The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-04-16
NORTHWEST NOTES


A. G. Valentine, one of the best
known assayers on the Pacific coast
and formerly chief assayer of the
Western Ore Purchasing works at
Reno. Nevada, has succumbed to an
attack of pneumonia
A Seattle dispatch says the fishing
schooner Lydia, formerly a govern
ment vessel. was cut in two by the
steamship Chippewa of the Puget
Sound Navigation company, OF Point
No Point, and two men drowned.
Philip Weber. a Rawhide. Nevada.
saloon man. was taken from a train
and placed in the Ogden, Utah. Jail,
suffering from a fit OF insanity. We
Der has twice tried to commit suicide
since being placed in Jail. by hang
ing himself
Announcement is made that Ernest
Knaebel assistant attorney general
of the United States for Colorado.
has sent his resignation to President
Roosevelt. and after it is accepted
will become associated with a promi-
nent Denver firm.
1t has been rumored recently that
the Guggenheim interests are plan
ming to back the extension of the
Nevada Northern from Ely to Gold
field The road now runs from Cobre
to Ely, and the plan on foot is to ex-
tend 1t southwest.
Edwin Norris on April became
hn nf
Montana, the resignation of Joseph
O'Toole becoming effective on that
date. The oath was administered by
Chief Justice Brantly in the presence
of very few visitors.
Arthur Thompson, colored prize
fighter, while asleep in his room in
Cheyenne, was attacked by George
Harper, also colored, with an ak and
horribly butchered. Harper Is alleged
to have been under the influence of
cocaine when he attacked his friend.
Ben Johnson and Charles Haden
were blown up on the Spokane, Port
land & Seattle railroad, near Sprague,
Wash, by a blast. One was killed
outright and the other died In the
Sprague hospital. The accident oc-
Cured by the men pouring powder
into a hole too soon after blast had
gone off.
George S. Dubois, a well known
mining man, who discovered the Lost
Bullion mine near Silver City, N. M,
and was one of the persons indicted
by the federal grand jury in connec-
ton with the promotion of that con-
Germ. was shot and killed on April l
at Balladat, Colo, by Henry Bird,
hotel keeper
In a premature explosion Of dyna-
mite in a construction camp near
Spokane, Charles Norman and Theo-
dore Hofstad, powder men, were
blown clear over the walls Of the
cut. rising forty feet above them. and
thrown 200 feet in opposite directions
beyond the edge of the cut. Both
men were killed.
Articles of incorporation of the
Rocky Mountain Highway associa-
ton, having for it's object the promo
ton of the building of improved high
ways and roads along the base of the
Rocky Mountains in Colorado, Mon
tana, wyoming, Idaho, Utah, New
Mexico and Arizona, were filed in
| Denver last week.
The Utah Construction company
has been instructed by the Hartman
officials to resume grading a line
| from Huntington to Homestead
Baker county, Oregon. This work
was halted last fall at the beginning
of the financial furry. The road to
Homestead is the first link in a Har
riman cutoff into Lewiston. Idaho.
Joseph Shannon, William Cuts
and and A. T. Edwards were last
week released from the county jail
| at Helena, Mont, where they have
Teen incarcerated for the past ninety
days for contempt of an injunction
issued by Judge Hunt of the United
States court upon application of the
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone com
pany.
Mrs Helen Pierce Gray, a newspa
per woman, who was arrested las
| summer on the Crow Indian reserva
ton in Montana. and kept in Jail fol
three months on a charge OF collect
ing money from the Indians, charges
Indian Agent Reynolds, Commission
er Leupp and Secretary Garfield witt
| gross misconduct of the affairs OF the
Indians.
DR.. J. P. Whitney, practicins
! dentist. is under arrest in Portland
charged with the death of his sweet
heart. Miss Mabel Wirtz, who died o
mercurial poisoning. Tie body wa
| about to be cremated when a deput!
coroner stopped the ceremony be
cause a certificate of death had no
been filed. When the certificate fin
ally was obtained the cause of dealt
was made plain.
James MCFARLAND, head of the Pin
kerton agency. has had two of hi
best men in Telluride since Stew
Adams was taken there from Idaho
Their work is chiefly to guard Gen
erai Wells. and they are assisted b,
Bob Medium. the noted gun man o
Telluride.
The Nyssa and Owyhee Valley
Fruit Growers association are nov
spraying the orchards in the vicsl
ity of Nyssa. Oregon. More interes
is being taken in fruit than any pre-
v.ous season. and the prospects ar
they will have q crop nearer perfec
ton than heretofore.