The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1910-08-05
NORTHWEST NOTES

stock yards along its Nevada line.
The work the Great Northern now
has under way at Wellington, Wash,
and west Of that point, in reconstruct
Ing the main line, will be completed
by December l and will cost nearly
81 SOC, 900.
The Colorado Eastern Railroad
| company has well perfected plans for
the construction of a railroad between
Denver and Omaha, which will be
| slightly shorter than the Burlington
between those two points.
The Western Pacific has purchased
large area at Sacramento. Cal, and
ground has been broken for an i'm
mense shop and general mechanical
plant at that point. The plant is tc
be in operation within year.
The explosion of a tank OF am
monia in the ice plant of the Unior
| Meat company at Kenton, Ore.
killed Lon Hump, an employe. HUM
was blown against the side of the
building and his skull was fractured
Roy H. Irwin, formerly of Salt
Lake, was shot by thugs at Portland
Sunday night Mr.. Irwin was return
ing from public park when he was
attacked by two holdups. In the
scuffle which followed he was shot II
the jaw
That the Burlington proposes ar
important cutoff, which will result IL
a saving of more than 100 miles in its
St. Louis-Puget Sound line, is indi
Gated in the resolution of the board
Of directors filed with Secretary OF
State Yoder, at Helena. Mont.
What apparently is a murder mys
terry that defies solution has been dis
covered at Newport, Ore. when wo
mans body, which had been cut up
put into a sack and thrown into the
bay, was found at low tide. 1t has
. been in the water for several months
With the completion of the survey
} of a line down the Washington side
: of the Snake river from the mouth oil
8 the Grand Ronde, all work by the
] Gilmore & Pittsburg has been sus
pended and those who have beer
S identified with it profess to know Of
0 no reason for this.
The national convention of Sheep
shearers Union No. 1, in session a
Butte, elected w. G. Forrest of Butte
Q president, F. Roberts of Provo, Utah
vice-president, and the following di
rectors: Edward Baker, Nevada; 7
P. Jones, Washington, and M.
Paulson, Montana
The state board of prison commits
sioners and delegates from the State
Federation of Labor and the Butt,
and Helena Trades and Labor assem-
blies held a conference at Helena re
garding the use of convicts in con
structing roads. A number of misun
derstandings were wiped out.
All aspirants for honors in the pro
y fession of dentistry in the futur,
: must first undergo thorough exami
= nation for faulty teeth and have tn
:, faults corrected before they may en-
:, ter college for study, according to
decision arrived at by the Nationa
Association of Dental faculties, i
session at Denver.
d The fire in the Stove district Il
@ Colorado was brought under contro
d on Tuesday, after burning six millio
ID feet of merchantable timber and thot
h sands of acres of small trees. TIL
y blaze was conquered by back firinf
1t develops that the fire was starte
d by a ranchman carelessly throwing
1t match into dry grass.
in The destruction by fire of HON,
s. stead house six miles from Uniol
n Ore, resulted in the cremation
n Mrs. ]. S. Dean and an adopte
Is daughter, who were sleeping in TIL
house son who was sleeping i
the yard was awakened by the hes
= of the fire. but he was unable to rel
N der his mother and sister any assis
| ance.
NJ Imprisonment in railroad culver
for a week, without food or water, a
j pears to have restored the reason
Mrs. Catharine Krouse, aged
Ve years, of Fort Collins, Colo, who ra
away from the home of her daughtt
TX week ago and was found by trai
~ crew on Tuesday. The woman VIZ
found tightly wedged between tw
is planks in the culvert. lying on ht
as back
Incensed because an Austrian ri
n had transferred her affections 10 al
ed other party, Dimitar Draggosavich sht
Mile Bogdon and her lover, Georg
er Cetina, at Riepetown, New, about tw
sp years ago. Both recovered and ORA
M gosavich was sent to prison, but wa
a few days granted a pardon.
lg In the federal court here at Helen
re Mont. Judge Rasch imposed a SCI
10 tence Of one year at Leavenworth u
on Louis Skullnap, an Indian convicte
ep of a mans'aughter charge. Skullna
X stabbed Audrey Inhoostay 10 deat
ct during a drunken quarrel on the Fla
IT. head reservation last January.
IL Mrs. Fletcher johnson of South T
is coma shot and killed Frank Hall, q
n - S.xrf.