Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1900-01-26
NORTHWEST NOTES.

OF sheep ranging in that state. The
weather has been unusually favorable
TO the sheep industry so far.
AT Belgrade Montana. last week,
Frank Rogers, a merchant, shot and
killed his landlady, Mrs Eta Davis.
and then killed himself. jealousy and
drink were the causes of the deed.
It'll reported that the contractors
for the government work at San Pedro
harbor, near Los Angeles, will throw
up their contract. In that event the
sureties on their bond will form a
company to complete the work.
Denver authorities will pay $500 for
the arrest of Wellington C. Llewellyn,
who murdered Police Officers Grifiths
aud Clifford, August 10. 1899 Level
lyn was soldier in the Thirty-fourth
infantry at the time OF the murder, and
mad previously served in the Texas
cavalry.
William Lee of Ontario, Oregon, is
preparing to make use Of great head
Of steam generated in the interior Of
the earth, for running pumps with
which to pump water on large scale
for irrigution purposes. Tho atenm
reaches the surface through large ar
tesiAn well between Ontario and Vale.
In the district court at Cheyenne,
Wyo., suit has been entered against
heasrs. John W. Ward, Blythe and
others of Evanston by the Pinkerton
Detective association to recover $3.50,
said to have been spent by detectives
employed by the defendants in the
Croker murder ease while securing
evidence.
Ten persons were injured in train
collision on the Great Northern at Hill
yard, four miles east of Spokane Fri
day morning. The eastoount passenger
was standing on the main line b.,
che depot. There was dense fog and
a freight train running at high speed
crashed into the rear sleeper. The
wrecked car was filled with escaping
steam from the locomotive, and some
Of the passengers were pinioned by
the debris and were rescued with some
difficulty. The shock of the collision
knocked down several persons in the
dining car, and a number of them suf-
fered slight injury. None Of the in
jured persons are seriously hurt.
ia new and unusually rich placer dis
trict is discovered in the near future
in Colorado it will be due to the omni-
vorous appetite Of small and other
wise ordinary turkey gobbler. Al
exander Bjorklund and others of Den
yer are hot on the trail leading to the
ranch where this turkey gobbler spent
his happy boyhood days, and when
they find the ranch will Immediately
purchase it for placer ground. In the
craw of turkey Biorklund recently
purchased for $l.15 his wife found a
gold nugget valued at $1.1s. Now
Bjorklund has the mining fever and is
making every effort to find where the
fowl came from, judging, and with APP
parently excellent reason, that if the
place can be located 1t must be very
rich placer ground, as the piece is I'M
Aoubtedly placer gold. While the
search is progressing, Mr. Bjorklund
is congratulating himself on how, by
streak of luck he got his turkey for
nothing ana a bonus of cents, even If
the rich placer is never discovered.
During a quarrel over the payment
for drink, Thomas Dillon, an expo
liceman, and Charles Joyce, a saloon.
keeper, engaged in . fight with pis-
tolls. Joyce was instantly killed and
Dillon was seriously wounded. Sew
eral shots were fred
The body of Charles swanback, q
Finnlander, about 2s years Of age, was
found four miles west of Rock Springs,
Wyo., last week. The condition of the
body indicated that he had been dead
two days. A severe wound in the back
Of the head, his right leg broken and
his face badly bruised and scratched,
evidently proved he had fallen from 8
train, as he lay only a short distance
from the track. He formerly worked
for Myers &c Wagn er at Carbon, where
his parents and sister lived, but who
are now in Michigan.
one-hundred and fifty Portland news
boys went on a strike last week and re-
fused to handle the Evening Telegram.
because that paper had refused to al
low them to return unsold papers All
carriers were stopped and several
thousand copies OF the paper were
destroyed by the boys. Every person
seen with Telegram was given rough
usage, and many were knocked down
on the street. A dozen policemen
were called to the scene and number
of the leaders were arrested, but were
afterwards released.
Arrangements are being made to