The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-04-09
NORTHWEST NOTES

posse, Horsethief Byckford, who shot
and killed Sheriff Webb of Yellow
stone county. Montana, while resisting
arrest near Billings. committed sui
eide rather than surrender.
+. H. Norcross, supreme Judge O,
Nevada, has won the $1,000 prize Of
fered by Senator Bourne OF Oregon
for the best-written argument WHY
President Roosevelt should be elected
to third term. The contest closed
on February Is.
A crowd Of forty tramps seized e
freight train Of the Southern Pacific
company at Orena, Nevada. and
forced the crew to run the train to
Winnemucca. fifty-nine miles, where
they stopped the train outside of the
town and scattered.
The town of Tuscarora. Nevada, one
OF the Oldest in the state, has been
almost depopulated through news OF
the strike at Gold Circle. The Tus-
carora News has suspended publica-
ton owing to the editor and printers
all joining the rush.
To meet the demands OF the fruit
growers Of California. ten extra
freight trains have been put ON the
Southern Pacific during the past two
weeks. giving employment to some
thing like sixty trainmen, whose
homes are in Ogden.
Officials OF the Montana Mine Own
ers' association have announced that
they have completed arrangements to
take over the Panhandle smelter at
Pen D'Oreille. Ida. near Sand Point.
The association expects to be smelling
ores within thirty days.
Three bandits held up Edward
Hoffman and secured $4,000 belong.
ing to the Coalition Mining company,
at Reno, Nevada, last week, after
which they made their way to
Schurz. stole a handcar and escaped
into the Walker Indian reservation.
One of the first coal mines in Wyo.
ming was opened by the stage COM
rany in 1865, near the old overland
trail crossing Rock Creek, in what Is
now Albany county. The coal was
used for blacksmithing in the vicin-
ity of the opening and was also car
ried to other places for the same pur.
pose.
The town Of Rawhide, Nevada, is
built along an arroyo that drains
southerly to desert fiat, surrounded
by mountains. On the east side of
the arroyo are Grutt, Balloon and
Murray Hills, connected, one to the
other. by saddles; while on the oppo.
site side is Rosebury, or Hooligan
hill
w. F. Armstrong, a so-called bad
man" from Wyoming, was shot and
killed in the Palace saloon, in Winnie.
mucca. Nevada. by w. H. Carter, one
of the managers. Eye-witnesses say
the shooting was in self-defense, as
Armstrong accused an employee oil
stealing his money, and when Carter
demonstrated. pulled a gun.
The board of trustees of the Uni
versity of Wyoming have removed
President Frederick Monroe Tisdel on
the ground of alleged maladministra,
ton, insubordination and untruthful.
ness in university affairs Recently
President Tisdel issued a public state
ment making graft charges against
the trustees.
Investigations made by the geolo.
gists of the United States geological
survey have shown that coal beds
ranging in thickness from few
inches to six feet or more occur at
several horizons in the shales and
sandstones of the western portion of
the Laramie basin. Wyoming, though
they appear to be irregular in their
distribution
Attorney John B. Welcome, one oil
the largest individual ranch owners
OF the state, died on March %, OF
pneumonia, at his home in Madison
county, Montana. He was 40 years
old and a native of New York. AS
manager of w. A. Clark's senatorial
campaign in the legislature in 1898
he was charged with having offered
large sums of money for votes for
Clark.
After expanding fortune in the
search, the engineers of the recla.
nation service have at last struck
bed rock. Go feet below the bed o.
the Shoshone river. and work will at
once begin on the Shoshone dam OF
the reclamation service in Wyom.
ing. a dam which will be 315 feet
iigh. exclusive of 65 feet beneath
the bed of the river. the highest in
tie world, and which will make pos
sible the conversion into fields and
orchards of 10000 acres of land.
Forty acres of land six miles from
Caldwell last week sold for $1,000
The land was all unimproved, bu,
with good water right.
Western railroads have announced
that during the national Democratic
convention special rates will be put
In effect as follows: The round trir
between Chicago and Denver, $50:
between St Louis and Denver. ss5
and between Omaha and Kansas City
and Denver. $3.50
The Democratic state convention
Of Colorado to elect delegates to the
national convention win be held al
Glenwood Springs. June Is. The
Democratic state central COMMITTEES
issued the call for the convention and
endorsed William J. Bryan for the
presidential nomination.
A Reno. Nevada. man is looking for
$50 women 10 settle in a new colon,