The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-07-14

Fire at Spokane last week did dam

Losses estimated at $25,O 900 resulted
from fire at Pasco, Wash, number
Of frame buildings being destroyed
and much of the town being in danger.
Hike Hall, arrested at Chehalis.
Wash, on charge of murder COM
mitted in Virginia, has confessed to
killing eight men, but declared ne shot
all of them in self-defense.
J. H. Nichol, aged II years, of Port.
land, mistook bottle of carbolic acid
for whisky and drank the contents.
He died in great agony. DR.. Nichol
formerly resided in Illinois.
H. c. Boyd bought revolver in a
secondhand store in Spokane. and
while the proprietor was making
change, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head.
Charles Hicks, four-year-old son OF
Harry Hicks, died in commissions at
Spokane as the result of terrible
burns received on the 4th, when his
clothing was ignited by fire crackers.
The young son of John H. Smith, OF
Cheyenne, was playing with giant
cracker when it exploded in his hand
Unexpectedly. The hand was man.
gled in a frightful manner and may
have to be amputated.
A meeting Of Norwegians in Belling-
ham, Wash, resolved, in care of hostil-
tiles between Sweden and Norway, to
inaugurate subscriptions which they
hope will be increased by their coun-
trymen in America until sufficient for
the purchase of two modern battle
ships has been realized, for presenta-
ton to the government of Norway.
After an illness of year or more
Colonel Wilbur Fisk Sanders, pio-
neer lawyer of Montana, attorney for
the Vigilantes in the early days of the
territory when the community was
overrun with desperadoes, one of the
foremost citizens of the state and one
Of it's first United States senators,
died at his home in Helena on, the
7th.
H. F. Gibson, druggist of Seattle,
and Mrs. James Mitchell, wife of a
furniture salesman, were drowned
last week in Lake Washington. An
upturned boat with wearing apparel
belonging to the couple was found on
the bank of Union bay. Neither Mrs.
Gibson nor Mr.. Mitchell were aware
that the missing couple were in any
way attached
Judge Neterer of the Superior court
at Bellingham, Wash, upheld the g.
hour law of the state by overruling the
demurrer submitted on constitutional
grounds by the defendants in the suit
brought by the state of Washington
against Contractor Charles E. Lind, ac-
cused of violating the law which fixes
the number of hours in day for
which laborers may be employed on
public works.
Moses Manuel, well-to-do Helena
mining man, who discovered the
Homestake mine in Deadwood, S. D.,
lost his life in the Minnesota mine,
near Corbin, fifteen miles south of
Helena. He descended into shaft
alone to examine pumps, carrying a
candle which ignited gas that had es'
capped from gasoline tank which
leaked. An explosion resulted, caving
in the shafts and blowing the timbers
in all directions.
Information comes from Myrtle
Creek, Oregon, that the badly decom-
posed body of Thomas Miller, an aged
miner, has been discovered near his
cabin. One of Miller's feet was pin
toned under a root of tree and a
bloodstained knife laying near bore
mute evidence that Miller, after real
izing there was no hope of being res |
cued, had cut his own throat rather
than slowly starve to death. He was |
last seen June 25.
The secretary of the interior has
awarded the contract for the con-
struction of a pile bridge across the
North Platte river, in connection
with that irrigation project, to ]. F.
Casper of Casper, Wyo., at his bid OF
$4,000.
Ed Stickney, one of the escaped
federal convicts, was captured while
coming from Point Defiance Park to
Tacoma. He had been in the park
three days and was nearly starved.
He refused to state where he left his
companions.
Hugh Ball, Jr., aged years, was
burned to death at the home of his
parents in Great Falls, Mont, as the
result of an attempt Of himself and
several other children to light some
fireworks which had been left over
from the celebration of the 4th.
Kaoctic Dorsoe, one of the most prom
inent braves of the Flatheads, dropped
dead at the Flathead Indian reserva-