The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-11-21
NORTHWEST NOTES

oregon railroad and Navigation COM
pany's yards at Portland was killed
In a collision between two passenger
trains, caused by dense fog.
NJ. S. Largey. president of the State
Savings bank. of Butte. which closed
its doors a short time ago. says that
r. Augustus Heinze will retire from
the bank and the bank win be reor.
ganized and will reopen in the near
future.
Official denial is made of the state.
ment telegraphed FROM Helena that
more than two labor organizations
had withdrawn from the Montana Fed
Grafton of Labor as a result of the
alleged boycott campaign against the
Bell Telephone company.
The announcement was made In
Laramie. Wyo.. last week that when
the portion of the Oregon Short Line
between Green River and Ogden is
turned over to the Union Pacific, No
vember Is, new division will be Gre
ated from Rawiins, Wyo., to Ogden.
Mrs. Mary Phillips, wife of the man
ager Of the Phillips hotel of Laramie,
attempted suicide by drinking carbolic
acid, but her daughter knocked the
bottle from her hand. preventing the
swallowing of large dose of the acid
| Mrs. Phillips lost baby few weeks
ago and it is believed her mind is al
feeted
The State Bank & Trust company,
nf 10,
ton in its effort to prevail upon de-
positors to sign an agreement TO &C.
cept their money in installments of 10
per cent in three months, 20 per cent
in six months. 20 per cent in nine
months and the balance at the end OF
year.
Fire which for a time threatened
the destruction of the Capital brew
cry, at Helena, one of the largest es,
Establishments of its kind in the north
west, and other substantial buildings,
destroyed the coal warehouse AID ice
house of the brewery. The loss.
which is small, is fully covered by
insurance
The Southern Pacific Railroad COM
pany is preparing plans for the cree
ton of great electric power plant at
| Clark, station sixteen miles east of
| Sparks, New. The plant will have a
| capacity sufficient to supply all the
| needs of the railroad terminals at
| Sparks and Reno, and to furnish COM
mercial current
V. l.. Kline, the Goldfield business
man who was shot and fatally wound
| ed while in the act of stealing ANAL
| gam at the Nevada Goldfeld reduc-
ton works, died at the county hos.
pital without recovering conscious
ness. Gipple, Kline's accomplish, is
said to have made complete confes-
sion to the sheriff.
Just 1877 warrants were sworn out
! on November It'll for the arrest of
practically every SALOON man in Spo-
/ Kane, on a charge of keeping open on
! Sunday in violation of the local Sun
! day closing ordinance Only nineteen
| saloons escaped The movement was
started by the Law Enforcement
league of Spokane.
One hundred men were thrown out
! of employment last week by the sud
! den closing down of the Jay Gould
mine, one of the richest properties in
| Lewis and Clark county, Montana.
The action was taken on account OF
/ the decrease in demand for ore. The
property is owned by Chicago and
Milwaukee capitalists.
Frightened at the money situation,
| C. J. Atkinson, laboring man, con
verified his savings, 500. into gold and
deposited them in a buckskin sack in
the second story of his house in Ia
coma. Fire destroyed his home and
he barely managed to get his family
out He found two So gold pieces I'M
| burned and one $40 gold piece was
melted into lump.
The cause of a mysterious explo
sion during the fire in the pavilion In
| Columbia gardens at Butte was dis
closed when the exploded case of q
six-inch Cordte shell was found in
the debris. The shell had been part
of war exhibit. It was fired at the
/ Spanish fort at Manila by Admiral
| Dewey's feet May /, 1898, recovered
later by soldier in the First Mon
tana infantry and brought 10 Butte,
What are said to be the first suits
| of the character flied in the northwest
were instituted in the Federal couri
at Helena last week by United States
Attorney Rasch against the Northern
| Pacific and Great Northern Railwa.
| companies Respectively. eighteen
and twelve violations of the safet,
| appliance act are alleged. and damages
| In the sum of 500 in each instance
| are sought. The chief grievance IL
found in alleged defective coupling
! apparatus.
Henry Ferguson, deputy state FISH
and game warden, of Bozeman, hat
| received a letter containing a checl
for 5000 from the Boone-Crockett clul
of New York, the organization per
fected by President Roosevelt. forme
President Cleveland and others TO
the protection of elk The club OF
fered the reward for the states o
Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, to tn
person who would secure conviction
where the penalty imposed amounted
TO s10o fine or sixty days in jail.
The body OF young man, % year
old, was found by the Waterman il