The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-11
NORTHWEST NOTES

, NCNdud, dpcul AV,VUV acres are 70 "
} irrigated this year.
J An effort is to be made to have tn,
government fish hatchery for Wyom
ing located at Laramie.
George Wilson pleaded guilty a
Spokane last week to the robbery o.
of the bank of Rockford, Wash, In
December, 1905, and was sentenced to
ten years in prison.
Mary McEvily of Helena, Mont, a
i pupil of Jean De Reszke, made her de,
but at Berlioz hall in Paris, one night
last week. A large American audi.
ence warmly received her.
The report is current at Butte that
F. A. Heinze will succeed w. A. Clark
as senator from Montana, Mr.. Clark
having authorized the announcement
that he is not a candidate to succeed
| himself.
After forty years service as Judge
of the United States district court OF
the district Of Colorado, Judge Moses
Hallett has retired to private life and
Robert E. Lewis has been sworn in as
his successor.
Pinedale is the first Wyoming town
to announce Fourth of July celebra-
ton. The affair will begin on the 3rd
and end on the 5th, with free pastur-
age and camping grounds for every
body that comes.
The Corey Bros. Construction com.
pany of Ogden has been awarded the
contract for the construction of the
grade of twenty miles of railroad, run
ming from Hazen to Fallon, on the
Southern Pacific.
Traffic Director Stubs of the South
ern Pacific system has sent word
throughout the east notifying all |
agents to discourage people from
coming to San Francisco for the mere
purpose of sightseeing.
Mrs. Robert Bryant, married wo-
man with two small children, was shot
and killed at Butte by Harry Penna,
who had been much in the company
of the woman. Penna confessed the
crime and says he was jealous of
the woman's husband.
The Single Mills Bureau at meet.
ing at Seattle, attended by $50 manu-
facturers, representing more than 60
per cent of the total single output of
the state, voted to close the mills for
ninety days, beginning December l,
with the exception of the combination
mills, which are to close for six weeks,
beginning December Is.
Chief Engineer F. H. Newell of the
government reclamation service has
informed the house committee on irri.
ion that from $4,000 to 10000 acres
If land would be irrigated at the be.
ginning of the present irrigation sea-
'on from the Interstate canal between
Wyoming and Nebraska Most of this
and Is in Wyoming.
Samuel H. Elliott, an Oregon pic.
leer, aged IS, was burned to death
It his home near Hllsboro, Ore. He
vas a paralytic and it is supposed the
Ire started from Goals dropped from
lis pipe. His aged wife and son were
lanting potatoes at the time and when
hey saw the fire 1t was impossible to .
each him.
Rey Harris, said to be Salt Lake
ewspaper man, who was forced to
cave Bannock, Montana, an old min.
lg town in Beaverhead county, after
eing ducked in an irrigating ditch
nd daubed with paint, for surveying
ne toWnsite for placer claims, has
worn out warrants for seventeen men,
'ho, he alleges, committed the out.
age.
A sensation has been created at
asin, Wyo., by the arrest of Bishop
Jolly, head of the Mormon settle
emit in Big Horn county, numbering |
YER 500 members, on the charge OF
lstaining polygamous relations with
70 wives.
In the Butte Miner, his own newspa f
'r, Senator w. A. Clark of Montana
lnounces officially that he is not a
ndidate for reelection to the United n
,ates senate. He says he will return
Montana to operate his interests, at
e close of his present term. at
The army appropriation bill which W
.ssed last week was amended by in. III III
easing the item of $4,000 for hos. - n
tai at Fort Russell to $4,000, the
crease being deemed necessary by
e war department in view of making hs
'rt Russell brigade post. "a
Mrs. Helen Cody Wetmore, the SIS
: of Buffalo Bilp' Cody, having sold -
her property at Duluth, Mimi, has 4.
rived at Cody, Wyo., and will be- L
me a permanent resident. Mr.. Cody
II return to Cody at the end of his
esent European tour and remain per-
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