The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-08-23
NORTH WEST NOTES

manner, but Will recover.
Three masked men held up a SO
loon in Silverton, Colo, and got ava.
with about $4,000. The robbery OF
CURED at $3.50 in the morning.
The first wreck on the Soo-Spokane
d. c. Corbin's new line, occurred OF
the 18th, near Mcleod, B. G. Tw'
men were killed. The eastboun'
train was derailed.
Machinists of the Northern Pacifi
and Great Northern roads are threat
ening to strike unless their griev
ances are adjusted. Should they wall
out the tie-up of the system will b.
general
The Laramie, Hahn's Peak & Pa
cific railroad is now operating trains
between Laramie and Centennial
Trains are operated by telephone, thu
company not having yet adopted {
telegraph system.
Miss Mamie Edwards, Of Rosebud
Nevada, has been awarded possession
of a cat now held by Miss Carrie Rus
sell, provided she pays 5000 costs Of
the law suit The case has made much
fun In the camp
]. w, Bolter, former San Fran.
cisco undertaken, blew out his brains
in the presence of his wife in Port
land. He lost his property in the San
Francisco fire and since then had
been pursued by misfortune.
John Quinn, millionaire gambler OF
Reno, Nevada, has made will leav
ing his entire estate to James May
boy of eight. Quinn is fifty-eight
and the fortune Is to become the
child's when he reaches mans estate.
Some of the best fish caught in
Wyoming this year have been taken
from the lakes high UP on the snowy
range of mountains in western Al
bany county, at an elevation of from
10000 to 10000 feet above sea level.
These lakes are full of trout.
Because the master plumbers of
Goldfield refused to grant the union
plumbers raise from So to So per
day the plumbers have declared a
strike and plumbing work on many
large buildings in course of construc-
ton in the city has been stopped.
Laborers in Seattle are living on the
fat of the land. Owing to contractors
of railroad lines building into the
northwest bidding against one another
to obtain the services of workingmen,
common labor is quoted at So per day
with a promise Of steady employment.
J. M. Mahoney, a farm hand en-
ployed on ranch near Laramie,
Wyo., and who was a member of
Quantrelps band of guerillas during
the Civil war, declares thst he be-
lieves Quantreu is still alive. He ex-
presses the belief that the body buried
in Kentucky as Quantrell's was some
other man.
Rhyolite, Nevada, is now town,
having been incorporated under the
laws of Nevada as the second in Nye
county. C. L. Splain has been made
chief Of police and Harry O'Brien
chief Of the fire department. Round
Mountain and Manhattan are other
in Nye county that soon
will become towns.
Fifty-three striking steel layers on
The Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad
we're arrested by four deputies at
Bonnie Glare, forty-five miles north
Of Rhyolite, and lodged in the Jail at
Rhyolite. The strikers are Austrians,
and it is believed to be the largest
body of men ever included in an ar
'est made in Nevada.
After thirty years spent in searching
for his two children, who had been
saken from his home by their mother
thirty-three years ago, M. L. Fauver OF
Boyd county, Nebraska, has located
hem in Whitman county, Wash, and
IS now visiting his son, Arthur Fauver,
, well known farmer two and half
niles south of Palouse. $.
1t is announced that as result of
he voting in the Butte Miners union |
he union has adopted all the amend
nents to the constitution Of the West |
I'm Federation of Miners, but voted
Town the resolution for convention |
n Chicago, October 1, to reunite the |
DIVISIONS of the Industrial |
Workers of the World.
A Greek section laborer fell from
handcar at Howell. Wyo., sustaining
concussion of the brain. When his
brought him to Laramie
o be treated 1t was found that he was
otally blind from the accident and
nable to distinguish light from dark
ess The case is unusual, as the &C.
ident seemingly was not of much
Importance until the blindness was
oted. ,.sssss
Roy Musser, an employee Eat the /
olling mills at Laramie, rested his
eft hand on bolt-heading machine |.