The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-07-27
NORTHWEST NOTES


Lecass for a cougar and shot her dead.
G. F. Hayes. an Oregon pioneer, met
death by falling down a shaft in the
Union Companion mine. near Baker
City, Ore.
At Collins Hot Springs, Wash, John
E. Lueth OF Vancouver, Wash, gave
his wife carbolic instead OF her medi.
cine. She died in ten minutes.
The city of Rock Springs, wyo., has
a population of about 5000, and II is
said there is no place in the United
States where a greater variety Of Ian.
guages Is spoken.
AT CIealam, Wash, Mrs. D. B. Blu
cham was thrown from buggy I'M
der the horses hoofs and kicked to
death. She was the wife of the pro-
prietor Of the Hotel Reed.
The jury, after celebrating seven.
teen hours, failed to agree in the case
of the United States against Joseph
t. Carroll, Butte lumberman, who
was charged with Illegal fencing near
Butte. and he was discharged.
BY the collapse Of the east wall OF
the Butte hotel, which toppled over
on and crushed the Southern hotel. a
property loss of $4,000 was caused
No one was injured. as all the guests
got out Of the buildings when the
walls began to crack
A large force of men is still In
search of the little Brattain boy who
disappeared from Tall Gate, walla
Walla county Washington. Evidence
accumulates that instead of being de-
voured by a cougar the child was kid
mapped by a sheep herder.
That a general strike of the union
street car men of Portland must be
The result of the present situation is
conceded by the oficials of the Port
land Railway, Light & Power COM
pany. The officials of the union say
there will certainly be a general
strike.
Warner Moody, town attorney OF
Shoshone, Wyo., was shot and killed
about midnight July 20. He was a
son of the late United States Senator
Moody of South Dakota. Frank An
derson, on hearing the shots, ran out
o. his tent and was shot in the Shout
der. He is not seriously wounded.
The assassin escaped in the darkness.
George A. Simonds, one Of the per-
sonal conductors of the Raymond
Whitcomb excursion party bound for
Alaskan points, committed suicide at
Seattle by shooting himself in the
head, while standing on the wharf,
Just as the two steamers carrying the
members of his party had pulled away
from the dock.
Two girls, travelling from Laramie
to Ogden, were found In an empty
box car at Fort Steele, Wyo. The
girls were very dirty but carried dress
suit cases filled with clean linen and
their other worldly possessions. They
said Laramie was too slow for them
and they had set out to make Ogden
in box car.
Custin Lee, an aged man, who re-
gently arrived in Billings, Mont, from
Kansas City en- route to Seattle, is
missing and is believed to have lost
his life in the Yellowstone river. His
travelling companion, Glenn Smith, a
young lad, stated to the police that
Lee had gone TO the river to battle,
and no trace OF him could be found.
Contracts have been let by the Ore
gon Railroad & Navigation company
10 Spokane contractors for bridges on
The main line of the company between
Portland and Huntington. This i'm
provement is in line with TIE heavy
construction work now being done
with view to bringing the road up
20 first-ciass condition.
Dan MCGOWAN, ranchman living
near Cutbank, Mont, has been con-
victed of murder In the second degree
for killing Charles Arnold, on March
II last. Jealousy because OF the
deceased's attention to his half-breed
wife is believed to have prompted the
crime.
w. W. Flat OF Smith Brothers
Sheep company pleaded guilty In the
United States court at Helena to il
legally fencing public lands in Mea-
CHER county, Montana, and was fined
$500 and sentenced to the county jail
for twenty-four hodrs by Judge Wolv-
erton.
The mills at Butte of the Montana
Zinc company, a New York corpora
ton, were totally destroyed by fire,
starting from defective electric wire.
The plant is in the old silver mill Of
the Alice Mining company, the Oldest
mill of the sort standing in the state
Of Montana.
A party Of surveyors for the Short
Line on the Snake river has had a
rather exciting experience at Wild
Horse Rapids, 100 miles below Hunt.
ington. Their boat upset and every.
thing it contained was lost. The men
in the boat at the time escaped with
their lives.
Robert Philip Menefee, a well
known pioneer, succumbed suddenly to
heart disease at Bohemian, Mont. Men
efee was 70 years of age and has been
a resident of Montana since 1859.
coming across the plains in prairie
schooner" He was one of Montana's
first postmasters.