The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-29
NORTHWEST NOTES

The Lewis and Clark live stock
show opened on the 10Th with 1000
head of blooded stock on exhibition.
Hundreds of stockmen from all over
the country were in attendance.
Hugh Redmond, a prosperous
ranchman living at Kirby, Mont. vas
killed by Albert Wesley in the latter's
having touched a live wire, about a
under bond for shooting at a Cheyenne
Indian.
John Stinebaugh, aged IS, was
thrown at tangent from the high
trestle of a roller coaster" at Nata
torium park at Spokane and received
injuries from which he died half ar
hour later.
Topias Seppener, aged 45 years, a
miner, shot his wife five times and
cut his own throat with fatal results
in their boarding house at Butte. The
woman will live. Jealousy is sup
posed to be the cause.
BY the breaking of the crown sheet
in an engine on am Oregon Railway
& Navigation %westbound freight nea
Quinn's station, Ore, Fireman James
Heater was killed and Engineer John
Healy was badly injured.
The body of an unknown man, who
had committed suicide by cutting a
cash in his throat with a pocket
knife, was found lying in the brush
by the railroad track, three miles
north Of Bellingham, Wash.
Macmillan Weeks, II years old,
wanted at Casper, Wyo., on the charge
Of embezzlement of money from his
employer, M. T. Castle, a ranch owner,
has been arrested in Chicago. He
will be taken back to Wyoming.
w. H. Raymond, a well known Mon.
tana horse breeder who owned ex
tensive stock farms at Sheridan, Madi.
o county, and who bred Spokane
the winner of the Chicago derby, is
dead at Missoula, aged go years.
The Union Pacific has just com.
pleted, at Laramie, Wyo., at a cost OF
$4,000, a reservoir to hold 1,400,00C
gallons of water. 1t is believed that
the building of the reservoir means re
opening of rolling mills at Laramie.
Fifty-nine cases of typhoid fever ex-
list among the convicts in the state
~penitentiary at Walla Walla, Wash,
and new cases are reported daily.
The prison has 765 convicts and the
officials fear a much greater epidemic
A runaway team crashed into a tel.
ephone pole at Salem, Ore, the shock
throwing Charles Boil, the driver,
twenty feet into the air. Boil alight
ed astride the pole, just above the
crossarm, and was rescued uninjured.
Thomas Duncan of Virginia City,
Montana, a pioneer of the state, is
dead at the age of 81 years. He
came to Montana in 1864. MI. Dun.
can was one of the Montana Repub
lican electors at the last presidential
election.
Mistaking each other in the dark
for chicken thieves, two police officers
of B%ellingham, Wash, at a late hour
at night fired several shots at each
other, resulting in Officer Debris
receiving a serious wound with q
.38-calibre ball, which struck the
right leg above the knee, barely miss.
ing the artery.
James M. Hagerty Of Mansfield
Ore, well known in the northwest as
a mining operator, died last week. He
gained much notoriety about three
years ago when citizens Of LOOMS:
Wash, Infatuated by his criticisms OF
a mining venture, tarred and feath.
cred him, rode him on a rail and drove
him out Of town.
Henry Whalen, who killed Joseph
donaldson at Laramie by striking him
with his fist, will be tried for murder
in the second degree. Many believe
Whalen will be cleared, the killing
being looked upon as merely an acct
dental blow.
An early morning confiagration al
Barneston, Wash, a little sawmill
town on the Cedar river, destroyed
the planning mill, dry kilns and sheds
where the dry lumber was piled of the
Kent Lumber company. Damage
amounting to $4,000 was done.
Goldfeld, Nevada, is now connected
by rail with the outside world, lay
ing of the track having been fin
ished on the 18th, at the completion
of which the citizens of the entire
district gave vent to their joy by in
dulging in an impromptu celebration
Roy Chiles, aged 81, of Denver, was
trying to bride a young horse on
ranch neal Laramie, Wyo., when the
rope became fast about his arm, the
horse dragging him, kicking him and