The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-04-12
NORTHWEST NOTES

s. H. Day has been appointed to sue
coed John L. Considine as warden o
the state prison of Nevada.
! A trapper near Surveyors Park
Wyoming, has been fined SIS for kill
ing elk for bait for his traps.
The steamship Arabia cleared from
Portland, on the 4th, for Hongkone
and Yokohama with 52,345 barrels o.
-four for the starving Chinese.
A. M. stared, of Rawlins, Wo., las1
week sold his sheep at $6.25 head
considered splendid price for the
whole band of several thousand.
Rosebud is now on the wire with
Vernon, Seven Troughs and Lovelock
the Northern Nevada company's tele
phone Mne to those places having been
completed
Frederick Schaper, a German cob
bier, was run down by street car In
Seattle and instantly killed, his body
being cut In two. The motorman has
been arrested.
James Wisner, a German, killed
himself by hanging, near Electric,
Mont. He was found in a barn, sus.
pended from a rafter, his feet drag
ging on the floor.
Charles Miller shot and probably
fatally injured Bert Wright in the
Columbia club saloon, one mile north
of Goldfield, Nevada. The tragedy was
the result of a family quarrel.
Richard A. Miller, part owner of
the Eta Wonder Mining and Leasing
company, was dangerously injured by
a rock falling upon him, fracturing his
skull. He was taken to his home in
Goldfield.
E. J. Bell, the largest sheepman on
the Laramie plain, will erect a shear
ing pen at Millbrook, Wyo, driven by
power, for the benefit of his own i'm
mense fiocks and other focks owned
in the neighborhood.
One hundred teamsters employed
on street work at Tacoma, are on
strike, demanding Sc per day for man
and team, instead of IS. SO. The strike
ties up several hundred thousand
dollars worth of work
The dipping plant was placed in
operation at the Riverside ranch at
Laramie, Wyo., last week, where from
5000 to 1000 cattle will be presented
for treatment. The plant handles cat
tie at the rate of from 1,500 to $500
per day.
Colonel j. H. Pratt, of Clearmont,
Wyo., has been sued for divorce by
his wife. The colonel is 81 and his
wife is Al, and when they were mar
ried one of his grandsons STOOD up
with him as groomsman and gave the
grandsire away.
The body of well-formed female
child, which had evidently been
placed under the ice while yet alive,
was found in the Big Popo Agile riv-
err, a mile above Lander, Wyo., and
turned over to Sheriff Slough and
Coroner Schoo.
The body of an unknown man, who
had to all appearances been brutally
murdered was found on the ranch of
John Mcconnell, seven miles west of
Billings, Mont. The body was badly
cut and gashed by knife wounds and
a heavy blood-stained club, which told
It's mute story of the crime, lay
near by.
The municipal elections in Montana
resulted in a Republican landslide, on
ly two cities in the state electing
Democratic mayors, while the oppos-
ing party was successful in all other
LID duCCS WuSlS pdlIy AoluiudtiOuo
were made. AS rule, party lines
were closely drawn and a heavy vote
was polled.
Boring for oil and gas is to be
started on an extensive scale near On
tario, Oregon. c. w. Taylor, an ex.
pert of long experience, has secured
oil and gas leases on $4,000 acres
of land in that vicinity and is pre-.
pairing to begin boring.
The doctors of Reno, New, are dis.
GUESSING the subject of spinal menin-
yitis. Within the past ten days ten
ueaths. have occurred in that city
which are diagnosed as cerebro-spinal
and the community is be-
coming somewhat alarmed.
C. F. Nicholas of Three Forks
Mont, is dead at the age of ". Mr.
Nicholas was one of the old and
prominent settlers of the Gallatin val
ley and made his home in Bozeman
until about four years ago. He emf
grated to Montana in the SOS.
AL Everman, 10 years old, was shot
down and instantly killed at Loon