The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-07-25
NORTHWEST NOTES

table and S16s from the cash register
An increase of about Is per CEN
on AN average for all of the Wyomihs
coal fields is the demand thai VIII ue
,.,.san.ed no the mine owners al inc
,raetine with the representatives 90
the United Mine Workers OF America
which will open this week In Denver
In circular 10 its patrons In Bate
the Rocky Mountain Bell Tele2hohe
company announces that IL may
have to discontinue service because
of the strike of linemen ana opera.-
ors In sympathy vita the Titan
unions. The system is psralyzed IN
Butte.
II q Norrigan. notorious Montana
higbwayman. died Of chronic aicoihoi-
ism at Las Vegas. New. last week ne
was arrested and convicted in 1889
and afterward fell heir to s2O,ooo, FOR
The last three months. commeneins at
GqldAe;a, he has been trying 10 arlhA
up all the whisky on the desert
seventy-ive Greek laborers en- Ine
Laramie HHain's Peak & Pacific rail
road have struck, They claim tha'
some Of their number had 10 pay fare
travelling from aramie to the grazing
camp at Centennial and refuse 10 re-
turn to work until the money has been
refunded their brethren.
Mrs. Lorena McLainster, an aSeu
inmate of the Patton Home for the
Aged. In Portland, was SO severely
burned that she died two hours after
the accident. The woman, VINO was
SS years old, had been smoking her
pipe. and it is probable her dress
caught fire from the pipe.
Guy Button and Charles Forquist'
prospectors, were suffocated by nre
damp In the shaft of an abandoned
coal mine near Cokeville. Wyo. The
two men who met their death In the
mine were in party OF four pros
pectors who were visiting various
properties near Cokeyille.
A Jury in the United States court
returned verdict finding +. ID. Coop
err, a well-known northern Montana
stockman and former member OF the
board of commissioners of Cascade
county, guilty of unlawful fencing OF
government lands. Sentence will be
announced later by Judge Hunt.
Postmaster Watson Schriner OF
Spanway, Wash, awoke about z
O'Clock in the morning, to find a
burglar In his room. The robber
dealt him a stunning blow, cutting
an ugly cash in his forehead and
knocking him senseless. The robber
took $74 from under the pillow and
escaped.
Three burglars, one woman, dy-
namited the safe in the postoffice at
Columbia, a suburb of Goldfield, Ne
vada. Officers attacked them and two
of them got away in a fusillade from
automatic, pistols. Charles Morton, the
third burglar, fell and drew his gun,
but he was overpowered before he
could fire shot
An autopsy at Billings, Mont, on the
body of q. H. CrandalI. telegraph OPP
orator, discloses that the man was
foully murdered. CrandalI was brought
in dying condition to a hotel con-
Quoted by Chinese. by two unknown
men, room was engaged and the I'M
conscious form of Crandall thrust into
It on the floor, the perpetrators of the
crime then fleeing
I'VE are quite certain that the To
nopah & Tidewater read will reach
Rhyolite in October" is what G.. J
Ennis. general agent for the Smith
road, is quoted as saying a few days
ago: Construction work is proceed
ing rapidly, and unless something un
foreseen happens, we will be here al
the appointed time"
The United States land office has
received the report from Specia
| Agents Scott and Axiom of an exam
nation made of land enclosures of the
Warren Livestock company, Wyo
ming. II completely exonerates Sen
ator Warren's company from the
cha,se of illegally fencing government
lands in that state.
| Word comes from Portland thai
Barney Oldfield tried 10 commit sui
| eide after being arrested in Portland
On the charge of taking automobile
races. oldfield took the matter L
heart and brooded over the trouble.
until at O'Clock at night, the day
after his arrest. when he attempte,
/ to jump out of a window.
/ ]. larson, liveryman and garage
owner of Bellingham. Wash, wa.
crushed to death in an automobile acct
| dent, He attempted to turn the ma
| chimes in a narrow road and backed
over forty-foot embankment. Glenn
Hyatt, a capitalist. and d. f. Bisgs, :
local physician. who accompanied Lar
son, were not seriously injured.
The large Armour icing plant n
Las Vegas, Nevada. was entirely de
stroyed by hre on the nth. For a
time the entire town was endangered
but the wind. which had been BLOWN;
hard for several days, had subsidized
The many large warehouses narrowl
escaped only on account of the ahl
work Of the local fire department.
! captain Jack Cotton Summer. a nio
neer Indian ScOnt whose nar,., a, -.
nected with much Of the early his