The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-02-20
NORTHWEST NOTES

young wife, of whom he was insanely
jealous. at their home in Colorado City.
by shooting her in the head. and then
blew out his own brains.
Governor Toole of Montana has
rendered his resignation TO take effect
April l. He will be succeeded by Lieu.
tenant Governor Edwin Norris, The
governors health has been bad for
some time.
Refusal of eastern railroads to make
q special rate to Denver next Novem-
Der may cause that city to lose the
annual convention OF the American
Federation OF Labor. scheduled to
take place at that time.
President Roosevelt last week sent
to the house of representatives the re
port of the special commission of in.
vestigation Into the Goldfleld labor
troubles, in reply to recent resolu.
ton requiring him to do so.
Governor Sparks has received mes.
sage from President Roosevelt an
nouncing that Federal troops would be
withdrawn from Goldfield. March Z. 1t
Is expected that the state police force
win be organized by that date.
The state of Wyoming paid into the
s162.919. divided into the following
items: Timber sales, $91.4s0; graz
ing fees. S69,615: supplementary tim
Der sales, $1.51l; special privileges,
$500.
Wolfe Copinus. one of the first men
to engage in business in Anaconda.
and pioneer merchant of Montana.
died at Rochester, Mimi, on February
6. as a result of an operation performed
in the hospital there. Copinus opened
the first store in Anaconda.
Col b. f. Shaw. commander OF
Washington volunteers during the In
dian wars of 1856, pioneer OF Wash.
ington territory, died suddenly at his
home in Portland from bursted blood
vessel. following violent attack of
coughing. He was years old.
w. N. Cooley OF Kallspell. Mont. Q
senior student in the engineering de-
partment of Stanford university, was
shot and killed at o'clock In the
morning by w. Uhlman. engineer at
the University power house. Cooley
had been to Menlo Park and when he
returned he got into Uhlman's house
by mistake.
Jacob Hit, who was arrested some
time ago on a minor charge and whose
case was dismissed, has confessed to
the. police OF Portland that while he
was in Jail his cellmate, Joseph An.
derson. confessed to him that he had
killed Harry Logan, who was shot TO
death on the Fourth street bridge sew
eral months ago.
Henry ]. Gruber, on trial at Boulder.
Mont, for the hold-up of a Northern
Pacific train near Butte last May, and
the murder of Engineer Glow, has sub
mitted a written confession, implicit.
ing George Haskins, still to be tried.
and George Towers, last week sen.
fenced to ninety-nine years In the pen
itentiary for the crime.
A publicity bureau has been created
in Denver by the executive committee
of the Denver convention league,
which Is acting in connection with the
committee on arrangements for the
Democratic national convention. The
purpose of the bureau is to send out
news and feature stories about Den
yer and Colorado from now until the
convention is over
An eloquent address was delivered
in the senate by Senator Pyles OF
Washington, In favor of an appropria-
ton by congress OF 100000 for a gov
eminent exhibit at the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition TO be held In Seattle
next year Mr.. Pyles pictured in vivid
language the settlement of the great
northwest in the face of predictions
verse TO the practical utility Of that
region.
BY an order signed by Judge Lynch
of the State District court at Butte,
Robert M. Lyons. receiver in charge
of the Aetna bank, which failed in DC.
tober. 1906, is directed to bring suit
against +. Augustus Heinze, former
director, and A. b. Clements, former
treasurer. for $4,000. the amount of
cash due for stock held by Heinze in
the bank and which, It has developed
Heinze never paid for.
A special from Lewistown, Mont.
says John Walsh, aged IA, accidental,
ly shot his 12-year-old brother while
playing soldier on ranch twenty
miles from town. The younger boy
died instantly. The two were alone
on the ranch when the accident oc.
CURED.
James Gavin Towers, charged with
the murder of Engineer Frank Glow,
Of the North Coast Limited train on
the Northern Pacific, was found guilty
at Boulder. Mont. of murder I'm the
second degree. The Jury recommend.
ed that the court impose sentence OF
80 years.
State Engineer Wade. who has Just
made a plat OF the town of Cut Bank
Mont. will report to the state boare
OF land commissioners that practically
every business house and residence OF
that town is situated upon land owned
by the state and by the Great North
ern railroad.
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