The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-12-31

Western Bowling congress next year
will be held in Seattle from May % TO
June G. inclusive.
Elijah Mills. aged 80. formerly OF
Hooper, Utah. slipped and fell over q
oonkey engine al the Belmont mine
N Butte and was killed
Fire at Nina, Nevada. last week de
stroyed an entire block Of business
houses, causing a loss Of slOo. 900. Re
building will begin at once.
Mrs. Alta, v. Dobyns, a physician.
was fatally burned in her suite in the
Owsley block, in Butte, one day last
week. The origin Of the IRE is I'M
known.
Pat Carroll and Eugene Lugon. tim
Der cutters, were burned TO death in
their hunks in a fire that destroyed
their mountain cabin in the Sierras.
fifty miles from Fresno. Cal.
The trial of Elmer Hinton, on the
charge of having murdered w. H
Mahaney at Round Up. November Z,
called for December IA at Lewiston.
Mont, was continued for the term.
Wyoming has 100000 acres of
dry" lands or farming land possible
of operation under so-called dry
farming" systems. Hundreds of new
farmers In this state produced good
crops this year.
w. ID. Kennedy. city attorney OF
Leadville, Colo. and a pioneer mem
Der OF the Colorado Bar association.
was stricken with heart disease while
in Denver, and died before medical
assistance reached him.
DIR. Lillian Miller has been selected
as county physician by the county
commissioners at Helena, Mont, for
the ensuing year. Her selection as
county physician is said to be the FIRST
of its kind in the state.
C. r. Jones. accused of sending
Matchmaking letters to Ranker s. s
Iiobson of Lewiston, Mont, demand
ing that $4,000 be left at certain
place or he would be killed, was found
guilty by a jury last week.
The federal officials at Helena
Mont, believe that the participants in
the Spokane train robbery were Nc
Donald and Frank Hauser, two men
who escaped from Jail several months
ago while waiting trial on similar
| charge.
An unidentified man met death near
| Glendive in a most horrible manneI
| by falling underneath train. His
body was cut squarely in two, just
above the hips. The upper half of the
corpse chung to the trucks Of the ex
press car.
Sam Alexander, a well-known broker
| who attempted to shoot Bart Mona
han, another broker, in the course Of
an encounter in Butte on November
80, has been charged with assault ir
the first degree, and his bonds fixed
at 1000.
The barber shop of s. G.. Payne al
Billings, Mont, was wrecked by van
dals one night recently Razors were
hacked on the marble stand. materials
used in the business were destroyed
and bad smelling acid scattered
about the shop.
AS a means of putting stop to the
"rustling" of stock in northern Mon
tana, the stock men of that section o
the state have begun raising WA
fund" with which special detectives
will be employed to assist in running
lown the cattle and horse thieves.
Carl Roland. a middle-aged man o
,shom little is known. committed sui
eide at Nina, Nevada, by letting ca
wheel cut his head off. He was sit
ting by the track watching the trail
so by, when suddenly he moved over
laid his neck on the rail and let tn
train complete the tragedy.
The biennial report of the Care
land act board, just submitted to Gov
ernor Norris, shows that Montana !
retaining upwards of 100000 acre
by this system, and prediction is mad
that the state will soon reach tn
prescribed limit-one million acres
The financial showing is most salts
factory.
Sammy" Williams, who died
Manhattan, Mont, last week at tn
age of so, had masqueraded all he
life as a man. She had lived eightee
years in Gallatin county, where sh
had amassed property worth abou
81. 600. She had many masculin
habits, drinking. chewing, smokin
and using profanity.
The entire force of printers en-
ployed on the Butte Miner, comprisin
, the chapel of that office. walked OF
because a proofreader had been di
! charged for refusing to pay So for
{ mistake made by him in the CORE
ton of "ad' copy. The difference IA
. been settled.
The supreme court of Montana M
handed down a decision affirming II
; conviction in Yellowstone county
William Conway on the charge Of pc
hitting a female in place whel
liquors are sold. This is the first co
vic.ion under what is known as Il
"wineroom" law.
W. c. McKaskie. a pioneer OF Mo
I tana and a veteran of the civil wa
died last week at his home In Pom
I Mr.. McKaskie was sixty-thTee years
D age and has resided in Montana SIM
r 1865. He was a most successf
+ miner. having sold his mines recent
> to good advantage
!, The Trans Missouri Dry Farmil
congress. the next session OF Will
| - ~. sav-s~