The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-09-24
NORTHWEST NOTES


ton over field of six candidates,
three of them in Spokane county.
The Western Boosters shooting
tournament was held in Anaconda |
last week. with we'll known marks
neh from all parts of the United |
States in attendance.
Arthur McCant, one-eyed colored |
man, wanted at Canon City, Colo, for
the murder of colored man, was ar
rested on a Union Pacific train at
Cheyenne by a deputy sheriff.
w. F. Claycomb, employed at the
Moncreiffe saw mill, near Cody,
Wyo., lost one thumb and two fingers
from the right hand few days ago
by coming in contact with saw.
The State Mining congress of Colo
RADIO has appointed committee Of
thirteen to take steps to retain the
home of the American Mining con-
gress in Denver and the erection Of
{. 100000 temple.
A few days ago at his Red Bank
ranch in the Big Horn basin, ex-Gov-
VI hol IllCAdluS vi w yOluluS, WullS
beheading chickens, accidentally
hacked his left thumb, almost sever
ing it from his hand. 1t is thought
the thumb can be saved
Wishing to see if live wire. which
had just given a severe shock to
young Charles Mann. a deaf mute,
was still charged, Glenn Saunders, a
man "a years of age of Baker City,
Ore, touched the wire with a nail
and was Immediately electrocuted.
Dr. Cabelle Whitehead. general
manager of the Seward Peninsula
railroad in Alaska, Is dead at Nome
as the result of an accident on the
road, The car in which DR.. White
head was riding was overturned and
he fell into a shallow body OF water
Chairman Harry HUMPHREYS of the
Republican state central committee
II Nevada. and Chairman p. J. Som
crs Of the Democratic committee
have formally entered into an agree
ment binding the legislative candi
Gates of both parties to abide by thu
| popular vote Iof Ouittu oldieo seh'
tor.
President Holbrook OF the Wye
ming Coal company at Monarch
Wyo., has purchased the right-of-wa.
for a railroad from Monarch to Mile
City, Mont, and proposes to build
line OF railway down Tongue river &
the Montana city. where 1t will cor
meet with the Milwaukee & St Pau
road.
The first step toward the construc
ton OF the Chrystal Lake reservoir
"a miles west of Cheyenne, an
which will form a part of the city
water storage system. was taken las
week. when condemnation proceed
ings were instituted against the owl
ers of land which will be flooded b
the lake.
The warden Of the state penite,
tiary at Rawlins, Wyo., is alread
. wondering what he is going to d
I with the large number OF convicts b
3 ing received. There are now 260 pri
I cners In the pen, and with distrit
: courts in session in several countie
4 1t is expected this number will shor
Q IL be increased to 275 or $50.
The sheriff is searching for ]. '
$ Manning, who came TO Cheyenr
r from Denver recently and who
g wanted on charges of obtaining
D money under false pretenses, beatir
g lis board bill. stealing diamoi
ring and various other alleged
Q lenses. Manning represented himse
& to be a man OF wealth.
d Fearing he would be convicted
G the charge OF committing a Grimm
l. assault upon a 1i-year-old girl. I
o which he was arrested, ]. II. Jones,
T. bricklayer. sc years old and marie
committed suicide at Durango, Col
L soon after being locked up in C.
D. al the county jail by cutting
throat from ear TO ear with poci
1t knife.
8 The first trouble growing out
r. the present strike Of Wyoming CT
e miners occurred at Sheridan. VIII
T. Charles Klopchick and Joe Tom
fe were arrested. charged with interi
is ing with workmen OF the coal CO
panv while they were building
as bridge.
ut Mrs. John Davis. wife OF one
or the leading real estate dealers OF
IA attic. committed suicide by tai
e. carbolic acid She was % years {
to he was As. and they had been m
as r,es only since March Is last
at the couple had frequently quarre
ID Of late
The president has issued pro-
ed nation opening 10 settlement 500.
to acres of the surplus lands OF
he Dosebud Indian reservation in SO
re- Dakota. Tne drawing will take pl
st al Dallas 5 d. on October IL.
he minimum price fixed on the land
nd 50 per acr"
Two convicts in the state prison
err Folsom. Cal. made a break for
he erty They were fred upon by two
mt the prison guards and one Of the
vIcts A Barrett. serving le-Y
rst panteuce was Killed the rife
hn passing through bis head. His
hat uanion was captured.
John e Engle Of Denver. while
Of TEMPTING 20 beat bis way on ire
lie. train out % Huntington. Ore. go
,as .,,etweep two cars IN which 'he d
'aI- loads we're gone and fastened toge'
v-,tb chaln. and when the en-
- -.,.-..,a inc ra~s came toEet