The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-03-28
NORTHWEST NOTES

The central girls on the Bell teie
nhona system at Billings. Mont. have
struck for higher wages.
The report comes from Pine Ridge.
wyoming. that the body OF an I'M
known man has been found. the man
having been frozen to death.
Joseph Smith, a brakeman en-
Moved BY the Southern Pacific com.
many at Nina, New. was run down by
bis own engine at that place and in
stantly killed.
No number is now obtainable at
Portland. owing to the strike OF saw
mill employees, and it is merely .
ouestion of days until all building op-
erations in the city will cease.
II ia announced at the war depart
ment that the post of Fort Washable.
in wyoming, will be abandoned May
/ next and the reservation and build.
| ings turned over to the interior de-
partment for disposition.
Japanese papers received at Victor
ia. B. c., by the steamer Athena. pub
lish a report that fishermen took live
mermaid off Yacyma, Luchu islands,
and the mermaid was brought to Toxic
and exhibited at Yeno park.
The labor troubles at Goldfield are
being felt by the railroad companies.
AS a result of the inability OF the
people of that camp to get men to
unload their products from the cars
a blockade virtually exists on the. .
Tonopah & Goldfield road.
It is stated that Edward T. TiltoL.
chief engineer of the Salt Lake Route,
will within short time visit Meadow
Valley wash, in Nevada, for the pur.
; pose of selecting new survey De
!, signed to avoid the section that has
on several occasions crippled the sys-
tenn and tied up traffic for several
weeks at time.
The twenty-year-old controversy
y between the Northern Pacific Rail-
road company and Jacob and Mar.
:, paret Slaght, over the possession OF
(. lands in the town of Palouse, Wash,
" on which are located the companys
10 warehouse, water tanks, etc., was
decided by the supreme court last
II week favorably to the Slaghts.
:, The supreme court of Montana
- holds that the trial court of Silver
Bow county exceeded it's jurisdiction
~ in sentencing Andrew F. Graves to
at the penitentiary for fourteen years on
ed the charge of throwing corrosive acid
is in the face of woman, on the ground
he that the verdict of the jury did not
ID, show that the act was wilful.
'u' Angry at his two sons, Milton and
Fred, because they built a fencs
when he had told them not to do 50
ed e. G. Grow, a farmer at Empire, Ne
Dr. vada., secured a rife and shot ooti
hs sons, injuring them seriously. HI
'u- older son, George, was standing near
en- and, grabbing another rifle, shot I'M
OK father through the head, killing MN
ID: instantly.
ng Frank ]. Keefe, when released from
ia on the state prison at Rawlins last wees
- having served four years sentenc
"A. for killing John Baxter, Rawlln
IVA policeman, on the night of April y
re- 1903, was arrested on warran
ing charging him and his brother, WI
M. liam Keefe, with the murder OF Tol
al. King, railroad trainman,s at tn
-. same time.
Of The Butte members of the lnte'
national Typographical union hnal
voted down the proposition OF %
-, Butte and Anaconda newspaper pu'
Ton. fishers that the compositors return
,als work at last years scale, wnic
.a.t would mean a reduction of 81 CEN
- per man per day. This leaves y
anu newspaper situation where 1t va
thirty days ago.
10 John Arbuckle, the New York CO
alter fee king, has ordered the manager
,ers. his big "P. O." ranch, containiu
ular $4,000 acres, and lying north of enc
the enne, to sell the ranch at once.
hers gether with the stock, which conss
,ges. of $125,000 worth of cattle and horss
that as a result of the governments
pro- ton in forcing Arbuckle to tear ~.
Free ferty-five miles of fences erected
government land.
Charles Kelly, longshoreman' '.
shot and probably fatally wouna'
STUN early Sunday morning by two mass
men on Townsend street near ih'
street, San Francisco. Kelly re'a'
was to accede to the demand OF the -
IL to hand over Sc.
LIE. Jack Walsh, formerly a ram.
ergy. CONDUCTOR shot anu AeN q.
VS.: Meyers and Jack Harrington at .
uring Nevada. The tragedy was the -
I'M a of gambling row. The two men
Tor tackled Walsh. 1t Is claimed ahs
t. In shot both of them.
ione Miss Grace Parish. who atisilie-
27th year Saturday, committees
eide at the home of her parents
m re- Angeles, Sunday, during their 49,
we by inhaling Illuminating gas i
serve eide of Miss Parish is attnsa''