The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-03-17
NORTHWEST NOTES.

The house has passed the senate bill
appropriating $4,000 for Missouri''
exhibit at the Lewis and Clark exposi
tior at Portland.
Governor Toole of Montana has
vetoed the railway commission bill
He objected to the bill because II
named the commissioners.
John Brennan and Patrick Deery
miners, were killed by a premature
explosion of giant powder in the Coro.
nado mine at Leadville, Colo.
A. w. Smith, the fireman of the
freight which was in collision with
the Twin City express at Bearmouth,
Mont, is dead from his injuries.
John Bush, aged Is, of Seattle, was
given ten years for holding up sa-
loon. He is the youngest prisoner
ever sent to the penitentiary in that
state. He tried to hold up a saloon
and twenty men single-handed.
R. R. David, who is charged with
forgery. and who escaped from Deputy
Sheriff Butler by jumping from train
near Baker City, Ore, week ago, has
been recaptured between that town
and Boise, Ida. The forgery occurred
in Seattle last August.
Peter Teller, aged 20 years, was al
most instantly killed by Montavilla
electric car, says Portland dispatch.
Teller was watching the approach of
car on the other track and did not hear
the oncoming of car on the track
on which he was walking until too
late. ,..s
Five diamond rings, valued at $1,000
were stolen from the fashionable
boarding house owned by Mrs. J. c.
Haines of Seattle, some time between
Wednesday and Friday nights. The
rings were the property Of Mrs. &C.
neva H. Kmball, a prominent society
woman,
! The saloon of E. Bellich & Co., at
Angels Camp, Cal, was broken into
and the safe removed to the back yard,
where it was placed bottom side up, a
hole made in the bottom with TOOLS
stolen from blacksmith shop at Alta
vile, three miles distant, and $4,000
in cash stolen.
The Western Bowling leagues which
took part in the recent national COM
petition at Milwaukee are expected to
withdraw from the National league. A
meeting Of these clubs, which include
Butte, Ogden, Salt Lake, San Francis.
co, Spokane and Seattle, is planned to
be held shortly, at which the question
will be definitely settled.
The jury in the trial of George Hill
boki, at Great Falls, Mont, charged
with having murdered George Sedla-
eek, after being out over forty hours,
reported that they were unable to
reach a verdict. Ten favored YER
dict in the first degree, while two
held out to the last on the GROUNDS
that the prisoner was insane.
Governor Sparks of Nevada on the
18th entertained every member of the
legislature, as well as employees of
the state, together with hundreds Of
friends at 'possum, beef and mutton ,
barbecue on his farm, the Almo. The
affair was the biggest Of it's kind ever I
held in the state. Every legislator at.
tended and special trains were run
from Reno and Carson.
Another wide-open step was taken
by Governor Sparks on the eve of the
end of Nevada's legislature. He We
toed the bill prohibiting the sale of
liquor within five miles of any camp q
or place where government work is
in progress in Nevada. The bill was d
PlOPolCu Ny Oultcu oIdIco DloIilCC |
Attorney Summerfield at the request
of the United States government
A sentry who was guarding two
prisoners at work near the Yellow
stone river at Fort Keogh, Mont, has
deserted, taking one Of the prisoners ,
with him. The other prisoner, al {
though he had chance to escape, re- '
turned to the fort.
Roy Crow, of Tonopah, Nevada, :
stepson of T. B. Hickey, capitalist of Z
Carson, Nevada, shot himself in the 9
breast, inflicting a wound which prob. c
ably will prove fatal. He formerly G
was clerk employed by the State I
Bank and Trust company.
In fire which destroyed the dwell
ing of E. G. Fields, of La Grande, Ore,
during the absence of the adult mem a
bers of the household, one son, aged 4
ten, was burned to death, and another,