The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-10-29
NORTHWEST NOTES

an
.'e'eih Oh roads between 20 and IN
per cent within the past three vears
Inc Farmers and Traders Nation,,
.ahk OF La Grande, Ore, has closed
'ts doors. The bank was canitaI,yoa
az soo'ooo and two weeks ago its de.
POSTS amounted to $3.50, 900.
Inc biggest state encampment in
tne history of the Knights of Pyth,a,
VI montana opened at Great Falls on
.ne 1oth. A fancy drill, in which
Soo uniformed knights particinated
was the feature of the opening dav
parade. N"'
on the verge of mental collapse
o. Burroughs confessed to county
peace officers at Sheridan, Wyo. that
ne witnessed the assassination of ex.
Sheriff Harvey K Brown by a bomb
throWer at Baker City, Ore, a year
ago.
FRANK 5. Monnett, former attorney
general of Ohio, addressed an audi.
ence that filled the Broadway theater
at Butte, on Democratic issues. Mr.
Monnett's address was mainly on the
trust question and the subject of the
guaranty of bank deposits.
What is believed by government Of
flclals at Seattle to be a new gang of
men engaged in smuggling Cinnamon
into the United States from British
Columbia is now operating on such
an extensive scale that immigration
chclals are worried greatly.
A Butte Miner dispatch from Lew.
iston, Mont, states that a deal was
closed there whereby the Cook-Rey-
nolds company, representing Wiscon-
sin capitalists, has purchased the Ell
lott and Beck and the w. o. Straw
ranches, aggregating 10000 acres of
land, for 100000.
Bishop John p Carroll of the do
cese of Helena, Mont, has announced
the purchase of forty-five acres of
land on Capitol hill, which will be
used as the site of Catholic univer.
sity which will rank among the best
in the country. Work will begin on
lne DullulnSS at once.
A lone highwayman. armed with
two revolvers, walked into the Clear
Lake Logging companys camp al
Clear Lake, Wash, lined up the
thirty employees in a row and ordered
two of the loggers to search the
others. The robber walked out OF
the camp with $3.50 and several cheaE
watches.
Ralph Pearce, the negro porter
who struck down Oscar Travis, 6
commercial traveller. during quar-
rel on a Northern Pacific train, ha!
been captured. Pearce struck Travis
with an iron bar and jumped from
the train near Garfield, Wash. Travis
is in a dangerous condition at a Lew
iston hospital
Six persons were instantly killed
and twenty-one others injured by th'
explosion of a missed charge of dyAa
mite at the lngleside limestone quar-
ry sixteen miles northwest of For
Collins, Colo The dead. two Ia
ranese and four Mexicans. are n. Ia
bata. l.. Aoki, Gregori Mangora. Pc
GRO Hernandez, Jesus Lopez ant
Pedro Abalos.
Thomas Morrow, aged 60, promi
nent photographer of Sparks, Nevada
met a violent death when he attempt
ed to Jump from fast moving trail
as It was passing through that place
He had been at F1oriston, Cal. mai
ing views for pulp concern, an
boarded a through train there, hopin
the train would slow down sufficient
ly for him 10 alight safely.
A Billings, Mont. jury found Flol
,nce Riordan guilty of manslaughte
in connection with the death OF he
husband. Timothy Riordan, and hxe
ter punishment at one year In IN
nenitentiary. Mrs. Riordan, on tn
witness stand. declared that she sho
and killed her husband with MS oW
gun. which she wrested from MI
after he had struck her and ha
threatened her with death
The jury in the case OF Edwar
Hugh Martin. tried at Portland fc
the murder OF Nathan Wolf, paw
broker. on the night of May ! las
brought in a verdict of guilty, hxln
tho degree at manslaughter Martl
is n graduate of West Point and
veteran of the Spanish-Amerlcan wa
Engineer Campbell of the Harrima
lines in ogden proposes TO call
chemical experts 10 solve the my
,arious decay Of the ties along u
ogdenI.ncin cutoff, which has caus,
a great deal OF trouble in keeping VI
rack in repair since the CONSTRUCTS
of the translate line.
An earthquake shock. starting
N % O'Clock at night and lasuI
,r,antv minutes. was recorded on u
seismograph a. the University
ran on the 18th. The records sho
a, extremely violent shock, so
yara that the needle was thrown COZ
pletely of the drum.
George Grover who escaped ITO
the insane asylum al biAchi"'
Idaho some time ago. was cap'ur'
in salt Lake City last week by =
,a,ao,, Miller Of the asylum. vi
bss beep here looking for the ma
clover called at the postoi'lc' IoI
mail which action led TO MS oap'"'
The annual repor, Of the Nes'e e,
, Union Telegraph company I"f u
= ear ended June 80 shows re''nn ~,
!, 90 ,7S sS2.2le. a decrease from u
; PREVIOUS wear Of fA.27 ia. ,o, =, /,
e nenses s25I722i5. decrease OF :
80 sSl. leaving a deficit i'T 'hf ~