Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-11-26
NORTHWEST NOTES

Colorado pioneers, died at his home |
in Denver on November IT, aged Sc.
Mrs. NJ. S. Williams. the first white
woman in Butte, lately in reduced cir |
cumstances. was last week committed
to the insane asylum at Warm |
Springs.
The Union Pacific telephone line |
from Rawlins to Ogden has been com
pleted. and is now in service. 1t will
greatly facilitate the sending OF rail
road messages.
The president has appointed George
f. Russell postmaster at Seattle. i
Wash vice George M. Stewart, re-
moved for alleged violation of the
civil service laws.
Headquarters of the reclamation
service. northern district, comprising
the states of Wyoming, North Da'
kota and Montana, were opened in
Helena last week.
The Jewel saloon in the tenderloin
district of Butte. was dynamited by
unknown persons on November IL,
and badly wrecked. Several of the
inmates had narrow escapes.
Elizabeth Turner, years old. died
Mt Helena Mont last week from in
juries received while coasting This
is the first fatality from coasting re-
ported in the state this year
In a freight train wreck near Winnie
mucca. New. L. A. Gloves, brake
man was injured, and sixteen cars of
oil, machinery and dressed poultry
was jumbled into a tangled MESH.
Otto Siegel. a pioneer and well
known business man throughout Mon
tana. died at Missoula last week of
apoplexy His demise was fastened
hy a fall down stairs several days pre-
vious.
The proposed wedding of Joe Tu-
ritch and Mia Marinovich was inter
rupted at Butte by an officer, who ar
rested the intended-to-be bridegroom
on charge of bigamy. He is alleged
TO have a wife and two children In
Austria
The Pacific coast, it is understood,
will make a strong effort to secure
representation in President Taft's cab
met. r. A. Balinger of Seattle, for
nner commissioner of the general land
office. is to be urged for secretary OF
tn q INTERIOR
Owing to the probable defeat of the
constitutional amendment providing
for an increased tax at the recent
election in Montana, 1t is very prob
able that there will not be sufficient
revenue next year to pay the expenses
Of the state.
Nevada bankers have been called to
meet at Reno December next,
through the action of the Reno Bank
ers' committee to perfect state or
! ganization, formulate plans for rem
edial banking legislation and secure
uniformity in practice.
James Allen, structural iron
worker. met tragic death while
working on a trestle which spans a
/ deep ravine near Taft, Mont. Allen
was riding a steel column which was
being swung into place when he was
4 knocked from his position and fell TO
/ the ground below, distance of 100
I feet.
The authorities of Billings, Mont,
have made public mail pouch rob
berry, which occurred in that city re-
Gently. The thieves were APPARENTLY
+ povices. as the pouch they selected
/ contained no money, according to the
postal authorities. The rified pouch
was found under a building near the
depot.
After prosecuting search for her
child for thirteen years, finding the
boy in Bellingham, Wash, last June
the adopted SON of S. A. w. Deming
Miss Maude Fields of st. Louis failed
TO secure possession of the CHI Id, the
! nudge of the superior court giving the
boy into the charge of his adopted
parents.
Confident that they will be granted
a franchise by the state Legislature &c
conduct horse racing in Nevada, Cali
farnia racing promoters and Reno cap
italists have taken an option OF
ground at Moana Springs, resor
four miles south of Reno, sufficiently
large to establish a suitable track anc
buildings.
Mike Butler, a member of the Butte
fire department, has been arrested
charged with dynamitng the Jewel sa
loon. in the redlight district of Butte
The proprietor of the place says But
Ter declared, when pressed for pay
~ment of bar bill, that he would ge
even"
John Beau, who escaped from tn
insane asylum in Wyoming severa
months ago, astonished the officials a
the asylum by turning up and demand
ing readmission. Beau explained tina
careful study of his condition had cor
WINGED him he was still mentally ur
sound.
The Southern Pacific has establish
ed a nine-hour day at It's railroa