The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-01-26
NORTHWEST NOTES

Warren Zubrick knocked out YOUNG
Mansfield in two minutes before thu
Vancouver, Wash, Athletic club.
William Broad, Bert Coffman ant
Fred Johnson were killed in the Cpl
nine at Jacksonville, Ore, by an &C
:idental explosion Of dynamite.
George L. Brown has been arrested
1t Bellingham, Wash, on charge Of
counterfeiting. A complete counter
feiting outfit was found In his room.
A sixty-mile wind from the south
west blew over Reno, New, unroofins
houses and blowing down a large
freight shed, a. frame residence and
destroying many trees.
Mrs. Sally Berry of Northport,
Wash. the insane woman who held
possession of car at Girard, Kan,
for five days, has been committed to
the asylum at Medical Lake,
Jugaburo Asuka, a Japanese, who
was in the employ Of the Southern
Pacific company was killed instantly
at Preble siding, near Golconda, New,
by being struck by locomotive
Fred T. Sherman has been arrested
in Seattle charged with having bribed
George T. Wright, mayor of Tacoma,
$4,000 being the sum in question.
Mayor Wright denies having received
the money.
Three counterfeiters have been
placed under arrest by a secret SER
vice officer at Seattle, and hundreds OF
dollars worth of spurious S. and $40
gold pieces, with the paraphernalla
used in their manufacture, was cap
tured.
Ed and Bob Franz and their mother
have been arrested at Phillipsburg,
Mont, charged with the murder OF
George Reed, a wood-chopper who was
known to have had money and whose
body was found in a shallow grave
near the Franz ranch.
The commissioner Of the general
land Office announces the secretary OF
the interior has withdrawn from all
forms Of disposals except under the
mineral laws, 100000 acres of public
lands lying in Missoula and Flathead
counties, Mont, and Kootenai county,
Ida, for the proposed forest reserve.
Mrs. c. L. Bybee Of Lander, Wye,
recently gave birth to mite of a
baby, which is probably the smallest
ever born in Wyoming. The child, g
girl, weighed but one and half
pounds, and is only nine inches In
length. Its head in circumference Is
about equal to the rim Of a silver dol.
lar.
Active preparations for the con-
struction of the Milwaukee line
through the Snoqualmie pass in Wash
ington are being made and construc'
ton work will soon be commenced. AL
ready tie camps are being established
along the Snoqualmie route and the
cutting Of ties under contract has be-
gun.
The International and Empire Re
tail Dealers association at their an.
nual congress in Spokane unanimous
ly adopted a resolution endorsing
President Rooseyelt's action to bring
about law to fix and enforce reason
able railroad rates and will request
the delegation In congress to give
him all support.
Judge w. H. Hunt, in the United
States court at Butte, toldA Dennis
Burke, Samuel Mcbride, Peter Larson
and Charles Ahim, convicted of Ill
legal timber cutting in Missoula coun'
ty, that the government must protect
its timber interests and the practice
of cutting timber on the public do
main must cease. He fined Mcbride
and Burke 5000 each and Larson and
Ahim $3.50 each.
The people of Montana continue to
enjoy great prosperity, and the out
look for the future is exceedingly
bright The mining men and in fact
all classes of business men had a
good year last year, and feeling OF
security prevails.
A snowslide carried Harry You
mans and Fred Davidson into Nellie
gulch, near Lake City, Colo.N The for.
mer succeeded in digging himself out
and fastened to organize searching
party to rescue Davidson, who was'
buried beneath the avalanche.
Joe Rodgers and John Anderson
have been placed under arrest by the
police on suspicion Of having been
the principals in the frequent hold
ups of saloons in Butte recently. An
derson's mask slipped during a rob-
berry, it is claimed, and he was recog-
nized.
Edward Keaster, a well known
stockman of Highwoods, Mont, COM