Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-07-31
NORTHWEST NOTES

two cars on a Colorado Springs &
Cripple Creek railway train at Fair
view, Colo.
Smoky" Hogan, an alleged ex-con-
Wet, is under arrest at Reno, Nevada,
on suspicion of being one of the men
with "Bakerfield Sims" gang who,
about a year ago. cracked safe at
Constantia, Cal.
A Denver policeman one day last
week shot and killed man who ran
away after being arrested, and who
was identified by E. L. Everett as one
of two highwaymen who robbed him
the night previous.
Charles Wilhelm, longtime resi-
dent of Victor, Colorado, shot and
killed his wife and then turned the
gun on himself, blowing off the top OF
his head Domestic troubles are
said to have been the cause.
James McMahan, well known
criminal detective, and for many |
years proprietor of private detec-
| tive agency in Kansas City, Is dead
Il Of tetanus, the result of being bitten
by a hog on his farm, near Leeds.
H Elsie Kenison, an 1S-year-old girl
residing at Echo, Ore, was shot In
| the mouth and killed at her home by
her sweetheart, B. e. Stoeffie, who
afterwards committed suicide by
hanging. There were no witnesses
to the tragedy.
Two brothers, James and John
Roberts, were wounded at Taft
Mont, by a revolver in the hands of
an Austrian bartender whom they
had been tormenting and abusing.
Both of the men were shot through
the leg, but not seriously injured.
The divorce colony at Reno, Ne
vada, had it's first real sensation last
week since the affair of Steel King
Corey and his former wife, when
Virginia Harmed Sothern filed a suit
for divorce in the district court
against q. H. Sothern, the famous
actor.
At the sixth annual convention of
, the Eagles of Montana, held in Mis-
soula, the Helena drill team was
, awarded the $500 prize offered by
the Missoula aerie. Anaconda took
, the second prize of 5000 and Butte
was third, winning $50 prize. The
convention for 1909 will be held at
Butte.
Silas C. Stevens, curio dealer OF
Chicago, and Charles Hulster of San
> Francisco an agent OF Stevens, were
indicted by the Federal grand Jury
at Denver last week ON the charge
of counterfeiting. They are accused
of having caused worthless Confeder
: ate notes to be passed as genuine
!, money.
Kathryn Collins of Reno, Nevada
. has been awarded $1,625 damages
= against the Nat C. Goodwin Broker
:. age company. The plaintiff alleged
= that she suffered injuries requiring
: two operations because she was com
PEELED to sit at her typewriter worl
= on a cane-bottom chair several inche
:. too high.
AS the result of c1oudburst nea
Z : Trinidad, Colo, carriage from Stark
= vile was caught by wall of waite
- six feet high while crossing dr.
arroyo. Two passengers and tn
7 driver were carried 200 yards int
the river and thrown on a sand bal
: where they were rescued. The horse
were drowned.
Although badly wounded and SUI
a fering great pain Louis Cohn,
chauffeur, driving an automobile b'
- tween Winnemucca and Dun Gler
: drove his car fifteen miles before h
tainted from loss of blood His n
- volver dropped from his pocket an
~ was discharged, the bullet going Ell
- tirely through his body.
Paddy Rodgers, alleged bandf
~, boosted bad man and all around de
- perado, is in Jail in Butte for tn
= murder of Michael Henry in a saloo
:, upon the outskirts of Butte Lyncl
- ing is now openly talked of, and
CIV i Rodgers identity as the masked mu
he derer of Henry is established, tt
Jail will hardly hold the bad man.
IN Chicago capitaliststs, headed /
he Newell G. Knight, have just closed
in deal for the, erection of an enormol
ms reservoir some fifty miles above D
III lon, Mont The water will irriga
ne 10000 acres of land, extending fro
sb. Lima on the Oregon Short Line dow
to Dillon.
oh At the state convention of Eagl
tn held last week at Missoula, Mon
do Mayo j. NJ Keith formally extend'
at. the welcome of the city to the aerie
ant to which response was made by Sta
ms President of the Eagles Henry
Ike Mefli. Missoula was gaily decorat
III honor of the visitors.
in. Burlington passenger train le
to the track at a point about nine mil
len east of Livingston, Mont, one d
to last week. and despite the fact tn
the at the time the accident occurred t
ow speed exceeded fifty miles an he
yerl neither passengers nor trainmen
ceived the slightest injury.
for Committeeman from the Natior
Z a | Woolgrowers' association met