The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-06-25
NORTHWEST NOTES


Sebring. restaurant cook. and then
committed suicide No motive is
given
Fire at Vancouver, Wash, practical
~ destroyed the Pittock & Leadbetter
lumber min. Loss 100000. The
cause OF the fire has not been ascer
tanned.
Farmers OF Washington will lose
large amount of their grain crop this
year. owing to the fact that much Of
It has been blown out by heavy winds
in certain sections.
The Kansas Colorado Railroad com
Iany was Incorporated last week for
she purpose of building an electric
nr steam railway from Canon City.
Colorado, to Garden City, Kansas The
company is capitalized for s5.00o.0oo.
Land Commissioner bennett and
Law Clerk Ballinger left Washington
last week to make tour OF inspection
of local land offices and surveyors gen.
eral Offices in Idaho, Oregon. Washing
ton. California. Utah, New Mexico and
Arizona.
The stage between Fallon and Raw
hide, Nevada, was held up and robbed
by two men on June 10. the robbers
securing the wells-Fargo treasure box,
containing. 1t is believed, good sum
Of money consigned to the banks and
mining companies at Rawhide
The state board OF prison commits
sioners at Helena has abolished the
prison contract system. taking over
Conley & McTague. the former prison
contractors. their penitentiary equip
ment at Deer Lodge. on a lease of
$4,000 year. appointing Frank Con-
ley. warden, at salary of $4,000 an
nua1ly.
Captain e. L. Birthound. pioneer. de-
signer OF the Georgetown loop. path
finder on the Union Pacific railroad in
its original surveys through thous-
and miles of territory In Nebraska,
Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. and
one of the first engineers of the Pan.
anna railroad. died in Golden. Colo.
last week.
A preliminary estimate Of 17.710.000
acres OF spring wheat sown, or more
than 631 900 acres more than last
year, and placing the condition on
June of winter wheat at So per cent,
against TIA per cent year ago, and
of rye at 91.3 per cent, as against
'S3.5 per cent on May /, is made in
the June grain report.
State Police Oficer Otis OF Raw
10
of assaulting Carl Young and fined
500 and costs. The trouble grew out
of continued Ill feeling between the
two men, as Young has been violently
opposed to the presence of the state
police in Rawhide, and Otis in partic-
ular Otis says he win appeal his
case.
Requisition papers for M. o. Reed
have been issued by Governor Dick
erson of Nevada Reed has been ar
rested in the state of Washington for
passing fictitious checks in Goldfield
several months ago. At the time his
| crime was committed he escaped, but
was arrested few days ago in Seat
| tie, and will be returned to Goldfield
| for trial.
| Many eastern papers are sending in
| quiries to the papers Of Reno, Nevada,
asking for particulars of the tragic
death of Nan" Harrison, or better
known as Nan Sutherland. the sing
or, at the hands of William McCaus-
land. her jealous lover. There is no
| foundation for the report that she
might be Nan" Patterson of Floro-
dora fame.
| While at Reno last week Clarence
w. Mackay increased his other gifts
| to the University of Nevada by $685.
600 for the benefit of athletes. Fifteen
thousand is for building for training
! quarters and ten thousand is men
! toned for a quarter-mile track. The
| gift is conditional on the raising of
| $1,000 by the alumni and the same
amount by the students.
While driving near Reno, Nevada
Mrs. George Winters shot and killed
| j. A. Beatty, with whom she was rid.
| ing. took the body from the buggy and
drove to Sparks and gave herself up
Mrs. Winters claimed she shot in sell
defense. Beatty was a business man
: of Sparks and the woman is the wife
| of George Winters, a son of the late
! Theodore Winters, the prominent
horse breeder.
/ Following a dispute over the title
to a mining claim, Martin Lorenzo
prospector, shot and killed Jack
Bell. his former partner on Happy
! creek. in Nevada. Bell and Lorenzo
J met in the hills and a dispute ensued.
/ Bell pointed his rife at Lorenzo. de
claring he would shoot. whereupon
Lorenzo fired. topping Bell from his
| horse. Lorenzo then walked to his
PROSTATE foe, firing two more shots
into his body.
Suit has been filed in the United
States court in Butte by Justice OF
the Peace Patrick Colligan, represent
ing the people of Walkerviile. asking
that the zinc mill of the La France
Copper company. controlled by F. A.
Heinze and located upon the Lexing.
ton property in walkerviile. be for
ever enjoined from operating. that
'WAlkerville may once more become a
ct place of residence.
The pretty sixteen-year-old daughter
of W. l. Baker, owner of a moving pic
ture show at Moscow, Idaho. shot
twice at William Martinson and Ira