The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-02-27
NORTHWEST NOTES

MAX SIeDefts Oi Seatue, TREASURER VI
the Sons of Herman. prominent In
German lodges. expelled for embezz-
ling. committed suicide.
The president has signed the bin
authorizing the Idaho & Washington
Northern railroad TO bridge the Spo-
kane river in Washington near Occur
d'Alene. Ida
A new set of officers has been Sc
iected for the State Savings bank at
Butte, the Heinze interests being com
rletely eliminated, and that institu-
ton has resumed busienss.
Within the next thirty days. through
trains on the Western Pacific railroad
between Salt Lake and Ely win be In
operations. For the past several weeks
the road has been handling ore cars.
The health authorities OF Silver Bow
county. Montana. have begun pure
milk crusade, as result of which
nine milkmen were arrested one day
last week and tried in the police
court.
In a train wreck near Verdi. Nevada,
carload of buffaloes. being shipped
from Yellowstone Park to the Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, escaped.
and cowboys have been engaged to re-
capture them.
Application for permission to or
Fallon, New, has been made to the
comptroller by Harry Pinger Of Fair
view, New, and others. The capital
stock is to be $4,000.
After four days, in which he suffered
intense agony, w. A. Lawson, young
man 10 years old. died from the ef.
| feet of poison contained In what he
supposed to be mushrooms. which he
| gathered at Golden Gate park, San
| Francisco.
Secretary Garfield has submitted an
| estimate and recommendation to con.
| gress for an appropriation of $4,000 for
| marking six miles of boundary line be-
the western boundary of Yellowstone
National park.
| Charles Arson, traffic chief OF the
Western Telegraph Office in Portland
died at st. Vincent's hospital on the
| 18th, after suffering for few hours
from an attack of apoplexy. Mr.. An
son was one of the best known opera.
tors in the country.
A new phase in the Nevada banking
| situation took place last week when
w. d. Mackenzie, the heaviest indi-
vidual depositor in the suspended
State Bank and Trust company,
agreed to refinance the institution and
become one of its members.
George Bop, union miner who has
been out with the strikers. was severe
ly injured by the explosion of dyna.
mite in a stove in which he was build
ing a fire in his home in Goldfield.
No reason is known for anyone at.
tempting to take Bop's life.
Samuel B. Cohen, prominent mer'
chant of Tonopah, shot himself at ar
early hour in the morning at his home
after losing fortune at gambling.
He was formerly a merchant OF Car
son City and for time took lead
ing part in politics in that city.
Thomas B. Hickey. president of the
/ Otdtc DdHh & iiu6t toiupdhyt was
arrested at Carson. Nevada. last
week, on a charge of embezzlement.
The warrant was sworn to by z. M.
Bohall, who states that he is de-
positor, and that the bank received
deposits knowing that it was insol-
vent
Found guilty of murder of Eugene
o. Madden, near Basin. Mont, on New
Years day, George Plat, an old-time
prospector and miner, has been sent
enced to Imprisonment for life in the
penitentiary. On receiving his sent
ence the old man. with an outburst OF
temper, denounced the prosecuting at
torney.
The Oregon Trust and Savings bank
of Portland, whose failure occurred
several months ago, reopened for bust
ness last week under the name OF
the German-American bank, with which
the bankrupt institution has been
merged. with paid-up capital OF
100000 There was no excitement
and the Withdrawals were light.
Federal Judge Hunt of Helena set
the hearing of cases involving thir.
| teen WIZ arc uliCStu w
have fenced an area OF government
land which is the largest on record
in the history of the United States
courts. They are collectively alleged
TO have taken over approximately
100000 acres.
John G. wetleek attempted to play
joke on F. ID. Heppner. newly APP
pointed policeman in Portland and
was killed Wetleek hid behind a
clump OF bushes and as Heppner came
along stepped in front of him and.
pointing his pipe at the policeman, or
dered Hands up" Heppner drew
his pistol from his pocket and shot
Wetleek dead.
The house OF representative has
passed the Mondell bill. granting an
extension OF time to desert land en-
trymen who are unable to irrigate
their lands within the four years re-
quired by law, the extension not to
j exceed three years. The bill also pro-
hibits the assignment OF a desert en-
try to companies or corporations. but
permits assignments to individuals
qualified to make desert entry.
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