Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-08-07
NORTHWEST NOTES

& st, Paul railroad.
An unknown man riding the brake
beams was ground to pieces at Liv-
ingston, Mont. Fragments of his
body were scattered over five miles
of track.
Twenty-eight new locomotives,
worth about 100000, are said to be
tied up at Denver as the result of the
strike of the shopmen on the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad.
Application for a receiver for the
First bank of Rawhide has been made.
The appointment will be made on
Aug. and in all probability A. A.
Codd win be named as the man.
While hunting deer in the woods |
near Lowell, small town near Tekoa, |
Wash, on the Ceoeur d'Alene reser-
walton, John Gates, an Indian, was |
killed by the accidental discharge of |
his weapon.
Invitations have been sent to Will
liam H. Taft and William J. Bryan,
the rival presidential candidates, to
attend the interstate fair and exposi-
ton in Denver In September and de-
liver addresses.
Capital is now developing the water
power of the Cherry Creek section of
Nevada, for an irrigation project in
Coal valley, and an area thirty by f1f-
teen miles in extent eventually will
be under cultivation.
Mack Thayer, son of William Thay-
er of Fenton, Wyo., accidentally shot
/
The bullet entered between the ribs
and lodged under the left shoulder
and Thayer will recover
Albert Penny, a Union Pacific shop
man at Laramie, Wyo., has fallen heir
to share of an estate valued at $780,
900, 900. The property is located in
New York and Penny's share will
amount to about 100000.
Mrs. May Belle Cottrell, charged
with having raised check given her
by Colonel d. p. jenkins, nestor of
the Washington bar, Spokane million
aire and philanthropist, has been re-
leased from custody on $4,000 bonds.
The last spike connecting Butte
with Chicago on the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul coast extension was
driven at 6 o'clock on the evening
of July ct, by d. A. Macintosh, one
of the contractors. The spike was one
OF brass.
The big prize fight arena of the
Butte Athletic club, on the flats below
Butte, was destroyed by fire of I'M
, known origin on July 81, entailing a
| loss of $780, In this arena all of
| ha fo Of Pnftn hQun
| been held.
| An unknown man who was stealing
/. a ride on the Overland limited was
3 ground to pieces beneath the wheels
5 and his body strewn in bits for over q
1 mile, three miles east of Winnemucca
' Nevada. An inquest did not develop
! his identity.
!. Sheriff Campbell of Cissoula
4 Mont, while visiting friend at Taft
: near Missoula, happened upon two
t holdup men in the act of robbins
j Henry Smith The sheriff gave chase
a and caught both robbers, after an ex
g citing and long chase.
The Montana Bankers association
II held its annual convention in Billings
+ last week. The feature of the open
r ing session was the addresses b.
e United States Senator Thomas H
d Carter and John g. Maronit, presi
e dent of the association.
Three lives were lost by the capsi2
s. ing of the yawl Elizabeth, in the Ey
f. erett, Wash, harbor, about two mile
II from shore. The drowned men ar
s. George Morton, aged 81, his sister
le Mamie Morton of Everett, and Mis-
d. Florence Scott of Victoria.
Stephen G. Grub, Civil war vel
10 eran, whose action at critical me
TT ment probably saved General Williar
10 T. Sherman's entire store of amml
r. milton just before his famous marc
r., from Atlanta to the sea, died at II
ly coma on July 80, age Is years.
m John Murphy and Joseph N. McNef
were instantly killed at Nimrod ST
u ton, Mont, on the Northern Pacifi
st railroad, and Gus Wassen was ser
be ous1y injured. The men were ridin
o. the pilot of work trains engine whe
M the front trucks climbed the rails.
at A jury at Fort Benton, Mont, a
ID, quilted Fred Larimore of the murde
of w. P. Turner at the latter's ranc
OF near Beatrice, last April. Judge Ia
he tan scored the jurors severely whe
to the verdict was read, and intimate
~, that had verdict of guilty of mu
as der in the first degree been retur
is ed 1t would have met with his a
10 prevail
Jesse Fifer, street car gripma
lin killed his eight-year-old daught'
al Hazel, Mrs. Dennis Nihoul, confin
no, ment patient, fatally wounded h
in, wife, Mrs. L. Fffer seriously wound'
to Mrs. Ethel Warren, his sister-in-la'
las at Seattle, and then took his own lii
he Fifer was crazed because his wife hi
left him.
Ra- Rex Beach, the novelist and pla
sgs wright, who has just returned from
cd bear hunting trip in Alaska, is CO