Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-08-28
NORTHWEST NOTES

Henry Dyer, the 13-year-0ld son OF |
MRS. Yorick Nichols, was drowned
while bathing in the Platte river near
their home at Pratt, Wyoming.
"A dispatch from Bozsman, Mont,
states that William Thompson, an en-
CHEER, was killed in a boiler explo-
sion in the Roberts sawmiFl, in Bear
canyon.
The $500 railroad has placed an
order with the Minnesota Free EN-
ployment bureau for 1000 men. They
are wanted as harvest hands in Min
nesota and North Dakota at from
So to 81 day, with board.
Mrs. Caroline Kirchoff, so years of
age, of Colorado Springs, was killed.
and Henry Hanning, 46 years of age,
was fatally injured by the explosion
of boiler at the Edgerton saw mills,
ten miles north Of Colorado Springs.
P. G. Ayres, aged 65, president of
the First National bank of Coffeyvtlle,
Kan, dropped dead at StonewaIl, a
summer resort forty miles west of
Trinidad, Colo, where he was spend
i "
/ friends.
David Hilger, a we'll known banker
Of Lewiston, Mont, and one of the
prominent men of the state. has for
mally announced his candidacy for
the nomination for the lieutenant
governorship on the Democratic
ticket.
While crowd Of cow-punchers
were celebrating their arrival In the
! town of Marmarth, Mont, fight was
started in the tenderloin district and
an unknown girl was shot and killed
by another, known only by the name
of Blanche.
The Montana Hotel Mems associa-
ton met in Butte last week. One of
the subjects before the body was the
question of the merits and dement's
of the nine-foot bed sheet demanded
by travelling men in various parts of
the country.
Mrs. K G. Turner, one of Chey-
enne's leading citizens, died of heart
failure while asleep in her bed. She
had been calling on friends during
the afternoon and had laid down to
get little rest. Falling asleep, she
died without a struggle.
Empire City, three miles from Car
son City, Nevada, once f1ourishing
city during the bonanza days of Vir.
ginia City, was visited by fire last
week, destroying six houses, almost
the total number and cremating John
Bradbury, pioneer of thai place.
Frank Gillice, postman at the Bun
ker Hill & Sullivan mine, whose mys-
|, terious disappearance from Wardner
was variously accounted for by the
cries of suicide, abduction and accl
dent, has turned up alive and we'll at
, the home Of his brother in California
/ The division engineer on the St.
| Paul from Lombard east to Forsyth
Mont, says that the company will be
employing 5000 men until cold wealth
err sets In on repairing the line where
i It was damaged by the floods, relay.
ing the track of the Montana railroad
/ with 85-pound steel, and ballastine
the roadbed.
: A peculiar accident happened to
Captain Cadle of the Reno police
force. While standing In the police
station Ofilcer FOLLY began brushing
Cables clothes with a brush. In some
way the captains revolver was dis
charged, the bullet blowing down the
back of his leg, neatly cutting the
|. trousers, the ball entering the floor.
. After a heroic effort Mrs. Ed Eos
ter living near Reno, Nevada, saved
!. her two children from burning II
, death. She was outdoors, washing
the children playing In the house
4 when she noticed that the house wal
!. on fire. She fought her way through
\ the flames and got the children safe
i. ly out, but was badly burned herself
a While in session at Billings, thu
|, Montana State Federation of Labo
J. adopted resolutions commencing
Gompers for his efforts In securing
q concessions from the political par
/ ties, but no particular party wal
a Endorsed. The body also demands
/ that candidates friendly to labor, II
respective of party, alone be support
!. sd at the polls.
Eight men belonging TO the cooking
n many at Barnum G Bailey's circus wer'
+ severely injured, two probably fatal
1 ~, when spreading rails caused fou
menagerie cars TO leave the tracks
q on the Great Northern railroad eigh
9 miles south of New Westminster
a Wash.
A fre resulting from a gasoline ex
s plosfon in the red light district o
l. Rhyolite, Nevada, wiped out $4,000
e worth of property. Several fine build
t ings were reduced to ashes, and |
/ was with difficulty that the Bullfroi
d Bank Trust company's building wa
y saved.
A forest fire nearly wiped out tn
: little town of Bow, ten miles soutl
of Bellingham, Wash. The saw an