Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-09-04
NORTHWEST NOTES

the sixteen coaches held up in Vel
lowstone park by the lone highway
man liz now placed at $4,000 in mon
ey and an equal value in watches and |
jewelry.
The Socialists, in state convention, |
at Helena, Mont, adopted platform
and nominated full state ticket. Har.
ry Hazleton of Missoula was nomi |
mated for governor. There are three
preachers on the ticket.
Alex. Poderato, Greek section |
hand, employed by the Southern Pa
cific at Teck station, while attempting
to board a freight train at Jackson.
New. fell beneath the wheels and
had his right foot crushed.
Woo Chew, Chinese business man
of Reno, Nevada, will vote at the next
election, being the first Chinaman
ever registered to vote in the state.
His mother and father are both Am.
erican-born and Chew was born in San
Francisco.
Two masked men held up the sa-
loon of p. A. Lillis at Divide, Mont.
compelling eight men to line up
against the wall with their hands
above heads while one of the bandits
rified their pockets. Two hundred dol
lars was secured.
1. d. McCutcheon, prominent
member Of the Seattle bar, and secre-
tary and acting governor of the terri
tory of Montana under President Ar
thur, is dead as result of an opera
ton following general breakdown.
He was 50 years of age.
Louis Jacobs was probably fatally
injured near Billings, Mont, by being
hurled over 100-foot embankment by
runaway horse. A lady out riding
with Jacobs escaped serious injury.
Both were found unconscious at the
foot of the embankment.
The convention of American press
humorists at Denver elected j. Ed
mund Vance Cooke OF Cleveland sec
retary-treasurer and reelected Frank
J. Starlight of Los Angeles president.
The matter of the next meeting place
was left to the executive committee.
Railroad men say that the tracks of
the Western Pacific will be into Wells,
Nevada, before the middle of Septem-
Der. Soon after the tracks reach this
city. train service win be instituted.
Wells is rather an important point on
the Western Pacific, in that 1t Is the
| point where 1t meets the Southern Pa
cific.
The stockholders OF the Denver City
| Tramway company, at meeting last
week, authorized bond issue OF $685.
| 100000, of which $13,00O,000 will be
used to retire the outstanding bonds
and Indebtedness, and the remainder
placed In the treasury and issued as
needed for further extensions and Inn
| prOvements.
Eugene Chain, candidate for the
| presidency on the Prohibition ticket
delivered two addresses in Billings,
Mont, ON the 27th, one In the after
noon and the other in the evening, in
| which he took occasion to declare
that the only real issue before the PEG.
| pie of the country was that of the
| liquor question.
Fred Jockey, vice-president of the
Randsburg branch of the Western
Federation of Miners, who was re.
Gently arrested on charge of con.
spring to blow up with dynamite a
pipe line OF the Yellow Aster Mining
company of Randsburg. CAL, has been
released from custody, no one appear
ing against him.
]. r. Taylor. one of the best
known mining men in the Black Hills
and his helper, Chris Miller. were in
stantly killed in the Burlington mine
at Redfern, 8. d. The men had JUS
stepped into cage to be raised from
the danger of a blast, but breal
caused the stage to stick. and the ex
plosion caught them.
Fl. s. Evans, of Butte, has been sen
fenced to one year in the peniten
tiary upon his plea of guilty Of for
gerry. Evans for several years was !
trusted employee of the Boston G Mon
tana Mining company. He wal
charged with forging the name o
Charles Mccoy. cashier of the com
pany, to several checks.
AS yet no word has been receive,
concerning the probable fate of ths
British steamship Aeon, which hal
been out from Portland since July
and from San Francisco since July
bound for Auckland. N. 2. Reinsur
ance on her has run up to 35 per cent
She should have arrived at her destl
nation three weeks ago.
After wandering hopeless ami
dazed in the mountains without foo,
and shelter for nearly forty-eigh
hours, Roderick Emile Rombauer,
st. Louis jjurist and author, staggerel
into the Drake hotel at Estes Park
Colo, and is slowly recovering from
narrowing experience. He was los
In the mountains for two nights an
days.
A Butte Miner dispatch from Liz
ingston, Mont, states that the chas
after Kid Royal, the famous rustlel
has been abandoned, after a pursui
| hv fwn uaaana from parix and Gwaa