The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-06-11
NORTHWEST NOTES

or Butte. fell . distance OF sixty feet
In the Elm Grin shaft and was In
Estantly killed
Six inches Of snow on the level
prevented the opening Of the baseball
season IT Butte on May 20. An eiab-
crate program had been prepared fnr
the occasion.
| Amicable relations between khe h
Dor unions Of Montana and the Bell
Telephone company have been re-
stored. after fight which has lasted
ior some time and been : source Of
heavy expense 70 both sides,
| ~ health 4 supposed to have been
responsible for Mrs. Emma G. Larsen.
q widow. killing herself BY hanging
EPt 0oidfield. She fastened one end Of
: rope to window. tied the other
sbout her neck and jumped into
| space
Judge Burnett, In the circuit court
! 1t Salem. Ore. sentenced J. Thorn
burn Ross. the Portland banker. 10
I'VE years imprisonment and to pay
q fine Of $4,000. Ross was recently
convicted OF wrongful conversion OF
state school funds in his capacity as
| president Of the Title Guarantee and
Trust company.
| The plant Of the Heimon Lumber
company, on the tide fats at BelIing-
ham. Wash. burned early Saturday,
entailing . loss of $4,000. The IRE
started in the engine room and
lspread so rapidly that tha watchman
could do little to stay the flames
with the fire-fighting equipment In the
mill.
The people OF La Grsnde. Ore, are
elated over the assurance that a $685.
009 federal building will be forth
coming next year. In 1t will house
the p0stofice and the land once
Should this city be selected as the
headquarters Of this division OF the
supreme court. the building win be
its home.
Sheriff Alfred Bath Of Laramie,
Wyo.. was killed thirty miles west
sof Laramie by q man named Sum-
mers, from walden. Colo. Summers
had held UP and robbed his employer
at Walden. and Sheriff Bath had
been advised Of the fact and was IN
pursuit Of Summers when the murder
occurred.
Ontario, Ore. ships more livestock
than any other point between Port
land and Denver, It IL claimed. Cattle,
horses and sheep are driven there for
a distance Of $50 to 200 miles to be
loaded onto the cars for transporta-
tion east and north. 1t is mot uncom-
| mon for 1000 head OF cattle to be
shipped from there in one day.
Francis Ciddeo was found guilty at
| Greenwood, B. c., Of the charge OF
| murder, and was sentenced to be
hanged July 81. sCiddeo was charged
with dynamiting the Canadian hotel
| which resulted in the death of the
proprietor's daughter. Miss King. He
made good his escape. but later WAS
captured in Salt Lake City.
Colorado may emphasize the fran
| clfise for women In that state by
sending two women delegates to the
national Democratic convention. Fol-
lowing the movement In Denver 10
send Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, II is
| announced that Mrs. Margaret How
! ell Jefferson Davis Hayes, the only
living daughter of Jefferson Dawn,
| may be q delegate.
| News comes from Billings, Mont.
| OF the death Of William T. Hamilton.
aged SO, well known throughout the
state as Uncle Billy" and probably
| The greatest Indian fighter and Indian
eign reader and taIker the west has
| ever produced. Years before BUFFALO
| Biz Cody was born, Hamilton was
| lighting Indians on the plains and in
the Rocky mountains.
The Rev. Mr.. Lewis J. Duncan, pas
| tor of the Unitarian church Of Butte,
recently invited Emma Goldman. the
| anarchist, to speak in his church. on
| Ter visit to Butte. Because OF this. a
committee from the local Grand Army
| of the Republic waited upon Mr.. Dun
can and requested him to retire as
orator OF the community In the local
| Decoration day services.
George B. Mechem OF Denver, who
| has been mining In Cripple Creek.
F! Colorado Springs and other places for
| years, has filed suit against l.. l.. Pat
rick, president OF the First National
hank Of Goldfield, for 32s5.00o. claim
| ing that he grubstaked Patrick eight
| years ago, and that Patrick made a
| fortune in Goldfield without account
ing to him for his half.
The government will bring proceed
!, ings to dispossess the Southern Pa
| cific of lands in western Oregon val
J ued at 81, SOC. 900, and to secure . de-
cree annulling the grant and restor-
| ing the lands to the public domain.
| The lands were given TO the Southern
| Pacific several decades ago to induce
the construction of railroad lines. but
| IL is claimed the road has failed to
| Eve up to all its obligations TO the
| government.
The board of railroad commission
| ers Of Montana has ordered . public
| hearing on June 10, In Helena, for the
| purpose OF determining ore rates Be
cause or the unusually heavy traffic
| In these shipments. the outcome OF
the meeting Is awaited with much In
] terest
/ William Hay has been sentenced to
] be hanged at Deer Lodge. Mont, on
July 3 Hay is the second convict 70
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