The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-08-08
NORTHWEST NOTES

dead ON the stage In Butte while
speaking his lines Death was due TO
heart disease.
Willard Martin. Southern Pacific
brakeman, while attempting to .board
the caboose Of his train at Elko. Ne
yada. was thrown to the ground. and
bis collar bone broken.
The Butte Plumbers union struck
last week for 50 per day OF eight
bours. The men now receive 81
Buildings aggregated at 81 900 900 I'M
der construction are tied up
Mrs. Catherine McKetchnie. who
was born In Scotland eighty.nine
years ago. and who came TO America
when she was but 8 years old, spend
Ing the most OF that time In the west,
died at her home In Laramie on the
10Th.
Fire caused by the upsetting Of
lamp In the hands Of w. j. Smith.
caused Smiths death. the fatal burn
Ing Of Richard Nicholson. slight In
juries TO several other persons and
monetary loss OF $4,000 In the little
WWH Vi lFuutuaics OTe.
Bids were scheduled 10 be opened on
the 23rd by the supervising architect
for putting In partitions In the attic
OF the Cheyenne public building, for
which an appropriation of $4,000 Is
available. No bids we're received and
the work will be readvertised.
Two heavy storms coming from OPP
posite directions met each other near
Cascade. Mont. resulting In terrific
wind and hall storm during which hail
stones fell measuring as much as one
and one-half inches In diameter
Crops we're ruined in the storm zone.
Harry White. the son Of w. J..
White. wealthy manufacturer OF
| Cleveland, O.. was arrested in Ana
conda. Mont. last week, charged with
assault upon George J. Dean, an en-
ploye at the Gold Coin mine, near
Anaconda. The trouble. 1t Is said,
originated over the management OF
the mine.
/ Reno, Nevada, ID to enter upon an
era OF improvements. A proposition
| is before the city council to issue
| bonds 10 the amount OF 100000, the
proceeds to be used In constructing an
adequate sewer system for the city
The lack OF sanitary system has been
long felt and public spirit is backing
the enterprise.
Senator George q. Nixon has begun
the construction OF the finest dwelling
house In Nevada at Reno. When com
pleted II will cost about 100000. II
will be 145 feet long and will face the
bank OF the Trnckee river at Width
OF sixty feet. rhe building will be OF
stone. brick and cement and will b
old Southern In style.
The state dairy and pure food board
of Idaho viii soon take steps to prose
cute manufacturers OF Ice cream
syrup and candy who use colorini
for their products in violation of thu
state law. II is reported that mum
Der OF persons In this and other sec
lions have grossly violated the statut
and are to be rigidly dealt with.
Three young women OF Helena
Mont. the Misses Bertha and Fred
rika volker and Miss Kanton KeI
ner. have Just been apprfsed, afte
hearings lasting three years, In Gen
man courts, they had been declare
the legal heiresses to the estate o
their grandfather, named yolker, an
which amounts to forty million do
} lars.
+. r. futile, one of the leadini
stockmen OF Montana and also one o
the owners OF the Boulder bank die
, on the 26th In Great Falls, after
: long illness He was GA years OF ag
and pioneer OF Colorado. Californi
! and Montana, coming to this stat
!. from the coast in 1864. when he TO
lowed mining for time at Aide
: gllch.
J.. II. n. vanmitre and Dan Murnam'
miners employed ut the Combinatio
o mine at Goldfleld. have been arreste
I charged with the theft OF high grad
Z orc from the mine, The house
which they lived was searched. an
= twenty pounds OF ore valued at $40
! pound was seized This Is the thir
case of high grading within thrs
!. weeks
Il, 8. Barta. pioneer of California
Colorado aud Montana. Is dead at HI
Carbon county. Montana. ranch. age
!, II, He was a native of Cooper cou
= ii, Mo-. and went TO California
a 1851. Colorado IN 1858, and came
4 Montana in 1862. attracted by Il
. gold discoveries. lie acquired h
wealth at farming and cattle raisin
however,
W The condition OF Berrows, the Ss
Lake man who cut his throat at I'll
b Nevada. recently while out of h
1t mind. is not very encouraging. I
la has repeatedly stated that he was sc
NJ ry he did not accomplish the task
y killing himself. and has to be watch,
~ all the time.
W The survey of the aerial geology
y the Laramie and Sheridan quadra
" giles, Wyoming. win be carried
a completion this season by Eliot Blac
:. weideE OF the United States geoloi
or cal survey. who win give particul
attention TO the areas underlain
crystelline rocks.
As the result of n severe rsinsto.
at Laramie. dozen stores suffer
damage from flooded cellars. T
water came down the street In sa
"a torreuts that tha guitars wors n