The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-12-31
NORTHWEST NOTES.

bers from an abandoned well near
Winona. Wash. preparatory to filling
1t In, were buried alive beneath hun
dreds OF tons OF soil when the walls
caved in ON them.
Samuel p. Weston, business man.
ager OF the Seattle Evening Sun, has
been appointed receiver for the Sun
Publishing company, on the suit of
creditor. The Sun began publication
nearly two years ago. and is reputed
to have lost 100000.
Two unmasked robbers entered a
saloon near the retail center OF Port
land, lined up eight patrons with
faces to the wall, shot the proprietor.
Richard Dupgess, looted the cash reg
lister of the days receipts, about 500,
and escaped with their booty.
Mrs. Sarah Todd, the Oldest resi-.
dent Of Walla Walla and probably of
the northwest, died at the Northwest
Christian home In Walla Walla, last
week. Had she lived until March 29,
1915, she would have been los years
old. She was born in Kentucky in
1910.
Edward Gall, a Russian, was arrest.
ed at Vancouver Wash, and soon
after confessed having murdered Otto
Ludke, a farmer, near Ridgefield,
Wash, November 20, last. Ludke was
shot while visiting at the home of a
neighbor, the assassin firing through
a window from outside the house.
Announcement is made by the state
tax commission Of Oregon that the
state levy for 1915 would be 3 "a
mills, and that the total state tax
would be $1,05S, 900 less than for 1914.
The levy for next year is based on a
total valuation of $9S2,413,0S0, and 1t
viii produce a total tax of $3,112,0O0.
Visitors to Yellowstone National
park next season may battle in the
natural hot water that spouts from
the many geysers In the vicinity OF
Old Faithful inn. Henry ]. Brothers
a Salt Lake attorney, has been grant
ed the concession for maintaining
public bath houses in the geyser dis
trict.
John Killman, aged 10, shot and
seriously wounded Claude Rinehart
aged 35, at Lents, a suburb Of Port
land, following an attempt at suicide
made by Sylvia Killman age is, sis
ter of John Killman, who declared thu
girl had been driven to the &C
through mistreatment at the hand
Of Rinehart.
After spending the night guarding
the body Of Game Warden A. s. Huh
bard on a lonely trail near Elk creek
Sheriff William Singler and Deput.
Sheriff Wilson, walked to the cabin o
his slayer, Loris Martin, arrested hin
and brought him to the jail at Jack
sonville, Ore. Martin claims he sho
Hubbard In self-defense.
The people of Ellensberg, Wash
have been experiencing the coldes
weather In years. The Yakima rive
is frozen at the intake Of the cit
power ditch, causing further delay t
the resumption of the hydro-electri
plant, which was put out of commits
sion several days ago by ice cake
| breaking the turbines.
Since the Salt Lake people hav
been in control of the Ely-Gibralta
Mining company property located tw
and a half miles north of McGill, New
they have shipped approximately S.
900 worth Of lead ores. 1t was higf
grade stun, the last carload carrying
70 per cent lead, three ounces silve
and 40 cents gold.
At the mines and metallurgical de
partment OF the University OF Utal
there is now on exhibition one Of tn
richest chunks Of carnotite ore tina
ever came out Of southeastern Utah
1t weighs twenty-five pounds, and /
said to carry 35 per cent uranium
oxides. It cana from south o
Thompsons, Utah.
According to reports from Big Cot
tonwOod, near Salt Lake, the raise Of
the ore body at the Cardiff is up fort
feet and is in good shipping values
The shipments down the canyon hav
been about forty tons a day Will
driving $50 feet in the ore SHOOT
which Is In nearly $500 feet from tn
portal OF the lower tunnel. The or
averages SIS to $50 ton.
Recent word from Tintic is that tn
Iuew I00-ton mill which was construct
ed near Eureka City for the treatmen
OF ores from the Chief Consolidate
has turned out its FIRST carload Of cor
centrates. This will make up a ca
of 30 to 40 tons. The returns fror
its treatment at the smelter viii b
awaited with considerable interest b
Tintic operators in particular.
One carload Of fold ore, 5000
pounds. on which the assay woul
place a value OF approximately $1,000
: 900 has been shipped from Crippl
Creek to Denver. This 10 believed {
be the most valuable car Of ore eve
, transported in this country. The min
is owned by Chicago and Detroit cap
talists.
Ever since the old Daily mine a
Park City, a property with dividen
/. record OF S2,925. 900. forwarded a ca
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