The Libby herald., 1912-01-11
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Lake this summer.
On January IS postal savings banl
will be opened at Waller, Mont.
Wireless telegraphy will become 9
factor in the prevention of forest fire,
in Montana
One hundred years ago Saturday th,
first white man arrived at or near what
is now Pendleton, Ore.
Tablets sold as cold cure caused
The death of little Edith Antell, AGED
years, at Bingham, Utah.
Kellogg, Idaho, is to have week.,
newspaper, according to the plans OF
Walter Moriarity, a journalist
The Pacific plumbing "trust,
against which the government filed suit
in Los Angeles last month, dissolved
Saturday.
Both Washington and Idaho are in
splendid condition financially, with ex-
cellent prospects for a great progress in
he year 1912.
William Growler, passenger on the
steamer Santa Barbara, en- route from
Grays Harbor to San Francisco, became
violently insane.
Charles earns and George Fargo who
escaped from the Asotin county wash
lngton) jail December 20, were recap
turcd at Ferdinand, Idaho.
The 1912 meeting of the Mort Invest
Livestock association and Livestock
show will be held at Lewiston, Idaho,
December 9 to 13, inclusive.
A combination of paint and oil es
adjustments on the Pacific coast is in
course of formation, involving an out
lay of approximately $4,000 900.
The Great Northern Railway company
has let contracts for $25O,OO0 worth of
work in the revision of its main line
track west of Crossport Idaho.
Sheriff Clifford G.. Brown of Moscow
has gone to New York to bring back to
prison Robin X. Bradbury, who twice
escaped from the Latah county Jail.
The recent fall of snow. unless il
mclts too soon and is followed by freez-
ing weather, will be great help to the
wheat crops of the Inland Empire.
James Brown, a well known lumber.
man and contract logger, was danger
ously mi jurcd recently by being kicked
in the face by a fractions horse a few
miles from Snmptcr, Ore.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles w. Pen
rose, commandant at Fort George
Wright, near Spokane, has asked for a
6O-day sick leave and will leave for Cali
fornia as soon as the request is granted.
Temple w. Alexander, former pur-
clerk of the O.-W. r. & n.
company at Portland, is charged with
embezzlemcnt of $4,000. He has con
fcssed. He blames "buttcrny life. -
Alexander was recently married.
G. j. Clark, who has been held at
Eureka, Mont, pending the outcome of
the injuries to William Conklin, who
was shot by Clark in an alteration on
Christmas night, has been released
Clark was night officer at the time.
Sunday the enormous steel bridge of
the Oregon Trunk railway across the
Columbia river at Cello falls was
opened for through trains between Port
land and all central Oregon points on
the Oregon Trunk. The new bridge
eliminates the ferry service at Fall
bridge,
Paul j. Berg and his wife, Louise
Berg, an elderly couple from Mcleod,
Alberta, Canada, were placed in prison
at San Francisco following raid by
detectives on their apartments in a
hotel where women's wearing apparel
valued at about $1,000 and supposed to
have been stolen, was discovered
According to estimates compiled by
United States Surveyor General Je-
rome Locke, there will soon be open to
entry in Montana 6,107 900 acres of
public land settlement of which has
oeen delayed owing to the fact that the
and was unsurveyed. OF this amount,
?, 100000 acres has been surveyed dur
ng the last year, and the remaining
/, 100000 acres were surveyed in 1909
md 1910, but the returns have not vet
oeen checked up. The land will proba-
'ly be opened this year.
John Laird, one Of the most notori-
'us boxcar robbers operating in the
Western country, and going under some
lalf a dozen assumed names, pleaded
'ulty at Butte to robbing box car of
he c., NJ. & p. S. railway of 1900 eli
,ars, kid gloves and various other arti-
les, and was sentenced to five years
n the penitontiary. In different parts
# the country he has been known as
{. B. Corrigan, w. G. Wilson, "Fat'
wilson and Fred Strand He is one of
gang operating between Butte and
spokane.