The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-25


The Fern Creek Lumber company!
saw mill at Frances. Wash. was
burned last week. The loss is estl
mated at $4,000. Insurance $4,000
Origin unknown.
Maiden, mining camp fifteen miles
north of Lewiston, Mont, was partly
destroyed by fire last week. Several
large frame buildings were burned
The loss is estimated at between $35,
900 and $4,000, with little or no insur'
ance.
In shooting ARRAY at Westfall
Ore, Frank Cammann was shot and
killed by Town Marshal Carry. Cam
mann was barkeeper in saloon,
There was a disturbance and the Of
ficer went into the saloon to arrest
Cammann. The latter pulled gun.
when Carry fired, killing Cammann
instantly.
George Walters, a trader on the
Cheyenne Indian reservation, arrested
a few days ago on the charge OF killing
Mrs. Russell, an Indian woman, with
a shotgun, has been discharged after
a hearing before United States COM
missioner at Forsythe. The evidence
disclosed that the shooting was pure
ly accidental.
!. Instead of going to wedding, young
Louis Thayer of Shelby, Mont, will go
to the penitentiary for year, having
forged a check for SIS in an effort
to secure money to enable him to be
present at the marriage of his brother
at Great Falls. Thayer is % years OF
age and works on farm in the vi
cinity of Shelby.
The mysterious disappearance from
Portland last week of L. l.. Swartsel
of Pasadena, CAL, and May Lindsey,
telephone operator of Portland, is
explained in dispatch from Vancou'
yer, Wash, which relates that the
bodies of the couple were found near
the roadside one mile east of that
place. Both had been shot.
A special from Livingston, Mont,
says an attempt was made to blow up
the transformer house of the Kimber.
ly-Montana Mining company at Jar
dine and more or less damage result.
ed. The company has offered reward
of $500 for the arrest of the perpe.
traitor, which is supplemented by an
offer of $1OO by the Miners union.
What is believed was the
death knell of racing at least for
the present season in Portland was
sounded when Presiding Judge
Frazer state circuit court, last week
lecreed that the injunction recently
ssued against selling pools at Irving
ON race track would stand until Sep
.ember Z, when final hearing of the
case would be had
A dispatch from Great Falls, Mont,
says that lightning in that city struck
he house of State Senator Fletcher
Maddox in exactly the spot a bolt
struck about a year ago. The bolt
Knocked off the shingles used in re-
pairing the roof year ago. At that
ime the lightning threw down a pic
ure hung on the wall. The recent
Jolt knocked down the same picture.
R. X. Tiffany, an engineer of the
Irrigation company, was
.rrested at Cleelum, Wash, with five
ther men, for attempting to blow up
he dam of the Union Gap Irrigation
which was built across the
utlet of Cleelum lake. The men
we're caught in the act and placed in
all. The company refuses to make a
tatement as to it's connection with the
rime.
A special from Bonneville, Or,
avs: while answering his aged |
lother's call to come home, J. l.. An
erson Of No. 444 North Prospect
treet, Kansas City, Mo-, was MUIR
cred near here. Investigation
1owed that Anderson had met his
cath by repeated blows on the head
' heavy iron bar, but failed to re-
sal any motive for the crime nor any
ue to the murderer.
A special from Calfax, Wash, says
T. Street, who has been prominent
the crusade against saloon keepers,
as shot at Sunday night by an I'M
lown assailant, who also hit Street
fearful blow in the face with blunt
strument.
Florence P. LIE Jeune, one of the
ost popular railroad men on the
'cky mountain division of the Nor
ern Pacific, was ground to pieces by
train near Clinton, Mont. 1t is