The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-04-20
NORTHWEST NOTES

crew we're injured.
The reported strike of gold il
Churchill county almost depopulatet
Carson, Nevada, while Virginia Cit.
and other towns sent large crowds O
prospectors to the new fields.
George w. Fogg, a prominent attor
ney OF Tacoma for twelve years, for
merly of Quincy, ILL.,, is dead, aged 6!
years. He was a major in the civil
war and a member of the Loyal LIE
gion.
D. C. Richardson has been placed
under arrest at Glendive, Mont, upon
suspicion of being ]. L. Richardson Of
Grand Rapids, Mich, who absconded
with the funds of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Firemen of Grand Rapids.
To take effect May /, the American
Smelling and Refining company will
extend the eight-hour day to all EN-
ployes in it's five Colorado plants who
come in contact with furnace opera.
tions. This will affect about $500 men
Walter Berieau, who killed Sheriff
Thomas Logan at Manhattan, Nevada,
has been lodged in Jail at Tonopah
The coroner's jury at Manhattan found
that Logan came to his death by pistol
shots fired by Berieau with criminal
intent.
Peter Johnson and Harry Hardwick
were killed by the falling of a stone
arch bridge in course of construction
at Manitou, Colo. The accident re-
suited from the placing of weight upon
cement abutments before the cement
had sufficiently hardened.
The national board of administra-
ton of the Daughters of the American
Revolution have decided that Mrs
Wallace McCracken was legally elected
state regent of Montana and Mrs. vii.
lard Harvey Weed was legally elected
a state vice-regent from that state.
A special from Ilwaco, Wash, says
that Colonel De Long and John Wray
were drowned in the surf at Long
Beach. The men in company with
seven others went out in a boat
through the surf to draw a seine
While returning to shore the boat cap
sized.
The supreme court of Montana, in a
decision written by Chief Justice
Brantly, set aside the order of Judge
Donlin, of Butte, adjudging Peter
Breen, former county attorney of Sill
Yer Bow county, in contempt of court
and filming him $500 for questioning
the manner in which the trial jury was
drawn.
The Oriental Limited, on the Great
Northern, travelling at a speed of fifty
miles an hour, was wrecked between
Adrain and Ephrata, Wash. Five cars
went off the track, including the mai
car Mail Clerks Joseph Thompson
and D. e. Whittier, both of Seattle,
were injured about the head and shoul
ders.
The Commercial club of Portland.
whose headquarters in the Chamber OF
Commerce building were devastated by
fire recently, has decided to erect a
building of it's wi in the heart of the
business section, at a cost of $3.50, 900
The proposed building will be of six
stories, three of which will be occupied
by the club.
Virgil Wilson of Malheur, Ore, lost
his life in the Snake river near Onta.
rio while attempting to save the life
his dog. Wilson and the dog were
crossing a bridge when a train came
Whether he lost his footing
and fell into the river or was struck
by the train is not known, as his body
has not been recovered.
Judge Henry Smith of Helena SEN
fenced Camille Remey, the French.
Canadian convicted of manslaughter in
WATSON Oliver last September,
as the two were travelling overland a
few miles north of Helena, to ten years
in the state prison, the maximum pun.
Ishment.
Substantial improvements on the
main line of the Southern Pacific in
Oregon, consisting of new and heavier
'ails, new steel bridges and new and
leavy engines, will result in the time
between Portland and San Francisco
icing materially reduced during the
fall.
A man about rs years old, smooth
ace and dark hair, but with no other
marks for Identification, was struck by
Northern Pacific engine in the yards
t Bozeman, Mont. On his person
yere found twenty-five pounds of dy-
amite, fuse, caps, ETC., two revolvers
nd a black mask.
At the instance of the department OF
le interior, the wal department has
lken steps to send whatever military
,rce may be necessary to protect the
ldian agent, Major c. c. Edwards, on
lie Umatilla agency, in Oregon. from
le Indians, who have threatened to