Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-07-24
NORTHWEST NOTES


Portland on June II.
John Jacobson of Portland, Ore,
had his left foot cut on while beating
his way on the Short Line at Ontario.
Ore, and there is little hope Of his
At the convention of the Wiscon-
sin State Federation of Labor, the
resolution condemning Harry Orchard
to the World of Hades" was adopted
by the vote of So to 8.
The lamb crop in both Wyoming
and Montana is short this year, the
lambing in most parts, according to
late information, being 80 to so per
cent, against so to 80 per cent for
normal average.
Stanley Peck, who was acquitted at
Reno, Nevada, last week of the charge
of numbering Angelo Satero, went in
sane while on his way from Reno to
San Francisco. Peek was a nervous
wreck before he left Reno.
Timothy Reardon, bartender OF
Billings, Mont, was shot and Instant
Iy hillGu NY lOICllCC ANCfhi dOhg WaO
protested to be his wife by virtue OF
a marriage contract, and to secure
whose valuation she had brought suit
in the district court.
Samuel Lepper, pioneer resident
of Fergus county, Montana, met his
death by falling into a well on a
ranch near Moore. Lepper was
missed and a search revealed his
body in the well, in which there was
about ten feet of water.
Twelve more bodies, victims of the
explosions in mine No. of the Union
Pacific Coal company at Hanna, Wyo.,
March 29, were brought to the sur
face on July 18. The bodies were bad,
ly decomposed and were identified
only by their clothing. Twenty-Five
more bodies are believed to be in the
mine.
AS result of a quarrel over the di
vision of work in caring for graves In
the Odd Fellows cemetery at Reno
Nevada, Jack Dolan shot Frank Whit
taker, his aged fellow inmate in the
county hospital, three times with
pistol, killing him instantly. Whitta
ker fell dead over the grave he was
watering.
Enraged because Joseph E. Fish, q
contractor of San Francisco, drove
onto some freshly laid asphalt pave
ment, Lawrence Taggart, foreman
in the employ of the asphalt com
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the asphalt is smoothed down ant
thrust it into Ffsh's face, burning i
horribly.
Eight men have been arrested OF
the Crow Indian reservation, in Mon
tano, charged with selling liquor t
the Indians. A number Of secret sci
vice men are actively engaged in a
effort to stop the sale of liquor to tn
Crows, the law being so openly defie
that Indians have been served owe
the bars.
Steve Adams, member of the West
ern Federation of Miners, on trial a
Grand junction, Colo, was acquitte
of the murder of Arthur Collins
Adams alleged confession of tn
crime was excluded as evidence b
Judge Shackelford, and eight wi
nesses testified to an alibi for the az
cused man.
Suit has been instituted at HELENE
Mont, by the government against tn
Northern Pacific Railway compan!
the Rocky Fork Coal company and tn
Northwestern Improvement compan
to recover title to very valuable COZ
lands in Carbon county, which 1t
alleged were procured through mi
representation.
Thomas Cooper, land commissions
of the Northern Pacific railway, o
the stand in the Minnesota rate hea
ing, introduced a paper which CAV
the value of the purchased lands
the Northern Pacific at $71,325,21
and of the donated lands, $35, 564,87
It developed that from its lease
lands, the company receives abou
100000 year.
Advices from San francisco sa
that the Western Pacific tunnel undt
Alameda creek, just west of Nile
will be completed this week, an
tracklaying toward Oakland will
pressed forward rapidly, there beir
but two minor bridges to build c
the way.
Contracts have been awarded fl
the rebuilding of the Hauser Lal
dam, and the construction of tt
Wolf creek dam More than 3,0i
men will be employed and work vi
begin at once. The Wolf creek da
will be the second largest power da
in the world.
Clarence Don Clark. United Stat'
senator from wyoming, was stricke
with a nervous collapse and gener
breakdown at the Auditorium Anne
hotel, Chicago, last week. So SCI
GUS was the senator's condition tn
for a time his life was despaired {
He soon rallied, however.
Sneak thieves entered the bank
Phoebe, Nevada, at noon and stole
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