The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-04-19
NORTHWEST NOTES


been chosen in Carson City. The
finest residence in the state will be
erected
Theodore Tronquet, Rock Springs
boy. aged Az years, shattered his
hand by the explosion of a railroad
torpedo with which he was playing.
A. Pazzi was seriously injured by
the accidental explosion of box of
giant powder caps at the Smith Green
antimony mine near Mill City, New.
Governor Brooks, of Wyoming, has
designated Friday, April 26, as Arbor
day, and the occasion will be observed
by the children of the schools with a
programme.
Stockmen in Wyoming will make a
united effort to eradicate mango,
which has spread so rapidly among
cattle in this state and especially H.,
the vicinity of Laramie.
A passenger train ran into freight
train at Browns siding, in Nevada,
as the result of an open switch, En-
gineer Hampton being killed and a
number of others injured.
The Utah Construction company has
just commenced work on the construc-
ton of thirty-five miles of new double
track between Green River and
Granger, ON the Union Pacific.
The machinists at Anaconda have
signed the tive-year contract with the
Amalgamated Copper company. All
unions employed at the Washoe smelt-
ing plant have signed the contract.
A pioneer of Nevada, j. S. Shoe.
maker, a former clerk of Washoe
county, is dead in Oakland, Cal, aged
81 years. He was at one time grand
master of Odd Fellows of the state.
The Ninth legislature of the state
of Wyoming, which convened Janu-
ary s, 1907, passed more bills rela.
tive to the schools of the state than
any legislature has done for many
years.
Governor John Sparks has signed
the bank taxation bill, passed at the
last session of the Legislature, and
from now on National banks in Ne.
vada will be taxed the same as other
financial Institutions.
The city council of Douglas has
granted to Moses Blur of New York
City, owner of the extensive oil fields
near that place, a fifty-year franchise
to pipe gas into Douglas and through
the streets of the city.
John O'Rourke, pioneer placer
miner and one of the weathiest mer-
chants in Butte, whose home has been
in Montana for more than third of
century, died last week in sani.
tarium near Fresno, Cal.
Harold Merriam, of Laramie, Wyo.,
the only recipient of the Rhodes
scholarship to Oxford university, Eng
land who will complete the three
years course in that institution in
midsummer, has been offered the chair
of English at Puget Sound university,
a Methodist institution, but has not
yet accepted 1t.
Ora Haley, one of the largest land
owners in Albany county, Wyoming,
last week began removing all fences
from government land in which he is
interested and will not stop until all
the wires are down. Mr.. Haley says
he will leave the posts, but will turn
every foot of government land he has
had fenced into open range.
A dam across the lower Laramie
river at Gillespie's ranch, near Lara
mie, is being complained against. 1t
is about six feet high, and there is
so little water that the large trout
cannot cross it in their migrations up.
ward Little fish can leap the dis.
! tance, but the large fish are kept
below and fishermen are complaining
Congressman Frank w. Mondell, OF
Wyoming, has appointed r. W. Dyer,
young man of Carbon county, as
private secretary to succeed Louis
DeLario, who lost his life in burn
ing Pullman car near Council Bluffs
| last winter
J. G. Hines, who killed Count Pod.
horsky in a Goldfied cafe. alleging
that the dead man betrayed his wife,
will plead the "unwritten law as
justification for his action when the
trial comes up at Hawthorne before
Judge Langan.
Charles Brown, of Rawlins, who
sustained injuries in a railroad acci'
dent on the Union Pacific, suffering
the loss of one arm. and secured a
judgment against the company, has
accepted the compromise $4,000 of
fered by the company.