The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-07-05
NORTHWEST States
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA NEWS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Aeei'
dents and Personal Events Take
Piaee-Crop Outlook Is Good.
IDAHO NEWS.

Inc EtOGky MOunidlh DCAA ACASfAO
company has offered a reward Of S5OO
for the arrest Of some one understand
ing telephone wires, who cut off a ca
BILE at Pocatello recently.
The telephone operators at Wallace
who went out on a strike a few days
ago have returned to work.
Three Italians we're buried In a cave
in In a tunnel at the Silver King mine
at Government gulch, near Wardner,
recently and 1t was IL hours before
they were rescued. None Of them
were injured.
The Monarch Timber company Is
having constructed two sawmills with
in a half mile of the town OF st. Joe.
Mrs. Belle Hall of Priest River, In
her trial for murder of Jack Burnett,
May 10, was freed by the jury.
Douglas & Valentine of Pocatello,
Idaho, have sold to G. B. Reynolds OF
Kearney, Neb., 5000 head of sheep
for $66.400.
Much interest Is being taken in the
proposed extension of the B. r. Lewis
railroad into the Occur d'Alene reser-
walton, where, 1t is claimed, 1t Will
lntersect at some point between Chat
colet and Tekoa the Chicago, Milwau-
kee e. st. Paul railroad, which Is now
in course of construction.
The annual summer movement OF
sheep toward the mountain ranges n
forest reserves has begun.
The steamer Mountain Gem, which
has been sold to the Idaho-Portland
Cement company to the Columbia and
Okanogan Steamboat company. has
gone to the Columbia river, where she
will become a tramp steamer in ser
vice around Pasco.
John Broadley escaped from the
county Jail at Moscow while acting as
a trusty.
Up to the present time no charges
have been filed against Thomas Eagen,
the man who shot Miss Hilda Carlson
al Cottonwood, and nothing will be
done until the exact results of his at
tempt are determined.
The Nez Perez Indians are holding
the celebration of the traditional war
dance and parade, the festivities last
ing all this week. Delegations from
several tribes in the northwest will
Join in the celebration.
In a row among some Italians work
Ing on the railway near Bonners Ferry,
Eli Rigock, who was shot in his left
side, the bullet striking a rib and COM
ing out at the lower part of the abdo-
men, will recover. Buda Korock, who
wal shot over the left eye with a 38
pistol, will ecover,
Reports emanating from Weiser, re-
port that an engineer in the employ of
the Northwestern railroad company
has been surveying a right of way for
a projected extension.
The striking telephone girls at Pc
catello have decided to go back to
work at the old wage scale, pending a
settlement.
No permits are needed to fish and
hunt on forest reserves.
A most serious coal famine is threat
ening the entire Snake river valley.
For over a month there has not been
a pound Of coal shipped into Blackfoot
for commercial use.
Much activity is noticed around
Standpoint and Lake Pend d'Oreille re-
Gently as a result of the Panhandle
smelter starting up and the mining in
dustry, which has been lying dormant
for some time, is beginning to show
evidence of active operation.
The w. r. c. of the Idaho depart
ment of the G. A. R. has elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
President, Laura Dodd Of Boise; SEN
Tor vice, Mary e. Post of Rathdrum;
junior vice, Ella Hamlin of lewiston;
chaplain, Sallie A. Kimball of Weiser;
treasurer. Celia A. Moss of Payette;
secretary, Lille M. Nesbitt of Occur
d'Alene; delegates to national conven-
ton, Ella Farmin Of Standpoint and
Matilda Lapp of Rathdrum.
The preliminary hearing OF John
Grenfell, charged with the murder OF
John Hunger, was held recently at
Wardner.
While a party of 26 Pocatello young
people yer on their way to an Indian
dance recently their horses ran away
and the entire party was dumped out
of the wagon on the rocks in a lava
bed. Six were seriously injured, and
all were more or less bruised.