The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-03-21
NORTHWEST NOTES

ly acquainted with the premises
The Industrial tie-up at Butte was
accumulated on the 5th by a walk
out OF drivers and transfer wagons
The men demand an increase from
50 to $3.50 per day.
F. H. Newell. chief engineer of the
government reclamation service, has
been selected to succeed Charles d.
Walcott as directors of the United
States geological survey
Four of the largest sawmills in
Portland have shut down and will
make no further efforts to keep in
operation until a settlement OF the
settled. Fifteen hundred men are af
fected so far
The measure is one of the strictest
imaginable, and holds players. own
ers of the buildings, proprietors of
the games and peace officials equally
responsible for the violations, which
are made felonies.
Nevada Is to have Mormon colo
ny, according to the statements of the
Reno Gazette. A deal has just been
closed whereby the Mormon church
has secured control of a tract of 49,
600 acres of land in White Pine
county, which will be used as a place
of settlement by members of the
church.
Governor Sparks, of Nevada, has
signed the bill giving him the power
to appoint three railroad commission.
ers at $1,000 a year. The commits,
sion is empowered to regulate rail-
road rates and to hear and inquire
into railroad abuse complaints. There
has been a very bitter fight against
the measure by the railroads.
Maria Becker, apparently crazed by
the tedium of a journey across the
continent, leaped from a car window
of a New Central express train near
Yosts, N. Y. Her dead body was found
upon the ice of the Mohawk river,
where it had rolled down steep EN-
bankment 1t is said she came from
Chehalis, Wash.
Lumbermen in the Puget Sound re
gion have complained to the inter
state commerce commission that they
have been unable since January to
obtain transportation of their pro
ducts to eastern points because of
the stated inability of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific rail-
roads to handle the traffic.
The stereotypers and pressmen of
Butte being willing to return to work
at the wage scale prevailing before
the last raise, only the printers now
settlement. But concessions on either
side are still improbable, and despite
rumors to the contrary. an rapproche-
ment is not Immediately at hand.
The Anaconda Copper company has
cut the big Anaconda vein at depth
of 2, 400 feet in the Never Sweat mine.
the same depth at which it was cut
about year ago in the Anaconda
mine. The ore body is about the
same width, about so feet and 40
feet is nearly all copper glance, run
ming about 60 per cent copper.
While Antoine Meyer and his son
were working for the county on the
Zillah road, two miles from North
Yakima, Wash, they uncovered the
body of young woman buried by the
roadside The woman had been dead
for a year. She had brown hair, gold
filling in her teeth and brown dress
of wooden material The skull was
crushed.
1t is announced that Ole Elliot, a
Southern Nevada mining magnate.
was in Reno last week for the pur-
pose of closing deal by which he
will enter with his associates into
the complete control of the coal job
bling business of the state and that
the consolidation of the deal involves
an outlay of $500 on .,- part of
the daring Goldfield SPECTATOR.
The letter carriers of Butte Mont,
who resigned In a body because of
the small compensation paid by the
government, now desire to remain in
the service. A telegram has been re-
ceived by the postmaster general say
ing that in view of the legislation
providing for graded increases for
postofice employees, they would with
draw their designations.
Northern Wyoming is again threat
ered with a range war between the
cattle and sheepmen. Closely follow
ing on the attack on the Wisner camp
in which 400 head of sheep were killed
and the camp burned. comes the re-
port of a greater outrage in Owl
Greek country. The Hugh Diekey
sheep camp was attacked by a band
of twelve masked men, who killed
1000 out of a band of 5000 sheep and
destroyed the camp outfit
Mrs. James r. Bracket. of BotheIl.
Wash, was killed at Seattle when