The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-01-13
NORTHWEST NOTES,
Within the past year $4,000 people
have found homes in Nevada.

Within the past year $4,000 peoplt
have found homes in Nevada.
Wyoming produced 900
pounds Of wool during the year 1904
A company has been formed in Ne
vada to build q. twenty.fve-mile cleo.
trio road between Hazen and Fallon.
The barge Monarch, moored at
Portland, turned turtle and one Of the
six men working on the Monarch was
drowned.
Fifteen hundred teachers attended
the annual convention of the Wash.
ington State Educational association.
at Spokane, last week.
The value of the mineral products
Of Wyoming for 1904 were: Coal, $14,.
461,5ss; copper, $1,O5O, 900; gold, $500,
900; silver, $4,000; iron, $250,000.
The federal grand jury at Portland
returned seven indictments one day
last week in connection with the land
fraud cases, now under investigation
Fire at Garfield, Wash, destroyed
four buildings in the business district
and injured several others. The loss
is about $4,000, with but little insur
ance. ,,.-
Thomas Brown, II years old, shot
and killed his father for cursing him
while the two men were at work in a
field on their farm near Chehalis,
Wash.
While Nevada is not lumber state,
yet her mills have been unusually busy
during the past year, and their prod.
ucts have increased over 100000
feet over those of 1903.
Northwestern stockmen will soon
have an opportunity to bid on 1000
head of horses to be furnished Uncle
Sans cavalry, and artillerymen now
stationed in the Philippines.
Three men were killed instantly and
two injured, one so that he died soon
afterward, by an explosion of four boil
ers at the sawmill plant of Walworth
and Neville, at Walville, Wash.
OF late years Nevada has come to
be recognized as the center of the bee
industry Of the west, and in great
measure has supplanted California,
which has heretofore been leader
A sandstone blocked traffic on the
Carson & Colorado road one day last
week, and all trains were held up.
The sand covered the track a foot deep
and extended for a distance of one
mile.
Patrick Brennan Of Leadville, Colo,
In a Jealous rage shot and fatally
wounded Mrs. Kate Lowney and then
shot himself fatally. Brennan, VINO
boarded with Mrs. Lowney, came from
Butte.
Citizens attempted to lynch the
crew Of a gravel train which ran
down and killed James M. Myler in
Seattle. The motorman, conductor
and brakemen were attacked by the
mob, but were rescued by the police.
DR.. Johann Eisenhutt, the Oldest
person in Colorado, died in Denver
hospital last week. He was born in |
Switzerland in 1900, and came to this
country in 1868. After practicing med,
icine ten years in Omaha, he came to
Colorado.
Lew Hartsough of Sheridan, Wyo.,
serving a twenty-year sentence in the |
state penitentiary for the murder OF |
his bushes partner, G. F. Mclaughlin,
will be released from prison in 4 few
months, by reason Of committeeman
of his sentence to five years.
Register Gordon of the United
States land Office at Miles City, Mont,
says that the reports of starving
among the northern Cheyenne In.
dams at Lame Deer agency is exag.
gerated. The Indians have been on
half rations for a number of years,
and every winter the whites complain
that the Indians kill their stock.
Dewey Squires, who came to Butte
from Minneapolis two months ago.
met death in the Bell mine. While
coming up in the cage he had faint
ing spell, fell over and his head, pro.
truding, was crushed to bits by tim.
bers. He died instantly.
While five men were crossing the
Yellowstone river in a basket, says
Forsythe, Mont, special, the cable
broke, precipitating the men into the
liver. Several slipped under the ice
Ind 1t was only with the greatest diff. [
iculty that their lives were saved. F.,
Taken on the whole, the mining in.
Iustry of Nevada has an exceedingly
right outlook, and when the returns
re all in for tho past year 1t will
how a production of the precious