The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-03-05
NORTHWEST NOTES

itself through a subterranean hole
down which the water is pouring In
whirlpool with deafening noise.
The First National bank Of Fallon,
Nevada, has been authorized to com
mence business by the comptroller OF
the currency with capital stock OF
$4,000.
While the driver of Wells Fargo
express wagon was delivering a pack.
age at a store in the business district
of Reno, Nevada, a thief took sack
containing $500 in gold and currency
from the wagon seat and escaped
without detection.
The senate voted down Senator
Borahs amendment to the code bill
prohibiting senators and congressman
accepting fees for services as attor-
neys In any court procedure in which
the United States is directly or indi-
rectly interested.
Rev. Benjamin Parsons. aged ~
the oldest Presbyterian minister on
the coast. died at Seattle on the goth.
after an illness of one day. while pre-
pairing for a foreign missionary rally
in Seattle, over which he was to pre-
side on March 9.
In the death of Mrs. ]. B. F. Reynolds
from valvular heart trouble on Sun
day, at her residence in Denver, Colo
RADIO lost one of its most active phil
anthropists. Needy and unfortunate
persons who have been assisted by
Mrs. Reynolds number hundreds.
The announcement Of the candidacy
of Tascar L. Oddie OF Tonopah for
United States senator has been made
by prominent Republicans OF Carson.
Nevada. Mr.. Oddie has amassed
large fortune in mines. He will en-
deavor to succeed Senator Newlands.
]. ]. Fftzmaurice. aged 70, blind
and an inmate OF the poor house, who
had been charged with the murder OF
w. F. Baker, aged ~, also pauper,
was dismissed by. Judge Grice at
Butte last week. 1t had been shown
that Fitzmaurice struck Baker In SELF
defense.
Daniel Sullivan has been renomi-
mated for postmaster OF Cripple Creek,
Colo. Sullivan was active in protect
ing Mr.. Roosevelt against assaults
when he was at Cripple Creek In the
campaign OF 1900. and he secured his
denomination in the face OF some OPP
position.
Frank Parlxhurst OF Chicago acct
dentally shot himself just after board
ing a Colorado & Southern passenger
train at Trinidad Colo, INJECTING a
probably fatal wound. AS he was
walking through a car the hammer oil
[ a revolver in his overcoat pocket
, struck the end OF seat, firing the
4 weapon.
D George w. VESSELS. veteran actor
J. who had played leading parts witt
Z. Edwin Booth and many other promi
nent stage folk during the past thirty
9 five years, died in Denver last weei
7 of paralysis, superinduced by expos
i ure when playing with Blanche Bates
), in THE Darling OF the Gods, thre'
J. years ago.
q The federal court Of Nevada ha
r, granted a temporary injunction in ia
} vor OF the plaintiff company agains
the Jumbo Extension Mining com
D pany. forbidding either company iron
= extracting, shipping or selling OF an
Y. ore from their workings on the Col
" Wedge claim. The dispute is owe
y apex rights.
q The inspector in charge Of immigrf
Q ton service, with headquarters 4
y Helena, has received instruction
- from the department at Washingto
to begin an investigation OF all pena
D charitable, reformatory and other IL
stitutions in his district, with III
- view OF asceItaining the number
aliens CHARTERED therein.
~ The sawmills at Hamilton Mont,
10 the Anaconda Copper Mining con
II, many. of the Amalgamated Cope
"a group OF companies. will resume ope
N. atoms March q This plant cuts III
re Der for use in the mines OF Butte an
TO in some quarters its resumption is T
Is garded as significant OF an early T
IS opening of the copper mines.
In Representative Mondell has intr
ID duced a new 32O-acre homestead bi
ny somewhat different from the Smo
ic- bill. reported to the senate last wee
-, which applies only to Colorado, idah
o Montana, Nevada. North and Sou
Dakota Oregon. Utah. Wyomin
=. New Mexico and Arizona. and permi
So persons qualified to make homestea
~ to take up under the homestead Ia
- 800 acres OF non-mineral, non-irrit
IN Bile. unreserved and inappropriate
i'm surveyed public lands which do n
op contain merchantable timber.
Rail rates from Northern Paci
he common points in Montana to Chica
sor have been reduced from 45 cents
rst 42h cents, according TO word receiv
Ne by the railroad commission. This
Tor the result of a new agreement ma
ted by the Northern Pacific with the b
TAI lington.
Burlington train No. 5. westboul
'no on the Northern Pacific tracks.
'ne ditched near Cocolalka. Ida. presU
W ably by a broken rail. Everyth
but the engine left the tracks Z
| ductor J. l. Brazellon was badly
,r,. and bruised and several passeng
received bad bumps.