The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-05-25
NORTHWEST NOTES

ing between Huntington, OTe.i anu
Iron. Dyke. on the Northwestern road
right-of-way.
Fire in a row of frame buildings at
Medical Lake. Wash, destroyed prop.
erty valued at nearly $4,000, includ.
ing four buildings. Insurance about
$4,000.
The twenty-year franchises sough;
by the Denver City Tramway and the
Denver Gas and Electric companies
were carried at the recent election by
small majorities.
verdict of manslaughter was re-
turned against Mrs Josephine Baruth,
the Medicine Lake, Wash, woman on
trial for shooting her husband. who
was a member of the town council
Morrison e. Wilson, a well known
pioneer rancher of the upper Yellow
stone valley, In Montana, has commit
ted suicide by shooting, Wilson had
lived alone on the ranch for the past
twenty-three years.
Never before in the history OF Ida
no has there been such a demand fol-
laborers as now exists throughout
every section of this state. says the
Pocatello Tribune in discussing the
progress of this state.
John J. Sullivan, a resident OF Eu
reka, Utah, aged so, dropped dead
while engaged in conversation with
his brother-in-law, John oLeary, at
Butte, Mont, Sullivan recently came
to Butte on a visit to his sister.
w. A. Brothers. former Federal dis.
tributing agent at Casper, Wyo., plead
ed guilty in the United States District
court at Cheyenne to charge of en-
bezzlement and was sentenced by
Judge Riner to three years imprison-
ment
The safe In the station at Elizabeth.
a small town on the Colorado &
Southern, twenty-five miles northeast
Of Colorado Springs, was stolen dur
Ing the night. Where the thieves took
It or how much money It contained is
not known.
At general council of the Fort Hall
Indians, held at Ross Fork, May IL,
the Indians by large majority vote
decided that hereafter no cattlemen
will be allowed to feed their cattle on
the Fort Hall reservation, as has been
done heretofore.
The Sherman Hill Copper company
operating a shaft on the Fred Ihmsen
property at Sherman Hill. in Wyo
ming, has struck vein of copper ore
three and one-half feet wide, OF ex-
cellent quality and at a depth OF less
than 100 feet. The company will go
down on the vein to determine its ex-
tent.
John H. Travelle, who for more than |
year has lived in Seattle, posing as
a retired army officer, is under arrest
at Mission Junction, B. c. Travells
is wanted mainly on accusations that |
he has swindled various prominent |
women out of sums OF money ranging
from $4,000 down on promises that he |
would secure for them lucrative posi- |
tons with the government.
Mrs. Mary Powell has entered a
plea OF nolo contendere in the District |
court at Laramie. Wyo., to the charge |
OF the theft of cattle from Dr. Stevens
and was sentenced to three months in
the county Jail She claimed she was
not guilty of the charge, but rather
than fight the case she would accept |
the judgment of the court.
The postofice safe at Rosebud, Mon.
tana, and two merchants safes in the |
same building were robbed. Post
master Mefford lost 500 in cash: Ro.
derrick McRae. hardware merchant, $50 |
and $500 in checks; John Williams, a |
merchant, 5000 cash.
William G. cage. saloonkeeper,
who Is also interested in coal mining. |
was shot and instantly killed at Sand
Coulee, Mont, by Justice of the Peace
John e. Taylor. The men had been
bitter enemies, and the shooting fol-
lowed quarrel in cages saloon.
Mrs. Leonard Grifhth was bitten by |
rattlesnake at Nampa. Idaho. She
went out to woodpile In the rear OF |
her farm dwelling and stopped over to |
pick up q piece OF wood, when the |
snake fastened its fangs in the end
0f one of her fingers. She will recover |
Manager F. M. Smith of the East
Helena smelter. announces that unless
the men employed in the sampling de |
partment who went on a strike a few |
days ago returned to work at once he
will close down the smelter The men
want ten hours pay for eight hours
work.
Full confession was made by James
TO Detective L. c. Hart
man OF Portland. showing that the re
cent assault on w. G. Fischer, the ed
tor Of reform paper at Rainier, was
he result of a conspiracy on the part
IL saloonkeepers at Rainier and Port
and.
Several tons OF dynamite exploded
D the northwestern section OF Cobalt.
int. wreclzing twenty-five houses and
brewing the citizens into panic for
time. A number were more or less