The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-02-04
NORTHWEST NOTES

congress
An unidentified burglar, who was
framed in house in Seattle, wa
killed in a running pistol battle with
four policemen.
Ten-round boxing matches will ne
allowed in Oregon If a bill introduced
by Senator Perkins OF Multnoman
county becomes a law.
One man was killed and three others
were injured, two seriously, when an
oregon Washington railroad freight
train hit an auto stage at South Eima, |
Wash.
William d. Scott, president and gen.
eral manager of the Spokane, Portland
& Seattle railway, died at his home al
Portland of heart failure, following az |
illness of two weeks.
Eleven young men, mostly hlgn
school boys, pleaded guilty at Baker
Ore. to charges Of assault and bat
terry following the hazing at the
Young Mems Christian association OF
Merl Jasper, aged 10. 1t is claimed
Jasper was badly beaten.
in the northwest lumber industry
were noted last week when announce
ments were made of foreign engage
ments for more than 100000 feet
of Oregon fir to leave the Columbia
river between now and July next.
A party of Northern Pacific officials
last week inspected the recently ac'
quired Gilmore & Pittsburg railroad In
Idaho Business men of Salmon CITY
entertained the party. What improve
ments are to be made on the road
will be determined as a result of this
trip. e..
The Snoqualmie tunnel, bored
through solid rock 1900 feet at the
summit of the Cascade mountains in
Snoqualmie pass by the Chicago, Mil
waukee & ST. Paul railroad, has been
completed. 1t cost $2,250,000 and its
construction occupied more than two
years.
Citizens in the vicinity of Manti,
Utah, are very much interested in
the discovery of a ledge Of mineral
which is declared to be pure epson
salts. The ledge is large one, about
groupings have been traced for about a
mile.
One of the largest real estate deals
of the season was concluded at Dillon,
Mont, last week in the sale of the
Frank Schulz stock ranch near Glen,
| 10 no n Cn1&
Lake The price is said to have been
over $40 1000 The Schulz ranch is one
of the finest stock ranches in southern
Montana.
Mrs. Rose O'Connor, said to be the
leader of band of desperadoes re
sponsible for not less than ten muir
ders in the mining section of south
ern Nevada, is under arrest at Search
light charged with the murder of D
Nj, Neblett. She is accused also O
shooting and perhaps fatally woundint
G. A. Lane.
Death of one and injury to four re
suited at Pullman, Wash, when Dol
sled carrying five smashed into
plate glass window. Edward s. Bates
25 years old, died almost immediatel
with a severed jugular vein. Mrs
= Poor sustained badly fractured les
q Another woman and two men wer
~ hurt less severely.
}. Charles H. Zevely, who abs for tw
). years been principal of the Oak Ridg
s school, As miles southwest of Eugene
@ Ore, has been arrested on charge c
e contributing to the delinquency G
n Rachel Tiller, aged II, a former pupi
W who died at the home of her parent
10 in Cottage Grove, January 10, a fe7
It hours after she had given birth to
n boy.
Howard Dalton of Willard, Utal
and the potato crop which gave hill
n first place in the Utah boys club col
K test last season, are the subject of
l. long article issued by the publicit
n bureau of the United States depar
y ment of agriculture. In addition I
the publicity, young Dalton's achiev
e ment netted him $141,07 in cash an
"a free trip to the Panama Pacific e.
Is position.
9 John A. Fraser, who was a membt
q OF party that had numerous e.
"a counters with Indian along the Mort
N Platte in the early Cos, and who ws
e messenger before taking up mimi
/ in Utah, was buried at Butte last wee
= with Masonic honors. Fraser joine
= the gold stampedes to Colorado, Idal
- and then to Montana, and had plac,
% mined in practically all the riC
- placers of the state.
- BY proclamation issued last wee
Governor James Withycombe put {
=, end to martial law at Copperfiel
- Ore. which had been in effect stint
anuary 2, 1914, when Miss Fel
/, iobbs, secretary to Governor Yves
m Who went there backed by Colonel
\. Yswson and a force of militiame
IN ,osed the saloons because of alleg,
TX transgressions of the law by saloo