The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-04-13
IDAHO NEWS.

James Cannum, convict has es-
| capped from the state penitentiary.
Senator Hepburn has recommended
| the establishment of a rural free de-
livery route at Rupert.
Herman j. ROssi of Wallace has isl
| sued statement saying he would not
be candidate for governor of Idaho
Sheriff Foresman of Lewiston has
gone to Portland to get Jack Matthews,
| who has been wanted for over a year
| for the murder of Antoine Broncheau.
The First National bank of Haley
has been designated as a government
| depository. The bank will secure the
government by the purchase of $4,000
| in government bonds.
At Burke David Taylor, a machinist,
| was caught by a belt in the Hercules
big wheel, killing him instantly and
mangling him in a horrible manner.
| Mr.. Taylor was Is years of age and
unmarried.
The board of regents of the Univer-
sity of Idaho has completed their
work and adjourned. Nothing definite
| was done relative to rebuilding the
administration building, and nothing
will be done until the matter of insur-
ance is adjusted.
| Alexander Burns, fireman in the
planning mill of the Post Falls Lumber
| company, was suffOcated recently by
| falling into a bin of shavings. Burns
| is supposed to have gone to the bin
| to get shavings with which to feed the
| furnace, and to have fallen in.
| The state of Idaho has won its con-
test in the United States land office
J over the right to file on lands in town
| ship "A, range east, against As set
tiers on the lands. The contest was
commenced on the ground of the prior
right of the state to file on the lands.
| c. A. Stevens, pioneer meat dealer
and stockgrower, whose principal place
of business is at Wallace, but whose
farm is at Osborne. recently killed
what is probably the largest steer ever
slaughtered in the Occur d'Alenes. The
beef was a year old and dressed
| 1860 pounds, weighing, alive, just prior
to it's killing, 1910 pounds.
John Jacks, slovenian, was killed
and Clarence Ebney, machine man,
badly injured by cavein in the Tiger
mine at Burke last Saturday. The
men were working about 1900 feet
underground in tunnel when mass
of rock about eight feet in length and
| thickness fell without warning, bury
| ing both miners beneath. The mine
| is well timbered, and the cause of the
cavein is a mystery.
Word has reached Senator Hepburn
that construction work on the Pacific,
Idaho & Northern railroad, now build
| ing through Idaho, will have to be
| abandoned for a year Or more on &C
| count of the action of the department
of Justice in notifying the railroad Of
] ficials to desist in further cutting tim
Der from the lands withdrawn from
entry on account of forestry purposes.
under penalty of answering to the
courts for their conduct.
T. V. Powderly has written to Gov
ernor Gooding of Idaho, urging that
he insure a fair trial to Meyer Hay
wood and Pettibone, charged with the
murder of former Governor Steunen-
berg. He declares that justice re-
uuires, and the whole country demands
a fair trial for the men. They are
charged with the practices of the as
sassin, he writes, and they in turn
we're taken at disadvantage and re-
/! moved from their lawful place of res
| idence to a foreign jurisdiction with
out resort to form of law.