The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-11-07
NORTHWEST NOTES

dnaiha on October "a.
marry W. Logan. a railway enei
ueer' was shot and fatally wounded
Dy masked highwayman in Portland
NO clue TO the murderer has been dis
covered. U.s.
Two persons are known to have
oeen Killed and one seriously injured
as the result of the explosion of the
Oh burners on the river steamer j N
Teal. at Portland.
II Is announced that Tracy G
Becker an attorney of Buffalo, viii be
appointed special assistant attorney
general to review the Southern Pa.
enc land fraud cases in California
and Oregon. $40
ohe million dollars in gold was re.
eeiVed by the John |. Cook hank ar
Goidheld on Friday and Saturday last
10 be used in paying of depositors
VINO wished 10 withdraw their money
from the banks care.
Attorney General Bonaparte has an.
nounced the appointment of Elmer r
TODD to be United States attorney for
the western district for the state of
| Washington. Mr.. Todd succeeds Pot
ter C. Sullivan, resigned
In the arrest of C. f. Mcdonald and
ia Smith on Great Northern dining
car, between Hillyard and Spokane
the officers believe they have captured
two bandits who held IN the Great
Northern passenger train near Rondo.
Mont, Sept u.
Mrs. Bath S. Waterman. who mar.
rled well known Chelsea, Mass. man
IN Goldheld. New. about six weeks
ago, has arrived in Boston seeking her
husband, whom she accuses of having
deserted her in Denver, taking $500 of
her money with him
1t is reported that mountain lions
and bears are too thick for comfort
In the mountains surrounding Star
Valley, Wyoming. They are killing
livestock right and left and are caus.
Ing a great deal of worry to the farm
ers and stockraisers throughout the
valley
Financial conditions In Montana
were never better. Record prices OBJ
tain for wool and sheep, while cattle
nave commanded a material advance
over last year. Up TO two months ago
copper sold at unusually high prices,
SO that on the whole the present year
has been the most prosperous in the
history of the state.
In,
the trial of Theodore Canteioni,
charged with the murder of Mollie |
Quinn, at Butte, is sustained by the |
supreme court of the state, the death
penalty is practically abolished In |
Montana. The court ruled that a
Juror who was opposed to the death
penalty might sit on the jury.
J. c. Schwick is on trial at Gold
field, Nevada, charged with having
Killed John r. Davey at Columbia,
Tune 20. Davey interfered in an al
creation between Schwick and man
named Busher. Schwick is said to
lave pulled a gun and shot Davey,
Killing him instantly. The defense
laims that the killing was accidental.
Two robbers attempted to hold up a
tage near Lewiston, Mont, but the
river put up such a fight with one
f the robbers that the second man
vas obliged to leave the horses heads
0 assist his comrade in crime. While
he fight was in progress the team ran
way, thus permitting the mails and
Their matter to escape the hands OF
he robbers. The driver was robbed
nd brutality beaten.
A dispatch from Lewistown. Mont,
avs that T. A. Dram, employed on
lie west extension of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul. has been
,und foully murdered near Willow
reek tunnel. His throat was slashed
five places and there were half
ozen ugly stabs in his chest, while
Is head was badly bruised as ii with
blunt instrument.
Railroad Day. which was fixed for
ctober 2S, to celebrate the compile
On of the Las Vegas & Tonopah road
to Goldfield has been deferred, ow. .
z to the unsettled conditions in the /,
mp at present. A later date will be ,
reed upon as soon as conditions are
ore settled.
During a drunken frolic of railroad
aders in one of the Billings G
)rthern construction camps. Willard ,
NTH, colored cook. was shot :.
rough the head and killed. the muir
rer shooting the negro from behind
us is the third murder at the camp ,
thin a month.
John Boelao. a driver for the Allen =,
,od yard at Goldfeld, fell off
Lgon loaded with lumber near Dia.
,ndfield and was run over and .
led. Boelho was hauling a load Of
nber to the Daisy mine The acei.
nj occurred near the power com.
ny's sub-station.
President Fred A. Miller, OF the Lar u
lie. Hohn's Peak & Pacific Railway Il
npany. is in the east making ar. -
lgements for the financing of the -
Id from Centennial, TO which point -
is operated from Laramie to Cow. Is
", Walden and the Raich coal fields
North Park. Colo. 81
drs. Ethel Larsen shot and NOR.
" wounded Michael Kennedy at
dield. Nevada At the time Of the y
'oting Mrs. Larsen says Kennedy 80
) pursuing her husband with OF
,,sr krife The trnuhle between W
nnedy and Larsen was the result OF 10