The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-06-21
NORTHWEST NOTES

Tracklaying on the Caliente & Pt
oche railroad, which has been sus.
pended, will Immediately be resumed.
In a premature blast at the tunnel
No. 2, thirteen miles south of Butte,
three men were instantly killed and
two were slightly injured.
Mrs. John Crumley, negress, liv
ing at Laramie, Wyo., last week gave
birth to her eleventh child, daugh
ter, she being but "a years old.
Edward G. Becker suicided at Cold
field, taking morphine. Becker, who
was a former resident of Bingham
Utah, had been drinking and became
Respondent.
The magnificent new building of the
Goldfield Mining stock exchange is
open for business. The edifce is al.
stone, and would grace the main
street of any city.
David HARRY, wiper in the engine
hosse at Sparks, Nevada, touched a
l. live wire Saturday afternoon and was
instantly killed, the full current pass
ing through his body.
H. X. Mason one of the Oldest and
most trusted locomotive engineers On
the San Pedro road, lost his right eye
by the bursting of the lubricator on
the engine at Caliente, Nevada.
Harry M. Diffenbaugh, Goldfeld
mining man, has word from Washing
ton that his patent, a dumping device
to do away with topmen at shafts, is
likely to make him millionaire.
The directors of the Washington &
Columbia River railway, meeting in
Walla Walla, the headquarters of that
line, formally transferred the Wash
ington & Columbia River line to the
Northern Pacific last week.
Patrick Gibbons, supposed to %
insane, brutally assaulted Mrs. Chris
Jorgensen, aged 81, at Anaconda,
Mont. A crowd of women attempted
to lynch. Gibbons and would have sue
ceeded but for the officers.
Wells Morton, prominent broker
and promoter, has been found by the
ri init ctn n rn tn
insolvent The failure was caused by
short interests in Jumbo Extension
and other rising securities.
j. Ross Clark of the Salt Lake
Route states that trains should be
running into Goldfield by Sept l, and
that rights-of-way are being secured
through Columbia, Diamondfiold and
other towns on the way to Tonopah.
While pursuing two Montana horse
thieves, Sheriff Guy and posse from
Johnson county, Wyoming, shot and
killed one of the robbers that held up
a Northern Pacific passenger train at
WEIGH Spur recently. The other man
escaped.
For the first time in the history of
the Wells-Fargo Express company
anywhere, it has made shipment of
structural steel in carload lots by eX.
press. Two carloads of iron ar. steel
to be used in the completion of the
new Goldfeld News building was
shipped from Reno to Goldtield by eX'
press.
The Bank of Ouray, Colo, mas
closed its doors. It's liabilities are
about 100000 and the creditors are
mainly small depositors. The assets
are not stated, but are said not to
equal the liabilities. The failure was
precipitated by run on the bank in
which depositors withdrew about
$4,000.
The train dispatchers of Sparks,
Verdi and Reno complain that the
Southern Pacific company is not obey
ing the eight-hour law in regard to
operators and dispatchers passed by
the last legislature, and have asked
District Attorney Moran to take ac
ton against the company to enforce
the law.
BENJAMIN Maxfield, county commits
sioner of Jefferson county, Montana,
was killed in an automobile accident.
Maxfield had recently bought the ma
chine and was learning to operate 1t
when it overturned, crushing him to
death.
Deputy Sheriff Ole Mosberg has ar |
rived at Buffalo, Wyo., with a prisoner |
who is said to be the Montana train
robber and horse thief whose compan-
ion was killed recently near Sheridan
while attempting to escape from the
posse in pursuit.
George Trebenos, a Mexican, was
convicted at Ely, Nevada, on charge |
of assaulting Robert Monnehan with
intent to kill On May % last he at |
tackled Monnehan just after the latter
had stepped out of +. saloon, severely |