The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-09-26
NORTHWEST NOTES


week of attempting to bribe Chief n
Police Rem Rice, of Spokane. He wa,
fined $3.50.
e. p. Johnson. Union Pacific brake
man, fell beneath a box car at Carter
Wyo., and was SO badly injured tina
he has since died. Johnson's hom,
was at Green River, Wyo.
Emmett Walsh. deputy district at
torney. has recommended to Justic,
OF the Peace Henley. of Goldfield, Ne
vada, that men who beat women be
tied to post to be erected in a publ,
| place and labeled woman beater." IN
accordance with the provisions of ar
old law which yet remains on the stat
utes of the state.
Edward Arlotta, aged 81, was pound
ed and choked to death by another in
sane patient. Thomas ]. Brown, OF
Tacoma, In the hospital at For
Steilacoon, Washington. The mer
We're sleeping in the same room
when Brown, in violent attack OF
acute mania, attacked his sleeping
companion.
Blanche Nye Stanton, the girl wife
| OF Major w. A. Stanton, left the Star
ton home in Goldfield last week. She
alleges that her husband beat her Sc
verely recently, and threw a lamp al
her. The physician who attended her
said that her body and limbs were
bruised and her throat showed the
marks of fingers.
Cecilia Weissberg, a girl of 10
years, has sued DR.. Bernheim, of Butte,
for $4,000 damages in the district
court, and charges him with assaulting
her and with cruising her body in
divers places on August 30, 1907. Miss
Weissberg is well known musician.
DR.. Bernheim is one of the city's most
prominent physicians.
The Denver Republican publishes an
interview of ]. E. Welborn, president
of the Colorado Fuel & Iron COM
pany, in which he denies the story
printed and telegraphed throughout
the country, that he had resigned. Il
have not resigned and there is no prob
ability that | will resign" said Mr..
Welborn,
Joseph Case, a well-known business
man of Butte, was thrown from a
horse, sustaining a fracture of the
base of the brain. His condition Is
critical. Mr.. Case was one of the ac-
tive members of the well-known dry
goods firm of Case, Gravelle & Irwin
OF Butte, before its absorption by the
Symons company.
The twenty-flrst annual report of the
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad COM
pany, issued by President Z. T. JEFF
fiery, shows that the income of the
company for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1907. was $21,652,42 an in
crease of $1,704,181, as compared with
the previous year, and the net earnings
were $8,156.929, an increase of $574,9S6.
The Yellowstone park season Is
over. This has been the greatest tour
list year in the history of the park.
The park has been visited by thou
sands of tourists who came in from all
directions. The travel was heavy all
summer over the Oregon Short Line,
to within twenty miles of the park.
A collision in which five Japanese
were killed and five were seriously in
jured occurred at billiard, Wash The
construction train was standing on a
siding preparing to back out when
north-bound train ran through an
open switch. crushing the construc-
ton cars. The wreck caught fire and
three of the Japs were burned to
death.
Johnson Rose was shot in the back
by Mark Edwards at Medicine Bow,
Wyo., and was badly injured, the bull
let passing entirely through his body.
Rose and Edwardss wife were in the
back yard at the Edwards home when
the husband came upon Rose. He
ran, and Edwards fired. He had been
warned year ago to avoid meeting
Mrs. Edwards.
While attempting to cross the river
near Mountain City. Nevada, Robert
McGinnls and his horse were caught
In a Whirlpool The horse went under,
but McGinnis tried to swim out. After
a futile effort he gave up and was
drawn down and did not rise. Peter
Indart, who was with him, had a mar
row escape, from being drawn into the
same pool.
Suit recently instituted by the state
Of Oregon against the Pacific Tele- |
phone company, to compel the company |
to pay a state tax of per cent on its |
gross earnings for the year 1906, is |
resisted by the company in an answer |
filed last week, the grounds being that |
the initiative and referendum law, by |
means of which the tax law was put |
into existence, Is unconstitutional.
Wheat growers in the Palouse belt,
south of Spokane, where several coun-
ties will each yield more than 5000 900 |
bushels of grain this season. have or
ganized a farmers union. for the pur-
pose of handling their product and es-
tablishing independent warehouses to
the railroads.
The will of the late Colonel Wing
Of Bayfield, was opened at Washbnrn,
Wis. last week. He leaves an estate
valued at nearly 100000. The bulk
of the estate goes to his sister. Mrs.
A. ]. BENJAMIN, of Spokane. Wash. He
also leaves s119. 600 in cash 20 nine
teen relatives and friends.
The telagraphers OF the Rocky