The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-08-10
NORTHWEST NOTES

istration was at shoshone, where we're
registered 1855
DIR. James d. Eggleston Jr.. son of
the Pacific Express company presi.
dent. who has been praeticing as
dentist in Denver. was arrested last
week on tie charge Of counterfeiting
The body Of Hiram Cook. the North
isTn Pacific ciy!l engineer who was
drowned IN the Yellowstone river be
low livingston. Mont. has been re
covered FROM the river at point six
teen mites east Of where he went in.
A saeak thief entered the office a,
Laramie. Nyn. Of tie Laramie Steam
Laund. Will the manager, A. r
Sitter waa absent for a moment. and
stole a canvas bag containing between
SIS and $40 in silver
Eddie De Camp. son Of a well known
Helena artist. was drowned in the Mis-
souri, river north Of Lewiston, Mont
while trying to ford the river on
horseback, his saddle turing and pre-
cipitating him in the swift current
Frank Marolt, a miner, shot and
killed his wife, Mary Marolt. in a
boarding house in Butte in which the
woman was employed as cook The
man made his escape. Marolt and his
wife had not been living together for
some time.
Work on the double tracking Of the
Northern Pacific from Bozeman to
Livingston Mont, will commence at
once. Contractors are now on the
ground, arranging camps. Double
tracking of the road is due to the in
creased traffic.
The Lewis and Clark Centennial Ex-
position corporation has dissolved.
Last week the capital stock was dis
tributed and a dividend of 1914 per
cent on the par value of the stock.
s402. 1872, was declared, to be distrib-
uted among 2,4Ss stockholders. The
toal receipts by the exposition were
sA.521, 1894
After a dramatic trial Mrs. Grace
Hutchinson was acquitted Of killing
Mrs. Mary Bode at Salida, Colo, last
June. During the trial Mrs. Hutchin-
sons husband admitted on the witness
stand that he had been intimate with
Mrs. Bode and that he had confessed
to his wife the night before the murder
was committed.
One Of the most disastrous fires evel
experienced in the Madison valley de-
stroyed the Higbee & Watkins sawmill
near Virginia City, Mont. Two hun
dred thousand feet of rough lumber,
$4,000 feet of finished lumber, the mill,
clubhouse, buildings. stables and a
granary containing 10000 pounds of
oats were burned.
H. r. Coykendall, of Denver, is in
Cheyenne In search OF his wife Coy
kendall says that his vile left him sew.
eral months ago following a quarrel
In which she accused him Of stealing
and selling her jewelry. He claims he
has since learned that her brother was
the thief, and he is now looking for !,
Mrs. Coykendal Id order to effect a
Davis T. Day, chief Of division OF the
United States geological survey, who
made an examination OF the black
sands of the Douglas creek placer fields
near Laramie, Wyo.. reports that in
half a pound of the sands, selected to
represent the least value of the field,
he found gold Of the value Of y7S0.71
10 the ton, 30 per cent of magnetic iron
and 81 per cent of hematite. There is
also platinum In the sand.
The secretary of the interior has
awarded a contract to Nels Olsen of
Butte, Mont, for the construction of
division No ! of the Garland canal.
the Shoshone project in Wyoming,
fifteen miles northeast Of Cody. Oh
sens bid was $270,746.
Oregon property-owners have about
'10.000,000 fire insurance that is worth
little more than the paper on which the
policies are written, as the result of
our large insurance companies which
we're heavily hit by the San Francisco
disaster going out of business.
Charles McFadden. charged with
nanslaughter for the death of an in
ant child Of Mrs. Anna Robinson, who
IS alleged he starved TO death while
reating it under the guise of osteo-
lathy was given a hearing at Asotin.
Wash, and bound over under $1,000
lOnds s.s .ssa4
Martin Healy accidentally shot and
illed Almond Veatch in Leadville.
'olo, The boys were playing wild
rest" and were using blank cartridges
! toy pistol. BY some mistake a
)aded shell got mixed with the blanks
nd which resulted in the death of
catch.
Frank Brown was convicted at
sotin, Wash, of the robbery Of sew.
raj Charleston stores and was SEN ,
sneed to three years in the state pen
entiary. Brown is one of the trio !
lptured with the aid OF bloodhounds
le Of the other men. Frank Stagg
hing killed.
a thorough examination by alienists
pointed by the court to inquire int
e sanity of one r. Mahoney, a real