The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
NORTHWEST NOTES

which he had fallen, Thomas Lewis
was rescued by men who heard hi!
| faint cries for help.
David Dose a blind man, As year!
| If age, committed suside at Laramie
| oy shooting himself with a small rifle
He had grown Respondent over the
loss of his sight and decided to take
his life
Andrew Harrell, the millionaire Ne
vada stock raiser, who is said to have
been the largest taxpayer in the state
with the exception of the Southern
Pacific railroad, died August rs in
Palo Alto, Cal.
Mrs. F. p Baumgartner, of Portland
ran down and seriously injured e. H
Evans, an employee of the Western
Union in Seattle, with an automobile
last week. Mrs. Baumgartner was ar
rested and filed 81 500 bond.
Charles Bailey, teamster Of Port.
land, shot and killed his wife and her
12-year-old daughter, Rhoda Bradley,
Bailey then shot himself to death. Mr..
and Mrs. Bailey have not been living
together and she has been supporting
herself and daughter by working in a
laundry.
Fire destroyed the barn of the City
Day Scavenger company in Spokane.
and twenty-five head of horses were
cremated. Only four head of horses
owned by the company escaped, and
they were out at work. Thirty tons OF
hay was also burned and loss is esti
mated at 100000 with about $4,000 in.
Surance.
Robert Hennessey is in Jail at Trim
idad, Colo, charged with fatally shoot.
ing Frank Price, 16-year-old boy, at
Delagua. 1t is alleged that Hennessey
quarreled with woman, procured a
rife and attempted to shoot her as
she ran from the house, but the bull.
let intended for her struck her
brother
Despite the fact that Montana's
wool production shows a falling off of
100000 pounds as compared with the
preceding year, this state still holds its
prestige as the banner end of the ma
ton. Again, because of better prices,
due to improved quality, the net re-
suits were far more satisfactory than
last year.
Dr. Perry Crosswait was probably
fatally injured while alighting from
street car in Tacoma. An operation
at the hospital disclosed blood clot
and recovery is doubtful The doctor
was for many years in Portland, Ore.
afterwards in Des Moines, Ia, coming
to Tacoma last May. He is about II
years of age.
One of the most peculiar criminal
cases ever recorded in Montana was
up for trial in Miles City last week.
The case is that of the state against
Charles Walters. The defendant is
held on a charge of forgery, which he
preferred against himself. Walters
forged the name of his employer to
a check for SIS.
In struggle with thief in a room
in Seattle, Detective Lee A. Barbee
shot and killed his adversary. Bar
bee was about to search the man on
of his having robbed room
Of samples belonging to a travelling
nan when the stranger objected and
pulled gun. The two men engaged |
n hand-to-hand fight.
The bank of Auburn, Wash, was
robbed one night last week, the rob-
oers securing $4,000. The bank build
ng was entered by some one possess
ng a pass-key and the safe was
session of the combination or an ex-
)ert knowledge of opening safes, for
10 violence was attempted
The second annual meeting of the
Iontana Woolgrowers' association will
re held in Helena, October 2, 8 and 4.
several questions of great Importance
Jill come up for consideration. Among
hem will be the forest reserve ques-
ion, the policy of the government on
he public land question, the changing
onditions in the industry, and others.
John Beatty, one of the oldest and
est known commercial travellers in
ne west, died at Butte, Mont, from
he effects of carbolic acid, apparently
aiken in fit of dependency over
allure to secure work III his line of
usiness. Mr.. Beatty had been in poor
ealth and practically had been out of
Employment for the past four years.
Suffering from a pressure on the
rain caused from a fractured skull ,,
eceived in the United Steamship Ben
ington disaster, off the coast of Cal
ornia, more than year ago, William =
I. Mcdonald, an ex-naval officer of
export News, Virginia, was picked
p on the streets of Colorado Springs,
nd is in hospital in serious con. !
ition. {
The action brought recently by T. t
Taliaferro of Rock Springs, Wyo.,
} test the validity of coal land with.
rawals by President Roosevelt is to
2 appealed to Secretary Garfield of
lie interior department and, should t
ecretary Garfield sustain the legality e
the executive order, mandamus pro- r
sedings to compel the general land v
fipo RI opnopt f1iuuo or 1opd with. | =.