in chair with a 1;
bullet hole in his head and smoking r
revolver In his hand. Teegarden was
respondent over the courts refusal to -
award him custory of a minor sister. =
Governor Joseph X. Toole, in his BIZ II
snnial messages to the Montana state .
legislature, favors the adoption of -
amendment for the ini- Il
latlve and referendum, direct pri- t;
nary election law, fellow-servant
aW, the creation Of a railroad COM
nlsslon, and the election of United
states senators by direct vote of the -
eople. "
While splitting wood at Everett, -,
Wash, Frederick Sopper Drained his =,
our-yearold son, John. The child was M
winging about post near where the ~
ian was working. The little fellows =.
rm slipped and he fell forward, strik- =,
lg face downward on the chopping -.
lock just as the ak was brought down Sd
lth a heavy swing The blade sunk re
eep into the boys head crosswise of hs
le skull.
The body. of the woman found dead u
Cutler mountain, near Colorado
prings, December II, and supposed
be that of Mrs. Bessie Bouton of sc
yracuse, N. Y, has been positively ne
[entl1ed as such by a professional Fl
nrse, Miss Curtis, of Denver. bu
James R. Hayne, former prominent tn
ockman of Wyoming and Texas. ha
ed In Butte from pneumonia Of tri
hich he had been i'll but three or trt
ur days. Mr.. Hayne has long resjd. xii
in the west, coming to Montana sic
ON Wyoming several years ago. OF
Two children of John McPhee, one r.
re years old and the other a babe,
I've been burned to death in a fire T.,
at destroyed the McPhee house at ~
amondville, Wyo. The parents were o.
sent at the time, and did not learn ~,
their loss until thew returned lie