The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-15
NORTHWEST NOTES

j. Tippetts, travelling salesman
from Spokane, suicided in Seattle, TAX
ng morphine.
George E. Chamberlain, Democrat,
has been reelected governor of Ore
gon over DIR. James Withycombe, Re-
publican.
Phil McGrath, a brakeman, was
blown from the top of a box car at
Rock River, Wyo., and suffered a
broken collar bone and numerous
bruises.
f. G.. Luxon was killed in street
car accident in Portland The car
jumped the track, turned over, and
Luxon was caught underneath, being
crushed to death.
Senator Clark of Montana has intro
duced an amendment to the general
deficiency appropriation bill to pay
s2,0O7 to Thomas Fl. Kent for surveys
made on the Crow Indian reservation
The Heacock & Lawrence iror
works at Portland have been Quilted
by fire. The cause of the FIRE is be
Iieved to be spontaneous combustion
rom waste and grease. Less. $4,000
partly insured.
The official canvas at Peril nd
shows that Robert L. Stevens, Repu6-
lican candidate, has oecn elected
sheriff of Multnomah county by the
narrow margin of five votes. Stevans
has taken the oath of Office.
DR.. G. j. Sawyer, chairman Of the
Prohibition state committee of Wyo-
ming, has issued call for state con-
vention to be held at Laramie on Tues
day, June 10, at 3 p. M, when c2ndi-
dates for state officers VII be named.
No. 9, the fast mail of the Union Pa
cific, carrying two baggage cars, three
mail cars and crews and deadhead
tourist car, was derailed at Verne,
Wyo., a station four miles west OF
Granger, on the main line, on the 7th.
There were no casualties.
The New York Herald says that the
president has decided to soon with.
draw 100000 acres Of the public do
main from settlement to conserve the
oil and coal supply and defeat 8
threatened monopoly by the Standard
Oil company. The states in which
some of the land is located are Utah
Idaho and Wyoming.
w. A. Richards, commissioner of the
general land office, left Washington
last week to be present at the open
ing of the Shoshone and Crow Indian
reservations. He will not return for
three months. A force of land office
clerks will leave for Wyoming in. a
few days to look after the registration
work for the Shoshone opening.
General Miles delivered the address
to the graduating class of the Univer-
sity of Colorado at Boulder. His sub
ject was, Our Country and the Re-
sponsibilities and Possibilities of Its
Citizens and he elaborated on the
suggestion that the destiny of the ma.
ton is now more than ever in the con-
troll Of the citizens.
The Butte miners union elected a
new set of delegates to the Western
Federation of Miners to take the place
of the boiling delegates. The organ
lzation rejected the report of the re-
turning boilers, among whom was
President Frank O'Connors of the
Butte miners union The new dele.
gates left at once for Denver.
Wolves killed ten sheep and four
colts of John Pierce on his ranch at
Rockriver, Wyo., one night last week,
and the men from the ranch killed
four of the wolves. Several calves
have been found dead on the ranch,
and trappers have been employed to
hunt down the wolves and coyotes by
the flockmasters and horse breeders.
Oscar Lydic, aged 81, alleged to be
wanted in Pennsylvania for the theft
in January, 1905, of two registered
packages containing 1896, while work.
ing as mail carrier, was arrested
last week at Cooper's tie camp, in the
West Gallatin basin, in Montana
William Hodgeman, one of the old.
est locomotive engineers Of the Wyo-
ming division of the Union Pacific,
and with wife and five sons in Lar
annie, has been adjudged insane. Mr..
Hodgeman came to Wyoming from
New York more than thirty years ag,.
Judge Hawley, United States dis riot
Judge for Nevada, has announced his
resignation. He had been on the fed.
eral bench since 1890. His retirement
will take effect June 30, and is due to