The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1906-09-27
NORTHWEST NOTES


r. P. Purdue of Til City. Mo, was
shot and instantly killed AT Helena,
Mont. by Chief OF Police Flannery.
Fiannery was shot through the leg by
Purdue previous to the killing.
The Republican state convention AT
Helena nominated Charles ~ Pray OF
Chouteau for congress and Henry c
Smith OF Lewis and Clark county as
the justice OF the supreme court
Fred La Pointe. aged as. was In.
stantly killed In the Black Spar
mine at Rhyolite. Nevada. while de
scending on the bucket The bucket
got beyond control OF the top man and
fell to the bottom.
State Senator Franklin Pierce Mays
ex-Representative Willard l.. Jones
and George Sorenson were convicted
in the Blue Mountain land fraud case
tried at Portland. The defendants
will ask for a new trial.
John Mcintyre. wanted at Portland.
Seattle. Tacoma and Spokane in con
nection with charges OF counterfeit
Ing. escaped from Deputy United
States Marshals w. B. Grifnths and
T. b. Foster near John Day, Ore
David Eccles. II. II. Rolapp. Adam
Patterson, NJ. s. Browning and Job
Pingree, all of the Amalgamated Su,
gar company. are In Montana looking
for a site for a new sugar factory. II
is likely that it will be located AZ
Bozeman.
saltwater Bill Gates, the Alaska
miner who has gained national no
toriety as a spendthrift, filed peti.
ton to be declared bankrupt in tn
federal court at Seattle last week.
Gates set up his assets as $500 in
cash, wearing apparel worth 800 and
watch and chain. Court judgments
amounting to nearly. 100000 were
given as his liabilities
A sensation was created in Gold.
field. Nevada, last week by the at
tempted arrest OF Wing b Allen. man
| ager OF the Nevada Office OF the Daily
| Mining Record OF Denver. and former
1 ly OF Salt Lake. on the charge of at
| tempting TO extort money from G. G..
| Pice, one of the principal owners OF
| the Sullivan Trust company. promt
nent mine promoters.
Deputy Sheriff w. S johnson %
Wapanuka, |. T., has arrived at Raw
Inns. Wyo.. having in custody ]. b.
| Hickman, who has confessed TO the
murder OF Thomas Irvine and his
young son, Archie while they were
travelling overland ON the Continental
divide near Rawlins last June. Hick'
man in his confession implicated his
cousin. hugh Hickman. for whom the
officers are now searching.
One man killed, another dying and
three more or less seriously injured Is
the result of a shooting ARRAY which
took place In a saloon at St Paul, Ore
the outcome of brawl between 0
crowd of roughs and Town Marshal J
A. Krechter and posse. Marshal
Krechter is dead. and an unidentified
stranger Is MORALLY wounded ALFRED
Lambert OF St Paul, Ore. one OF the
marshal's posse. was shot In the arm
Two other strangers We're shot
Fl. T Phelps. a Boise nurseryman
admonished John Evans. at La
Grande. Ore, when the latter had sal
three hours in a saloon while his chill
dren were shivering in a buggy out
side Evans reply was to knoct
Phelps, who is aged 65 years, dowr
and kick him in the face The nuE
seryman rose with knife and stabbed
Evans twice in the right arm. almos
severing the muscles Phelps wa
arrested
fell distance of seventy five fee
from a bucket In the Townsiie shat
at Rhyolite. Nevada. both men beinl
! badly bruised and suffering a numbe
of broken bones, but will recover.
Two men. giving their names a
Smith and Green. were arrested a
! laramie last week as deserters from
the Eleventh infantry. at Camp lslay
the supply camp Of the Crow Creel
maneuvers. Green was under arres
for stealing and selling government
Supplies. and Smith had been guard
ing him, when both men deserted.
George Roberts, wanted in Seatu
TO answer a charge OF robbery, wa
ordered discharged from custody b.
the superior judge at San Franeise
last week. The records OF the cas-
against him were destroyed In IN
April conhagraiion.
The Ash Meadows Water company
organized at Portland for the purpos
OF owning, developing and opera1n
water power and privileges in tn
states OF Nevada and California. hle
it's certificate OF incorporation at Al
gusta. Me. last week.
The ProbibltioDists Of Washingto
held their state convention a. Seatu
. last week. with delegates from a
parts OF the state For congress A.
1 Cation Of Olympia. William Everett {
, North Yakima and / VI wilgin Of s
+ I attic were nominated without contes