The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-11-12
NORTHWEST NOTES

Vooer ~ being one of the largest ever
heid In that city Colonel Ferris was
pioneer freighter. being associated
with former Governor B. F. White.
John Brady, a former Helena con
tractor. prominent in Democratic poll
tes' died in Basin, Mont. on October
-. He was one of the Oldest con
tractors In the state and had a con.
tract on the first road built into Hell
/ ena.
The coal miners Of the Sheridan.
Wyo, district and the operators OF
the mines in which the men are en-
ployed have not yet ratified the wage
scale agreement reached by their rep
resentatiyes at the Cheyenne confer
ence month ago.
George S. Walker. secretary of the
National Wool Growers association
lett Cheyenne for Shoshone. Ida,
where he will confer with President
Frank w, Gooding relative to the pro
gram for the coming annual conven-
! ton OF the association.
| The process of double tracking
work in Wyoming on the Union Pa
cific railroad is slower than was antic-
ipated, but excellent work is being &C.
compiished. Handicapped by short.
age OF men in the last two weeks. only
about two miles have been laid.
A syndicate of Minnesota, Montana
and Oregon cattlemen have leased ten
thousand acres of grazing land near
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head OF Butte inlet, British Columbia,
and thousands of yearlings will he
shipped in. There is no snowfall there.
and the cattle can feed all the year
| round.
After invading a sorority party at
Reno, Nevada, at which only women
were admitted. five male students OF
Nevada university, X. r. Tilliston, j.
A. Houlihan, Ralph Dignowity, c. G.
Schrapps and Lyle Selby. we're cap.
tured by police after an exciting
chase. The boys may be expelled
from school,
The general land Office has adjust.
ed its account with the state OF Wyo-
ming, showing net proceeds OF the
sale of public lands in said state for
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1908.
Receipts were $659,l06, of which
amount S543,S65 was received from
the sale of public lands and 81 .O63
from fees and commissions
With a cry that he was going to kill
| himself, George Devere, a detective
in the employ of the Goldfield Consol
idated Mines company at Goldseld
| Nevada, shot himself in the head with
an automatic revolver, death result
| ing. Brooding over the killing of a
man who resisted arrest is attributed
as the cause for the deed.
! Tremendous excitement exists at
| Phoebe. Nevada, over the latest great
strike in the Mendha property, locat-
! ed in the Highland district The ore
body that drifts off to the south of
the 700-foot level so far exposes. by
actual measurement, 10000 tons OF
ore, worth net, according to the daily
returns of shipments. 100000
With an open knife in his right
hand, Francisco Cea was found dead
/ IN the middle of a country road five
miles west of Billings, Mont, having
| evidently been murdered and robbed.
Ills clothing had been cut open in an
! effort to find money which it Is sup
! posed he carried on his person. Cea
was engaged as a section workman
Lewis Penwell, treasurer of the Ma.
tional Wool Growers association has
received a letter from Secretary G. S
Walker of Cheyenne .Wyo- telling
hi i'm hot -
Helena November 16 to discuss the
erection of warehouse capable OF
holding 25,000,000 pounds of wool. The
building will be located in Chicago
Carl Ludwig Fenske. "a years old
is dead at Billings, Mont, from the
effects of two strokes of paralysis
Mr.. Fenske was the Oldest voter in
Yellowstone county and had cast his
ballot in eighteen presidential cleo
lions. Mr.. Fenske was one of the pic
ner settlers of Wisconsin and his re
mains will be taken TO Berlin, Wis.
for burial
Okanogan county. in the extreme
north central part of Washington, now
traversed by stage and freight lines
| SPN'"'SA ~ hpi anu dutOluOulitSs u
TO have an electric railway before the
close of another year. Colonel Albert
M. Dewey, of Spokane, president o
the Okanogan Electric Railway com
pany. announces that the sale o.
bonds is practically accomplished, anC
that work will begin soon. The line
and equipment will cost s2.621 $50.
James Gaskin, one OF the bes-
known colored business men OF the
state. was arrested at Cheyenne las
week, charged with having possession
of one of twelve sets OF harness re
Gently stolen from the government a
Fort Russell. Gaskin was released OF
bond.
The naked body of d. s. Murray wa,
found in the railroad terminal yard,
in Portland He had committed sui
eide. hacking his wrists with a dul
pocket knife until the arteries wer,
severed. Murray belonged to a prom
inent family, but drink had dragged
him down.
Discovering i'm the eleventh houl
that If he retained his Office as United
States court commissioner he coulC
not qualify as Taft presidential cleo
tor, Frank Dallam. the pioneer editor
OF LoOmis. Wash. hurried 10 Spokan,