The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-12-10
NORTHWEST NOTES

News has been received In Butte
OF the death Al Redlands. Cal. OF DIR.
John s. Marshall. who. as manager of /
the Montana hotel. Anaconda, during
Marcus Days time. was the best
known bonifaee in Montana
In a duel on the desert near RhyO !
lite, Nevada. John Smith was shot !
and killed by John cyty. an Italian. /
who was wounded In the arm. The
men quarreled over some mining
property.
The board OF control OF the Dry
Farming congress. which Is 10 meet AT
Cheyenne February %. announces
that requests for accommodations are
coming from various sources. indicAt.
ing widespread belief that the congress
Is 10 be held this month.
President Roosevelt will not make
\ display al the Alaska. Yukon Pacific
exposition of the trophies Of his South
African hunt next year In reply 10
a formal request. Secretary Loeb. for
the president. has replied that II viii
be impossible 10 comply,
Because OF the Importance OF the
forestry reserve problem and other
public questions In which the west is
vitality interested, President TAFT win
be invited 10 attsndsthe annual con
I yention OF the Trans Mississippi con.
gress in Denver next August
George H. Scott. eoppty clerk and a
/ prominent Republican, and Attorney
/ William H. Maloney, Democratic
| leader. fought one hour and ave min
I utes in gulch at Butte. under prize
| ring rules, TO settle an election bet.
The fight was finally declared draw
In order to provide foa the widows
and orphans OF the victims OF the re
! cent mine disaster at Red Lodge,
Mont. when nine men lost their lives.
each miner at Red Lodge has been as.
sessed the sum OF So There are over
! 100 miners in the camp. and the as
sesment will amount 70 $4,000.
Two men attacked Tom Loo. an
aged Chinaman OF Reno. intent on
robbery. and was beating the old man
TO death when his cries brought
scores OF Cinnamon, who drove the
robbers on. but not until Loo was bad
ly injured. The robbers ars believed
10 be members OF an organized band
The Northwestern railroad has dis
covered a large bed Of gravel at Wa
haba. west OF Shoshone, Wyo.. and vii
in the spring establish gravel pits ant
ballast its entire line from Lander I,
Omaha The gravel is said TO be sim
liar to the celebrated Sherman hill
ballast on the line Of the Union Pacif'
railroad.
Believed by the police TO be on
still hunt for the man who betraye'
Joseph Garcia, alias Cordova. into tn
hands OF officers of the law the nigh
OF May 9. and incidentally the leade
OF gang OF thieves who have bee
operating in Seattle for the past thre
months. Sadie Belcher is under arres
In Seattle.
George Lyman Dutson, one Of Ia
best known residents OF Star vale.
, was instantly killed while rolling los
in Grover canyon. near Alton, Wy
, Two sections OF log which his 50
r I
, down hill toward Dution. who fed b
fore them, but was struck. his nee
being broken.
. The Western Pacific Railroad col
pany announced last week the compl
: ton of it's Flower Lake tunnel, whi'
!. cuts under the Pequop mountains.
/, Nye county. Nevada. The tunnel
. on the main line of the Western r
!. cific and is 1857 feet IN length.
most the entire distance is throul
solid limestone.
= An assessment OF cent per capt
= which will total 500 900 and which W
!, be used for increasing the memb'
. ship as well as making the secti'
|. more efficient in every way. "
A made by the building trades bran
y of the American Federation Of Lab
at the sessions OF its annual conve
ton in Denver.
The passenger department OF I
Oregon Short Line railroad announc
n that the Yellowstone park seasc
2 which usually closes along in Septe
4. Der. will be materially lengthen
.. next summer 10 accommodate tra'
to and frozl the Alaska Yukon Pact
. exposition.
At Amboy. Wash. Fred Swindle.
"a farm hand. shot and killed Ed New'
!. attempted TO kill Mrs, Newell, a
!, then killed himself Back OF the III
A edy is a story of unreQuited love a
dependency due to the marriage
- Newell TO Mrs. Rose Hoffman. thu
20 months ago
Francis J. Heney. the San Francis
attorney who was shot by Nor
Haas. celebrated Thanksgiving day
y taking an automobile ride in Gold
- Gate park. He was accompanied
s his wife. DR. BeAsley. Rudolph Spre
CT les. William J Burns ard James Fol
ne his bodyguard.
&c A strong effort viii be made at
ne approaching session OF congress TO
10 cure the passage Of the dry IA
'n homestead bill which encountered
many obstacles at the last sessi
. Senator Smooi OF Utah viii take
p the fight in the senate. as he was
re- original author of the bill.
The Wyoming Wool Growers as
citation is circulating two thous'
=, petitions among the business men
=. the state protesting against any red
" ton in present duties on wool 1