The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-21
NORTHWEST NOTES

trhurston 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 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 his 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-
dalton 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.
tion 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 minister's.
William Il. Dodge, Jr., city editor OF
the Daily Missoulian, died at Mis-.
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
q next. The banquet will be given In
the large dining room of El Jebel
Temple, and 1t is expected over 1000
diners will attend
It is announced that Emma Goldman
will spend three months on the Pa.
cihc 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 a trial lasting several days,
jury in the United StateE court at
Helena, Mont, returned verdict of
guilty in the case Of Il. Cardwell,
prominent Yellowstone county stock
man, on charge of Illegally fencing
Of the public domain.
Near the town of Buford, Wyo., a
carload of dynamite exploded from
some unknown cause, wrecklng sew.
etal frame houses nearby and destroy
ing a 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 mouth
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 al
Sopris, FIVE miles west OF Trinidad
Colo, entailing a loss estimated al
$4,000, and throwing 300 men out OF
employment.
w. s. Buncker and Herman Hsnken
engaged in pistol duel in hotel al
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. 1t is not known what the quar-
rel was about
The state auditor has made public
a report shaving the business Of life
Insurance companies In Montana last
year. II shows that 6,040 new policies
we're written, involving $6,949, 664,
making the total in force sac, 126,27l.
Losses Of $413,8S1 were paid last year
by the various companies. A heavy
gain over last year is shown.
Mortimer Moore, mulatto, shot and
instantly killed Mrs. Lou A. Mccoy, at
North Yakima, Wash, and then com.
mitted suicide by drinking carbolic
acid. Mrs. Mccoy had the appearance
of a white woman, but it is said she
had some negro blood. Some years
ago, 1t is asserted. she lived with
Moore in Arkansas. but left him.
1t is announced that Senator Reed
Smoot of Utah and 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 ce,
ment plant which will cost $1,000,000.
Prq dent p. ]. 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, aGe misleading. The supply OF
labor now far exceeds the demand
Moreover, unskiiled labor is not EN-
ployed liz the mines of Butte at any
time.
Charles d. Curry. Great Northern
car inspector, and his wife, were vic
Tins of an attempted assassination
when an unknown. man entered theil
bedroom at their home in Spokane
and shot both in the head, neither
fatally. No motive is known for th'
attack.
David Moody, foreman at the Rarui
mine at Butte. is confined to his home
suffering from the effects OF serious
assault received at the hands of a
mob which is said to have attempted
10 throw his down the shaft of the
mine because he would not give the
men employment.
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