The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-07-21
NORTHWEST NOTES


ganized for mutual protection and wi
maintain headquarters in Tacom
with a paid secretary.
T. J. Ryan, employed in the E. & T
mine near Bourne, Ore. was instantl
killed in mine accident and three O
his companions narrowly escape
death.
John Ross, sheepherder who ha,
charge Of several bands of sheep nea
Huntington, Ore, is said to have hi
the trail with some money, two val
liable horses and two shepherd dog!
few days ago.
A good prospect of coal has beer
found about a mile north of Granite
Ore. It is believed that there is ar
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 Corbett 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 r.
yer, has been decoyed to a deserted
cabin and shot in the back. Mccoy
mad been repeatedly warned to leave
The country.
j. w. Holgarth, rancher, committed
suicide in the lodging-house of Mrs.
K. Newcomb, in Portland, Or. Among
the dead mans effects was As cents,
which the landlady seized in payment
Tor the gas consumed by the suicide
in shuffling 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. & NJ, in 1903, |
brought in verdict of not guilty,
after being out less than half hour.
e. G. Newton, contractor, attempt |
ed to murder E. P. Morgan, 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 Takaki, 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 jealous rage he MUIR
Tered her.
1t is learned that the sixty tons of
IRE recently shipped from the Mont
somery- Shohone mine in the Bullfrog
district netted the sum of $43,50O un-
Ter treatment at the Reno sampler. {
thirty tons of the ore averaged $3.50 8
ton, while the remainder of the ore q
vent 5000 a ton. s
During the past ninety days the
'tah shelters have received from the :
douglass mines in Mason valley. Lyon
ounty, Nevada, nearly 1900 tons of
re. None of this, according to the
yon County Times, has showed less
ian IA per cent copper, while some
1t has reached 20 per cent.
Matt J. Jarvis Jr, while stealing a y,
de on a Northern Pacific passenger N
ain, fell from the top of coach near ;,
avensdale, Wash, and dropped into p
ditch filled with water. He was ;,
owned before the train could be =
opped and assistance given him. =,
rvis was steamboat employee. =,
DR.. D. Frank Powell of Omaha has =
ceived cablegram from Colonel w
Cody, directing him to dismiss the
peal in the Cody divorce suit. Col q
ell Cody dismissed the appeal, it is N
i'd, at the earnest request of his tc
ly living child, Irma, the wife of .e
Clarence Armstrong Scott -
Fort Thomas, Ga. Ii,
The American Association of Med. IN
j Editors in session at Portland has o. ..
'cted the following officers: Presi- 70
mt, DR.. Henry w. Coe, Portland. m
e. first vice president, Major Eve.
Pitcher, Carlisle, Pa; second vice
esident, DR.. Frank P. Foster, New
TX; secretary DR.. ]. Nc. "a
maid, Jr., New York. Vi
rhe first indictment by the special u M
tied States grand jury, which is tn
W investigating timber frauds in ifs
Tho. was found IN tho 11+k IL IA