The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-06-04
NORTHWEST NOTES

was done.
Forest fires In the vicinity OF Clyde.
Colo. have destroyed over ! 900 acres
OF timber and at last reports were
moving toward the watershed OF Colo
RADIO Springs. on the south slope Of
| Pixies Peak
@. A. Fnkelberg. who resigned as
judge of the United States district
court at St Louis In 1907. on account
of failing health. died in Denver on
May Is. He was born near Cologne.
Prussia. in 1897.
Pierre Gouyet. Lew Gouyet and two
French women are under arrest in
Helena. charged with importing for
| eign girls into this country fer I'm
neral purposes. The crusade 10 along
the line OF the efforts OF Secretary
Straus TO stop this trafiic
Lewis Ferris. accused OF tho crime
OF dynamiting the eastbound Buriing-
ton express at Butte ON the night OF
May l. when three people were killed.
pleaded not guilty Of the charge
when arraigned in the criminal court
at Butte. and his trial has been set
for June /.
Judge Langoon OF Carson. Nevada.
has appointed Frank wildes, deputy
state treasurer. az receiver Of the
State Bank q Trust company. which
suspended last October. II Is b.
lieved the bank will eventually be
able to pay the depositors at least 50
cents on the dollar
Ole Nordahl, n Musseishell ranchsr,
was arraisned at Lewistown. Mont.
last week. for the murder OF the en-
tire Schleuter family. a mother and
three children, who were found dead
two months ago on lonely ranch
Nordahl pleaded not guilty. There is
no motive for the crime.
Snow which In many places reach.
ed depth of three feet fell at Sher-
idan. Mont, last week Fruit viii be
ruined and the suffering OF livestock
great II Is the worst spring storm
IN twenty-five years. extends over
northern Wyoming and parts Of Mon
tana, also into western Nebraska.
w. r. Davis, private secretary 10
the late Governor Sparks. died at his
home In Carson. New. on May 90, OF
stomach trouble. w. X Davis. better
known as Riley Davis, served as see
rotary to Governor Sparks since the
latter first took Office. He formerly
was a resident OF Dayton. New
w. w Hendricks. foreman In the
employ of the Utah Construction
l lob
the Western Pacific. may lose his eye
sight as the result OF the explosion
OF a box of dynamite caps, One u his
eyes was torn from its socket, and II
is feared he will lose the sight Of the
other.
Announcement Is made that the
next annual convention of the Amer
lean Bankers association will be held
In Denver during the week beginning
September 81. The date was decided
upon by Frederick c. Fsrnswor,h. OF
New York. secretary of the associg.
ton. after a conference with officers
Of the Denver convention league.
Three masked men robbed Old Kirk
inn, halfway between Reno and To
ana. Nevada. and with reyolvers
forced the night bartender and wo
man who was in the saloon with the
night bartender into a closet. They
blew open the safe and completely
wrecked IL with nitro glycerin and Sc
cured $3.50 and left the place on
horses.
The announcement of the discovery
of theft OF dynamite from a car oI
the explosive on the Dawson siding
near Butte. has caused much alarm
among railroad people as the result
of the recent dynamiting of the Bur
lington train near where this powder
was stolen. The tracks are bciDf
closely guarded and every precautior
taken.
The coroners' inquiry into th'
deaths of Seaman J. ]. Staub and Mas
ter.atArms F. Luinsky of the New
Jersey, who were killed by a stree
car at Bellingham. Wash. returned
verdict generating The motormaf
and the traction company II wal
shown that the seamcn were ridinl
on the front fender OF the car. ant
It WAS admitted that this was agains
the rules.
A dispatch from Missoula, Mont.
states that the body OF Henry Meyer
better known as Dutch Harry
throughout Montana, has been foun'
on a sandbar In the Missoula river
Meyer is believed 10 have wandered
Into the river and drowned while be
wiidered Dutch Harry" was wei
known early day character during ih'
exciting time OF the yigilante reign
acting as freighter for BIN Bunioi
AZ the tine he Was taken from M
camp at Drummond by yigiianies an
strung up to a nearby tree Harr]
was out looking for his horses an
when he returned 10 camp fonn'
Bun,on suspended from limb
Stanley Peek shot and instantly
killed Andy Saterro. fellow en-
ploye in the Southern Pacific bag
gage room at Reno. Nevada. and thei
ielophoned the officers TO come AM
get him. Peek gave as the reason
for his act the alleged undue intimacy
OF Saterro with his wife.
A woman known az Evelyn Arthu
shot and badly wounded minini
man. c. 8. Johnson. In the tenderioii
district Of Winnemucca. Nevada TIT
woman claimed johnson bad takel
her money and refused 10 return il
while he declares he never saw tn