The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-04-23
NORTHWEST NOTES

connection with the Little Missouri
irrigation project In Montana.
In the federal court at Helena,
Judge Hunt fined Enoch Herbster. a
prominent Dawson county, Montana.
ranchman. $3.50 upon plea OF guilty
to an indictment charging illegal
fencing.
An aged prospector named Flana-
gan. bound for the hills with grub
stake on his back. was struck by a
Southern Pacific train and instantly
killed In the tunnel near Palisade.
Nevada.
One of the features of the election
held in Montana was the carrying In
Bohemian of the Sunday and midnight
closing OF the saloons. Bohemian is
the first city in Montana TO inaugur-
ate the Sabbath lid.
AT the meeting at Helena. Mont. OF
the Democratic state committee, the
candidacy of William j. Bryan for the
presidency was endorsed without a
dissenting voice from the twenty
seven members of the body
The state encampment OF the
Grand Army of the Republic, held at
Butte, closed on the 10th, with the
election of E. w. Kinney of Bozeman
as commander. and the selection of
Billings as the 1909 convention city.
z. L. Daily, Indian inspector of the
Crow reservation in Montana, was be-
fore the senate committee on Indian
affairs last week, and denied state
ments made by Mrs. Helen Pierce
Grey concerning alleged maladminis.
tration of its affairs.
The Oregon e. Washington Railway
company has formally accepted the
franchises granted by the Seattle city
council. The grants include terminals,
freight yards, passenger depots, tun-
mel work and several miles of lines
within the city limits of Seattle.
High school students took posses
sion of the school building at Ana.
conda, Mont. one night last week,
and had a dance. How they gained
admission is unknown at present, but
thorough Investigations is to be
made and the guilty parties punished
A delegation of Sioux Indians from
the Cheyenne and Standing Rock res
ervations, who favor opening at least
half of each of these reservations tC
settlement, called upon the president
last week with Commissioner Leupr
of the Bureau of Indian affairs. The
president chatted with them shor
time.
Oliver g. Dallas, co-defendant wit
]. d. Mcleod in the government con
spiracy case on trial in the fedora
court, at Helena, Mont. confessed
frankly that all of the signatures tc
various documents which pYrportec
to be the signatures of different dep
uty mineral surveys were written b,
him.
Joseph Henry Taylor, the frontier
author, is dead at Washburn, n. d.
from heart failure. Taylor reached
the Platte river in 1864, and worked
north along the Missouri river. HI
was among the first white men Il
take up his abode in Dakota. HI
was author and publisher of numbe
of books.
With the exception of Butte, where
the Socialist vote held its own al
compared with the off-year municipa
election of the previous year, the So
oialist vote generally Throughout
Montana shows decided falling of
at the recent election. In Livingston
the Socialists were defeated by de
cisive vote.
Henry and Arthur Weber. prom
nent Nevada mining operators. hav'
been arrested at Goldfeld, Nevada
charged with embezzling $4,000 be
longing to the treasury OF the Docto
Mining company. The defendant
we're released on $4,000 bail each
The Webbers declare the prosecution
is the result of spite work.
Frank j. Edwards. Republican, wa
elected mayor OF Helena after
warm campaign in which the mora
issue was urged by his opponents.
Democrat was elected city treasure
and a Republican was chosen polio
Judge. The Republicans elected nv
Of seven aldermen
The Florence Gold Mining compan
of Goldfield has applied for an in
junction to restrain TIE Little Flor
tnce lease from continuing work ol
ground leased by the latter company
The lease runs only two weeks NOR
and the parent company claims tn
mine is being Quilted.
Brady Martin. a Spokane contras
tor. was terribly injured at Linc
wash. while trying to extract dyns
mite from a missed shot, The e,
plosion fractured his skull. broke on
| leg and shot fragments of rock int
| his body He is in the hospital. wit
| little hope of recovery.
The Canadian Pacific railroad ha
decided to build a second railway lin
| through the Rocky mountains to tn
Pacific coast Land on Hardy bay. 4
| the northern part OF Vancouver. ha
| been secured as a terminus. The roa
/ will connect with the line runnin
| from Winnipeg to Edmonton.
r. E. Hanson. a well known Nor
tana hotel man. vas foIad dead i
| his apartments In the Hotel Helens
/ at Helena Mont. heart disease bein
| the cause He was manager OF tn
/ Hotel Helena. and had been formerl
| similarly employed in Butte. Living
ston and other Montana cities