The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1906-12-06
NORTHWEST NOTES

vice Is TO be eStdOH9h"N
.o,,ac,ion with the Salt Lake ROUTE
Tho Las Vegas and Tonopah rali-
road company is making good po-
gregg in laying the rails of the roau
from Beatty to Rhyolite, and buiiiroe
oxnects IN be Connected up by tne
first OF the coming month
The Ute Indians who have been
travelling through South DAKOTA ln'o
wyoming in defiance OF the gov
ernment's orders, have arrived d.
Fort Meade, accompanied by the
sixth United States cavalry
Sixty lives were lost and nearly
scora nj vessels were swept to de-
struction on treacherous reefs anu
sand bars of the Gulf and River 81
Lawrence during the season OF naVt
CATION now drawing to colse
At the quarterly meeting on the
a,,h of December, at Cheyenne, Wyo.,
IF the State Board OF Medical tx
.miners. the board will begin the
oreoaration OF its report to Governor
Brooks and the state legislature.
Coroner Carroll, OF Seattle, has
signed a certificate stating that Mrs
Maude Creffield, wife Of the leader OF
the Holy Rollers who died suddenly
in the county jail came to her death
by suicide from strychnine poisoning
The people Of Port Blakely have ap-
| pealed to the government authorities
at Seattle for permission to use dyna-
mite in order to blow up the wrecked
steamer Dix so that the bodies Oh
those who drowned in the cabins may
be recovered.
Con Lopez shot and killed his
paramour, Therese Repossa, IN
house Of ill-fame at Newman, Cal
Lopez than shot himself through the
head. falling dead across the body OF
his victim. Jealousy was the cause
of the tragedy.
The Las Vegas & Tonopah rail-
way company, which is incorporated
! under the laws OF Utah, filed an
amendment to its articles OF incorpor-
alton with the county clerk at Salt
Lake City last week, which will per-
nit of its building aline to the Green
water mining district in 1nyo county,
Cal
The identity OF Mike Kelly, who
committed suicide in the county jail
at Colorado Springs. has been dis
covered and the discovery practically
proves the theory that he was one OF
the three divide bandits. Kelly was
known for many years at Color ado
City and in the Ute pass region as
Kelly the Robber."
After a jury had been drawn in a
suit brought by United States District
Attorney Burke against the Burling-
ton railroad in the United States dis
trict court at Cheyenne, for violation
of the safety appliance law, the at
torneys for the railroad confessed
Judgment. The suit was a civil action
and a fine of 800 and costs was i'm
posed by the court
Charles A. Smith, proprietor of a
drug store in Billings, Mont, is in a
critical condition as a result of being
shot through the shoulder and groin
by Daniel f. Watts. Watts also shot
Oscar Colburn. prescription clerk, in
the back of the head. He will re
cover Watts had been discharged
for short-changing the register.
The demurrer of the defendant In
the action of 100000 damages brought
by Charles II. Meyer. president of the
Western Federation of Miners. against
former Governor Peabody. former AID
jutant General Sherman Bell and Ad
jutant General Buckley Wells, is sus
tanned in an opinion returned by
Judge Robert f. Lewis of the United
States district court at Denver Moyel
alleged wrongful Imprisonment by the
military.
Material is being assembled a.
Caliente. Nevada. for the Phoebe
branch of the Salt Lake route About
half the rails are already unloaded a
Caliente and enough ties viii be or
hand within the next sixty days or SC
to cover the line.
Linemen at Laramie have begun
stringing a copper wire in the new
line to connect New York and Sar
Francisco already leased to a New
York brokerage concern. The wire i.
of copper. 2l0 pounds to the mile
cost % cents a pound
Since the destruction of the rounC
! house at Winnemucca, Nevada, b,
fire a short time ago. the Southern
Pacific has decided to make Emley
station midway between Humboldt
House and Min City, a division poin
instead OF Winuemucca.
, Al TrosseS, a brakeman on the q
X. n, was killed a few miles from
Huntington, Ore He was settin.
brakes on a car on a siding. In som,
manner he fell from the car, an,
another that had been kicked /,
struck him, crushing his head.
Joe Collins section foreman in N,
LARAMIE, Wyo.. yards of the Union Pa
cine was run down by switch en-
CINE. meeting almost instant death