Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1900-01-05
NORTHWEST NOTES.

committed murder IN UreenSbury,
Pa, has applied for writ of habeas
corpus. A hearing on the application
will be held in the superior court.
An invitation signed by Mayor Phel-
an of San Francisco and the grand Of
ficers of the Native Sons Of the Golden
West, has been sent to Admiral Dewey
requesting his presence in this city on
Admission day, September 8, 1900.
Alta Especial election held in California
it was decided to bond the city. of San
Francisco in the sum of $4,55o,ooo for
public park purposes. About 10000
votes were cast, and the proposition
carried by vote of four to one.
One of the most disasterous floods in
in the history of the state of Washing
ton is ruging along the NooiSsack river
in Whateom county. 1t is estimated
that $50, 900 worth of damage has al
ready been done to farms and build
ings and still the waters show no indi-
cation of subsiding
While engaged in digging cut for
a miners ditch on Butte Creek, Chico,
CAL, Frank Cable and man named
Conner We're buried under several hun
bred tons of rock and earth. After
several hours work the terribly mutt
lated body Of Conner was recovered.
Cables body has not yet been found.
Inlf Of
National Live Stock association has
issued the official call for the big an
nual convention of the association to
meet in Fort Worth, Texas, on Febru-
posed Of delegates representing all OF
the largest Live Stock associations in
the country.
The boiler of locomotive on the
at Minturn, Colo, last week killing
Engineer s. II. Quackenbush and in
| juring Fireman Salden so badly thai
he died few hours later. Alexander
Fl. Wilson, roundhouse foreman, ant
4 t. r. Richardson, caller, were also in
4 jured, but not seriously.
The relatives of Hyde w. Hickey, Sol
of j. X. Hickey of the Hoffman House
New York, are anxious to discover hi
whereabouts. He was guest of thu
Palace hotel, San Francisco, for shor
time last month and left there, osten
sibly to GO to sanitarium to undergo
a surgical operation. He has not beeI
seen since.
A dastardly attempt was made las
week to wreck Chinese Methods
mission church at Victoria, B. C. Will
the congregation, principally Chinese
was worshipping, bomb made of lea
pipe filled with gunpowder, was ez
ploded. No one was injured. Tn
deed is ascribed to heather Chimes
jealous of the introduction of Chris
tianity among their countrymen.
The Carbon Hill company gave $50
to each widow and 800 to each chill
of miner killed in the recent exp1t
sion at Carbonando, Wash. Mother
dependent upon lost sons for supper
were treated ON the same basis q
widows. This donation of the con
pany represents total of about $40
900. Relief fund contributions frol
all parts of the state will amount to
large sum.
J. L. Johnston, of Laramie, Wyo
who is serving a life sentence for I'll
murder of Willis Strang, boy who
he killed at ranch in Browns Parl
has been granted new trial. Youn
Strang while on his deathbed state
that Johnston did not mean to shoe
him and that il was an accident. II
judge who tried the case would n.
admit this statement as evidence, bl
the supreme court now orders that Il
statement be admitted. This evident
alone will doubtless acquit Johnston.
The Union Pacific is considerir
, another big cutoff project which wi
shorten the main line of the roi
several miles and do away with one
the steepest hills between Omaha al
Ogden. A corps of surveyors are no
in the field east of Cheyenne, Wye
running lines west of Atkins and emit
the city from northeast instead of fro
the east, as at. present, with instru
: tions to make the line a s.straig
shoot" and with easy grades. Arch
) hill, which neeessitated helpers on i
trains or the freights doubling"
get over the hills, will be avoided.
A negro named Lucius Miller, q
ployed at Union Pacific gradil
camp on the Hanna-Dana cutoff
Hanna. Wyo.. armed himself with
pitchfork, and swearing he would K
every man in camp, started on his N
sion. He cracked the heads of sevel
graders and was having everything
own way when be went to the contr
: tors supply wagon, where he met TT
Pendleton, white man. Pendlet
. watched his chance, when he wipr
i a