Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-23
NORTHWEST NOTES

Publicity is credited with having
decreased accidents on the Hartman
system of roads between 20 and SO
| per cent within the past three years.
The Farmers and Traders National
bank of La Grande, Ore, has closed
its doors. The bank was capitalized
at 100000 and two weeks ago its de-
rosits amounted to $4,000.
The biggest state encampment in
the history of the Knights of Pythias
| OF Montana opened at Great Fails on
the 18th. A fancy drill, in which
500 uniformed knights participated,
was the feature of the opening day
| parade.
On the verge of mental collapse, A.
D. Burroughs confessed to county
peace officers at Sheridan, Wyo., that
ne witnessed the assassination of ex-
Sherlm Harvey K. Brown by a bomb
thrower at Baker City, Ore, a year
ago.
FRANK 8. Monnett, former attorney
general of Ohio, addressed an audi
ence that filled the Broadway theater
at Butte, on Democratic issues. Mr..
Monnetts address was mainly on the
trust question and the subject of the
guaranty of bank deposits.
What is believed by government Of
ficlals at Seattle to be a new gang or
men engaged in smuggling Cinnamon
into the United States from British
Columbia is now operating on such
an extensive scale that immigration
cmcials are worried greatly.
A Butte Miner dispatch from Lew
iston. Mont, states that a deal was
closed there whereby the Cook-Rey-
nolds company, representing Wiscon-
sin capitalists, has purchased the Ell
lott and Beck and the w. o. Straw
ranches aggregattng 10000 acres of
land, for 100000.
Bishop John p. Carroll of the do
cese OF Helena, Mont, has announced
the purchase of forty-five acres OF
land on Capitol hill, which will be
used as the site of a Catholic univer
sity which will rank among the best
In the country. Work will begin on
the buildings at once.
lone highwayman, armed with
two revolvers, walked into the Clear
Lake Logging company's camp at
Clear Lake, Wash, lined up the
thirty employees in row and ordered
TWO OF the loggers to search the
others. The robber walked out of
the camp with $3.50 and several cheap
watches.
Ralph Pearce, the negro porter
who struck down Oscar Travis. a
commercial traveller, during a quar-
rel on a Northern Pacific train. has
been captured. Pearce struck Travis
with an iron bar and jumped from
the train near Garfield, Wash. Travis
is in dangerous condition at Lew
iston hospital.
and twenty-one others injured by the
explosion of missed charge of dyna-
mite at the Ingleside limestone quar-
~, sixteen miles northwest of Fort
Collins, Colo. TIE dead, two ia
ranese and four Mexicans. are N. Ia
bata, L. Aoki, Gregori Mangora, Pc
Gro Hernandez, Jesus Lopez and
Pedro Abalos.
Thomas Morrow, aged GO, a promi-
nent photographer of Sparks, Nevada,
met violent death when he attempt
ed to jump from a fast moving train
as it was passing through that place.
He had been at Floriston, Cal, MAX
ing views for a pulp concern. and
boarded through train there. hoping
the train would slow down sufficient
ly for him to alight safely
A Billings, Mont, jury found Flor
ence Riordan guilty of manslaughter
in connection with the death of her
husband, Timothy Riordan, and fixed
her punishment at one year in the
penttentiary. Mrs. Riordan, on the
witness stand, declared that she shot
and killed her husband with his own
gun, which she wrested from him
after he had struck her and had
threatened her with death.
The jury in the case of Edward
Hugh Martin, tried at Portland for
the murder of Nathan Wolff, a pawn
broker, on the night of May / last.
brought in a verdict of guilty, fixing
the degree at manslaughter. Martin
Is graduate of West Point and
veteran of the Spanish-American war
Engineer Campbell of the Hartman
lines in Ogden proposes to call in
chemical experts to solve the mys-
terious decay of the ties along the
great deal of trouble in keeping the
track in repair since the construction
of the frans-lake line.
An earthquake shock, starting at
1920 O'Clock at night and lasting
twenty minutes, was recorded on the
seismograph at the University of
an extremely violent shock, so se-
we're that the needle was thrown com
p1etely on the drum.
George Grover, who escaped from
the insane asylum at Blackfoot.
Idaho, some time ago, was captured
In Salt Lake City last week by At
tendant Miller of the asylum, who
has been here looking for the man.
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