Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-07-17
NORTHWEST NOTES

the claim-jumping shooting affair that
occurred there last week.
While attempting TO cross the river
at Melrose. Mont, i've persons were
drowned. They were: d. Pisinti, his
brother, his ten-year-old son. G. Gu
tone and Rinaldo Peltoni, the latter
two Greek railroad laborers.
Blacksmiths and machinists of the |
Northern Pacific shops have resumed |
work on full time Of nine hours. Four |
hundred men are Immediately affect |
ed and IL means full time for the en-, |
tire force OF 800 men at the shops.
The railroad library maintained by
the employees of the Southern Pacific
at Sparks, Nevada, was destroyed by
| fire last week. AS the building and
its contents were insured, 1t is am
nounced that it will be rebuilt at
once.
Enos Peers was disemboweled at
Plains. Mont, during cutting ARRAY,
dying from his wounds. His alleged
assailant, Joe Painin, is in jail charged
with murder. Dave Solure, also in
volved in the affair, is being sought
by the officers.
About half the business part of
IGrand Forks, B. c., was wiped out by
fire which started in the Yale hotel
about 1:45 a. M July 10. At least one
person is dead, the body of an un-
known man being found in the ruins
of the Valhalla house.
A long distance telephone line be-
tween Denver and Chicago was
opened on July with conversation
between Mayor Speer of Denver and
Mayor Busse of Chicago. Thomas
Taggart, chairman OF the National
Democratic committee, and other
prominent men also had a part in the
, celebration.
al After careful review of the crop
a situation in western Canada, the lead
d ing railways estimate the total wheat
t | yield in western Canada will be 1885,
. 100000 bushels, or an average of
twenty bushels to the acre. Last
. years wheat crop was 80,0OO,00O
: bushels, of which 67,00O,OO0 bushels
/, were exported.
d A tiny Maltese cat has completed q
trip from Holland, Mich. to San
y Francisco, distance of $500 miles
,, in drawer of a bureau. wrapped in
= sacking and shipped by slow freight
q When freight hands opened the bu
ID reau the cat jumped out, and after be
ing given food and water. was in ex
cellent condition.
The annual review of American com
merce issued by the bureau of stats
tics for 1907 demonstrates again tina
trade with the Orient is gradually bu
IN surely shifting from the Atlantic t
IA the Pacific coast. Nearly so per cen
So of American exports to Asiatic cour
Is tries moved outward through Pacifi
ng coast ports in 1907.
)r. The Southern Pacific's new lin
he from Mojave northward to Keelel
re- California, distance of about -
lo- miles, primarily for the benefit of tn
ce construction of the new water servic
'ut system from Owens Lake to Los Al
geles, has now complete track in us
M for a distance of thirty miles nortl
ICE ward from Mojave.
ns Eight thousand dollars worth
vvs liquor was destroyed by special o
ec. fcers, and eleven alleged bootleggel
rly were held in heavy bail for prelim
re nary examination as a result of tt
federal governments first active da
in the suppression of the liquor ira
rss fic on the Nez Perez Indian reserv
!. ton, southeast of Spokane.
of Judge Shackleford, before who
tai Steve Adams is being tried at Gran
sat- Junction, Colo, on the charge of mu
ing tering Arthur Collins, ruled that tt
We document purporting to be COME
the sion of the crime made and signed
'itn Adams while he was confined
ay. prison in Idaho, was not admissib
as evidence In the hearing.
xed Oficials of the United States fore
EN-, reserve have closed all of the saloo
all at Grand Forks, a railroad and mini
camp just across the Idaho lima frc
Montana. The closing of the saloo
an came as climax Nof reign of la
lessnsss that has resulted in sever
and killings, although the men responsiI
,ers have not yet been apprehended.
rom Convict Preston, who is in the I
ton vada state penitentiary for murd
lew and who was nominated for the pre-
bile dency of the SocialistLabor par
sh's has declined the nomination. It is
SUI lieved that he acted on the advice
one his attorney. as he was willing to b,
ous' candidate and stated that he fully
p - pected to receive the nomination
.ast. Governor Norris of Montana has
dressed letter to the commission
of Indian affairs at Ottawa relative
the deportation of a large band
the Greek Indians, who, while Canad
lie q charges, have for years been ros
In. ing throughout this state. The
ants. dams participated in the Rie1 rel
Their lion, and with its suppression ca
ccur- 70 mon eaha.
to George M Morrow. mine opera
,h{ae and laaSor IN 4hn Gavau TrnuphS n