The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-01-05
NORTHWEST NOTES

Martin Kline. aged eighteen, a fire.
man working for the Great Northern
road was knocked from his engine by
a projecting coal chute at Clancy, four
teen miles south of Helena. Mont and
run over, receiving injuries from
which he died.
During the progress of a ball at
Race Track. near Anaconda, Mont,
Durell Whitecraft, rancher, was shot
and severely wounded by George Wa.
tiers. ranch hand Waters escaped,
but was captured later. If Whitecraft
should die lynching is feared.
H. n. Randall. Seattle letter-car-
rier. has been arrested, charged with
delaying and opening United States
mail entrusted to him as carrier.
The arrest was made after an investi
cation lasting several days by Post
Office Inspector Wayland.
A. B. Campbell, brakeman on an
extra Northern Pacific freight train, |
was killed at Canton, Wash. in rear |
end collision. The second extra freight |
crashed into the rear of the first at
the switch at which both trains had |
orders to pass a passenger. No one
else was injured.
The dead body of a man who had
given the name of ]. Valley and
claimed to be a former business man
of Seattle, Wash, was found on the
floor of a room he had engaged at a
Sacramento hotel. A bullet wound
through the head, self-infiicted, was
the cause of death.
Mrs. John Downey of Seattle, has
surrendered her fourteen-year-old son
Robert Hopkins, to United States
Deputy Marshal Stringer. He is charg
ed with stealing 1872 from a local post
office sub-station. He ran away from
the city, but later returned and was
turned over to the officers by his
mother.
julius Merz, son of Prof Henry Merz
Of the University of Wyoming, has
been appointed Lieutenant of Consta,
bulary in the Philippines and is or
dered to repot at San Francisco on
January IL to sail for Manila. Merz
is now fagman on a passenger train
on the Wyoming division of the Union
Pacific.
Marvin Hughitt, president OF the
| Chicago & Northwestern railway, is
building through Wyoming at the rate
Of three miles day, and last week
opened another new station, called
| Seminole, located thirty-tive miles
west of Casper The Wyoming extern
sion is named the Wyoming & North
western.
Dispatches to the Seattle Times
from Skagway are that the steamer
Portland will be a total loss. The
steamer Amur passed the vessel on
the trip north and Capt. McLeeodi
says that the ship is fast breaking up.
The Portland went ashore on Spire
island nine miles from Ketchikan, De
cember 81.
Mrs. A. Membree and daughter Ora
a young woman about II years OF
age, were burned to death at Sand
Lake, Ore, where the family lived
The house caught fire from some un-
ascertained cause at 3 o'clock and
the occupants managed to get out OF
the building. Later Mrs. Hembre and
her daughter, wishing to recover some
of their effects, returned to the build
ing and it was while on this venture
some trip that the roof fell in upon
them and they were burned to death
In a fire which partially destroyed
st. MichaeIs Italian Catholic church
at Portland, Father Alexander Cas-
tally was badly burned about the head
shoulders and back. He was rescued
from what would have been certain
death by two citizens who discovered
the fire.
Louis Roquela of Colombia, SoutE
America, student at Notre Dame
Qndiana) university, shot and killed
Claude A. Bagby of Durango, Colo.
when Bagby and several other stu
dents, as a practical joke, held VI
Roquela, installing him for another
person.
A special to the Helena Record from
Washington says Senator Carter ha
succeeded in Inducing the secretar!
of the interior to proceed with thu
construction of the st. Mary's irri
cation project, which has been hell
up by complications with the Cana
dian government.
Withdrawal from public entry ant
settlement of 737,2S0 acres of land il
Washington were ordered by the gen
eral land office last week The with
drawals are thirteen townships in tn,
Walla Walla and nineteen township
in the North Yakima districts and ar,
made for irrigation projects.
Paul Wells, believed to be well con
nected in West Virginia, committe,
suicide in San Francisco by cutting hi
throat with razor, about an hour be
fore he was to have been arraigne,
in court on a charge of larceny. H
was accused by Lou Toy, Chinese, o
stealing eight gold rings.
Manuel Gonzales, with whom Alex
ander Dowie was negotiating for tn
purchase of plantations in TamGulipa