The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-10-03
NORTHWEST NOTES

acid, during fit OF despondencv. and
was dead before medical aid arrived.
Believed to be the victim of the
Black Hand, or of a Sieiiian yendette.
Cerardo Carnival, a market gardener.
was shot through the head and killed
when returning To his truck farm In
the outskirts of Denver.
Representatives OF certain corpora
lions In Seattle are cited to appear be-
fore the Central Labor council on com.
plant Of the striking photographers to
show cause why they should not be
placed on the unfair list by the labor
council
Socialism in the Pacific northwest
Will build its Utopia at Adrian, near
the Grand Coulee. west of Spokane, IL
the plans formulated by the Adrian
Irrigation company. just incorporated
under the laws of Washington. with
100000 capital, are worked out.
Warrants have been issued for the
arrest OF Earl Steen and others, promi-
nent stockmen In the Wallowa sec
ton of eastern Oregon, charged with
the theft of large number OF cattle
belonging to the Madden brothers and
F. w. Kettenbach. OF Lewiston. Idaho.
Charles A. Reynolds, proprietor OF
a bath-house In Portland, has been
acquitted of the charge of numbering
George Hibbin, or Herbert, a must.
clan, who came there recently from
Walla Walla. Reynolds set up the
plea that he was justified In his act
because Hibbin had despoiled Rey.
mods home.
Taking advantage of session law
OF 1905. Latah county, Idaho, is about
to begin organization of a county agri.
cultural fair. Judge s. s. Denning, In
looking through a copy of the session
laws of the state legislature of 1905,
finds that an act permits counties to
use one-half mill of the county assess.
ment for fair purposes.
Grace Gidley. the daughter and heir
of William J. Gidley, an old stage
line driver. who died in Montana in
1886. has been located In Kansas City
after search of eleven years. Gidley
left an estate. composed principally OF
ter. and the lawyers have been search
ing for her all this time.
Joe Passha, an Assyrian, was shot
and Instantly killed by Robert Mulkey
In a saloon at Thermopolis, Wyo.
MuIkey fired four bullets into Passha's
body without apparent provocation. He
fed, but was captured and turned over
to the authorities, but escaped sec
ond time while being taken to Lander.
Feeling against him is high.
1t is learned here on reliable infor.
nation that the Union Pacific has con-
:racted with the Rock Island railroad
for $4,000 carloads of Sherman hill
gravel, to be delivered to that COM
pany at Denver for the ballasting of
the entire line from Denver to Chi
,ago. The delivery will begin the OPP
ening of the season next year.
A shipment of 10000 sheep. most OF
the animals being consigned to Swift
& Co., at Chicago. was held In quaran-
tine at the stock yards at Laramie,
and dipped before being moved. A fed
eral inspector found one bunch of
sheep affected with scabies, and as the
others had been exposed, it was decid-
ed to order the whole lot dipped.
Laurel, Mont, was practically wiped
out on the 18th by fire which destroyed
the business center and which would
ri haa
dynamite been used. The loss is
placed at between $4,000 and $780,
600 and the buildings destroyed in
clude the bank. postoffice and two
large general merchandise stores.
A hold-up, which for boldness and
nerve has never been equalled, oc-
CURED In Butte one night last week.
A lone masked man walked into
saloon. gun In hand, and In the pres
ence of some twenty customers robbed
the till of about $35. AT the time
there were dozens of people on the
street and less than half block away
a policeman was on duty.
The Ely. Nevada. police, postal au-
thorities and officials of the Giroux
Consolidated Mining company, are try
ing to explain the mysterious disap
pearance of pay checks aggregatins
81 GOO. which were sent to the post
office for shipment. The letters were
sent by a drayman TO be posted, who IN
turn entrusted them to a stranger.
Neither the letters or the stranger
have since been seen
when about TO board the overland
limited. bound for Philadelphia, and nj
fimately destined for Oxford uriiver'
sitv. England. Arthur St Clair OF
Deeth. a student of the state univer'
sity. the only Rhodes scholarship man
ever sent from Nevada, was made the
victim of the theft of a suitcase con
tanning his clothing. credentials and
personal belongings
Ely, Nevada, papers are rather proud
of the license collections for the guar
ter ending September l. This Is In
terestiny the tenderfoot population be.
eause of $1,000 collected $3.50 Wa
collected from gambling houses, 1906
from saloons and 1850 from danes
halls.
A flock Of mallard ducks few against
high tension electric wires fifteen misef
from Vancouver. B. c. The current
was short circuited and $4,000 dam
age was done in the Vancouver power
house. Street cars and electric hghts
were put out OF commission tor twenty
minutes