The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-23
NORTHWEST NOTES

Rcbunihtdh viii De sent 10 hdSHlHE
ton to succeed Senator Clark OF Mon
tana.
Six men narrowly escaped death by
drowning on Puget Sound, near Sc
attic, when an explosion OF a gasoline
tank aboard the launch Polywog rem.
dered them helpless and at the mercy
of gale.
Louis and Harry Sorokofr. two Rus
slams, recent arrivals In Seattle, have
disappeared as completely as II the
earth had opened and swallowed
them. Friends of the two men think
they were shanghaied.
A blizzard has been raging in the
Judith basin. the big grazing territory
OF central Montana, and it is feared
that considerable damage TO fhe stock
interests will result, especially should
the storm be Of any duraUH
Chester Thompson, accused Of muir.
der in the first degree for the killing
of G. Meade Emory at Seattle on July
Z, will be tried in Tacoma, the county
seat OF Pierce county, Judge Frater
having granted a change OF venue
asked for by Thompson.
William Penna, convicted Of the
murder Of Mrs. Susie Bryant in Butte
has been sentenced to death by Judge
Donlan. Penna refused to stand uE
when sentence was being passed, and
when the bailiff attempted to assist
him, the condemned man showed
fight, the first show of life he had
made since HIS arrest.
Armed bandits held up the overland
limited at Carlin, Nevada. and es
capped with the suit cases of passen
gers and the money sack of Conductor
Conn. The railroad men at Sparks
state that they secured about 81 900 in
all. A posse was formed and pitched
battle took place at the edge OF the
town. no one being hurt
Fred Adams pleaded guilty to rob
bing the United States assay office in
Seattle and was sentenced to ten
years at hard labor In the federal pen.
itentiary at McNeil's island. He
pleaded guilty to two counts charging
the theft Of $4,000 worth OF gold dust
II is generally understood that his
thefts amounted TO over 100000.
According to members of the spe-
cial prison commission, officials OF the
Washington State penitentiary have
unearthed a plot to blow up the
guards quarters with nitro-glycerine,
stolen from the jute mill, and effect
the release Of nearly ESQ convicts, as
they were being marched from the
prison to the mill.
Michael Storms, pioneer mining
man of Idaho and Montana, died of
general debility in Denver last
week He was elghty-three years OF
age and had been one of the most ia
miliar figures In Denver for AZ years.
He was secretary of the Colorado Pho
neers' association and had the distlnc-
ton OF being the oldest active miner
In this state.
Mrs. Maud Cheffield is dead at Sc.
attic. Mrs. Creffleld was the wife OF
Joshua" Chettield. who was shot by
George Mitchell who believed that
Creffield had maltreated his sister Els.
Their Esther later shot her brother
George. She and Mrs. Crefheld were
arrested for the crime, both women
confessing that they had done It to
avenge the death of Joshua"
A. J. Hembree, who was found guilty
at Tillamark, Ore, of the murder OF
his 17-year-old daughter, has been sen.
fenced to an indeterminate term of i'm.
prisonment in the state penitentiary.
Hembree killed his daughter on the
night of December %, 1905, and was
suspected of having also killed his
wife, both the bodies being practically
consumed in the fire which destroyed
the house.
A burglar entered the home of Mrs
Parker at Laramie, Wyo., stealing
purse containing $13 and some papers.
The house is used as a scarlet fever
quarantine hospital, the inmates In.
Guiding three or four patients.
Captain H. H. Bodfish of the whaling
steamer william Baylies, charged with
assault upon member of his crew on
the voyage from San Francisco to the
Arctic whaling grounds this spring,
and Captain Il. W. Newth OF the
whaler jeanette, accused of the abduc.
NJ sci. ri,
dicted by the Seattle grand jury.
The British ship Galena, sixty days
from Junin, Chile, for Astoria, Ore,
went ashore on Clatsop beach, near
Gearhart park and within few miles
south OF where the Peter Iredale went
ashore three weeks ago. The officers
and crew all came ashore safely.
A northwestern indoor track and
field meet by telegraph among the
leading Y Nj. G. A. teams will prob.
ably be feature In sporting circles
within a short time. The towns repre-
sented will be Tacoma, Seattle, Spo
kane. Portland, and probably Salt Lake
City.
William Whalen, an aged mining
prospector of Nevada, who was ar
rested at Sacramento. Cal, for swim
ding number OF citizens, securing
several thousand dollars by false rep
reservations. has been sentenced to
ten years Imprisonment at San Quen.
tin.
The Indians OF the low lands near
North Yakima, Wash. have been driv-
en- from their wigwams by the high