Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-06-05
NORTHWEST NOTES

Six inches Of snow on the level
prevented the opening of the baseball
season at Butte on May rs. An elab-
crate program had been prepared for
the occasion.
Amicable relations between the la
Dor unions of Montana and the Bell
Telephone company have been re-
stored, after a fight which has lasted
tor some time and been a source of
heavy expense to both sides.
III health is supposed to have been
responsible for Mrs Emma G. Larsen,
u widow, killing herself by hanging
at Goldf1eld. She fastened one end of
a rope to a window, tied the other
about her neck and jumped into
space.
Judge Burnett, in the circuit court
at Salem, Ore, sentenced j. Thorn
burn Ross, the Portland banker, to
FIVE years Imprisonment and to pay
a fine of $4,000. Ross was recently
convicted of wrongful conversion of
state school funds in his capacity as
president of the Title Guarantee and
| ITuSLs company.
The plant of the Seimon Lumber
company, on the tide fats at Belling-
ham, Wash, burned early Saturday,
entailing loss of 100000. The fire
| started in the engine room and
| spread so rapidly that the Waterman
with the fire-fighting equipment in the
| mill
| The people of La Grande, Ore, are
elated over the assurance that $685.
900 federal building will be forth
coming next year. In it will house
the postoffice and the land office.
Should this city be selected as the
supreme court, the building will be
its home.
Sheriff Alfred Bath of Laramie,
Wyo., was killed thirty miles west
of Laramie by a man named Sum,
mers, from Walden, Colo. Summers
had held up and robbed his employer
at Walden, and Sheriff Bath had
pursuit of Summers when the murder
occurred.
Ontario, Ore, ships more livestock
than any other point between Port
land and Denver, it is claimed. Cattle,
horses and sheep are driven there for
distance of $50 to 200 miles to be
loaded onto the cars for Transports
ton east and north. 1t is not uncom-
mon for 1000 head of cattle to be
shipped from there in one day.
Francis Ciddeo was found guilty at
Greenwood, B. O., of the charge OF
murder, and was sentenced to be
hanged July 81. Ciddeo was charged
with dynamiting the Canadian hotel
which resulted in the death of the
proprietor's daughter, Miss King. He
made good his escape, but later was
captured in Salt Lake City.
Colorado may emphasize the fran.
chise for women in that state by
sending two women delegates to the
national Democratic convention. Fol
lowing the movement in Denver &c
send Mrs Ruth Bryan Leavitt, 1t is
announced that Mrs. Margaret How
ell Jefferson Davis Hayes, the only
/
may be a delegate.
News comes from Billings, Mont.
of the death of William T. Hamilton
aged So, we'll known throughout the
state as Uncle Billy" and probably
the greatest Indian fighter and Indian
sign reader and talker the west has
ever produced Years before Buffalo
Bill" Cody was born, Hamilton was
fighting Indians on the plains and II
the Rocky mountains.
The Rev. Mr. Lewis ]. Duncan, pas
tor of the Unitarian church of Butte
recently invited Emma Goldman, tht
anarchist, to speak in his church, OF
her visit to Butte. Because OF this,
committee from the local Grand Arm,
of the Republic waited upon Mr. Dun
can and requested him to retire al
orator of the community in the loca
Decoration day services.
George B. Meehem of Denver, whe
has been mining in Cripple Creek
Colorado Springs and other places 70
years, has filed suit against L. I. Pat
rick, president of the First Nationa
bank of Goldfield. for $2S5,000, claim
ing that he grubstaked Patrick eigh
years ago, and that Patrick made
fortune In Goldfield without account
ing to him for his half.
The government will bring proceed
ings to dispossess the Southern Pa
cific of lands in western Oregon val
ued at s3,50O,000, and to secure a de
cree annulling the grant and restol
ing the lands to the public domain
The lands were given to the Southern
Pacific several decades ago to induc
the construction of railroad lines. blu
it is claimed the road has failed t
live up to all its obligations to tn
government.
The board of railroad commission
j eTs of Montana has ordered publ
hearing on June 10, in Helena, for tn
purpose of determining ore rates. Be
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