The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-04-30
NORTHWEST NOTES

900, with $5.250.000 in silver.
w. NJ e. Sengbusch. the Great
Falls. Montana. brewer. is dead. aged
a.. He came to Montana from Mil
waukee sixteen years ago.
The senate has passed the bill au-
thorizing the allotment TO the Indians
Of the lands Of the Spokane Indian
reservation and The sale Of the sur
plus to white settlers.
At meeting OF the executive COM
mittee Of the Montana Mining asso-
citation in Helena. the taking over Of
the Panhandle smelter at Pend
O'Reille. Idaho. was ratified and the
papers signed
Guy Morris. alias Handsome Dan"
who chloroformed Jennie Smith. at
Spokane. Wash, stole her Jewels and
fed to Minnesota, has been sentenced
to serve from five to twenty years In
the Washington state prison.
Residents Of Big Timber, Mont.
the town which was almost entirely
destroyed by fire last month, have
been notified by the Northern Pacific
Railway company that they will be
paid so cents on the dollar to cover
their losses.
the Montana Mining association the
interior department has begun an in
yestigation into the mineral and non
mineral classification OF lands includ-
ed in Northern Pacific land grants in
Montana and Idaho.
s. n. Hamer, chief immigration in
spector. has enished making an ex-
animation of inmates of penal insti-
buttons and insane asylums OF the
state of Washington and reports that
more than 20 per cent of them are
unnaturalized foreigners.
The United States department of
justice, reversing its policy, an.
nounced some time ago, will resume
investigation of land frauds in Colo.
RADIO and other western states and a
force of special agents has been de-
tailed from Washington to begin i'm.
mediate work in Colorado, Utah and
Wyoming.
Adolph Adler. the young Austrian
Jew who was arrested in Portland af-
ter he had addressed written de-
mand for $500 to Sigmund Hichel,
prominent Jewish resident Of Port
land, or suffer death for his failure
to meet the demand. still refuses to
reveal the names of the organizers
of the plot.
A heavy earthquake shock was felt
on the night of April Is, all through
the Meadow Valley wash of Nevada.
The shock was OF about thirty sec
onds duration, from SOL p. m. to
S:O11s. No damage beyond the shak-
ing down of dishes is reported. 1t
was more severely felt to the north
west of Caliente.
Holding that it is the duty of par
ents to safeguard their children when
in known places Of danger, the SUI
preme court of Montana has reversed
the district court of Silver Bow coun-
ty in the suit of Harrington against
the Butte. Anaconda & Pacific rail-
way, which had awarded damages for
injury to a child.
w. P. Turner. a Choteau county,
Montana, ranchman, was shot and
killed last week by Fred Larinore,
former employee. Larimore has sur
rendered to the authorities at Fort
Benton, but refuses to make any
statement. Turner has been a resi-
dent of the section for thirty years
and was unmarried.
A large reception is to be given at
Reno, New, on the evening of April
25, in honor of Bishop Robinson. the
first Episcopal bishop of the Sage
brush" state. Until very recently
Nevada has been divided between
the bishops of Utah and California.
but the rapid growth of Nevada made
the change necessary.
Senator Clarke of Wyoming, chair
dietary. last week reported to
the senate a bill providing that in
the extradition from state to state of
fugitives from justice. IAN informa-
ton duly filed may have the same
effect as an affidavit or of an indict-
ment of a grand jury.
The detectives who captured Frank
hauser and Mcdonald. who held up a
train at Rondo. Mont. securing s40.-
900, have sued Sheriff Shoemaker OF
Helena for $4,000. The robbers es-
capped from the Helena jail few
weeks ago and the detectives hold
that Sheriff Shoemaker. having thus
caused them to lose the reward Of
fered, should pay II himself.
Captain Sam Adler. a noted pioneer
prospector and one of the oldest Odd
Fellows in the United States, died on
April IL at a Reno. Nevada. hospital
from pneumonia. Captain Adler had
an interesting career. crossing the
plains in 1S49, and has the distinction
OF working on one of United States
Senator Jones claims In California for
one year and printed the first paper
in California
The total mineral production of Ne
vada up to 1908 Is sl.026.5s0.214.
while the profits derived from the
states legitimate mining stocks is
largely In excess OF 10000. 600: while
the vast store of her natural treasure
vaults has only been touched here
snd there.
Senator Nixon has introduced a bill
to refund about $1,000 to w. b. Ora
ham, former postmaster at Ely. New,
on account OF the amount he was
compelled to advance for extra clerk