Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-10-05
NORTHW EST NOTES


gon. Washington. Idaho and Montana
we're in attendance at the convention
of commercial clubs in Spokane
Rev. Dr.. j. J. Callahan, one OF the
prominent Catholic priests OF the
northwest. died at Butte on the 25th,
aged Az He was born in Omaha.
Frank Hunt, Is years of age, car
inspector of the Southern Pacific at
Monticello. New, fell from a caboose at
that point and both arms were cut off
death resulting two hours later
W. r. Ivey, conductor In charge OF
the Union Pacific gravel pits at Blu
ford, Wyo.. and having wife and
child at Cheyenne, was run down and
instantly killed at the gravel pits.
The Billings (Mont) opera house
has been destroyed by fire. causing
loss of $4,000 Guests in the Com
mercial hotel. adjoining, which was
badly scorched, escaped in their night
clothes.
J. r. Walsh of Helena was nominal.
ed by the Democratic state convention
of Montana for congress and Judge B..
6. McClernan of Butte was the candi
date chosen for associate justice of
the state supreme court
Terry Martin of Philadelphia and
the officials connected with the spar
ring exhibition in Portland, in the
midst of which Jack Mckenzie of
Philadelphia died, will probably be
tried on a charge of manslanghter
AS a result of the experiments be,
ing carried on by the government at
the old Lewis and Clark fair grounds
in Portland, Bessemer steel has been
reduced from the ordinary black sands
found at the mouth of the Columbia
river.
A special from Butte says that word
has been received from Marseilles,
France, to the effect that Senator w. |
A. Clark was in an automobile wreck |
and sustained a broken rib. At last |
accounts the patient was slowly recov- /
ering
James Brown, wealthy retired
farmer of Rock Falls, ILL.,, was killed
seven miles south of Wallula, Wash,
by falling over a cliff 200 feet high.
Brown, with several companions, was
on a fishing excursion when the acct.
dent happened
George Hug, a machinist, recently
from Montana, has been arrested at
Laramie, Wyo charged with threaten
ing Mrs. Lulu Hawley, wife of tele.
graph operator at that place. Hug
claimed that Mrs. Hawley was his
wife, and 1t is charged he attempted
to scare her into accepting his atten-
tons.
Dick Hyland of San Francisco won
a clear-cut decision over Eddie Hanlon
ut the Seaside Athletic club, San Fran
cisco. Referee Jack Welch stopped
he contest at the end of the thirteenth
'ound, with Hanlon hanging helpless
against the ropes and unable to de.
end himself against Hyland's
punches.
Orders were issued by the Hartman
ines last week that no more cars OIL
wheat will be hauled to Portland until
he strike of the grain handlers is at
IN end This, the first move in the
light between the latter and the Elk.
'orters' association for an increase in i
'ay from 80 to 40 cents, has been cred /
ted to the union ,
Edward Norris died at Walden, Col, [
rom the eects of a wound received
ccidentally more than a week pre- 4.
ious. Norris was out hunting and his
un was discharged, the shot entering
is right leg, passing through the calf
nd into the foot Death really re-
ulted from exposure, as Norris lay :
l his cabin alone for four days.
Advices have reached Denver that
larry Orchard, self-confessed murd- I
rer of former Gov Frank Steunen- @
erg of Idaho whose confession inn b
Heated the officers of the Western n
liberation of Miners in the crime. has d
ecome a maniac.
The Democrats of Washington met =
state convention at Seattle on the II
18th. endorsed William j. Bryan for a
lie presidency in 1908. cheered tbs Il
omination of Hearst to the echo and b
aced full congressional and Judi II
al ticket in the field.
Eighteen construction camps, with Ii
10 men employed. are established on
e Pasco-Riparia railroad project,