The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-07-26
NORTHWEST NOTES

Guy P. Ferry was killed in mine
explosion at Lane City, Nevada Ferry
was about 26 years of age and ma.
tive of Denver.
Application has been made to the
comptroller of the currency for permits
sion to organize the First National
bank of Goldfield, New, with 100000
capital.
John veasey, 80 years old, probably
| the oldest man in Nevada, is dead at
| Carson City. He was an Englishman
and came to Carson City in the
early SOS.
Conductor Henry E. Gordy, of Spo-
kane, was killed in train wreck on
the Northern Pacific near Heron, Mon
tana The engineer and fireman were
slightly scalded.
Mrs. E. S. Ream, of Blair, Nevada,
has been notified that through the
death of her uncle, w. H. Hartley of
| Oakland Cal, she is heir to an estate
of about 100000.
r. H. Borrow. who came to Ely, Ne
vada, from Salt Lake, attempted sui
eide. He was found near the smelter
with his throat cut. He is believed
to have been deranged.
The secretary of the interior has
withdrawn from entry 225,000 acres
| of land In Montana and North Dakota
on account of the Lower Yellow
stone reclamation project
The North Coast Limited, west
bound, the crack flyer of the North
ern Pacific railway, was ditched three
miles east of Garrison, Mont, and
Engineer James Graham, of Butte. was
killed. No one else was injured.
The body of Alexander Huber, with
a bullet hole in his head, was found
alongside the Cornell road. about one
mile outside the city limits of Port
land He evidently had been shot by
parties who had lain in ambush for
him.
If nothing unforeseen happens the
Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad should
enter Goldfield about September /.
Grading is now being done OH the line
in the vicinity of Goldfield summit or
divide, about three and a half miles
east of town.
Catches Bros mercantile house at
Bellingham, the oldest in northwest
ern Washington, was destroyed by fire
along with several smaller establish
ment. Catches Bros loss is $4,000,
with 100000 insurance; other losses
will total $4,000 or more.
Work of opening the Excelsior coal
mines, three miles northeast of Rock
Sprinks, Wyo., is being pushed. Pro
duction is expected to begin in Octo-
Der at the rate of from 1900 to 5000
tons day. A spur will be run to the
mines from Baxter station
While taking shower bath at the
Seattle Athletic club at night, w. w.
Macarthur a real estate man of Seattle,
was fatally -scalded, and died the next
morning at Z o'clock. 1t is thought
that, by mistake, he turned on the hot
steam instead of the cold water.
The police of Dillon, Mont, have ar
rested as vagrant a strange man
wearing hat bearing the name of F.
H. Glow, the Northern Pacific railway
engineer who was murdered at the
throttle by train robbers at the hold
up at Welch's spur two months ago.
The suspect denies all knowledge of
the affair.
The Winnecock Land and Sheep
company, one of six concerns recently
organized at Helena to take over large
stock ranches, last week declared a
dividend Of rs per cent, and the others
will average about 20 per cent. This
makes the second rs per cent dividend
for the Winnecock company within
eighteen months after organization.
The people of Phoebe do not propose
to be outdone by the sister towns in
southern Nevada in celebrating the ad-
vent of the railroad now building from |
Caliente to the famous old mining |
camp. 1t is not expected that the line |
will reach the town before September |
/, but the citizens are already begin |
ming to prepare for the celebration.
Retail merchants in the Spokane
country, embracing 10000 square
miles in eastern Washington and Ore
gOn, northern Idaho, western Mon. |
tana and southeastern British Column |
bia, have been invited to a mass meet |
ing in Spokane, July q, for the pur-
pose of organizing movement to
force eastern and middle western mail
order houses out of that territory.
Ed Connolly, employed in the
shelters at Butte, missed his
footing and fell into a fue through
which air is forced with terrific power
to blast furnace. The man was swept
off his feet in twinkling before he
could be grabbed by other workmen,
and literally blown through the tun-
nel where Stag is cooled, and out into
4 long fiume leading to 4 pond. Con.
lelly was dead when picked up.
Mrs. A. Albertson, one of the best
Known and highly respected resideDtsf