The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-02-16
NORTHWEST NOTES

sage in the senate of his bill appro-
priating 100000 for public building
at Rawlins, Wyoming.
| Herman West, a LaGrande, Ore.
newspaper man, suicided in Baker
City, taking morphine. He was out OF
employment and became respondent
Four persons were killed and ten
more or less seriously injured in a
rear end collision on the Oregon Rail-
road & Navigation line near Bridal
Veil, Ore.
Mrs. Helen Schmidlap was declared
not guilty of the murder of her hus
band, William Schmidlap, whom she
shot and killed in lodging house in
Denver on July 9, 1905
The state supreme court of Oregon
upholds the constitutionality of law
passed by the legislature in January,
1905, prohibiting the reselling or
"scalping" of railroad tickets.
The body of Fred Overhome, long.
shoreman, who disappeared Jan. %,
was found in the bay at Tacoma,
Wash, with a dent in the forehead
1t is suspected he was murdered
Lumber manufacturers of Washing.
ton, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.
whose annual convention has just
closed at Seattle, voted to increase
the price from $3.50 to $500 per thou
sand.
An immense meteor fell few mile1
north of the town of Rhyolite, Neva
ta. Many witnessed the descent OF
the meteor. 1t fell at an angle OF 40
degrees and lest trail of fire BOG
yards long in it's wake.
Dafoe H. Sherk, of Huntington, Ore,
a graduate of the University of Ore
gon and member of the Sigma Nu
| fraternity, shot and killed himself in
a room in a hotel in Seattle. There
is no known reason for his suicide.
The affairs of the Lewis and Clark
Fair corporation are rapidly being
brought to a close and stockholders
meeting will be held March 1, to aus
thorize the dissolution of the corpora:
tion and division of the capital stock
A run of 575 miles in 10 hours and
80 minutes was made last week by a
special train over the Southern Paci-
fic railroad from Sparks, Nevada, to
Salt Lake. The train consisted OF
three private cars, locomotive and
tender.
Roy Otley, years of age, son Of
John Otley, farmer near Custer,
Wash, was shot and killed by the &C.
cidental firing of rifle in the hands Of
| playmate, Claude Darrish, near the
same age. The boys were crossing
a field when the weapon was dis
charged owing to the way in which 1t
was carried.
The Montana Society Of New York
held it's second annual banquet at Del
monico's on the night of the 10th.
Among the guests were United States
Senator w. B. Hepburn of Idaho, Rep
resentatiye Duncan McKinlay of Cali
fornia, Representative Frank w. Mon
dell of Wyoming and former Governor
S. T. Harrison of Montana.
News comes from Thermopolis,
Wyo., Of the killing Of two ranchmen
In a quarrel. Dick Tyndall and James
Kester quarreled. Hester drew a gun
and while Tyndall was trying to dis
arm him Tyndalls son, John, was &C
cidentally killed. Tyndall was so en-
ragged that when he secured the gun
he beat out Kester's brains with it.
James Sherman has been found
guilty in the second degree OF the
murder of Samuel Studzinski, at Lew
iston, Mont. Sherman is 10 years old.
The killing of Studzinsh was one or
the most cold-blooded murders in the
history of Montana. Studzinski was
pawnbroker and was found one morn
ing with is brains beaten out with
Ratchet.
Nevadans are making an effort to
have Trenmore Coffin Of Nevada,
found guilty of hazing at Annapolis
and suspended, reinstated They are
encouraged by President Roosevelta
attitude on the hazing question and be.
lieve that the young man is entitled
to as much consideration as Midship'
man Meriwether.
BY the explosion of one OF the four
powder houses at the iron mines at
Hartville, Wyo., the shafthouse, black
smith shop and other buildings of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company were
demolished and nearly every pane OF
glass in the town shattered. A num-
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