The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-01-30
NORTHWE ST NOTES

falue OF Soso%a,V0u Ior the winter
wheat crop of the state.
Senator Clark has introduced a bill
providing that a term of the Federal
district and Circuit courts for wyom-
ing shall be held in October each
year at Lander. Wyo.
Judge Bourquin, in the district court
at Butte last week continued the hear
ing incident to the application for a
receiver for the suspended State Saw
ings bank until February IL.
Aunt" Sarah Bryant. a colored wo-
man, said to have been 125 years old,
died at Gunnison. Colo. last week.
She was born slave In Missouri. and
had lived in Gunnison twenty years.
| Reproved by her mother for scold-
ing a younger sister. Bessie Conroy,
| aged IA. living in Anaconda, took car
| bolic acid and died In an hour. The
father. Barney Conroy. works in Great
| Falls.
The New York store. q leading la
dies furnishing and dry goods estab-
lishment of Cheyenne. has failed The
Indebtedness is placed at SIT 600,
while the assets are estimated at
about $4,000.
More than SO per cent OF the oil
business In Colorado, Wyoming. Utah
and New Mexico is controlled by the
Standard Oil company. according to
testimony adduced at the hearing of
the governments suit to dissolve cor
poration.
While Herbert Farnum of Hillyard,
Wash, was driving near Mead Whit
fle tree broke and his horses ran
away. dragging him over the dash
board. Death was instantaneous. his
neck being broken. Farnum was mar,
ried last New Years day.
Senator Newlhnds of Nevada has
been appointed member of the i'm
portant committee of commerce to
succeed Senator Mallory OF Florida,
who died recently. The assignment
will be of advantage to Senator New.
lands in the way of advocating his
plan for improving Of inland water.
ways.
The San Francisco Examiner says
that, acting on the complaint of sew
eral hundred stockholders. federal Of
ficials have started an investigation
into the affairs of the National Air
ship company OF Portland. Sales OF
stock. amounting to about a quarter
of million dollars. are alleged TO
have been made.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Exchange State bank of Blaine.
Wash. which closed it's doors Janu-
airy Is. The affairs OF this bank are
alleged to be in a hopeless tangle.
and the Institution practically without
funds. o. c. Mathis. cashier. has dis
appeared and warrant has been is
sued for his arrest.
w. F. Grace of Goldfield. Nevada,
threw a rock through the plate glass
window OF the State bank, because he
had $500 on deposit In the bank and
the bank had failed to reopen for bust.
ness when promised He was arrest
ed and secured his release by giving
check for $500 against his account
in settlement of the damage.
Arrangements have been practical.
ly completed between the Helena Ma
tional Forest and Allen Gold Mimi <
company of Anaconda for the largest
timber sale ever made In Montana. 1t
involves the transfer from the gov
eminent to the mining company of all
the timber on the Boulder watershed
comprising approximately $4,000 ,000
feet of lumber
A special TO the Helena Record from
Twin Bridges says that J. Il. Wood
worth, one of the wealthiest stockmen
In southern Montana, lies at deaths
door as the result of a fall received
while skating, his favorite pastime.
He fractured his skull and is still I'M
conscious.
Montana. has Just concluded a deal
for the purchase of the w. d. Corbun
cattle holdings In Valley county. AS
there are 10000 in the bunch, the deal
is one of the largest in the history of
the state of Montana. The sale was
made at S25 head.
F. X. Stark Of Tacoma and Gertrude
Gamble of Vancouver. u. c., were
found dead at the Glide hotel in Ia
coma. Death was caused by asphyxia-
ton. 1t is supposed that In an at.
tempt To turn out the gas stove. which
was In the room, they failed to sAdt
me gas OF entirely.
Keevil Albring. son OF a prominent
farmer living near Spokane, was muir
dered and robbed by a tramp who was
riding to town with the young man
The murderer left the body by the
roadside and drove the team to town
and tied the horses to a post, after
which Ire disappeared.
The Butte Miners union has adopt
ed resolutions asking President
Roosevelt to pardon President Joseph
Shannon OF the Montana state union
of the Western Federation of Miners.
who is now confined in the county jail
of Lewis and Clark county, at Helena.
for contempt of court
Carl NJ Clemments, chairman of
the Democratic state central commit
tee of the state Of Washington. was
arrested AT Dies Moines. Iowa, one day
last week. charged with assaultine a
man who once had paid attentions To
his wife. A charge Of attempt to Kill
was placed against him
State Veterinarian NJ r. Knowles
has submitted to the governor of Mon.
tana his report for the year just
closed The report shows that in sew
erai places In the state during the