Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-07-21
NORTHWEST NOTES

with a paid secretary.
T. ]. Ryan employed in the f. & L.
mine near Bourne, Ore. was instantly
killed in a mine accident and three OF
his companions narrowly escaped |
death.
John Ross, a sheepherder who hal
charge of several bands of sheep neat
ore is said to have hit
the trail with some money, two val
liable horses and two shepherd dogs
a few days ago
A good prospect of coal has been
found about mile north of Granite,
Ore. 1t is believed that there is an
extensive coal bed underlying a large
section of this locality. Arrangements
are being made to install prospecting
drill.
The secretary of the interior has
advertised for bids for the construc-
ton of the Ccrbett diversion tunnel.
Shoshone irrigation project, about ten
miles east of Cody. Wyoming. This
tunnel is to be approximately 1900
feet long.
According to information from Their
mopolis, Wyo., Bob Mccoy, a we'll
known ranchman on the Big Horn ri
yer, has been decoyed to a deserted
cabin and shot in the back Mccoy
had been repeatedly warned to leave
the country.
]. w. Holgarth, rancher, committed
suicide in the lodging-house of Mrs.
X. Newcomb, in Portland. Or. Among
the dead mans effects was 40 cents,
which the landlady seized in payment
for the gas consumed by the suicide
in shutting off this mortal coil.
The jury in the case of George w.
Breaw, who was tried before the cir
cult court of Baker county, Oregon, on
the charge of forgery, while employed
in the Office of the o. r. G. NJ, in 1903,
brought in a verdict of not guilty,
after being out less than half hour.
f. c. Newton, contractor, attempt
ed to murder e. p. Morgan, a Spokane
attorney, on the steps of the Port
land hotel. as he was leaving the room
of Mrs. A. German, the proprietress
of the house Newton, an elderly man,
was insanely jealous of the woman.
Mamie Takali, a Japanese girl IA
years old, was murdered in her par
ents' home at Latah, Wash, by George
Hama, Japanese, who boarded with
the family. Hama wanted to marry
the girl, but she and the parents OBJ
jected In a jealous rage he muir
dered her.
1t is learned that the sixty tons OF
ore recently shipped from the Mont
gomery- Shohone mine in the Bullfroe
district netted the sum of $4S,5OO un
der treatment at the Reno sampler
Thirty tons of the ore averaged $115C
ton, while the remainder of the ore
went $500 a ton.
During the past ninety days the
Utah smelters have received from the
Douglass mines in Mason valley, Igor
county, Nevada, nearly 1900 tons o.
ore None of this, according to tho
Lyon County Times, has showed less
than II per cent copper, while some
of it has reached 20 per cent
Matt J. Jarvis Jr., while stealing
ride on a Northern Pacific passenge
train, fell from the top of a coach nea
Ravensdale Wash, and dropped int
n ditch filed with water. He wa
drowned before the train could b.
stopped and assistance given him
Jarvis was a steamboat employee.
DR.. d. Frank Powell of Omaha ha
received a cabegram from Colonel W
f. Cody, directing him to dismiss tn
appeal in the Cody divorce suit. Co
onel Cody dismissed the appeal, it i
said, at the earnest request of hi
only living child, Irma, the wife c
Lieutenant Clarence Armstrong Scot
of Fort Thomas, Ga
The American Association of MED
ical Editors in session at Portland ha
elected the following officers; Pres
dent, DR.. Henry w. Coe, Portland
Ore. first vice president Major Ev'
Ign Pitcher, Carlisle, Pa. second vic
president, DR.. Frank p. Foster, Ne
York; secretary-treasurer DR.. j, M
Donald, Jr., New York.
The first indictment by the speci'
United States grand Jury, which