The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-10-27
NORTHWEST NOTES

mine.
Every building in the town of Pur
dy, Nevada, has been destroyed b,
fire, supposed to have been of incen
diary origin.
James e. Shannon, formerly of Val
lejo, Cal, and Miss Julia Bones, were
drowned in the Willamette river al
Portland, the boat capsizing.
State Controller and Insurance Com
missioner 8. P. Davis, Of Nevada, has
revoked the license of the New York
Life Insurance company in that state
Detectives in the employ Of the
Southern Pacific railroad are endeav'
oring to trace dynamiters who on
Sunday night attempted to wreck q
southbound train, just south of Eu
gene, Ore.
Letitia Wiseman was last week ap'
pointed county physician of Laramie
county, Wyoming. This is probably
the first time in the history Of the
country that a woman has been ap
pointed county physician.
Mrs. l.. j. Swab, a bride of a few
months, was drown while fishing at
Elliott's slough, near Aberdeen
| Wash. With her husband she was
standing on a log which rolled, throw
Ing them into the water.
The supreme court of Nevada has
handed down a decision upholding the
constitutionality of the eight-hour
law. The law was passed by the last
legislature and was contested by e
eral of the large mine-owners.
Word has reached Bellingham
| Wash, that the wife and babe of In
dian Tom" were burned to death in a
fire which destroyed their home on
San Juan island, and that the husband
and father will die from his injuries.
Charles Minter, one of the best
known sheepmen of Upton, Wyo., was
shot and instantly killed by his herder
during a quarrel. According to report
at New Castle the herder acted in self.
defense, though this cannot be verified.
The Great Northern has authorized
q reward of $4,000 for the arrest and
conviction of each man implicated in
the hold-up of the Overland train near
Ballard, Wash. This offer supersedes
the initial reward of $4,000 for the en-
tire gang.
George Gemmell, an ,eleven-year-old
BOY, was fatally shot and Constable
Sam Klein slightly wounded as a re-
suit of an attempt to hold up and rob
a grocery store in Seattle. Two OF
the men implicated in the holdup
were captured.
Increasing traffic in the Nippeno,
Nevada, mining district has led to the
placing of another stage line between
Nippeno and Searchlight. This stage
line, which is completely equipped.
will run to connect with Salt Lake
Route trains.
The safe in the Southern Pacific
depot at Dayton, Nevada, was blown
open with nitro-glycerine, and the
contents ransacked. The amount 10
cured was very small. The robbel
mad his feet muftied and he was
tracked as far as Silver City. This
Is the third job of the kind in town
within the past few months.
Mrs. Mary Jane Price, a well-known
resident of Butte, was e~lectrocutec
while trying to rescue her son, who
had fallen over a charged wire In
their barn. The lad is badly burned
but will recover 1t was at first
though that the woman had tainted
and her death was not discovered fol
several moments.
Fire in the kitchen of the Union
Pacific hotel, at Laramie, did $2,5OC
damage and caused the abandonment
Of the kitchen, meals being served to
guests of the hotel in the lunch room
and passengers on the trains being fed
at other stations.
A Japanese laborer named Siyji,
to Nevada from San Francisco
was killed in the railroad yards at
Sparks, Nevada. He was working
a switch engine when it start
ed, carrying him against a box Car and
crushing out his life.
I. W. Schiller, n of the owners OF
the Alamosa, Colo, bank, was arrested
last week and lodged in jail, on the
charge of e~mbezzlement of a sum in
excess of $4,000 belonging to the San
Luis Building and Loan association, OF
which he is treasurer.
DR.. Blalock, chief physician at the
Walla Walla, Wash, renitentiary. has
been dismissed by Warden KEGS, be-
co,,Sa nj tbo rocont Outhreak Of tv.