Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-12-24
NORTHW EST NOTES

WeStern bowling couBIeSs next year
will be held In Seattle from Nav % to
June 6. inclusive.
Elijah Mills, aged 3S. formerly OF
Hooper. Utah, slipped and fell over
donkey engine at the Belmont mine
IN Butte and was killed
Fire at Nina, Nevada. last week de-
stroyed an entire block of business
houses, causing loss of 100000 Re.
building will begin at once
Mrs. Alta v. Dobyns, a physician,
was fatally burned in her suite In the
Owsley block, In Butte, one day last
week. The origin of the fire is UNI
Known.
Pat Carroll and Eugene Lugon, tim.
Der cutters. were burned to death IN
their hunks in a fire that destroyed
their mountain cabin in the Sierras,
fifty miles from Fresno, Cal.
The trial of Elmer Hinton, on the
charge of having murdered w. H.
Mahaney at Round Up. November 7,
called for December IA at Lewiston,
Mont, was continued for the term.
Wyoming has 100000 acres OF
dry" lands or farming land possible
of operation under so-called "dry
farmers In this state produced good
crops this year.
w. D. Kennedy, city attorney of
Leadville, Colo, and a pioneer mem
Der of the Colorado Bar association,
was stricken with heart disease while
in Denver, and died before medical
assistance reached him.
DR.. Lillian Miller has been selected
as county physician by the county
commissioners at Helena, Mont, for
the ensuing year. Her selection as
county physician is said to be the first
of its kind in the state.
c. r. Jones, accused of sending
Matchmaking letters to Ranker S. S.
Hobson of Lewiston, Mont, demand
ing that $4,000 be left at a certain
Place or he would be killed, was found
guilty by a jury last week.
The federal officials at Helena.
Mont, believe that the participants In
the Spokane train robbery were Nc
Donald and Frank Hauser, two men
who escaped from Jail several months
ago while waiting trial on a similar
charge.
An unidentified man met death near
Glendive in a most horrible manner
by falling underneath train. His
body was cut squarely in two, just
above the hips. The upper half of the
corpse chung to the trucks of the ex
| press car.
Sam Alexander, a well-known broker
who attempted to shoot Bart Mona
han, another broker, in the course oil
an encounter in Butte on November
| oHo xrftl ax.lf ~
the first degree. and his bonds fixed
at 81 900.
The barber shop of s. G. Payne al
| Billings, Mont, was wrecked by van
| dals one night recently. Razors were
hacked on the marble stand, materials
used in the business were destroyed
and bad smelling acid scattered
about the shop.
AS a means OF putting stop to the
"rustling' of stock in northern Mon
tana, the stock men of that section o.
the state have begun raising 'wal
fund" with which special detective:
will be employed to assist in running
down the cattle and horse thieves.
Carl Roland, a middle-aged man o
whom little is known, committed sui
eide at Nina, Nevada by letting a ca
wheel cut his head off. He was sit
ting by the track watching the trair
go by, when suddenly he moved over
laid his neck on the rail and let thu
train complete the tragedy.
The biennial report of the Care,
land act board, just submitted to Gov
ernor Norris, shows that Montana i
reclaiming upwards of 100000 acre
by this system, and prediction is mad
that the state will soon reach tn
prescribed limit-one million acres
The financial showing is most salts
factory.
Sammy" Williams, who died a
Manhattan, Mont, last week at tn
age of 80, had masqueraded all he
life as a man. She had lived eighteei
years in Gal1atin county, where sh
had amassed property worth abou
1900. She had many masculin
habits, drinking, chewing, smokin
and using profanity.
The entire force OF printers en-
ployed on the Butte Miner, comprisin
the chapel of that office, walked on
because a proofreader had been dis
charged for refusing to pay So for
mistake made by him in the corres
ton OF cad" copy. The difference ha
been settled
The supreme court of Montana ha
handed down decision affirming tn
conviction in Yellowstone county c
William Conway on the charge of PEI
hitting a female in a place wher
liquors are sold This is the first cor
viction under what is known as tn