The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-11-02
LATE NEWS NOTES.

half an hour after the signal admitting
thousands of pr~ospectors bad beer
sounded countless mining claims had
been located as townsites and mush-
room cities are now springing up at
the mouths of the Dutchmsn and Cot
touwood creeks, in the vicinity OF
which the richest mining territory In
Nevada j. supposed to lie.
Approximately $50, 900 acres Of va
cant unappropriated public land in the
north half of the Colville Indian reser'
walton, embracing almost the entire
north half and forming a tract almost
equal in size to the entire state OF
Rhode Island, have been withdrawn
from public entry under any OF the
land laws except the mineral laws,
with the view of making a government
forest reserve to be known as the Col
Willie reserve.
Antonio Spinelli. 30 years of age,
awaiting trial in the Tombs for the
murder of a fellow c~ountryman is dead
The keepers declare the man was frigh-
tened to death.
+. II. Garside, treasurer of the de-
funct Aetna bank of Butte, is under ar
rest in Minneapolis. He was arrested
on a clew furnished by a cipher tele-
gram sent to Mrs. Foster, his steno-
grapher, who also has left Butte. The
telegram fell into the hands of the
police.
Governor Toole of Montana has hon.
ored the requlsition of Governor j. A.
johnson of Minnesota for Gustav A.
Blomberg, Jr., wanted in Nicollet
county, Mimi. on the charge of grand
larceny in he second degree.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
store of Bland & Donavan at Hermis-
ton, Ore, recently, securing about 800
and some small checks. There is no
clew to the perpetrators.
A sale of Idaho state lands was held
at Rathdrum last Monday by G. J.
M~unson, state land commissioner, as
sisted by E. L. Marvin, chief clerk.
Lumbermen from all over the county
were represented and the bidding was
spirited. Timber was sold under a 10
year lease, 7840 acres realizing $780,
432. The average price paid an acre
was $1.25.
Muriel Williams, aged 10 years,
daughter of George Williams an ex-
pressman at Pullman, Wash, was run
down and instantly killed the other
morning by a freightoar while on her
way to school.
Clarence Rakk, a young rancher OF
Natchez valley, seven miles from North
Yakima, was seriously ana probably
fatally injured in an attack by an In
furiated bull recently. His right arm
was broken and his shoulder dislocated.
The Right Rev. Isaac Lea Nicholson,
bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Mil
waukee, aged 50 years, is dead in Mil
waukee. He had been i'll for more
than a year.
Philip Nelson. a wealthy copper
mine owner of Missoula, Mont, com
mitted suicide in Chicago recently.
Nelson had just received a letter from
his wife in Sweden, stating that hel
health was failing rapidly and it il
supposed to be the cause of his action,
The officials of the Pennsylvania
railroad have beer unable to determine
the direct cause of Sundays disaster a.
Atlantic City. The trucks of the carr
when raised out CT the water were
carefully examined by officials of thC
company and there was nohing abou'
either wheels or other parts to throw
any light on the subject. A thorough
examination Of the bridge showed thu
mechanism to be in perfect shape
Evidence shows that the rails were ex
actly in place.
Mrs.F w. Esgate was sccideDtly sho.
to death recently at her own home
about four miles south of Occur d.
Alene, Idaho,
1t is reported that the Spokane & In
land Empire railway will build int
Lewiston from Moscow despite al
stories to the contrary.
Fire recently destroyed a range o
new store buildings on the townsite o
: Toppenish, Wash. The loss is placet
[ at $1,000. The origin of the fire is un
T known.
l The American Society of Equity
the farmers trust as most OF tn,
members call it has opened a Chicag,
Office. The trust" consists of 500,
: 900 farmers. 1t has just completed
big meeting at East st. Louis and i
trying now to form an alliance witt
; the American Federation of Labor.
, is to be a benevolent trust and viii
harm no n but spectators in farn
products. They are to be wiped out o
|. existence.
Our plan is to bring pruodcer an
consumer together, " said Otto Doeder
lein, who will manage the Chicag
Office. FAT present the middlemal
takes all the profits. The producer get
starvation prices and the consume
. buys for three or four times what tn
a producer would sell for. We expect t
e eliminate manipulation of prices an
S cut OF the middleman's profits"
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcoc'