The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-01-23
NORTHWEST NOTES

the senate the nomination of Christian
Schuebel to be United States attorney
for the district of Oregon.
Fire at Culbertson, Mont, destroyed
an entire block OF business houses
before 1t was gotten under control.
entailing a loss OF $125,o0O.
The fourth annual convention of the
Wyoming Woolgrowers' association.
the largest ever held in the state. was
held at Laramie, Wyo., last week.
John Darling. charged with for
gerry, broke out of the Rock Springs,
Wyo. Jail last week, with several
other prisoners charged with minor
offenses.
7. 0. Newman, q business man of
Butte, Mont. shot and killed himself
On Southern Pacific train at Battle
Mountain, Nevada He was temper
arily insane.
+. A. Heinze has appealed to Pres
ident Roosevelt for the remission Of
$4,000 fine imposed upon him for
contempt Of court in violating An in
junction restraining him from extract
ing ore from a certain Butte mine.
Exports of wheat, barley and -four
from Portland and Puget Sound ports
have been adding $4,000 a day to
the wealth of Oregon and Washington
since October !, and this average of
exports win be maintained until the
end of this month.
The smclter trust has announced a
new rate for Goldfield ores. For all
ores up to 500 ton, full cash settle
ment will be made at once. For
ores over 500 ton the company will
pay 500 ton at once and balance
within forty-five days.
Governor Joseph X. Toole of Mon.
tana has appointed thirty represent
atfve citizens as delegates to the Mis-
souri, River Navigation congress, to
be held in Sioux City, January 22-25
next. The delegation Is headed by
William Scallon of Butte.
A contract for $1,000,O00 worth of
construction on the new Denver &
Northwestern railroad has been let to
an Omaha firm. BY the end of the
year the company hopes to have the
section from Denver to Fort Collins,
125 miles, almost completed.
I, In order to encourage structural
steel work in the Nevada mills and
mines, the Salt Lake and the Las
Vesas & Tonopah railroads have re-
duced the tariff ON structural steel be-
tween Los Angeles and Nevada points
from s1.S3 hundred to $l.I7.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners nj Montana directed the at
torney general to file three actions in
the district court against the North
ern Pacific company. alleging viola
tons of the sixteen hour employment
law for employees in the train service.
Mrs Isabel Hesket was murdered ct
Rhyolite, Nevada, by Fred Skinner,
with whom the unfortunate woman
had eloped from her home in Arrow
head. Colo. Skinner shot the woman
four times in the back. and attempted
suicide, but failed and is now in Jail.
The forest supervisors of district
No. 4. which includes the forests of
southern Idaho, Utah, part of wyo-
ming and Nevada, will meet in Salt
Lake January Is. II and IS, for the
purpose Of talking over national for
est policies and work of supervisors
By the breaking of a natural dam
formed by landslide. the waters of
East creek wrecked the bunk house
at Ladd. the mining camp of the East
Creek Coal company, sixty miles
south OF Tacoma e Becker, master
mechanic of the company, was buried
in the ruins. The other men escaped
death.
the East Helena plant of the Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining company. the
question Of going on strike was de-
feated by only five votes. II is be-
lieved that this win definitely settle
the matter. and that no further trouble
will be had at the smelter over the
reduction in wages.
A special from Helena. Mont. states
that an attempt to escape on the part
of two alleged Great Northern train
robbers who held up the Oriental
Limited at Rondo. Mont, and secured
SAC. 900, was frustrated by the vigi
lance of United States Marshal Merri-
field, who. in the shirt of Charles Nc
Donald, found a hacksaw.
A. c. Coggin of Seattle. state man
ager of the Loyal Americans, J. w.
vessey and John Peters, wealthy
sheep men of Prosser, Wash. left for
Durango, Mexico. late last March to
purchase land. They took along about
s30. 900 No trace of them has been
found since last April. though IL is
known they reached Durango. II is
suspected they were lost in the |
mountains or were killed by Indians. |
While D. Vigil. well known ranch
man. and his wife and grandchild. |
aged six. were crossing the railroad |
track near Mayne station, Colorado. |
the wagon was struck by passenge. |
train. Vigil and the CHILD were in |
stantly killed and Mrs. Vigil fatally |
hurt.
Frank Cochrane and +. r. Bell, both |
farmer residents of Seattle. engaged |
In a pistol duel in San Francisco as |
A result OF which both men are dead |
Il Is said that the cause of the shoot |
ing was the charge made by Cochrane |
that Bell had won his wife's afec-