The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-10-15
NORTHWEST NOTES

Joe soelsby, motorman al rr,,o.
, acme mine No. s, Rock Shrine
"yo, was badly crushed in The ,,,'',
" @"u Is In the hospital In a serious
me coal mines of Wyoming re-.
suileu operations Saturday morn,no
I september &c, when nearly g 0oo ne"
vent back to work. This undoubted.
~ marks the end of the strike
FRIENDS OF Jerry Perman tba
young Nebraskan who disapnearod
several days ago, are now satisfied
.nat ne was drowned in Browns lake
ana that his body is fast in the mud
Bays a Rawlins dispatch.
"A work train on the logging railroad
ol the Chapman Logging comnanv
was wrecked about five miles west of
ocappoose, Oregon. Five members
ol repair gang which was riding on
the Train were killed and eight injured
The thirty-fourth annual convention
oi the American Bankers association
held at Denver last week, came to an
END with the election of George M
reynolds of Chicago, president. and
Lewis e. Pierson, of New York, first
vice-president.
Inc third annual state fair held at
Wheatland. Wyo., despite the stormy
weather, was well attended. The fair
is now a fixture and preparations
have already been made to make the
next event even greater than the fair
just closed.
In an alteration at Rawhide. Ne.
Vada, Jack j. Wall, formerly of Butte
mont, seriously cut M. DAILY, an Ana.
conda mining man, with razor. Wall
was arrested and taken out of town
on account Of threats of lynching
made by Days friends.
Miss Elizabeth Kelly, principal of
the public schools at Tacoma Wash,
for the past ten years. died at Pitts
burg, Pa, in hospital, from paraly-
sis. Miss Kelly was en- route from
Tacoma to La Trobe, Pa, to visit o
brother when she was stricken,
A sister of NJ. R. Preston, who was
nominated for the presidency on the
Socialist ticket and is serving twenty
five years in the state penitentiary at
Carson, is in Reno for the purpose, it
is said, Of circulating a petition to be
presented to the board of pardons
when it meets, asking for the pardon
of Preston.
In all probability the government
will install an electric light and
power plant at its big Shoshone dam,
and furnish light and power to the
surrounding towns. The power house
will be built at Corbett, Wyo., and
power will be generated from the
water from the Corbett tunnel, which
has a drop of over fifty feet.
With his arms tightly clasped about
the neck of a large buck deer, which
had died of a bullet wound, the body
of George Buxton of Brockway, in
the southern part of Oregon, was
found in Olalla canyon by a searching
party. Buxton had evidently wound
cd the animal and was preparing TO
cut its throat when attacked.
A final settlement has been made
between the Wyoming operators and
the miners, and the papers have been
signed. The wage scale is practically
the same as the one in force prior to
the strike, and regulations remain vir-
tually the same Concessions were
made by both sides, and the Wyoming
coal controversy is now ended.
The friends of Charles +. Holli-
oaugh have made application to Gov
ernor Brooks of Wyoming for par
don for Hollibaugh, who was con
victed at Buffalo of murder in the sec
ond degree in March, 1901, and sen
fenced to life Imprisonment. The rea-
sons for asking for Hollibaugh's par
don are not given by his friends.
At the headquarters OF the Wyo-
ming and the National Wool Growers
associations in Cheyenne 1t is an
nounced that the fifth annual conven-
ton of the former will be held in
Rawlins. Wyo., on Monday and Tues
day. January II and IL. 1909. The
national convention will be held in
Pocatello, Idaho, January IA to 10.
Articles OF incorporation were filed
At Cheyenne last week for the Mon
tana, Wyoming e. Southern railway,
with a capital of $5,000.000. The com
pany plans the construction of a line
from Sheridan. Wyo.. to Miles CITY
Mont. and may also extend south
ward TO the present terminus OF the
Colorado & Southern AT Grin. Wyo.
A dispatch from Chicago says: Col
onization of the western country VIII
be materially retarded if the railroads
between Chicago and the Pacific coast
carry out a plan which has been ad'
vanced by the executive onicials.
Nearly every railroad in the western
Passenger association has agreed To
abolish all low or reduced rates after
January /, 1909.
The Joint conference OF operators
and coal mine workers in Helena
reached an agreement 10 maintain the
present scale OF wages for two years
The operators had wanted redu'-
,iop but agreed 10 the same scale.
nroyided the contract was signed Tor
two years.
The leading merchandise store o'
Rawhide. Nevada. Was almost entirely
demolished by an explosion OF dyna-
mite. and II. l. Gleason, proprietor
A. u-;fa wore seriously injured.