The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-07-09
NORTHWEST NOTES


$500 for sites.
William NJ. Graves, vice president o.
the Diamond Match company, a resi-
dent Of New York, dropped dead in his
hotel in Portland.
John Howard met death in the
Spectator mine at Butte, falling down
an ore chute. his body being discov
cred by shoveler.
The annual conference of the Colo.
RADIO Association of German Evangel.
ical Churches of Colorado. Wyoming,
Utah and Idaho was held in Laramie
last week.
When the doors Of the land office at
Billings, Mont, closed ON the 2Sth,
1900 homeseekers had registered for
lands in eastern Montana. The draw
ing began Monday
Flour that two months ago was
worth SIPS sack sells at KendricE
for so cents, so strenuous has become
the war between the Spokane mill,
and the Vollmer mill, the latter 10
Gated at Kendriclx.
Private William Coleman, troop G.
Fourteenth cavalry, addicted to som.
nambulism, walked out OF a second
story barrack window while asleep,
says a Walla Walla dispatch, and was
found on the ground with his neck
broken.
c. M. Levy, third vice president OF
the Northern Pacific, announces that
the Northern Pacific will at once
build steam or electric railroad,
probably electric, on the old Union
Pacific grade from Tacoma to Port.
land. The Northern Pacific will also
build an electric line from Tacoma to
Seattle.
Announcement is made by the com
pany operating the properties con.
trolled by the Butte Coalition com
pany. that the Montana Ore Purchas.
ing company's smelter will be closed
down during the month and the ores
from the mines now treated there will
De sent to the Washoe works at Ana
eonda.
DR.. Mai HUM Chuan, one of the
imperial high commissioners of China
sent to this country to make an inves
tigation and study Of the laws, com
merce and educational system of the
United States, has arrived in Seattle
and will make a special study of the
shipping industry and the public
school system of the country.
The sheriff of Crook county deliv
cred to the warden of the penitentiary
at Rawlins, Wyo., last week, Noah t
Richardson, convicted at Sun Dance
of the murder of Allie Means, a fellow
cow puncher, under law passed b,
the last state legislature providing
that hereafter execution of the dealt
sentence shall occur in the stat,
prison.
Mrs. James Tanner, wife of tn,
commander-in-chief of the Gran,
Army of the Republic, was killed II
an automobile accident near Helena
The machine turned out of the roa,
to allow a wagon to pass, and wen
over an embankment, other member
Of the party falling on Mrs. Tanner
who was killed, the others escapin
serious injury.
B. B. Strong, who is working min
near Anaconda, Mont, last wee
brought into that city a knife of ston
sarved with heads Of animals, III
earthed sixty-five feet from the mout
of tunnel driven into hill 200 fee
from the peak Mr.. Strong also foun
aear the knife huge stone in tn
shape of an altar, and believed to hav
been the sacrificial stone Of a prehi'
toric people.
Marvin Losey, formerly a we
known politician of Polk county, Mil
nesota, suicided in Seattle by inhalin
gas. Letters found IN his rooI
showed that his wife and child ha
Just left him because of his allege
excuses.
Emmett Mann, miner, who wa
brought down to Thermopolis, Wye
from Copper Mountain few days ag'
suffering with spotted fever, is deat
The disease resulted from the bites {
wood ticks, which are unusually nj
merous this year.
A negro who had been cooking fc
the graders working on the Burlingto
near Basin, Wyo., narrowly escape
lynching at the hands Of the me
when he got into an alteration wit
his turnkey and started to carve hi
with butcher knife
A high wind blew over train {
eleven cars at Weir, a small static
east of Cheyenne The cars wei
used as quarters for Japanese labo
ers and were on siding at the tin
of the accident. Twenty laborei
were injured, seven seriously
Articles of incorporation were file
last week of the Gray's Harbor an
Columbia River Railway compan
capitalized at 100000, to build
.. railway from Kalama wester
through CowlitZ, Wahkiakum and 2