The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-08-29
NnRTHW WEST NOTES


cured n 2:30 in the morning.
The FIRST wreck On the Soo-spokanc'
n C. Corbins new line, occurred on
the 18th. near Mcleod. B, c. Two
men were killed The eastoouho
train was deraiied
Maehinists of the Northern Pacihc
and Great Northern roads are threat
enipg to strike unless their grew
ances are adjusted Should they walk
out the tie-up of the system VIII be
general
The Laramie. Haan's Peak e Pa
cjfc railroad Is now operating trains
hatweep Laramie and Centennial.
Trains are operated by telephone the
company mol having yet adopted a
telegraph system.
Miss Mamie Edwards. OF Rosebud
Nevada. has been awarded possession
Of a cat now held by Miss Carrie Rus
sell proyided she pays $20c costs OF
the law suit The case has made much
fun in tne camp.
/ w. Better. a former San Fran
cisco undertaken, blew out his brains
In the presence of his wife In Port
land. He lost his property in the san
Francisco fire and since then had
been pursued by misfortune.
John Quinn, millionaire gambler OF
Reno. Nevada. has made a will leaV-
ing his entire estate to James May,
boy of eight Quinn is fifty-elght
and the fortune is 10 become the
child's when he reaches mans estate.
Some Of the best fish caught in
Wyoming this year have been taken
from the lakes high up on the snowy
range of mountains in western AL
bauy county. at an elevation OF IRON
10000 to 1900 feet above sea level.
These lakes are full of trout
Because the master plumbers OF
Goldfield refused to grant the union
plumbers a raise from IS to 50 per
day the plumbers have declared
strike and plumbing work on many
large buildings in course of construc-
ton in the city has been stopped.
Laborers in Seattle are living on the
fat Of the land. Owing to contractors
of railroad lines building into the
northwest bidding against one another
to obtain the services of workingmen,
common labor is quoted at So per day
with a promise of steady employment,
J. M. Mahoney, a farm hand en-
ployed on ranch near Laramie,
Wyo., and who was member of
Quantrells band of guerillas during
the Civil war, declares that he be-
lieves Quantrell is still alive. He ex'
presses the belief that the body buried
in Kentucky as Quantrell's was some
other man.
Rhyolite, Nevada, is now a town,
having been incorporated under the
county. C. l.. Splain has been made
chief of police and Harry O'Brien
chief of the fire department. Round
Mountain and Manhattan are other
communities in Nye county that soon
will become towns,
Fifty-three striking steel layers on
the Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad
were arrested by four deputies at
Bonnie Glare, forty-five miles north
of Rhyolite, and lodged in the Jail at
Rhyolite. The strikers are Austrians,
and 1t Is believed to be the largest
body of men ever included in an ar.
rest made in Nevada
After thirty years spent in searching
for his two children, who had been
taken from his home by their mother
thirty-three years ago, NJ. l.. Fauver OF
Boyd county, Nebraska, has located
them in Whitman county, Wash, and
is now visiting his son, Arthur Fauver
a well known farmer two and a half
miles south of Palouse
1t Is announced that as a result of,
the voting in the Butte Miners union
the union has adopted all the amend
ments to the constitution of the West.
ern Federation of Miners, but voted
down the resolution for a convention
in Chicago, October /, to reunite the
warning divisions of the Industrial
Workers of the World.
A Greek section laborer fell from
a handcar at Howell, Wyo.. sustaining
a conclusion of the brain. When his
companion brought him to Laramie
TO be treated it was found that he was
totally blind from the accident and
unable to distinguish light from dark
ness. The case is unusual. as the ac.
eident seemingly was not of much
importance until the blindness was
noted.
hoy Musser. an employee at the
rolling mills at Laramie, rested his
iett hand on bolt-heading machine
While he drank n cupful of water
banded him by companion. and the
ehds OF TWO OF his fingers were nippe1
on oy the squaring dies of the ma.
senator I. l., oddie of Tonopah and
joidheld is perfeoting plans for tho
bringing To Goldfeld OF a SUNNY of |
pure water from Pine creek. ninety
miles north of the city. Senator Od.
ne owns the flow of Pine Greet
y alien Is never less than 1000 900 gal. |
Ions day. sA''
Mayor Speer of Denver. who was nj |
CENTENNIAL ana Saratnsa. Wvomirg
?" a hsh'ng trip had fish-hook |
'augnt IN his chin and suffered con. |
SIDERABLE pain I'm its removal It wos |
le''eSsary TO remove the hook with > /
, ,a'r OF pincers aud the barb TOOK the |
flesh with II. WIN Tie