The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-07-30
NORTHWEST NOTES

portland on June II. IL
John jacobson of Portland, Ore,
had his left foot cut off while beating
his way on the Short Line at Ontario,
Ore. and there is little hope of his
recovery.
At the convention of the Wiscon-
sin State Federation of Labor, the
resolution condemning Harry Orchard
to the World of Hades" was adopted
by the vote of SO to 8.
The lamb crop in both Wyoming ..
and Montana is short this year, the ,,
Landing in most parts, according TO
late information, being 80 to 90 per
cent. against 60 to 80 per cent for
normal average.
Stanley Peck, who was acquitted at
Reno, Nevada. last week of the charge
of numbering Angelo Satero. went IN
sane while on his way from Reno to
San Francisco Peek was nervous
wreck before he left Reno.
Timothy Reardon, bartender OF
Billings, Mont. was shot and instant
" killed by Florence Reardon, VINO
protested to be his wife by virtue OF
| a marriage contract, and to secure
whose valuation she had brought SUIT
in the district court.
Samuel Lepper a pioneer resident
of Fergus county, Montana, met MS
death by falling into well on
ranch near Moore. Lepper was
missed and search revealed MS
body in the well, in which there was
about ten feet of water.
Twelve more bodies, victims OF tho
explosions in mine No. of the Union
Pacific Coal company at Hanna. Wyo,
March %. were brought TO the sur
face on July IS. The bodies were bad
" decomposed and were identihed
only by their clothing. twenty-five
= more bodies are believed to be In the
mine.
As a result of quarrel over the dl'
, vision of work in caring for graves IN
' the odd Fellows cemetery at Reno
! Nevada. Jack Dolan shot Frank Whit
t taker. his aged fellow inmate In the
county hospital. three times with a
g pistol, killing him instantly. Whltta
I ker fell dead over the grave he wa'
" watering.
y Enraeed because Joseph T.. Fish,
S contractor of San Francisco, drove
onto some freshly laid asphalt pave
u ment. Lawrence Taggart, a foreman
70 IN the employ OF the asphalt com
1t pnny. seized red-hot iron with whiel
u the asphalt is smoothed down ah'
thrust II into Fish's face. burning l
In horribly.
n Eight men have been arrested o
al the Grow Indian reservation, IN MOI
h. tano. charged with selling liquor
IS the Indians. A number of secret Sc
"a vice men are actively engaged IN a
re effort to stop the sale OF liquor TO IN
el Crows. the law being SO openly dehe
IN that Indians have been served ov'
ut the bars.
as steve Adams. member OF the Yves
IN ern Federation of Miners, on trlal
RI Grand Junction, Colo, was acquiu'
ms NJ the murder of Arthur Colin
'n' Adams alleged confession OF u
pc crime was excluded as evidence
icy Judge Shackelford, and eight
hS nesses testified to an alibi for the .
cused man.
Suit has DcHn lnblltul'u " i''N'
49, Mont, by the government against |
~, Northern Pacific Railway compai
the Rocky Fork Coal company and
Northwestern Improvement compa
IA recover title TO very valuable GO
49, lands In Carbon county, which IL
alleged were procured through u
representation.
Thomas Cooper. land commission
ent of the Northern Pacific railway,
,hly the stand in the Minnesota rate ne
fore ing. introduced a paper which 81
the the value of the purchased lands
'uth the Northern Pacific at Sl ,325'2
tact and of the donated lands, s35. b64's
II II developed that from It's lea
lands the company receives alb
'he $500 900 a year.
o' Advices from San Francisco
~, - that the Western Pacific tunnel un
~. Alameda creek, just west OF nj
will be completed this week.
tracklaying toward Oakland VIII
- pressed forward rapidly. there b'
but two minor bridges to build
.r, the way.
POI Contracts have been awarded
eX. Nohti ,.. I
- the rebuilding Of the Hauser J.
- dam. and the construction OF
, had Wolf creek dam. More than
men will be employed and Work
begin AT once. The Wolf creek
will be the second largest power
are In the world
, the Clarence Don Clark, United 81
losed senator from Wyoming, was stri'
laid with a nervous collapse and ger
uni breakdown at the Auditorium Al
exist hotel. Chicago. last week so
with GUS was the senator's copdiuon
for a time his life was deBpaire'
He soon rallied however
. the Sneak thieves entered the ban
! two Phoebe. Nevada, at noon and ST.
clois. rackage OF seyeniy-five one-c
,glisb bills. and other moneys amountll
esult about 81 600 all told. -Four sus
,na, have been arrested, but there
-, vet no direct evidence that the
, held are the guilty parties
The body OF Giuseppe Ala. whf
hanged at Canon City. Colo. 10
murder Of Father Leo Heinrie'
-, a o.. x-asuob.4btu Cathoftq church.