The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-12
NORTHWEST NOTES

Bliss, was refused.
Fire. started by the overturning O.
. lamp in the barber shop OF Wlillan
James. caused the Destruction CT
Granite. small town twenty miles
east of Leadville, Colo.
William Goodrich, who was caught
IN a cave-in in the Sandstone mine d.
Goldfield. Nevada, was taken out NE
loss a few hours later by companions
who came to the rescue. He hau
been buried under twenty-five feet OF
rock.
Representative Mondell of Wyoming
will be appointed chairman OF the
nfblic lands committee to succeeu
Mr.. Lacey of Iowa, who was deleateu
for reelection. He has been oppos-
ing the public land policy OF the az
ministration.
John Thode, one Of the Oldest and
wealthiest catt!emen in the state, died
at Rawlins, Wyo., last week. IN
1874 Thode worked as section lore
man for the Union Pacific at CARBON
Afterward lie organized the Ihode
Cattle company
Two men were killed and one ia
tally injured in premature explosion
m the line of the Portland & Seattle
railway. two miles west of Spokane.
Joe Balick and Mike Match, both Aus
trjans. were instantly killed, ana
Mike Opyr was fatally injured.
Frank Kuchers, aged GO years,
prominent wholesale leather dealer
of Tacoma, fired a bullet into hls
brain at his home while the famll.
was at breakfast He was despond
ent from illness, having suffered fol
a long time with kidney trouble
Holding that the punishment i'm
posed by the jury when 1t 1ouno
George Melville guilty of second de
gree murder for the killing OF Win
field Guthrie, near Helena last July
to be excessive, District Judge Gle
ments reduced the penalty from nifty
to twenty-five years in the state
penitentiary.
Word has been received in Laramie
that construction work on the Harrl
man system which was discontinued
when the present financial furry be
gan. will be resumed along the line
on December /, including the Lane
cutoff, near Omaha, which was with
in a few days of completion at the
time of shut down.
Upwards of twenty postmasters OF
the presidential class in Montana mel
in Helena last week at the inst1ga'
ton of the postmasters of Butte, Hell
ena and Great Falls, to discuss the
general situation and especially the
situation relative to increased sal
aries to Offset the advanced cost oil
living in recent years.
Mayor Hickok, of Saratoga, Wyo.
is suffering from a severe wound sus
tanned while trying to replace a stove
pipe which had fallen out of the
chimney, and which was endangerins
the house. Mayor Hickok is a cousin
of the late wild Bill" Hickok, one OF
the best known of the bad men @!
former days in Wyoming.
The body of former Lieutenant
Governor Beall, who in the early days
was shot and killed by George W.
Pinney, United States marshal and
editor of the Post, has been found by
Grand Army comrades after an inter
mittent search, extending over a
number of years, and buried in Forest
| Valley cemetery at Helena.
The board of education of the Lar
annie school district has begun the
enforcement of the compulsory edu
cation law passed by the last state
legislature, and which provides that
all children between the ages of
and IA years, inclusive, shall be re
| CURED to attend some public, private
or parochial school each school year
After a conference held in Butte
the committee appointed by the Butte
Central Labor council and the Build
ing Trades council, and D. S. Murray
general manager of the Rocky Noun
tain Bell Telephone company, failed
| to come to an agreement and the
strike between the telephone com.
pany and the employees will continue
Eza Meeker, who has accomplished
a S,O00-mile trip over the old Oregon
trail behind yoke of oxen, called OF
! President Roosevelt last week ant
made plea to have the Oregon trail
made national highway. The presi
dent listened with interest. but sug
gested that, If done. the project woul,
have to be on commercial rattle
than on a sentimental basis
John Pollard, charged with crimina
assault on the 13-year-old niece of hi
Vile, narrowly escaped lynchings b,
an angry mob at Anaconda, Mont
While being taken to the county jai
at Mount Vernon, Pollard broke ava,
from the sheriff at Burlington June
uon and threw himself in front of al
approaching train, being horribl
mangled.
Guided by the advice of an age
woman. who claims to be a seeress
Leon Thomas and Tommy Freites
TWO small boys, dug up $4,000 in a va
cant lot on the corner of Green an
PoweH streets, San Francisco, wher
once stood the Chappelle lodgin
house
Star valley, Wyoming, which SUI
ports a population of about 5000 pee
pie, has the biggest creamery in tn
state, which, in addition to- supplyin
the home demand, ships out butte
ana cheese to western Wyomin.
Otah and even Washington an
Oregon.