Montpelier examiner., 1908-08-14
NORTHWEST NOTES


carload of provisions to the fire suf-
ferers at Fernie, B. c., or, II the suf-
ferers wish, money.
Mrs. r. F. Soule, wife of a promi-
pent Anaconda business man, was
burned TO death in her home by the
explosion OF an alcohol stove.
The town OF Clayton, Wash, has
been practically wiped out as the re-
suit of forest fires. Clayton had
population OF about 500 people.
A forest fire Of alarming proper
tions did considerable damage in the
Occur dAlene national forest, in
Idaho, just across the Montana state
line.
The postmasters of Montana met
at Helena ON August in the first an
nual meeting of the Montana Post
masters association. The organfza-
ton was organized one year ago.
The state board of equalization of
Montana has received returns from
all counties as to property valuations,
which show the following: Real es-
tate, $124,117,93s; personal, 1881
S87; railroads, $43,816,00O.
Fourteen railways of Colorado have
asked the federal court for an tnjunc-
tion restraining the members OF the
Colorado railroad commissioh from
enforcing the law as to rates and rail-
way regulation against them.
Mrs. Steve Adams, wife Of the man
who was tried for the murder OF Ar
thur Collins at Grand Junction, and
who was acquitted of the charge, is II
Denver, and has left her husband, ac
cording to dispatch from Denver
1t Is reported by railroad officials
that work on the new freight ter
lninal at Inlay, Nevada, has been re
sumed and that before the work II
finished, which will be some time this
year, $150,000 will have been spent IL
the improvement.
The fire that has been burning IL
the st. Lawrence mine at Butte TO
nearly a quarter of century, claimed
it's first victim last week. Peter Cal
laghan, aged 25, who went into thu
mine in a new gas helmet, was over
come and asphyxiated.
Ontario, Oregon, is in the throes Q
an oil boom. Every oil expert tha
has inspected this field has made
favorable report on the formation
and that where so much natural ga
| is found the indications are first-clas
t for an oil field in the vicinity.
John Kossuf, who had been drinl
ing, ran amuck at Kalispell, Mont
and shot three men. Alderman Scht
man received a flesh wound, while Et
ward Dupont was wounded in tn
temple. Henry Miller, a lumbermal
was struck, but the course of the bu
| let was changed by papers in hi
pocket.
e. F. Bushnell of Washington, chic
8 clerk in the postal service, Malcoll
; Gillis, postmaster at Butte; DR.. Rof
T postmaster at Missoula, and Jude
Cheadle of the district bench at Lev
d istown, Mont, were all slightly i
9 jured in an automobile accident nef
Helena.
Malheur county, Oregon, of whic
a Vale is the county seat, is one of tt
q very large counties of the state, b
l. ing sixty miles wide and 180 mile
long, with a population numberin
about $500 people. The taxable pro
erty aggregates something over s.
y 100000.
i James Iverson, aged 80, of Spark
. Nevada, a prominent member of Il
brotherhood of Locomotive Ems
neers, was accidentally shot in BIZ
canyon, near Truckee, Cal, by h
{. companion, Harry Criss, while hur
iLg for deer. Criss mistook Iverst
for . deer.
10 George F. Demars was shot and
stantly killed by Jackson Reid, ag
II, on Government island in the Lew
rs &c Clark fair grounds. Demars, wi
Id his father and brother, were fishil
as on the island, and were ordered off
t. several children, among whom W
young Reid.
Convicted on a charge of violati
the anti-pass law, S. c. Watts W
IS, fined $500 and Gertie Williams 81
H. in the federal court at Helena, Mo-
Watts, who is a Great Northern bral
"a man, secured pass Tor MS Wl1e a
- gave it to the Williams woman. Be
10 were indicted.
" NJ Stoltz, freight conductor han
ling his last train as such, was kill
or near Grand Junction, Colo, by bel
pr run over by train. Orders relievi
Pa Stoltz of his position as freight c.
ductor and promoting him to a p
ne scnger run were awaiting him
ne Grand Junction.
One hundred sheep were struck a
killed by lightning while taking sh
r. ter from a storm at Bridgeport, G
at the head of the Carson river. WI
u the storm came up the sheep rush
IN under tamarack tree while the
der and his dogs sought the prot
ton of another.
afy The Bank of Austin, Nevada, one
the oldest banks of that place, fai
tn. last week. According to the CASH
]. A. Miller, Jr., however, 1t is Il