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


Vile, Montana. lie grabbed live wire
and fell dead.
Richard Clark fell twenty feet in this
shaft of the Joe Dandy mine at Cripple
Creek and broke his neck. Death was
instantaneous.
James f. Muse, charged with having
embeZzled $500 from the Title Guaran
tee and Trust company Of Portland.
Or, nearly year ago, was arrested
in Kansas City.
Cheyenne man named Arnold
Kroutwich was found dead near ths
Union Pacific tracks at Kimhall. tits
the opinion that Kroutwiclt was beat
ing his way east on passenger train
and either fell or jumped from the
train
SIDNEY q. lawson of Arlington, Or,
member of the last Oregon Legisla-
ture, committed suicide in room az
the Esmond hotel by shooting himself
in the head. Drink and domestic trou-
are sand to have been the cause of the
suicide.
An explosion of giant powder az
the Pixies Peak mine killed James
Manuel, the engineer. completely
wrecked the shafthouse, and the
sheave-wheel and bucket dropped to
the bottom of the shaft, injuring nei-
Their of the men working there.
TTnitad SIataa cHto;a1, ,,bu ,h.-
learned of the prevalence of smallpox
at Spokane, directed that all mail leav-
ing that place should be disinfected.
As the disease has not appeared be-
tween Spokane and the Canadian bord-
err, 1T is not deemed necessary to fumi-
gate the mail after it leaves the infect
ed city.
The case of Ernest Ames of lincoln,
Neb., against Horace Adams the Sill
yer Crown mining man, was heard at
Cheyenne, and Adams bound over to
the District court, being released on
his own recognizance. The case will
porbably be dropped as the facts were
brought out that Adams was justified
III d HlGdsuT0 lu Tie SnOOGlDR.
The following list OF the dead of
the First Montana infantry whose
bodies were brought from the Philip
pines on the CITY of Picking: Compa-
ny G-Private Edward S. Moore, killed
in action; company K-Private James
Kennedy, drowned company K-Pri-
waite Henry Archibald; band-Privats
Fred Hall.
! The Oregon Bureau of Mines has
been incorporated The new enter
prise is under the joint auspices of the
Chamber OF Commerce and the Portland
Board OF Trade. The object of the cor
poration is to conduct mining stock
exchange in Portland and to maintain
a general bureau of information con-
corning mining interests of Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Alaska and British
Columbia. The capitol stock is $40 900.
The strike troubles Of the Union Pa
,ific shopmen at Cheyenne were settled
oy the company granting the boiler.
makers and maehiuists an increase
from 32l3 cents to "a cents per hour.
The men went on strike for IS cents
md were out month. finally agree
ng to return to work il the company
would promise TO adjust the scale of
wages and treat with a committee from
The strikers, The increase will be
! rom January 1, 1870.
The body of Meredith Wallis, pio-
aeer resident of Cheyenne. was found
At his home Jan. %. He had committed
suicide by inhaling ehloroform from
Two bottles suspended around his neck.
| Wallis had been dead for month. He
was deaf and constant broodinQ over
his afflictioD probably led to his self
destruction Wallis left letter con-
tanning, among other things, the fol-
lowing: "When we have lost every
thing, when we have no hope, then life
is disgrace, and suicide duty"
Thomas Reynolds, the convict, who
with three othrrs escaped from the
penitentiary at Canon City, Colo, Fri
lay. after numbering Night Captain
William G. Romney, was captured near
Florence, ten miles east of Canon City,
and brought to tho latter place in
wagon, where he was taken from the
officer by mob and hanged to
telegraph pole. Two others have
been caught Antoine Wood, the boy
murderer, and Kid Wallace, a train
robber.
An unknown man, cheaply but fash
| lily dressed, was shot ond killed in the
suburbs OF Seattle, Wash. last week.
tits believed that he was the man who
had been complained of to the police
as acting in an indecent manner In the
neighborhood and that he was shot by
an angry father. "E. Koch" was writ.
ten in lead pencil AnAhe Inside of HE
hat band, and that re el ~
his identity. It @aa bhH ~
been employed in Heal ~ ~ sA@A