The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-10-31
NORTHWEST NOTES

appointed on the 18th. Soldiers
Home. Johnson county. Samuel p.
Thompson; Upton, Weston county,
Ella Perry.
Adam Catiin. one of the best known
men In the west. and for whom the
town OF Catlin in Washington was
named, dropped dead on the street
In Portland on the I4th.
Fire OF unknown origin destroy ed
the barns and sheds and the ranch
hay crops of John Olson. near Centen.
NAL, Wyo. Fire started shortly after
noon. while the family was at dinner.
While running at high speed. a
Santa Fe freight train dashed into a
washout near Bengal. Cal, on the
desert. and in the wreck which fol-
lowed Fireman J. H. Potter was in
stan.iy killed in his cab seat.
Robert Williams. stonemason.
was severely injured at Goldheld by
being caught between the arm OF a der
rick and a two-ton stone while work
ing ON the Daisy building. Williams
was nearly mashed to a jelly, bnt ply.
sicians say he may recover.
One man was Killed and three seri
ously injured and two slightly injured
In an accidental explosion Of a blast
near Ninemile, Mont The accident oc
Cured near MacDougal's construction
camp, on the right OF way of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad
Oscar L. Ford. Well known Alaska
miner, arrived In Goldheld last week.
and viii endeayor to build up another
fortune there. He recently lost s45,-
600 at roulette in San Francisco.
which represented the savings made
by him in the frozen north. He is not
disheartened. however, and expects TO
recoup his losses in Nevada.
II. M. Wise of Missouri has been
arrested and held to the United States
grand jury for allowing a forest fire
to start from his camp near Fraser,
Colo, doing considerable damage.
Wise went to Denver when he found
the trouble he had caused and tele.
phoned back to the camping place for
his valise
Charles Sweeney of Spokane and
Mr.. Pope of Toronto are stated to
have sold to the Guggenheims for
about 100000 the control of the Big
Buffalo mine in buffalo Hump district.
in central Idaho. each retaining about
sl,000,0o0 in stock. The Guggenheims,
1t is asserted, will build a railroad
from Salmon river to the town OF Cal
lendar
B. o. Winslow, a grain merchant.
was accidentally shot and killed while
at work in his Office at Georgetown.
Wash. He was engaged, with three
other men, in Strengthening out some
legal matter connected with a debt
owing his firm. when loaded revol.
yer which was lying on a chair was
upset, the bullet passing through the
spinal column.
The attempts of a joint committee
from the miners, smelter men and en-.
gineers to settle the machinists strike
at Butte have apparently proved fruit
less. The company offered the strik-
The union was willing to accept this.
while copper was below Is cents, but
wanted IS agreement when IL went
above that figure.
One of the most famous suits In
the history of Montana came to an
end at Butte last week when the Unit
ed States Fidelity company paid to
the firm Of Maurice & Hogevoll s5,277.s
The action has been tried eight times
In the district court, and FIVE times In
the supreme courts. The suit was be.
gun in 1905. Both of the original con-
testants are dead
Word has been received that the
Iong-desired Encouragement OF the
Episcopal missionary dioceses in the
west has been acted on favorably by
the general convention of the Episco-
pal churclnnen OF America now being
held in Richmond. Va. and that in
all probability hereafter the state OF
Nevada will constitute "a separate
Episcopal mission and will have a
bishop of its own, with the See city.
Reno.
Three negroes. Tom Stewart, a well
known jockey. Ed Donovan and Fred
Brown, were drowned In Houser lake.
near Helena. Mont, while duck hunt
ing. There were no witnesses to the
accident, and the first known of the
was when the upset boat
fioated ashore The bodies have not
yet been recovered.
United States District Judge J H.
Hawley (reuredl OF Nevada died on
the 18th of kidney disease at the St
Francis hospital. San Francisco, at
the age OF n years. He was appoint
ed United States district Judge when
at the age of 60 years.
The youngest daughter of II. y.
Grant, manager Of the Seattle Electric
company. received burns that two
hours later resulted in her death. The
girl was years old II is supposed
that her clothes caught FIRE from a
match. although there were no eye
witnesses.
Mrs. Lizzie Reals. wife Of Charles
A. Reals. one OF the Oldest engineers
IN the Union Pacific. and formerly
sheriff and county treasurer. died az
.aramie on the 18th. She was born
IN New York and married Mr.. Reals
On her eighteenth birthday. She was
81 years OF age.
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