The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-07-02
NORTHWEST NOTES

Rawhide. Nevada, after standing
run for four days. closed Its doors. II
IL reported that business win be re-
sumed and depositors paid in full.
The power plant of the Portland
Railway Light and Power company at
Caxadero was almost entirely de-
stroyed by Gre Sunday. The plant Is
valued at threequarters OF q million
dollars.
Lewis Ferris was acquitted Of the
charge OF murder in connection with
the dynamiting OF the Overland Bur
lington train near Butte. May I last.
after the jury had deliberated on the
case scarcely an hour.
The first murder at Tip Top. the
new mining camp. twelve miles from
Mills City. Nevada. occurred last
week when O. r. Cockrill shot NJ. =.
Jacobs. both mining men, In dispute
over a mining claim.
Bank Examiner Hofer OF Nevada re-
ports the First Bank OF Rawhide ana
the Wonder Trust company are both
insolyent The bank examiner states
that the bank of Rawhide Ia solvent
and will soon open again.
An unknown man was killed at
Nyssa. Ore. while endeavoring to
steal ride on freight train. While
endeavoring to get on the rapidly NOV
ing train he slipped and the wheels
passed over both legs. death resulting
few hours later.
BY the explosion OF a carload Of
dynamite near Sargent. Colo. freight
train on the Denver & Rio Grande rail-
road was blown to pieces, two tranapa
were killed and several trainmen were
injured. one fatally. A hole four feet
deep was blown in the ground.
Christopher A. Wills. aged about 60,
was found dead. fully dressed. lying
across his bed In the Melrose apart
ments at Reno. Nevada. 1t is thought
he died from natural causes. Willis
was from Buffalo. N. ", where he has
wife and little daughter living.
/ Forty-five miles from Phoebe. In a
! northerly direction. new mining dis
trict has been organized. Atlanta Is
the name OF the new district and
every foot of available ground has
been taken up. Phoebe is the nearest
supply point for the new district.
1 The decision of the Interstate COM
merce commission unfolding. in the
! main. the case of the lumbermen OF
the Pacific northwest. ends the con.
tention which for the past eight
months has tied up the lumber indus
try of this section Of the country.
Joe Schafer. negro, twice sentenced
at Butte to be hanged for the killing
Of a man named Hawkins. but saved
from the moose each time by the su
preme court. which reversed the find
ing of the lower court, has been Ar
rested In Salt Lake City, charged with
, beating a woman over the head will
chair.
An explosion partially wrecked thu
front part OF house occupied b,
/ |. members of the Mormon faith at Eu
, gene, Ore. None we're injured, blu
, Mrs. e. e. Howell. one OF the in
, mates, suffered 80 severe a nervou
, shock that she was rendered uncon
D | scious. A note of warning was foun'
; posted In the building.
! Two thousand five hundred miner
in the Northern Colorado coal field
> quit work last week. intending to n
!. main out until the operators grant al
J increase In wages or make satisfat
4 tory concessions. II after further M
> gotiations between the United Min
= Workers officials and the operators n
d settlement Is reached. q formal strik
+ will be called.
b State Senator Charles McDonne
OF Sweet Grass county, Montana,
y conducting a series of experiments 1
4 conjunction with Luther Burbank. II
Il has already succeeded In raising
8 large crop OF pineapples and Is mo-
c, experimenting with different graftin
II processes. He proposes to graft tn
" banana tree and the loco weed. an
Is claims he can produce an edible frui
q He also proposes to make a creepin
vine OF the sugar beet plant
II Luther Hickman. aged 81. wa
+ killed and number OF person
o shocked and bruised. though not ser
10 OusIs Injured ny an tApioSiou VI S,v'
y pounds of nitroglycerine at the e.
d Dupont Denemours Powder company
q works at Louviers, twenty miles soui
!, of Denver.
!. Through the GOODNESS OF Assistal
! Secretary James Z. Dougherty. OF u
state humane society. Governor Hem
- A. Butchel of Colorado escaped pro
able injury at the hands OF Mrs. Ann
Jochim, an insane woman The "
- man was looking for the governor vii
" . revolver.
70 A new million dollar distillery Ii
10 be constructed at Winnipeg to me
- the demands OF the growing market
q the Canadian Northwest. The bull
q ings will cover thirty-five acres. 2
lg men win be employed. and SOC. 900
he 500. 900 bushels of grain will be &C
sumed annually.
re c. B. Bratton, local agent Of q
We Metropolitan Insurance company, "
IT. arrested at Victoria. b. C.. last wee
70 charged with incendiarism. He W
or caught coming from the board Of ira
~ building basement from which dam
he were bursting Bratton was former
resident Of Salt Lake City.
ID H. L. Frank. former mayor Of But
ro- Mont. and a prominent politician
100 that state. was removed from
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