The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-09-17
NORTHWEST NOTES

months vacation. on Friday of last
week.
Tom and Lawrence Greed were
sentenced TO Is and IS months re-
spectively for stealing a quantity OF
"atermelons from Union Pacific
car at Cheyenne.
James Gibbs of Del Norte, Colo.
was seriously injured in a runaway
at the Four Mile ranch, near Boggs.
Wyo., few day ago. When the horses
started to run Gibbs was thrown over
the dashboard.
H. ], Martin. a freight conductor.
formerly of Ogden, Utah. was crushed
TO death in a collision on the North
trn Pacific railroad at Avon. about
fifty miles west OF Butte. Martin was
sleeping in the caboose of an extra
freight train
The warlike Piutes of Inyo county
Cal. who have been always more or
less hostile to the whites occupancy
OF their territory, are now so vigor-
ously Directing to the seizure OF their
water rights by Los Angeles that the
settlers fear trouble.
James Stanwood Pierce. aged rs
years, Is dead at his home In Tacoma
OF apoplexy. He was a cousin of Pre-.
sldent Franklin Pierce and his grand.
father, Nathaniel Pirce, gave to the
Federal government the site for the
navy yard at Portsmouth, n. II.
Jack Dunn, the outlaw who recent.
~ murdered a man near Spearfsh, S.
H., Is believed to be In hiding near
Hulett in the northern part OF Crook
county, Wyoming. A sheriff and
several deputies have taken the trail
and hope TO bring in the outlaw
All the Wyoming coal mines shut
down by the strike of the miners have
supplies of coal on hand and there is
little fear of an immediate coal fam
Inc. Butte dispatch announces tha'
the Amalgamated Copper mines hav,
six weeks stock OF coal on hand.
After September IS apple growers
OF the Pacific Northwest will be re
quired to pay sharp Increase Il
freight rates TO market their apple
in the east. The biggest advances
are made to points west of the Mis-
souri, river, whereas advances Il
POINTS east Of the Missouri river ar,
slight.
Dewey the l0-year-old son Of Z
| +. Back, Cheyenne contractor
1 found cartridge in the alley at hi
home and after extracting the bullet
/ he placed the shell on rock an
/ hammered 1t until ii exploded
! riece of the shell struck young Bac
in the left breast. killing him almos
/ instantly.
Sheriff Smalley of Cheyenne ha
/ unearthed a quantity OF dynamite an
inse in the back yard Of the HON
| recently occupied by Charles Smitl
who was sat a few days ago Will
resisting arrest. and who is believe
to have robbed a large number {
stores and residences during the pas
few years.
II is reliably reported at New
castle, Wyoming. that the Mario
gauge railroad extending from Spea
fish. s D., to the Black Hills n
tional forest north of Nwcastle. Ia
lie standardized and extended
Newcastle early next year. TT
present terminus of the road is on
% miles distant.
Passenger and freight rates on Il
Pacific coast may be increased If Il
Plans considered at a meeting OF c
fcials of the Union Pacific railway
the Auditorium Annex hotel at CT
cago the other day are fruitful TT
meeting was a secret one, but Il WI
declared that an increased tariff ra
to the coast had been considered.
The Northern Pacific and subsidla
companies. which are defendants In
suit recently instituted by the GO
; eminent to recover immensely val
, able coal lands in Montana filed the
. answer last week, which In effect
: that the government cannot go ba
under it's classification under viii
the tracts were awarded.
The mine whistles did not call {
r.iners to work at Dietz. Monart
GAINESVILLE, Kooi end Riverside
. September .. Seven hundred men a
ont AT Dietz. 400 at Monarch, 300
: Carneyville 30 at Kooi and 20
, / Riverside The miners are optim
tic.
! Sergeant Bower of Troop ID. -Four
> cavalry. who wandered away fire.
p canp in the Crow Creek reser'
while suffering from injuries receiv
D hv his horse falling on him. "
] found in Laramie, and is being car
4 ior at local hospital. He viii
p cover.
p. Coal miners and operators for
I Montana district met In conferer
o at Helena on the 3rd. for the purpo
I Of sxlng a wage scale for the en-
ne wear The operators are und
a s-ood 10 be DESTROYS Of reduri
Q wages. which will be resisted by
miners.
n Mrs Robert Chapman. an ar
$ woman from Oakland. Cal. who. "
q her husband. has been visiting tn
2 SON George Chapman. al Reno, Ne
"a was found dead by her husha
r. ~ an early hour. She had used chic
q form 70 alleviate a headache
3. took 10 much,
Il After building out TO Fort Rus
r the Cheyenne Tramway company
D huiId a line from It's present tern
n - out beyond the chain Of lakes