The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-09-21
NORTHWEST NOTES

Lauritz Bakken, = shoemaker about
IS years of age. was the victim last
week of the first fatal automobile ae-
cident in Seattle.
Col. A. r Bray. prominent Butte
merchant and recently colonel Of the
Second regiment n G. NJ. died sud
denly last week OF kidney trouble.
aged "a.
Representative Williamson Of Ore
son has placed on fle in the clerks
Office OF the supreme court Of the
United States the necessary papers
hich viii bring his ease before that
court for further hearing.
Mrs. Margaret Evans. widow OF John
vans, former governor Of Colorado,
died in Denver on the It'll, at the age
IF IS years She had been resident
# Denver since 1852, when she came
rom Chicago with her husband.
Il. l.. Britain. wealthy business
man OF Walla Walla Wash. has issued
a circular Offering a reward Of 81 900
for the return of his little son, five
years Of age. who disappeared from
Toll Gate. Umatilla county, Oregon. on
July 10.
Charles f. Allen. formerly employed
on the Montana Central railroad. with
headquarters at Helena, shot and kill
ed himself in a hotel at Danville Va
Letters found on his person lead to
his identity. No cause for his action is
known here.
Martin Wonderlieh and William Full
lerton went to Republic, Wash, for
load of lumber and started home in an
intoxicated condition. Four miles from
town the team ran away, Both we're
found dead, with necks broken. Both
men lived nine miles from Republic.
Mike Herman. a miner, was shot
and fatally wounded on the outskirts
of Goldfeid, Nevada, and died at the
County hospital. Herman refused to
give the name of his assailant. He de-
clared it was his own fault. Herman
belonged to a prominent Canadian
family
j. 8. Wisner, public administrator of
Deer Lodge county, and a prominent
Anaconda citizen. committed suicide
in Butte lodging house by taking
strychnine and morphine. Brooding
over the disgrace caused by the ar
rest of his son for defaulting to the
extent Of more than 100000 was the
cause
Mrs. C. H. Conrad, of Portland, who
a short time ago, slashed her hus
bands face with razor, shot four
times at Mr.. Conrad one day last week
with small caliber revolver, one bull
let inficting a slight flesh wound in
the arm. The woman still labors under
the idea that her action was in self
defense Conrad declares his wife is
insane.
Mike (Twin) Sullivan, who defeated
Jack Daugherty at Butte for the well
terweight championship of the world,
has posted $1,000 for fight with
Joe Cans, in Butte, at the weight at
which Cans and Sullivan fought be-
fore. The Butte Athletic club has wir-
ed Cans offering a purse of $4,000 for
the fight
The county commissioners last week
passed resolutions removing the whole
police force of Tonopah, Nevada, from
office 1t was stated that this was for
the interests of the town The duties
of the police were turned over to the
sheriff. The action arose from many
grave complaints regarding the con-
duct Of the police.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, son of the
president, passed through Denver on
the It'll en- route east from a hunting
trip in western Colorado. One of his
hands was bandaged, and he said an
liberation resulting from an injury
was causing him to return home earl
Ter than ne had intended He killed
three deer, but no bear, on his trip,
Mrs. Emma DAILY, proprietor OF
lodging house in Seattle, was shot and
instantly killed by q burglar trap ar
ranged in his trunk by one her lodg-
ers, Gene Bastearene. Mrs. Daley
remarked to her companion Wonder
of one of my keys will open the trunk,
Suiting the action to the word the
woman inserted key, turned the lock
and lifted the trunk lid There was a
report, and, crying, I'm shot" Mrs |
Daley fell dead.
Three ranehmel lost their lives by |
being overcome by gas in an aband. |
oned well on the flats below Butte |
The dead: Frank Ely. aged 81; Mat |
they Fogarty, aged "a; Andrew Me- !
har, aged 35. Fogarty and Mehar |
both lost their lives in attempts at
rescue.
Herbert D. Stanley, a discredited |
minister who has been arrested in
many of the cities of the northwest for
fraudulent practices, was Jailed at |
Seattle last week on the charge of hav-
ing passed a worthless check on Jules
Redelsheimer, well-known clothing
merchant
Superior Judge Frazer of Seattle has
set September "a as the date on which