The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-09-12
NORTHWEST NOTES

- usalh IN the Ferris HaggerfY copper
mine at Battle Lake, wyomii.g.
Two sons of r. II. CordoA, while
driving in Cottonwood canyon. near
Oxford. wyo.. were struck BY light.
ming and badly hurt. Their horse was
killed.
While on dove hunting expedition
near Golden, Colo. Lawrence win.
liams. a I5-year-oid lad of Denver. &C
cidentaliy shot his friend Royce Al
len. OF Golden, aged a.
Spontaneous combustion in the
mountain Of coal stored at Billings,
Mont. caused a fire that has defies
all efforts TO subdue The coal be
ionged TO the Billings Sugar factory.
The story comes from Cheyenne
that draft horse, when he saw an
automobile for the first time. dropped
dead from fright, and that coyots
also dropped dead when he met the
automobile on the road
William Naughton. brakeman on
the Union Pacific. living at Laramie
dislocated his left shoulder by snee.
ms A2c u AuE Ai&A time On fGEOIu
that similar accident has occurred
Years ago Nsughton injured the shout
der
Sympathy for Bisbee miners who
are striking. denuneiation of Fed
eral judge who issued an Injunction
against union men. and an offer OF
financial support are embodied In the
resolutions adopted by the Butte Min.
ers' union.
Umatilla county, Oregon. has been
visited by a severe hail storm
which cut long and wide
path through the grain fields. causing
loss on the reservation OF 20 TO IS
per cent on account Of the straw beins
beaten down
James Mccarrick, a miner. fell from
staging into a shaft about eight feet
deep. at Manhattan. Nevada, and was
so badly injured that he died in few
moments He struck on his head in
the bottom OF the shaft and his skull
was fractured.
Following closely the advance o.
from 20 to 60 per cent in wages
granted the coal miners OF the stat.
OF Wyoming comes the announcement
that the BARRIERS OF Sheridan have
agreed to advance the price OF shaw.
| ing from Is cents to IS cents.
A party of engineers running line
between Uinta, Fremont and Sweet
water counties, Wyoming, have dis.
covered that a strip OF land two miles
| wide, heretofore regarded as lying Ia
| Uinta county. in reality belongs TO
Sweetwater and Fremont counties,
Captain Cough. state humane 81
ciety Officer of Wyoming, will attend
the county fair at Cody. Big Horn
| county, to witness the endurance
| horse race. The riders will travel
| fifty miles, and he viii be there 10 see
| that the horses are not abused or rid
den after they show signs OF exhaus
| ton.
The largest single transaction in
ranch lands ever contaminated In
Montana. so far as the acreage is con.
| ce,ned. has Just been closed In Lewis
ton. The Billings 4 Northern rail
way purchased from the Sage Greek
Sheep company It's entire holdings OF
| $4,000 acres at SO an acre, or
$3.50 900.
t,ity Engineer w. s. Collins OF
Basin. Wye. is suffering from serious
| injuries as the result OF an accident
.t the new city reservoir. which is in
course of construction. A timber
| broke under his weight and he fell q
| distance of eighteen feet, alighting on
Ills head and shoulders on a pile OF
loose rock.
| A. J.. Ham, a resident OF Gillette.
Wyo.. was instantly killed near Hunt
ley, Mont. by falling under the Bur
| Angton train, on which he was pas
senger. en- route for his home in
| wyoming. The body OF the unfortu-
| aate man was not found for several
| hours afterward. The body was gath
cred up in basket.
Three men were killed and one in
| jured by premature explosion OF
blasting powder at the Milwaukee
| railroad camp near Butte. One OF the
men. Pero JAnik. aged %. died from
| his injuries when he was being
brought TO town. The men who res
rued him after the blast were obliged
| to dig him out OF the debris.
\ The long distance ONCE OF the
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone com
pany at Butte opened last week with
lady strike-breakers at the switch
board. The windows OF the Office
| have been frosted So far as can be
| learned, the unions have paid no at
| tention TO the action of the company
| In resuming the long-distance service
Again the steer roping supremacy
OF the great west Is to be contested
for in Cheyenne. The two contestants
will be Angus McPhee OF Cheyenne
champion OF the world under the
award of the judges at the last From
tier day celebration. and Pete Dick
erson of Douglas. Ariz-. the peer oi
| the ropers OF the southwest
A peculiar tangle in she na'uraliza
| lion laws arose at Laramie last week
when three Ntrwegians. who landeS
4 in New York early In May. applied q
/ he registered for naturalization. None
| Of them had o certificate from the i'm
/ migration ofhcers at the port OF en-
l try.
The state fair commission has ar
\ ranged for a band Of forty Sioux from
the Pine Ridge agency 70 attend The
/ gtzte fair at Douglas, Wye. The dele