The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-02-01
NORTHWEST NOTES

mission,
A bill has passed the state senate t.
move the county seat from Hawthorne
to Goldfleld, Nevada.
The coal shortage in Oregon ant
Washington has become so seriou.
that the railroads are annulling trains
and refusing freight at many points
in order to haul coal.
Five fremen, including Chief John
Dulmage, were injured at fire which
ragged tor hours in Denver. Robert
Geddes and William Martin, who fell
from the roof, are seriously injured.
An express train on the Southern
Pacific was ditched near Deeth, Ne
vada, the spill being caused by a
broken rail, eight cars being thrown
from the track. One man was killed
and five slightly injured.
Five Indians were burned to death
In fire which destroyed the Jail
at the Umatilla reservation In Oregon
The origin of the fire is unknown
but it is thought that they were try
ing to burn their way out.
The first case of the rare Oriental
disease of beri-beri known in the west
is now being treated at the Union Pa
ciflc hospital at cheyenne M. Ma
tuoki, Japanese section hand on the
Union Pacific, is the victim.
Charles Filpot, who was charged
with the murder of Ness Cole, lone
| ly rancher, on March %, 1906, was
found guilty at Spokane of murder In
the first degree. The jury was out
| two hours and 10 minutes.
The senate and house Of the Oregon
legislature elected two United States
senators, Jonathan Bourne, Jr., Of
Portland for the long term and Fred
w. Mulkey of Portland for the short
term. Both are Republicans.
What bids fair to be one Of the long
est drawn out and bitterly contested
criminal cases in the history of tho
United States court in Montana was
begun in Helena last week, when Ed
ward P. Mason was placed on trial
for the alleged murder of Riley HUFF
Of Chicago, at Fort Assiniboine, last
August.
James Pingree and Aman Moore, OF
the Union Portland Cement company
at Ogden, announced in Butte, last
week, the purchase of 5000 acres OF
cement field at Logan, Mont. They
say they will put in million'dollar
plant to produce 1000 barrels daily In
eighteen months. They will also build
the town of Cementon.
The preliminary skirmish in the
fight for railroad regulation in Ne
vada came off last week. Folsom OF
Washoe county introduced resolu
ton providing for a steering com
mittee to be composed Of one mem
Der of each county in the state to
formulate methods of procedure on
all railroad legislation.
Three boys playing war in the base.
ment of the new infantry barracks at
Fort Russell, near Cheyenne, Wyo.,
set fire to a quantity of powder and
an explosion occurred which damaged
the barracks to the extent OF $4,000
and seriously injured the boys. One
of the boys, son of the fort plum |
Der, named Mcdonald, Is expected to |
die
Persons who have made homestead |
entry on land in the states OF North |
Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Mime
sofa, Montana, Washington and Wyom'
ing, where the period in which they
were required by law to establish resi-
dence expired after December /, 1906,
are granted, under joint resolution
passed by the house last week until
May Is, 1907, in which to make such
settlement.
Arthur G. Brown of Sprague, Wash,
a student in the veterinary course at
the Washington state college In Pull
man. was arrested at Moscow, Idaho,
on a charge of threatening the life
of Edith MCGEE of Oakesdale, also a
student at the college. Brown was
insanely jealous of the girl and tried
to shoot her.
A windstorm at Centennial, thirty
miles west of Cheyenne, did much
damage. The wind came from the
southwest and ragged several hours.
The tracklaying gangs on the Lara
ME Plains line were forced to leave
work.
The town of Rhyolite, the capital
city of the Bullfrog district, is now
the proud possessor of genuine
stock and mining exchange. The
membership of the exchange Is linn
ited to 80, and there are seventy-hVe
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