The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-08-17
NORTHWEST NOTES

by street car in Portland on Sunday
and severely injured.
Walter Barieau, who killed Sheriff
Thomas W. Logan April 7 at Manhat-
IAN, was acquitted by a jury at Tono-
pah last week. The defense claimed
selfdefense.
The body Of Kristian Johnson Of On
lario, Ore, was found by the railroad
track with his skull crushed. He is
supposed to have been killed in
drunken brawl
Rawlins and Lynn. two prisoners at
Rawlins, Wyo., made a dash for lib.
srty while cleaning up the Jail yard.
Rawlins was captured. but Lynn made
good his escape.
While making an effort to dive un.
Ter a large river barge. as the result
Of dare from one Of his companions,
Joseph Nestro, an iron-worker, was
drowned at Portland.
Maude Cullison. a 14-year-o1d girl,
shot and killed herself at her fathers
home in Portland because her parents
had reprimanded her for keeping com.
pany with young man.
Alloting Agent Nickerson. from
Lander, Wyo., wired the Indian ONCE
on the 18th that he had finished his
work and had forwarded the schedule
Of allotments in Shoshone reservation.
Fire destroyed the buildings and ma
chinery of the Yakima Gas company
at North Yakima. Wash Loss, SIS,
900. No insurance. The plant is
owned by Philadelphia, Pa, capital
lists.
Caught by driftwood along the bank
of the river mile from Dillon, Mont
the body of an unknown man waI
found by two fishermen Saturday The
body was badly decomposed and its
features not recognizable.
President Roosevelt has been petit
toned by the commercial bodies OF
Denver to appoint Thomas C. Scott
manager of the Colorado Manufacture
ers' association as a member of the
Interstate commerce commission.
Esther Mitchells family will do
nothing to defeno her in her trial fol
numbering her brother George. 1t ia
said they do not even care to see her
it is expected that she will be defend
ed by counsel appointed by the court
The patrons of the Bruce, Wyoming
postoffice are in sore predioament
being unable to get their mail because
w. w. Ehler is in prison awaiting
trial on the charge of murder in the
first degree, having killed T. j. Storm
sheepherder. Storms body was
literally filled with lead. No one will
take the position of postmaster
Discovery has peen made in a small
draw near Laramie, Wyo,, of DESERT
ed prairie schooner with two emaciat'
ed horses nearby. The wagon box is
splintered with bullet holes and the
inside of the wagon stained with
blood. 1t is believed the occupants
Of the wagon, probably emigrantsr
were murdered.
One hundred strikers took posses
sion of the government camp at Cor
bett tunnel, on the Shoshone reserva-
ton works, eight miles from Cody,
Wyo., and for a time created reign
of terror They threatened the lives
of 500 other men if they returned to
work, but were speedily brought to
order by county officials.
United States Senator Clark Of Mon.
tana, in an interview at Santa Bar
bara, Cal. predicted that the next
presidential campaign will find Bryan
the candidate of the Democratic party
and Roosevelt of the Republican. AL
though President Roosevelt is not
seeking the nomination, the senator
believed that it would be forced upon
him.
During a downpour of rain in Den
YER, Charles F. Hollingshead, Jr.
aged 10, was killed by lightning, and
Miss Eliza Ham, aged "a, died OF
heart failure, due to over-exertion in
running through the storm to hei
home.
Prosecuting Attorney Macintosh OF
Seattle has filed in the superior court
an information charging. Chester
Thompson, aged 81, son of Will II
Thompson, with murder in the first
degree. Young Thompson shot and
killed Judge George Meade Emory.
o. v. Hurt of Corvallis, Ore, father
Of Mrs Maud Creffield, has offered aiC
to his daughter and Esther Mitchell
and wired them tnat he had arranged
for their defense Mrs. Creffield will
accept, though she said 1t was MOI
worth while for him to spend his
money.
John Turish, a well known Colorado
mining man, aged 35 years, was com
mitted to the insane asylum in Den
yer, after being arrested on warrant
sworn out BY his brother, Henry Tur
lsh. TurisA attempted to kill the ex
aiming physician with a pocket
knife
Harry Baumback, Is years old, hac
one hand almost blown off by the ex
plosion of dynamite on the railroad
, track at Laramie, Wyo. He was pass
ing, and, seeing the smoke of the
burning substance, reached the scene
lust in time to receive the force Of the