The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-03-26
NORTHWEST NOTES

Senator Nixon has introduced . BIZ
authorizing a public building at Gold
field. New. at a cost of 100000.
/ w. w. Mckay, citizen OF Tenio.
Thurston county. Wash. killed his
wife and three children and then shot
himself
Warden Conley. OF the Montana
state penitentiary at~Deer Lodge. who
was seriously stabbed while frustrat.
ing a Jail break. Is improving. and
will live.
Mayor F. p. S. Lindsay OF Helena
last week announced that he would
not be candidate for reelection, al
though serving only Hrs first term.
He is a Republican.
Secretary Taft has signed an order
for the abandonment of the military
post known as Fort Keogh, Mont The
post Is not needed for the accommo-
dation of the troops In that section.
Another tract of land has been with
drawn from all forms Of disposition
under the public land laws in connec.
ton with the Truckee-Carson project.
There are several sections included.
Chancellor James r. Day OF the
Syracuse university cannot be convict.
ed under the discipline of the church
for his attack upon the president of
the United States, say Seattle Metho-
dist ministers.
William E. Dodge, Jr., city editor OF
Tho naitv hiccnt,lfan Cd Of 10
soula. Mont, after an illness of three
! Gays, from ptomaine poisoning Mr..
Dodge came to Missoula six months
ago from Minneapolis.
w. ]. Bryan has accepted an invi-
tation TO be the guest of the Bryan
club of Denver at banquet on April
c next. The banquet will be given in
the large dining room of Ell Jebel
Temple, and it is expected over 1000
diners will attend.
1t is announced that Emma Goldman
will spend three months on the Pa.
cific coast. beginning next month. She
will deliver lectures and enter into
debates in Portland, Seattle, San
Francisco, Goldfield and Salt Lake
and other cities.
After trial lasting several days
jury in the United States court at
Helena. Mont, returned a verdict OF
guilty in the case of Z. Cardwell, a
prominent Yellowstone county stock
man. on a charge of illegally fencing
OF the public domain.
Near the town of Buford, wyo.. a
carload of dynamite exploded from
some unknown cause, wrecking sew
eral frame houses nearby and destroy.
ing number of freight cars. The car
was standing on the Union Pacific
tracks near the town.
News Of the purchase of the Elko
and Winnemucca, Nevada, telephone
systems by the Utah, Nevada and
Idaho Telephone company, Is made
known, and within the next month
the service will be connected up with
the Salt Lake system.
Fire, supposed to have been caused
by crossed electric wires, destroyed
the coke washer. tipple, engine house
and chemical laboratory of the Colo
RADIO Fuel & Iron company's mine at
Sopris, five miles west Of Trinidad
Colo, entailing a loss estimated at
$4,000. and throwing 300 men out OF
employment.
w. s. Buncker and Herman Hanken
engaged in a pistol duel in a hotel at
Sheridan, Wyo.. both men being dead
when entrance was forced to their
room. The men had just arrived in
town from Iowa and announced that
they intended securing work at tie
camp. II Is not known what the quar-.
rel was about.
The state auditor has made public
a report showing the business of life
insurance companies in Montana last
were written. involving s6.949. 664,
making the total in force s49.126.27l.
Losses of s413.SS1 were paid last year
by the various companies. A heavy
gain over last year is shown.
Mortimer Moore a mulatto, shot and
instantly killed Mrs. Lou A. Mccoy. at
North Yakima, Wash, and then COM
lnllttu SulCiuS ny uiiuhiuS SdluOitN
acid. Mrs. Mccoy had the appearance
of a white woman. but 1t is said she
had some negro blood. Some years
ago, ii Is asserted. she lived with
Moore in Arkansas. but left him.
1t rs announced that Senator Reed
Smoot of Utah and a number Of cap
italists have purchased $4,000 acres
of land at Three Forks. Gallatin coun.
ty, Montana, where rich beds of nat.
ural cement deposits have been dis.
covered. and that engineers are now
engaged in drawing plans for a ce.
Blent plant which will cost 100000
President p. j. Duffy of the Butte
Miners union states that circulars
posted in other mining camps and In
leading cities of the northwest, to the
effect that 10000 men are wanted In
Butte. are misleading. The supply OF
labor now far exceeds the demand
Moreover. unskilled labor Is not EN-
ployed In the mines Of Butte at any
time
Charles d. Curry. a Great Northern
car inspector. and his wife. were vic
tins of an attempted assassination
when an unknown man entered theii
bedroom at their home In Spokane
and shot both In the head, neither
fatally. No motive is known for tbs
attack.
David Moody. foreman at the Rarm
mine at Butte. is confined to his homs