The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1907-01-18
NORTHWEST NOTES

from which he died.
William jennings Bryan and wife
we're in a wreck on the Montana Cen
trail near Great Falls, Mont, in which
several people we're injured, but Mr..
and Mrs. Bryan escaped.
On the first ballot, the Republican
members of the Wyoming legislature,
in caucus, unanimously voted to sup
port United States Senator Francis
E. Warren for reelection.
Fire at Laramie. Wyoming, dam
aged the stage of the New Grand the.
alter to the extent of about $1,000,
burning all the scenery and stage
property. The fire was of unknown
origin.
News has been received of the
drowning of FIVE men in the Columbus
rver near Buffers. Wash, by the cap
sizing of a boat in which they were
crossing the river from Buffers to Nc
Gowan's on the Oregon side.
W. A. Walker, aged 65 years, a
wealthy pioneer mine owner and oper'
ator of Gladstone, Colo, has been
missing for more than two months.
and it is feared he became lost in the
mountains near Gladstone and
persisted.
George Terry, head of the Shoshone
! Indian council, was murdered as he
came out Of the council lodge on the
/ Indian reservation near Lander, Wyo.
He was first knocked down with a
war club and his BODY then cut to
pieces with knives. The murder is
supposed to be the outcome of fam
lily feud.
John McGarvey was hanged at the
penitentiary at Canon City, Colo,
Saturday night, for the murder Of his
jailor, Edward lines, at Grand juno.
ton. McGarvey escaped from the
Jail and was nearly lynched when cap
tured He is said to have been the
son of Barney McGarvey OF Long
Branch, N. j.
The contract for building a cutoff
on the Denver-Cheyenne line at a
cost of 100000 has been awarded to
Fitzpatrick brothers. The new line
will avoid Athol hill, over which the
line now goes, and will reduce the
running time between these two cities.
The cutoff will end at Borie, eight
miles west of Cheyenne.
Owing to the fact that smallpox
has been brought into Spokane from
, logging camps of northern Idaho and
: Montana, the board of health has es-
. tablished rigorous quarantine
against all incoming trains, and lum
Der Jacks will have hard time to land
there unless they show certificates OF
good health.
Elmer ]. Bean and Lila NJ Bean
> were found dead in a rooming house
in Denver The man had committed
> suicide by cutting his throat, and the
+ woman, the coroner decided, had dice
J of heart disease. She was the wife o.
. ]. o. Bean, a locomotive engineer o
, Pueblo, and had eloped with her hus
bands cousin.
h The stock OF coal in Missoula
Mont, has been exhausted, and If thu
e present cold weather continues it 1
d expected that much discomfort will
, result. The supply of cord wood
{ winch is hauled from the mountains
= while larger than usual, is not sufh
cient for the needs of the city an
a surrounding community
y BY the terms of the decision O
Judge Arthur e, Griffin, in the ia
nous John Sullivan will case at Sea-
3 tie, United States Senator S. H. Pile
10 is to receive one-half of the residu
e, of the estate, which is estimated
d. amount to not less than 100000 b
m the probate department of the count
1T CLERKS office.
- Peer Anderson, a Norwegian,
70 years cd. left the gas turned on |
70 his room in Seattle, and the neN
- morning he was found dead in hi
ID bed, death resulting from asphyxii
C. ton. He has been in this country 81
g. months, and prominent Norwegian
a who know his family in the old coul
- try say he comes from wealthy pa
=, ents.
nj The much discussed question Of
IL railroad from Huntington, Orego
along the Snake river to Lewisto
has at last been settled In the afirr
alive. Commencing at Huntingtc
~ the general direction of the new lii
u will be almost due north, throug
he Baker, Union and Wallowa countiC
in Oregon, and Nez Perces county
ic- Idaho.
Up In response to an appeal for a
" from the famine in China, made
" the Famine Relief committee
: Shanghai, through the United Stat'
4. consul and the American Nation
Red Cross, Governor Chamberlain h;
=. issued a proclamation appealing
the generosity of the people of Or
gon to come to the relief of the ST
ferers.
'or Chief of Police Wappenstein,
Seattle, in a letter to Govern
Mead, urges the establishment in Il
state of Washington of whip9il
post for the punishment of crimes
wife beating, wIe desertion and pc
sibly burglary.
-. The body of half-breed Indit
,s named Perry was found near the St
shone agency on the Wind River re