The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-22
NORTHWEST NOTES

NOh1 IL w LOl NUl EO
The mill Of the Alpena Single com.
pany at Kapowsin, Wash, has been
destroyed by fire. The dry kilns were
saved.
Special deputy sheriffs have been
sworn in at Bellingham, Wash, In an
ticipation of trouble at the beginning
of the single workers strike.
A miner named Carroll was killed
at Como. Nevada, by an explosion Of
giant powder which he was thawing.
Four other miners were injured.
The population of Manhattan is on
the verge of another stampede for a
new mining district, prospector hav-
Ing come into town few days ago
with ore that goes $435 per ton in
gold.
Recent heavy rains have wrought
havoc among the Montana flocks, &C.
cording to advices received from
northern Montana. The losses range
from $50 to $500 sheep to every
owner
Registration for the drawing for the
ceded lands on the Crow Indian res
ervation in Montana began at Sheri-
dan, Wyo., on the 14th At the time Of
opening the doors of the registration
Office about 200 persons were in line.
Holding that upon constitutional
grounds women cannot hold notarial
commissions in Montana, Governor
Toole has revoked all outstanding
commissions held by women, seven in
all, and denied as many applications.
Five lumbermen were drowned in
the Shoshone river near Wapiti, Wyo.,
while attempting to cross in a boat.
The men belonged to gang working
on a log jam and had been warned
by the foreman not to attempt the
trip.
William Paisley, who robbed a
Butte store of $4,000 about four
months ago. and was later captured
in Salt Lake City, has been sentenced
to fifty years Imprisonment, being
sentenced on the first anniversary Of
his wedding day. He is IS years old
and may get out of prison at IS If he
behaves well.
The body of an unknown man was
found in the Willamette river, near
Portland, bearing evidence of murder
The legs we're tightly bound with
strong wire and there were marks Of
wire about the hands and body. There
was cash three inches long In the
| head. The body had apparently been
| in the water three or four days.
Quite little interest is being mani
tested in Reno and Sparks, Nevada,
! over strike said to have been made
by J. G. Gardner of Sparks, at dis
lance of five miles down the river
from that place. In the low foothills
Mr.. Gardner claims to have discov-
cred a forty-foot ledge of $38 gold
and silver ore.
Calvin Cobb of Boise, Ida, talked
with the President and Secretary Taft
recently about the enlargement of
Boise barracks. No definite under
standing was reached, but it is under
| stood that Senator Dubois will take
the matter up and endeavor to secure
between $25O,OOO and 100000 for i'm
| mediate use in the erection OF new
| buildings at Boise.
So anxious is Mrs. J. E. Moore for
| husband that she has written to
Warden Cleghorn of the state peniten-
tiary to choose one for her from among
the convicts in his charge, says a Can
on City, Colo, dispatch. The lady,
who lives in Reno, Nevada, evidently
thinks she can find mate who is
sure to be impressed when he learns
of tho virtues of Mr.. Moore No. l.
She asks for whole list of men who
are likely subjects for matrimony.
Citizens of Reno, Nevada, are very
much puzzled over the discovery Of
many big rents from two to eight feet
wide in the mountains near the city.
No one has felt any earthquake and
the cause Of the phenomenon is I'M
known.
Fire in the Victor block, at Spokane,
caused damage of $4,000, Of which
$4,000 was on the building, $4,000 on
the hardware stock of MCGOWAN Bros /,
and $4,000 on the furniture of the up
per stories tenants. No one was in
jured.
C. M. Campbell, a we'll known law