Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1900-02-09
NORTHWEST NOTES.


ter of the land Office at Douglas, Wyo.
| The Lawton fund amounts to sos.
922. General Shafter reports that he
has an additional sum of ST. $40 at San
| Francisco.
Carlos Ezeta, ex-president OF San
Salvador, has returned to his home in
Oakland, Cal, after trip Of four
months duration to Mexico.
The senate has confirmed p. IF. Bar
| clay to be receiver OF public moneys
| at Del Norte, Colo, and C. II. Nichols
to be Indian agent at Colorado River
| agency in Arizona.
From the senate committee on public
lands Senator Carter has reported IA
yorably bill granting $4,000 acres of
land to Montana for the maintenance
Of an asylum for the blind
w. II. Mayors was hanged at The
Dalles, Or, last week, for The murder
OF Ray Sink. He protested his inno-
cence to the last, saying on the scaffold
that the law was hanging an innocent
man.
In San Francisco last week two men
and one woman were found dead in the
rear of a saloon. Their death is attr-
buted to asphy xiatiou, as gas was
found issuing from "a cook stove in tile
room.
Daniel Moran, Is years old, a San
Francisco boy, who shipped on the
transport Thomas at New York under
the name of Pollard. was brought home
in irons. The officers say he was mu-
/ tinous,
| Robert A. Jenkins. the absconding
cashier of the Texas 4 Pacific Railroad
company at Shreveport, La, has been
taken back TO that place from San
Francisco after two weeks of skillful
detective work.
! r. V. Wilson has been arrested in
San Francisco on the charge of having
embezzled package containing $500,
while he was agent for the Great
Northern Express company, at Frank
lin, Kings county, Wash.
Among the passengers on the quar-
antined Australia from Honolulu, is
Arthur Sewell, ex-candidate for vice.
president, who has been on visit to
his son, II. NJ. Sewall, special agent of
the United States in Hawaii
Andy Kolarak and Nels Lewis of
Rock Springs, Wyo,, were badly injured
at the Union Pacific mines last week.
A rock fell on Mr.. Lewis crushing
him severely. He is prominent A.
o. U. w. member and man Of
family.
Aspeedv settlement of Mrs. Nettie
Craven's litigation at San Francisco,
Cal, against the Fair estate, will
follow a decision by the supreme court
annulling the trust clause by which
the late Senator Fair attempted to put
the bulk Of his estute beyond the inn
mediate control of his children.
James 0'Neil Gleason, former mem
Der of the Twentieth Kansas volun-
teers, was shot and killed in saloon
in San Francisco last week by an UNI
known man who escaped. The MUIR
derer had quarreled with woman and
Gleason, who was tending bar, went
to her protection and met his fate.
A posse Of Union Pacific detectives,
who have been on the trail of the ban
dts who robbed the train in the Hole
in-the-Wall, Wyo., recently, after a
desperate fight killed two of them.
One of the pursuing party was shot,
but not seriously.
Judge Ellsworth of the supreme
court, Oakland, CAL. has refused to
naturalize A. w. Hawkins, an English
Socialist, because, in answering cues
tons propounded to him, he said he did
not believe that republic represented
the highest form of government.
The Republican state convention for
the election of delegates from WASH
ington to the next Republican nation
al convention will be held at Ellens-
burg. April 4. The representation was
fixed on the basis of one delegate for
every 100 votes and major fraction
thereof, cast for Congressman w. L.
Jones at the last election, and two
delegates at large.
The building of wool warehouse at
Rock Springs, Wyo., is now an assured
fact. The necessary funds have been
subscribed by Sweetwater county wool
growers. At a meeting last week bids
were opened, but all were rejected and
new bids called for in accordance with
plans submitted.
Trouble arose in Chinatown, Rock
Springs, Wyo., last week over fantan
game, which might have ended disas.
trously for China Charley had not the
officers promptly put in an appearance.
Charley took refuge in the Chinese
store, which was surrounded by en-
ragged Cinnamon who were threatening
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