The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
NORTHWEST NOTES

Ing morphine
George E. Chamberlain. Democrat,
has been reelected governor of Ore.
eon over DR.. James withycombe, Re
publican.
Phil McGrath, a brakeman. was
blown from the top Of box car at
Rock River. wyo.. and suffered a
broken collar bone and numerous
bruises
E. G. Luxon was killed in a street
car accident in Portland. The car
jumped the track, turned over, and
Luxon was caught underneath, being
crushed to death
Senator Clark of Montana has intro
duced an amendment to the general
deficiency appropriation bill TO pay
s2,007 10 Thomas H. Kent for surveys
made on the Crow Indian reservation.
The Heacock & Lawrence iron
works at Portland have been Quilted
by fire. The cause of the fire is be.
lieved to be spontaneous combustion
from waste and grease. Loss, $25,OOO
partly insured.
The official canvas at Portland
shows that Robert L. Stevens, Repub-
ican candidate, has been elected
sheriff of Multnomah county by the
narrow margin of five votes. Stevens
has taken the oath of Office.
DR.. c. J. Sawyer, chairman of the
Prohibition state committee OF Wyo-
ming, has issued a call for a state con.
yention to be held at Laramie on Tues
day, June 10, at p. m. when candi
dates for state officers will be named
No 9, the fast mail of the Union Pa
cific, carrying two baggage cars, tire,
mail cars and crews and a deadhead
tourist car, was derailed at Verne
Wyo., station four miles west oil
Granger on the main line, on the 7th.
There were no casualties.
The New York Herald says that the
president has decided to soon with,
draw 40,O00,00O acres of the public do
main from settlement to conserve the
oil and coal supply and defeat
threatened monopoly by the Standard
Oil company. The states in which
some of the land is located are Utah
Idaho and Wyoming.
w. A. Richards, commissioner of the
general land ONCE, left Washington
last week to be present at the open.
ing of the Shoshone and Crow Indian
reservations He will not return for
three months. A force of land office
clerks will leave for Wyoming in a
. few days to look after the registration
work for the Shoshone opening.
General Miles delivered the address
to the graduating class of the Unver.
sity OF Colorado at Boulder His sub
ject was, Our Country and the Re.
sponsibilities and Possibilities OF Its
Citizens" and he elaborated en- the
suggestion that the destiny OF the ma
ton is now more than ever in the con
troll of the citizens.
The Butte miners union elected
new set Of delegates to the Western
Federation of Miners to take the place
of the boiling delegates. The organ
ization rejected the report of the re.
turning boilers, among whom was
President Frank O'Connors of the
Butte miners union The new dele.
gates left at once for Denver.
Wolves killed ten sheep and four
colts of John Pierce on his ranch at
Roelriver, Wyo., one night last week,
and the men from the ranch killed
four of the wolves. Several calves
have been found dead on the ranch,
and trappers have been employed to
hunt down the wolves and coyotes by
the flockmasters and horse breeders.
Oscar Lydic, aged 81, alleged to be
wanted in Pennsylvania for the theft
in January, 1905. of two registered
packages containing s196, while work
ing as mail carrier, was arrested
last week at Cooper's tie camp, in the
West Gallatin basin, in Montana.
William Hodgeman, one of the old
est locomotive engineers of the Wyo
ming division OF the Union Pacific
and with wife and five sons in Lar
annie, has been adjudged insane. Mr.,
Hodgeman came to Wyoming from
New York more than thirty years ago
- Judge Hawley United States district
judge for Nevada, has announced his
resignation. He had been on the fed
eral bench since 1890. His retirement |
will take effect June 80, and is due to
the desire to secure rest after many
years Of service. Judge Hawley is rs |
years old.
Brigham w. Young of Salt Lake is
under arrest at Butte, charged with
forging check drawn en- the Traders
National bank of Spokane and signed
w S. Greenfield & Co. per w. S. G.
Discharge papers from Battery B, Ore
gon Volunteer Artillery, were found in
his effects.
Justice Gould has granted the mo-
ton OF District Attorney Baker for o
trial OF Congressman Binger Hermann
of Oregon. indicted for destroying pub
ic records while commissioner of the
general land office, set for June IS
Until after the trial of tie Hvda Nv |