The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-02-06
NORTHWEST NOTES

unknown mulatto In the red-light dis
trict of Butte and has since died from
| his wounds.
Sam Davis, an officer at McGill, Ne
vada, was shot and seriously injured
by Greek who was resisting arrest.
The Greek was later shot by a men,
Der of posse, and died from his
wounds.
| Auditorium plans accepted last week
by the Democratic national committee
on arrangements for the national con-
vention to be held in Denver, provide
for seats for $4,000 persons in the
convention hall.
| resolution was passed by the
house on the 22nd requesting the presi-
dent to submit to congress a copy of
the report of the special commission
sent by him to investigate the labor
troubles at Goldfeld.
About 5000 unemployed men march.
| ed to the mayors Office In Seattle one
day last week to ask for work. Most
OF them are lumbermen who have been
driven to the city by the closing of
mills and camps.
BY vote of 17S to 116, the annual
convention of the Colorado Horse &
| Cattle Growers association, In session
in Denver, went on record as opposed
| to the federal administrators policy
! of public land control.
Francis J. Heney, in an interview
In Portland. declares that land frauds
are being perpetrated in Oregon today
as OF yore, only that the prosecution
of the land grafters has made them
more careful in their operations.
1t is stated by the committee OF 10.
cal bankers having charge of the bank.
ing operations of the Portland banks
during the recent depression, that all
of the $1,000,000 of clearing house
certificates issued during that time
have been redeemed.
c. Mathis, absconding cashier OF
the defunct Exchange bank of Blaine.
Washington, which suspended two
weeks ago, has been arrested in Ash.
croft, b. c. He agrees to waive ex.
tradition and return and try to
straighten out the banks affairs.
The verdict of the coroner's inques,
over the remains of Mrs Fred Sluter
and her four children whose charred
bodies were found in the ruins of their
little ranch home on the Musselshell,
in Montana, recommends that Ole
| Nordell be held for the crime. Very
strong evidence against him has been
found.
| Former United States Commissioner
| H. III. Hendricks, of Portland, last
week pleaded guilty to his share in the
alleged illegal fencing of land in the
Butte Creek Livestock, Land and Lum.
Der company. This is believed TO be
preliminary to like pleadings on the
part of other persons connected with
the land case.
All Western Pacific construction
work between the California-Nevada
line and Palisade, New, has been
| stopped temporarily on account OF
shortage of funds, About 200 men
have been thrown out OF work. The
contractors having charge of this
work state that work will be resumed
| by February 10.
In connection with the murder and
| partial incineration of Mrs. Fred
Schleuter and her four children at
their ranch near Flat Willow, Montana,
rancher named Nordell has been ar
rested. He lives two miles from the
scene of the crime. II is said he was
in love with Mrs. Schleuter's 15-year-
old daughter.
The Mine Operators association
has abolished the card system, which
requires all employees to sign an agree.
ment renouncing the Western Fedora.
| ton of Miners, and declared an open
| shop policy. This action was because
If the fact that the agreement which
| De men were required to sign is in
| conflict with the statutes of Nevada.
Jewelry, heirlooms and costly cloth
ing to the value OF $4,000 were stolen
from the home of James Douglas in
| Portland last week. Included among
the stolen articles were the sword and
ieweled belt given TO Sir James Doug
| las, grandfather of MIR. Douglas. by
| Queen Victoria. when Sir James Doug.
las became first governor of British
| Columbia.
The senate judiciary committee has
favorably reported the bill OF Senator
Clark, Wyoming. increasing the fees OF
witnesses and jurors in the United
States courts and before commission
ers courts. to SO per day with mile
age at 10 cents per mile by stage and
cents by rail in Montana. Wyoming
Utah. Oregon. Colorado. Nevada, Ida
ho, New Mexico and Arizona.
AS result Of correspondence which
has passed between President Roose
welt, Clifford PincEJt and western
lawmakers. following suggestions OF
]. A. Mcclure, editor OF the Outdoor
Life, il is likely that an immense game
preserve will be established by the
government on the Mapiu foTksof the
North fork of the Shoshone river In
Wyoming
Henrietta NJ. Johnson was run down
and killed in Seattle by an AUTOMOBILE.
driven by Guy G.. Stratton. secretar,
q the Acme shingle company. ]. r.
Ives. vice president of the Stimsoh
Min company. who was In the auto
mobile. and Mr.. Stratton gave 81 500
bail
II Is not unlikely that the Goldfield
branch of the Western Federation OF
Miners win disband. and the mem
bers join the Independent organization
launched by Thomas O'Brien. II is be-
n -.