The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-15
NORTHWEST NOTES

and the snow is still falling.
River trafic between Lewiston and
Riparia is practically at an end owing
TO coal and car shortage. The ware
houses at Riparia are filled to capac-
ity with freight which cannot be
moved.
A snowslide at Kerwin. a mining
camp north of Lander, Wyo., killed
Charles BRUNEI and wife and John
Reynolds and wrecked the home of c.
L. Tewksbury. Several persons were
injured
Count John A. Creighton, the build
er Of the Pacific telegraph line from |
Omaha to Salt Lake City, and the
builder of the Western Union tele-
graph from Zion to Helena, Mont,
died in Omaha on the eth.
The Nevada assembly resolution
censuring President Roosevelt for al
legged interference with the rights of
the states was reconsidered in that
body last week and referred to the
committee on federal relations.
Senator Hepburn of Idaho has intro
! duced a bill to create national park
out of the northern portion of the
Occur d'Alene Indian reservation. The
proposed park will include lands along
the st. Joe river and Occur d'Alene
lake.
Senator Richard w. Morgan of Boul-
der county, a Republican, was ex-
PEELED from the Colorado state senate
last week by vote of 20 to 1. His
expulsion was recommended by ma
jority Of a special committee of the
senate which found him guilty of hav-
ing accepted bride.
Ollie Kingbaugh was shot in the
forehead and instantly killed by Rob-
ert E. Lane at Amarhasa station, in
Nevada, on the Salt Lake & San Pc
dro railroad. Kipgbaugh had been
drinking during the night in Lanes
saloon, and is said to have repeatedly
threatened the latter's life.
Olga Nethersole, the noted emotion
al actress, announces that she is to
become a naturalized American citi-
zen, and that she may take out her
first papers in Spokane next October.
She states she has invested about
$150,00O in Washington real estate
and expects to make the northwest
her home.
A sharp rise in temperature, follow
ing heavy snow fall in the William
cite valley and foothills, has caused
flood conditions in all streams on the
: Willamette watershed. A continue
ton of the rain, it is feared, will cause
, a repetition of the February flood o
1900 when the water entered thu
, streets of Portland
Senator Hepburn of Idaho has intro
duced a resolution compelling the sec
rotary of the interior to disregard th'
order of the president and issue pat
+ ents to all mineral land application
I where the proofs submitted show full
compliance with the requirements @
: the law and where no protest has bee
\ filed against the granting of such pa
I ents.
. The supreme court in the suit c
9 Charles Bown and Leander l.. Ormi
by, against Enos C. Walling, atfirme
y the decision of the supreme court {
>. Idaho upholding the constitutionalit
Il Of sections 1910 and 1911 of the ldah
3. state laws making 1t unlawful for a
% owner or herder of sheep to driv
Il them on the land or possessory claim
of other persons or herd them With
two miles of dwelling house on sue
d possessory claims.
70 The bodies of Wesley E. Banks ar
n Robert Chandler, who were frozen
= death on their ranch near Haye
: were brought to Pierce, S. D., la
IN week. The men came to Hays recer
m ly from Mount Vernon, KY, and we
D. operating large sheep ranch.
Oh Another reduction in freight rat
y has been made from Denver and Col
- RADIO common points to Utah CONNIE
=. points. The reduction applies to ella
IA rates and is effective March l, as Il
tice of thirty days must be given Il
interstate commerce commission.
w. H. B. Wright, who arrived in
20 attic from San Francisco on the stea
~ er Watson last week, was arrested
w. two detectives as he stepped ashol
or charged with the murder in San Fra
Ct cisco of his partner, Claud Your
sw Wright is young Englishman
ms BY invitation of the legislature. W
ad liam ]. Bryan made an address in t
his hall of the house at Cheyenne on
5th. The floor and galleries we
ar. crowded. Mr.. Bryan talked for O
hour and in an imprisoned manr
- which interested his audience, the
dress being greatly applauded.
Reports received in Spokane in
cate that the entire town of StarbJ
ls0 is under water from Tucannon ere
I'M which has broken its banks, and II
for reported people have been driven
the hills. Starbuck is on the o. r
-. N. railway near the Snake river II
80 believed no lives have been lost.
49, pohart McManus known as "Rl;