The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-12-03
NORTHWEST NOTES

- olli'h. former governor OF
Montana, is dead at KaIispen. death
Oeing due to uraemie poisoning.
Amos Steek, one OF the Oldest O,
I colorado pioneers. died at his homs
IN Denver on November II. aged Sc.
Mrs NJ. S. Williams, the first white
woman in Butte. lately In reduced cir.
0umstanees was last week committed
70 the insane asylum at Warm
Springs.
The Union Pacific telephone line
from Rawlins TO Ogden has been com,
pleted, and is now in service II viii
greatly facilitate the sending of rail.
road messages.
/ The president has appointed George
Z. Russell postmaster at Seattle
Wash, vice George NJ. Stewart re-
moved for alleged violation OF the
civil service laws.
Headquarters of the reclamation
service. northern district. comprising
The states of Wyoming. North Da.
kota and Montana, were opened in
/ Helena last week.
/ The Jewel saloon. In the tenderloin
1 district OF Butte. was dynamited by
unknown persons on November II.
and badly wrecked Several OF the
inmates had narrow escapes.
Elizabeth Turner. years old. died
ut Helena, Mont. last week from in.
juries received while coasting. This
Is the first fatality from coasting re
ported in the state this year
In a freight train wreck near Whine.
mucca. New, L. A. Gloves. brake.
nan, was injured, and sixteen cars OF
/ oil, machinery and dressed poultry
was jumbled into a tangled mess.
Otto Siegel. pioneer and well
known business man throughout Mon.
tana, died al Missoula last week OF
Rpoplexy. His demise was FASTENED
10y fall down stairs several days pre-
vious.
The proposed wedding of Joe Tu.
ritch and Mia Marinovich was inter.
rupted at Butte by an officer, who ar.
rested the intendedto-be bridegroom
on charge of bigamy He is alleged
TO have a wife and two children In
Austria
The Pacific coast. it is understood.
will make strong effort TO secure
reprV sentation in President Tafts cab
inet r. A. Ballinger Of Seattle, for
ner commissioner of the general land
office. is to be urged for secretary of
the interior.
Owing to the probable defeat of the
constitutional amendment providing
for an increased tax at the recent
election in Montana. II is very prob
able that there will not be sufficient
revenue next year to pay the expenses
of the state.
Nevada bankers have been called to
meet at Reno. December 3 next,
through the action OF the Reno Bank,
ers' committee to perfect a state or
edial banking legislation and secure
uniformity in practice.
James Allen, structural iron
worker, met a tragic death while
working on a trestle which spans a
deep ravine near Taft. Mont Allen
was riding a steel column which was
being swung into place when he was
knocked from his position and fell to
the ground below, a distance of 100
feet.
The authorities of Billings, Mont.
have made public mail pouch rob
Lery, which occurred in that city re-
Gently. The thieves were APPARENTLY
noyices. as the pouch they selected
contained no money, according TO the
postal authorities The rihed pouch
was found under a building near the
depot.
After prosecuting a search for her
child for thirteen years. finding the
boy in Bellingham, Wash last June.
the adopted son of s A. w Deming,
Miss Maude Fields of St. Louis failed
10 secure possession of the child. the
Judge of the superior court giving the
boy into the charge Of his adopted
parents.
Confident that they will be granted
a franchise by the state Legislature 10
conduct horse racing in Nevada. Call
fornia racing promoters and Reno cap
talists have taken an option on
ground al Moana Springs. resort
four miles south of Reno. sufficiently
large to establish a suitable track and
buildings
Mike Butler. a member OF the Butte
fire department. has been arrested,
charged with dynamitng the Jewel sa-
loon, in the redlight district of Butte.
The proprietor of the place says But.
Ter declared, when pressed for pay
ment Of bar bill. that he would get
even"
John Beau, who escaped from the
insane asylum In Wyoming several
months ago. astonished the officials at
the asylum by turning up and demand
ing readmission. Beau explained tlfat
careful study of his condition had con
WINGED him he was still mentally I'M
sound
The Southern Pacific has establish
ed a nine-hour day at its railroad
shops in Sparks New. after operating
for years on an eight hour basis. The
move was made necessary by the In.
creased business over the company's
lines. which puts extra work In the
shops
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