The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-02-07
NORTHWEST NOTES

A bill has passed the state senate to
move the county seat from Hawthorne
20 Goldfeld, Nevada.
The coal shortage in Oregon and
Washington has become SO serious
hat the railroads are annulling trains
and refusing freight at many points
in order to haul coal.
Five firemen, including Chief John
Dulmage, were injured at a fire which
ragged for 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 a 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
cific hospital at Cheyenne. NJ. Ma
tuoki, a 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 2S 1906, was
found guilty at Spokane of murder IL
the first degree. The jury was out
two hours and % minutes.
The senate and house OF the Oregon
legislature elected two United State.
senators, Jonathan Bourne. Jr., OF
Portland for the long term and Free
w. Mulkey of Portland for the shor
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 the
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 Hun
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 a million-dollaI
plant to produce 1000 barrels daily in
eighteen months They will also builC
the town of Cementon.
The preliminary skirmish in the
fight for railroad regulation in Ne
vada came off last week. Folsom o.
Washoe county introduced a resoiu
ton providing for a steering com
mittee to be composed of one mem
Der of each county in the state Il
formulate methods of procedure OF
all railroad legislation.
Three boys playing war in the base
ment of the new infantry barracks a
Fort Russell, near Cheyenne, Wyo.
set fire to a quantity of powder ant
An explosion occurred which damaged
the barracks to the extent of $4,000
and seriously injured the boys. One
Of the boys, a son of the fort plum
Der. named Mcdonald, is expected Il
die.
Persons who have made Homestead
entry on land in the states of Nortf
Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Mime
sofa, Montana, Washington and Wyom
ing, where the period in which the!
were required by law to establish resi-
dence expired after December l, 1906
are granted. under joint resolution
passed by the house last week unit
| May Is. 1907, in which to make suci
settlement.
Arthur C. Brown of Sprague, Wash.
a student in the veterinary course a
the Washington state college in Pull
man, was arrested at Moscow. Idaho
| on a charge of threatening the lif'
| of Edith MCGEE of Oakesdale, also
student at the college. Brown wa
| insanely jealous of the girl and trie'
| to shoot her.
A windstorm at Centennial, thirt,
miles west of Cheyenne, did mucl
| damage. The wind came from tn
southwest and ragged several hours
The tracklaying gangs on the Lara
| mic Plains line we're forced to leav'
| work.
The town of Rhyolite, the capita
city of the Bullfrog district. is nov
The proud possessor of a genuin
stock and mining exchange. Tn
membership of the exchange is linn
| tied to 30, and there are seventy fiv'
| charter members.
After a spirited debate. resolution
was adopted by the Tenth Annua
convention of the American Nationa
Livestock association. in session
| Denver. supporting the policy Of tn
Federal administration in references
to the public lands.