The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-11-28
NORTHWEST NOTES

Every one of Butte's great army of
workers are being paid in actual
money, and he will not be asked to
take clearing house certificates or
checks issued by bank cashiers for
his wages.
w. t. Quinn, a well known contract
or OF Puyallup, Wash, was instantly
killed under coal train ON the North
ern Pacific ten miles east of Tacoma.
He was 30 years OF age and leaves a
widow and three sons.
Without footing their own horns,
the citizens of Montana owe 1t to
themselves to call the worlds atten.
ton to the fact that there is not a
city In this state that is not upon a
cash basis. says the Butte Miner.
A movement is on foot in Helena
looking to the renewal of water trans
portation. which, before the advent of
railroads, served to carry all supplies
and food stuffs required by one OF the
most active gold-mining states in the
northwest.
The secretary of the Wyoming
Woolgrowers' association and the ex-
ecutiye committee of the Albany
County Sheep and Wool Growers as
sociation, have arranged the program
for the state meeting. to be held at
Laramie January 10 and IL.
Gold mines may be found other
places than in mountains, since Mrs.
{. II. Humphreys. who lives Just out
OF Caldwell, Idaho, realized an income
of $3.50 from one acre of strawberries
OF the Gren Mar variety. For the Sec
ond crop alone she received $3.50.
The. jury in the case of Gibson.
charged with murder for killing Eu-
gene Maunsell, the mining engineer.
at Goldfield, in March, reported to
Judge Langan that they were unable
TO agree, and were discharged. The
jury stood eight for conviction on the
charge of murder and four for acauit-
tai.
The $4,000 worth of pay checks for
the miners and coke men of the Car
bon Coal & Coke company, of Trini-
dad, Colo, which were lost from the
stage that runs between Longsdale
and Cokedale, were found by a couple
OF boys and returned to the company.
The driver had been accused of the
theft
William d. Haywood, recently tried
for the murder of Ex-Governor Steu.
nenberg of Idaho, has purchased a
nome in Denver for which he paid
$4,000. Strange as it may seem, Hay.
wood saved the money while in prison
as his salary was continued by the
federation and the state paid his
board
AT the inquest in the case of v. l.
Kline, who was shot while in the act
of robbing the Nevada-Goldfield re.
duction works, at Goldfeld, Samuel H
Jones, night Waterman at the mill
testified that Ralph Gipple, Kline's al
legged accomplish. had confessed to
him that he helped to rob the Gard.
ner mill.
Fifty horses were safely taken from
the Langlois stables in Butte during
an early morning fire. The building,
one of the landmarks of Butte, was
occupied twenty years ago as the.
guire, and many of the famous show
people of the country have appeared
in it.
The news comes from Butte that
the Silver Bow Trades and Labor as.
sembly, comprising the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners local and the Butte
Central Labor Council, comprising the
blue label" or American Federation
of Labor locals, will shortly consoli.
date. They separated two years ago
because of internecine disputes.
In whirlwind game of handball
for the championship of two states,
John Etchebarren defeated Andrew
Ripa at Reno, Nevada Etchebarren
is the champion of Nevada, while his
opponent holds the championship of
California. The game was match
for $1,000 side, and a large amount
of money changed hands over the re-
suit.
N. M. Ruick, as United States at
torney, has brought action at Boise,
Idaho, against the Oregon Short Line
Tor violation of the twenty eight-hour
limit law. which prohibits keeping
livestock in cars longer than that
period without unloading to feed
and water.
William Mason and Joseph Wander
weide. who have confessed to the
shooting and killing of Joseph A
Walker, the Denver United States Sc
eret service operative, at the Hes.
perus coal mine at Durango, Colo,
have been released on bail in the sum
of $4,000 each
No more women can be elected
county superintendent of schools in
Washington unless the new direct pri.
mary law is wiped out, is the eonten.
ton of Attorney Gordon Mackay of
Olympia, who has prepared papers in
another suit attacking the validity of
the new law.
j. o. Van Orsdel OF Wyoming was
last week appointed judge OF tie court
of appeals of the District of Columbia
in fulhllment of a promise made to
Senator Warren by the president at
the time Mr.. Van Orsdel went to
TO become assistant at
torney general.
About twelve OF the leading lumber
companies of Flathead county Mon.
tana have filed suit in the United
States court against the Great North