Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-09-18
NORTHWEST NOTES

one of the men was shot and killed.
I Judge Miles Poindexter Of Spokane
has won the congressional nomina-.
ton over field of six candidates,
three of them in Spokane county.
The Western Boosters shooting
tournament was held in Anaconda
last week, with well known marks
nen from all parts of the United
States in attendance.
Y, Arthur McCant, one-eyed colored |
man, wanted at Canon City, Colo, for |
the murder of colored man, was ar |
rested on Union Pacific train at
Cheyenne by deputy sheriff.
W. F. Claycomb, employed at the
Moncreiffe saw mill, near Cody,
| Wyo., lost one thumb and two fingers
from the right hand a few days ago
by coming in contact with q saw.
The State Mining congress Of Colo
RADIO has appointed a committee of
thirteen to take steps to retain the
home of the American Mining con-
gress In Denver and the erection of
e $1,00O.0OO temple.
A few days ago at his Red Bank
ranch in the Big Horn basin, ex-Gov-
ernor Richards of Wyoming, while
beheading chickens, accidentally
hacked his left thumb, almost sever
ing it from his hand. 1t is thought
the thumb can be saved.
Wishing to see If live wire, which
had just given severe shock to
young Charles Mann, deaf mute.
was still charged, Glenn Saunders,
man "a years of age of Baker City,
Gre, touched the wire with a nail
and was Immediately electrocuted.
DR.. Cabelle Whitehead, general
manager of the Seward Peninsula
railroad in Alaska, is dead at Nome,
as the result of an accident on the
road. The car in which DR.. White
head was riding was overturned and
he fell into al shallow body of water.
Chairman Harry HUMPHREYS of the
Republican state central committee
OF Nevada, and Chairman P. j. SON.
crs of the Democratic committee,
have formally entered into an agree
ment binding the legislative candi-
oates of both parties to abide by the
popular vote for United States sena-
tor
President Holbrook of the Wyo-
ming Coal company at Monarch,
Wyo., has purchased the right-of-way
for railroad from Monarch to Miles
City, Mont, and proposes to build
line of railway down Tongue river to
the Montana city, where it will con-
meet with the Milwaukee & St. Paul
road.
| The first step toward the construc-
! ton of the Chrystal Lake reservoir,
"a miles west of Cheyenne. and
which will form a part of the city's
water storage system, was taken last
week, when condemnation proceed
! ings were instituted against the own
ers OF land which will be flooded By
, the lake.
, The warden of the state peniten-
tiary at Rawlins, Wyo., is already
, wondering what he is going to do
with the large number of convicts be
' ing received. There are now EGO pris-
cners in the pen, and with district
courts in session in several counties
1t is expected this number will short
IL be increased to 275 or ESQ.
! The sheriff is searching for ]. w
: Manning, who came to- Cheyenne
! from Denver recently and who is
wanted on charges of obtaining
money under false pretenses, beating
j, his board bill, stealing diamond
:. ring and various other alleged of
. lenses. Manning represented himself
Z to be a man of wealth.
= Fearing he would be convicted or
the charge of committing crimina
assault upon a 14-year-old girl. fol
: which he was arrested, J. H. Jones. ;
] bricklayer, Sc years old and married
I committed suicide at Durango, Colo.
soon after being locked up in eel
at the county Jail by cutting hi
z throat from ear to ear with poke
y knife.
The first trouble growing out 0
" the present strike Of Wyoming Goa
, miners occurred at Sheridan, whel
!, Charles Klopchick and Joe Toner
y were arrested, charged with interior
= ing with workmen of the coal CON
y pany while they were building
bridge.
:. Mrs. John Davis, wife of one @
: the leading real estate dealers of Sc
:, attic, committed suicide by takin
: carbolic acid. She was % years OLE
- he was 48, and they had been maj
rs ried only since March 15 last, BIZ
A. the couple had frequently quarrele
OF late.
"A The president has issued a procli
h. nation opening to settlement 10000
Dc acres of the surplus lands of tn
u Rosebud Indian reservation in Sout
Id Dakota The drawing will take plac
M at Dallas, s. D., on October 10. TIL
es minimum price fixed on the land
Sc per acre.
In Two convicts in the state prison {
nd Folsom, Cal. made break for Ill
nd erty. They were fred upon by two {
fha T,rfqnn puards and 0np 0f the c0l