The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-29
NORTHWEST NOTES


springs. Wyo.
Several frosts have occurred In var.
tous parts of Wyoming, and reports
received indicate that much damage
hiss been done 20 growing crops.
A number Of Slavs engaged in a
tight with knives in saloon in Rock
Springs with the result that one man
may die, and three are badly cut up.
The fourteenth annual teachers in
stitute OF the teechers OF Albany coun-
ty, Wyoming. was held in Laramie
last week, four days session being
held.
Charles w. Knowles. for almost half
= century hotel keeper In Portland,
and probably known to every travelling
man on the Pacific coast, is dead at the
age OF II.
The railroad is nearly completed to
Warland, Wyo.. and II is expected ere
long to connect with the Union Pacific
near Laramie, making a southern out
let to the basin.
Mrs. Carl Bode, wife OF railroad
engineer, was shot and killed at Sail
da, Colo, by Mrs. Harold Hutchinson.
wife OF switchman. Jealousy was the
cause Of the murder.
The business portion OF the town OF
Lowell, Wyo., it is expected, will be
moved down nearer the depot on the
new railroad town in the near future
Lowell Is building up rapidly.
The shaft house and hosting plant
of the Sherman Copper Mining com
paBg at Sherman, east of Laramie
Wyo., erected only week or two ago
burned to the ground. entailing a loss
Of So 600.
Moses Goss, Frank Taplin, Jr, and
one Cook were killed, and Henry
Hormahlen was fatally injured by
the premature explosion OF charge
Of giant powder at Shoemaker grade
near Asotin, Wash
Thomas Cullen of Everett, Wash,
DRe Of the best known timber cruisers
In the section. is dead as the result of
q fall on the sidewalk following a
blow In the face delivered by Frank
T~onn = .,.anAtuaaA
In q wreck of an extra eastbound
freight train, near Fleish, sixteen
miles west of Reno. Nevada. on the
Southern Pacific, two men were Sc.
riously injured and four killed, the
men killed being tramps.
The North Pacific states give prom
lse OF raising this year the largest
crop Of prunes in their history. The
crop of Oregon, Washington and Ida.
no Is now estimated by dealers at
something over 1000 cars
Oscar Stephens, prominent and
wealthy mine owner and cattle man
Of Montana, died in a Salt Lake City
hospital last week. He owned twenty
seven ranches in Montana, three OF
which embrace over 5000 acres each
Steel rails are being distributed
along the Union Pacific for the new
aouble track on the Wyoming al
vision. The WORK OF laying the rails
will begin In about week, several
large gangs of men being put to work,
John Eickhoff. an employee of the
Burlington railroad has confessed to
the murder OF Walter Oelslager, a 10
Eear-old boy whose body was recently
found near the water tank at Ran.
chester. Wyo. Eickhoff said that he
nistook the boy in the darkness for
smother employee against whom he
had grudge and shot him.
W. r. Hall, single man about AZ
years Of age, was found dead in
small stream ten miles west of Wal
Zen, Colo. He had taken fit of some
sort and fallen face downward in the
shallow water, being unable to help
himself.
A young woman known as Cecil La.
mont met violent death In a gun
store in Portland while examing re-
yolver, which she said she wished to
purchase Various facts connected
with the case point conclusively to
suicide.
A killing frost occurred at Laramie
Wyoming, on the goth, biting potatoes.
peas. beans and flower gardens, At
Howell, eight miles west, large field
OF potatoes was about ruined Ice
an eighth Of an inch thick formed at
Laramie.
Mrs. Emily Watson, who was con.
victed in connection with the land
fraud expose in Oregon, and who is al
so under indictment in connection with
the frauds. was brought to Portland
from Oakland. Cal, last week and
placed in Jail.
]. r. Binns. formerly lieutenant
in the United States army, stationed
at Fort Davis. committed suicide by
jumping overheard from the steamer
Ohio on the afternoon OF June IA,
while the vessel was en- route from
Nome to Seattle.
The Socialist state convention, the
arst state convention to be held in