The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-08-13
NORTHWEST NOTES


ingston, Mont. Fragments of his
body were scattered over Ave miles
of track.
Twenty-eight new locomotives.
worth about $500. geo. are said 10 he
tied up at Denver as the result OF the
strike OF the shopmen on the Denver
4 Rio Grande railroad.
Application for a receiver for the
FIRST bank OF Rawhide has been made
The appointment win be made on
aug. 8 and in all probability A. A.
codd win be named as the man.
While hunting deer in the woods
near Lowell, small town near Tekoa.
wash. ON the Ceoeur d'Alene reser-
walton. John Gates, an Indian. was
Killed by the accidental discharge OF
his weapon.
Invitations have been sent to VII.
lam H. Taft and William j. BRYAN.
the rival presidential candidates, to
attend the interstate fair aad EXPOSE
lion In Denver in September and de.
liver addresses.
Capital Is now developing the water
power of the Cherry Creek section of
Nevada, for an irrigation project in
Coal valley. and an area thirty by fif-
teen miles in extent eventually will
be under cultivation.
Mack Thayer. son OF William Thay.
er OF Fenton, Wye, accidentally shot
himself with % calibre revolver.
The bullet entered between the ribs
and lodged under the left shoulder
and Thayer will recover.
Albert Penny. a Union Pacific shop.
man at Laramie, Wyo., has fallen heir
TO share of an estate valued at s2o,-
100000 The property is located in
New York and Penny's share will
amount TO about $500, 900.
Mrs, May Belle Cottrell, charged
with having raised check given her
by Colonel d, p. jenkins, nestor of
the Washington bar. Spokane million.
aire and philanthropist, has been re-
leased from custody on $4,000 bonds.
The last spike connecting Butte
with Chicago on the Chicago Milwau.
kee 4 st. Paul coast extension was
driven at 6 O'Clock on the evening
OF July q, by d. A. Macintosh. one
of the contractors. The spike was one
of brass.
The big prize fight arena OF the
Butte Athletic club, on the fats below
Butte, was destroyed by fire OF I'M
known origin on July 81. entailing
nf Tn 1. III
the big prize fights of Butte have
been held.
An unknown man who was stealing
ride on the Overland limited was
ground TO pieces beneath the wheels
and his body strewn in bits for over a
mile. three miles east of Winnemucca.
Nevada An inquest did not develop
his identity.
Sheriff Campbell OF Cissoula,
Mont, while visiting a friend at Taft.
near Missoula, happened upon two
holdup men in the act OF robbing
Henry Smith. The sheriff gave chase
and caught both robbers. after an ex.
citing and long chase.
The Montana Bankers association
held its annual convention in Billings
last week. The feature of the open
ing session was the addresses by
United States Senator Thomas H.
Carter and John G. Maronit, pres-
dent of the association
Three lives were lost by the capsiz,
ing Of the yawl Elizabeth in the fcv-
erett, Wash, harbor. about two miles
from shore. The drowned men are
George Morton, aged 81. his sister.
Mamie Morton OF Everett, and Miss
Florence Scott OF Victoria.
Stephen G. Grub, Civil war vet
eran, whose action at critical mo-
ment probably saved General William
T. Sherman's entire store Of ammu-
milton just before his famous march
from Atlanta to the sea. died at Tia.
coma on July 80. age 70 years.
John Murphy and Joseph N. McNeal
were instantly killed at Nimrod sta
ton, Mont, on the Northern Pacific
railroad. and Gus Wassen was seri.
ously injured The men were riding
the pilot of work trains engine when
the front trucks climbed the rails.
A jury at Fort Benton, Mont. ac-
quilted Fred Larimore of the murder
of w. p. Turner at the latter's ranch
near Beatrice, last April Judge Tat.
tan scored the jurors severely when
the verdict was read. and intimated
that had a verdict of guilty Of muir.
der in the first degree been return
ed II would have met with his ap
proval.
Jesse Fifer, a street car gripman-
killed his eight-year-old daughter
Hazel. Mrs. Dennis Nihoul. q confine>
ment patient fatally wounded his
wife, Mrs. l.. Fifer, seriously wounded
Mrs. Ethel Warren, his sister-in-law.
at Seattle, and then took his own life
Fifer was crazed because his wife had
left him.
Rex Beach, the novelist and play.
wright. who has just returned from
bear hunting trip In Alaska. is con.
fined in a Seattle hospital, under the
care OF an eye specialist. with a ssrt
Gus attack OF iritis. which, u is feared,
may result In the permanent loss OF
sight.
James Gallagher, a liveryman ~
Twin Falls, Ida. has caused the ar
rest at Denver Of George Kern and
George Mclaughlin. whom he accuses
OF having swindled him out Of 5000.
wagered by him on wrestling match.
which be now declares to have been