The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-01-16
NORTHWEST NOTES

was klsieu IN snoWsnue IN the Big
Horn mountains. at the head OF the
Big Horn river. on December 81.
A train wreck at Elko, Nevada,
caused by runaway engine, killed
| two tramps, injured three others, and
eleven cars were smashed to splinters.
More than forty pens of sheep have
been entered for exhibit at the Ma.
tional Wool Growers convention to be
,, held in Helena. Mont, January IA, Is
and 16.
The State Bank of Rocky Ford.
Colo. closed its doors on January 2,
following run. The officers OF the
bank hope to resume business In q
short time.
The Nye and Ormsby County bank.
with branches at Goldfield, Tonopah
and Reno. Nevada. which closed its
doors October 81. resumed operations
on January q
In spite Of the recent financial
furry, Colorado Springs has within
twenty days raised a total of $751;
0s1.75 to complete 100000 endow-
ment fund for the Colorado college.
The river steamer Annie Cummings
ran into ship anchored in the lower
harbor in Portland and sank in three
minutes. The crew escaped The
Cummings was tow boat and carried
no passengers.
After practically a years unremit.
ting work, the newest branch of the
Salt Lake Route. the Caliente-Pioche
line, was turned over to the operat-
ing department of the system at mid
night Tuesday, December 81.
Frenzied by fire which partially
consumed the second floor of the
Western lodging house, in Seattle, Alb
raham Nielsen and Albert Olson, Swe-
dish dodgers, jumped from the sec
ond story window and may be fatally
injured
Mrs. Mary Ramsay Wood, the old
est white woman in Oregon, died at
Hillsboro, Ore, on January /, her one
hundred and twentieth birthday. Mrs.
Wood was a native of Tennessee and
later lived in Missouri, coming from
there to Oregon.
According to the Portland Oregon.
ian, adjutant generals OF the three Pa
cific coast states have been invited by
the war department to go to Wash
ington, D. c., for a conference at the
earliest possible date on the subject
of coast defense
Gambling houses, which have been
openly conducted in Denver for sew.
eral years, have been closed by order
OF Mayor Speer. Midnight and Sun.
day closing laws, 1t is announced. will
also be enforced and prize fighting
stopped in Colorado.
County Commissioner Rosenthal of
Goldfield, whose resignation has been
requested by Governor Sparks, has re.
fused to vacate his office. Rosenthal
was thought by the governor to have
been working contrary to Sparks in.
terests, it Is claimed
Two laborers were killed and eight
badly injured by dynamite explosion
In construction camp on the Port |
land & Seattle railroad, twenty-five |
miles south of Sprague, Washington.
The men were all Bulgarians and were
thawing dynamite In kitchen range.
William L. Daley, who with William |
N. Byers, founded the Rocky Noun. |
tain News in 1859, died in Denver,
January 4, after an illness of several |
months. Mr.. Daley was born in |
Tiffin, O., in 1883. Before coming to |
Colorado Mr.. Daley was connected |
with newspapers in Iowa and Ne
braska.
On Sunday the six-inch water pipe |
through which air is famed to the |
entombed miners at Ely, Nevada, be-
came bent by the pressure of rock |
and earth at the 600-foot level and
no air could be sent to them. Res
cuers, by redoubled efforts, reached
the break in few hours and repaired |
the pipe.
While celaring up the debris of the
wreckage of the Northern Pacific
freight train which ran wild down
the Rocky mountains, and which was
ditched near the city limits of Hell
ena, Mont, entailing a loss of $780,
900, workmen discovered the body of
an unknown man. 1t is presumed he
was stealing ride.
Bank Examiner Collins of Montana
has made public a summary of the
reports Of the forty-seven state in
sututions under the supervision of
that department, and the showing is
Since the last call il
August, the banks have increased
their reserve $4,000 and now have
total resources of 6,491, 0sS.90.
George G. Brown, a laborer, was
by one of the four highway
men who robbed the Jargdorf hotel al
Reno, Nevada After searching most
Of the crowd in the gambling house
attached to the hotel, the highway.
men took the roulette bank roll and
Dne of them shot Brown as they
passed out of the building.
In commemoration of the emanci-
patton proclamation of President Lin
,oln, which became effective forty
Years ago. Governor Henry A. Buch-
eel on January ! pardoned from the
Colorado penitentiary Edward Free
man, a negro. who had served five
Years of a ten to twenty-year term
or murder committed at Trinidad.
Last year the wool clip OF the state
IL Montana was over 30. 00O. 600
,ounds, which brought approximately
100000. For the coming season il