The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-10-17
NORTHWEST NOTES

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ing an unsuccessful attempt
/ Herbert r. Morton. an Australian
millionaire. slipped on the stems Of
the vancouver B. c., opera house ana
fractured his skull and will probably
die.
Because an engineer and a hrake-
man were found taking a drink in a
saloon at Tonopah and discharged. thu
trainmen ON the Tonopah & Goldfield
railroad went on strike tying up the
system.
The laying of steel on the Borie-
Athol Hill cutoff of Che Wyoming
division OF the Union Pacific was com.
menced last week. The intention of
the company is to place the line in
commission about the first of the year.
reunion of the hand-cart veterans
was held in Salt Lake City last week.
when several hundred of the veterans
who crossed the plains to Utah in the
| hand-cart brigades listened TO a pro-
gram consisting of speeches and must.
cal numbers.
General Superintendent Stewart OF
the Laramie. Hahn's Peak & Pacific
Railway company announces that the
extension of the line from Centennial
TO Walden and to the coal fields OF
North Park will be completed within
the next year.
All the hotels in Laramie, Wyo..
which have been charging 25 cents
for meals have entered into an agree
ment to increase the price to 35 cents,
due, IL is claimed. to the increased
cost of provisions and expenses OF
serving meals.
ii. b. Perham, national president OF
the Order of Railway Telegraphers,
arrived in Denver last week to take
personal charge of the grievance of
/. the telegraphers against the Denver &
Rio Grande railroad, acting as adviser
to the committee
Al ID. Meyers. the millionaire mining
man of Goldfeld and Los Angeles, is
credited with having lost close to $780,
600 at roulette at Goldfield the past
few days. Meyers dropped $4,000 in
one play at the Northern, and various
smaller sums at other houses.
P. H. Cook. charged with stealing
rifle and revolver from Albert Cook.
not related. but who befriended him.
| pleaded guilty in the district court at
Laramie. Wyo., and was sentenced to
eighteen months in the penitentiary.
Cook was arrested in New Mexico.
Because he failed to heed signs for
bidding the hunting of ducks, Chris
Stanisich, 19-year-old Servian boy.
was shot and instantly killed by Sofus
Nelson at the Mac White ranch, four
miles south of Butte Hunters who
witnessed the shooting declared the
killing to be unprovoked and very cow
ardly
A large American eagle rested on a
live electric wire passing through the
Davis ranch at Bakersfield. Cal. and
was slowly roasted When it fell to
| the stubble field below, a mass of
burning feathers, 1t started blaze
which burned over 1000 acres of
grain and stubble before it was con.
luered.
Hon. Eli Crumrine of Laramie, Wyo.,
state senator from Albany county,
| has written letter to Senator Phil
ander c. Knox of Pennsylvania, con.
graduating him upon having been
mentioned as a possible Republican
candidate for president next year ana
assuring him his support in case he
| Is nominated
| The Topeka Copper company, hav.
| ing one of the most promising claims
in the Centennial mining district, in
Wyoming, assays from the ores OF
which have shown a value of $3.50 In
gold to the ton. is sacking 100 sacks OF
| ore to be sent to smelter at Denver
for treatment to determine the future
Of the property.
Two hundred and fifty members of
he National Wholesale Druggist asso-
citation were in attendance when Pres
ident John b. Carey called the con
vention to order in Denver last week.
Among the most important questions
discussed were the effect of the ma.
tional pure food law as applied to
drugs and proprietary medicines.
Jacques Laramie chapter. Daugh.
ters of the American Revolution,
which last year offered prize
of $40 for the best essay on
THE Overland Trail" has offered an
other prize OF the same amount for
the best essay by student of the
University of Wyoming on The Re
Iation of Fort Laramie TO Pioneer
Wyoming"
As the result of Investigations by ID.
r. Rabcock. a special agent of the
United States treasury department.
sent to Vancouver when the anti-Jap
anese riots OCCURRED. force of fed
eral officials will be installed al the
international boundary line to keep
back the scores of Japanese who are
daily crossing the border into the
United States.
Merton tombstone, an electrician. p
wears old was electrocuted several
miles southeast of Butte, and fell from
the pole TO the ground almost beside
the unconscious form OF his helper
Henry Gagnon. who had been stunned
bv a similar shock Gagnon was re
suscitated.
J. y. Vic,or, who built the Southern
California railway in the SOS. and who
was its first superintendent. is dead
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