Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-16
| NORTHWEST NOTES


killed near Williston, N. D., by falling
from a Great Northern train.
Work on the Cheyenne Electric
Street Railway company's extension
to Fort Russell, which was stopped
by a strike has been resumed with a
new force of men.
After an all-day fight, the Trans
Mississippi Commercial congress at
San Francisco voted down resolu-
ton indorsing the recommendation of
Postmaster General Meyer for
cheaper parcels post.
Robert Myers last week brought
into Cheyenne the largest deer
killed in that country in twelve years.
The animal was shot by Myers near
Diamond station, weighs 2S5 pounds
and is a twelve-point buck.
A new city directory for Cheyenne
was issued last week, containing
5,276 names. According to the usual
usage, the utilization Of the multiple
three, the new directory shows that
Cheyenne's population is 1898
That work on the irrigation system
OF the Wyoming Central Irrigation
company, in the Wind River section
of Wyoming, is to begin as soon as
surveys are completed. which will be
about January /. has been decided.
Leasers on the Dead Mule placer
claim at Rawhide, Nevada, it is said,
are working in dirt returning SAT
yard. The pay streak on the Dead
Mule is four to six feet in thickness,
the channel being eighty feet wide on
the average.
The trial of Tom Lindsay, alias
Montana Slim Jordan. for the murder
of Ray Parnell near Lusk last sum-
mer, was begun in the district court
at Douglas, Wyo, last week. Tom
Daley, an alleged accessory in the
crime, will be tried later.
Two men were killed in the wreck
| of a passenger train near Foller
Mont, on the Shelby Junction branch
of the Great Northern. The engine
went into the river and fireman and
Waterman were killed. One of the
dead is named Ranspeck.
Two men were killed and one in,
jured in a wreck of Great Northern
/ train at Marais river, in the northern
part of Montana. The train was late,
and while travelling at high rate of
speed struck soft stretch Of road
bed, the engine rolling into the ditch.
After chasing a typical western
horse rustler for eight years, captur-
ing him twice, and as many times he
escaped, Sheriff Felix Aston of Big
Horn county, Wyoming. is about to
have his hopes realized by again get
ting possession of the man, R. e.
Stratton, who has been arrested in
Utah.
James Oliver Curwood, a well-known
author, of Detroit, who recently went
into the Hudsoy bay wilds for De-
troit publishing firm, has been killed
by Indians in the Lac lie Rouge coun-
try. The trader who brought in the
report says that the Lac lie Rouges
declare that the white man began the
trouble.
The grading of the railroad into
Rawhide, Nevada will be completed
within the next week or ten days
and the work of laying rails will
be commenced as soon as the grade
Is completed. 1t is believed that
twenty-five miles of railroad from
Sehurz to Rawhide will be in opera
ton by Christmas.
Thomas T.. Hisgen, Independence
party candidate for president, ad
dressed 1000 people at Goldfield on
October IL and was given cordial
reception. Mr. Hisgen said he be
lieved that President Roosevelt was
sincere in his fight against the
Standard Oil company, which he ha6
driven out of the Republican party.
An experiment in connection witt
great international exposition is K
be tried next year, when the Alaska
Yukon-Pacif1c exposition is held IL
Seattle, and it will be watched will
more than usual interest by churcl
and temperance people and member
of the Prohibition party. For the frs
time in the history Of expositions, til,
sale of intoxicating liquors on thu
grounds or near them will be abso
lutely prohibited.
Milo Long, on trial at Glasgow
Mont. for the murder of John Hay
and his 11-year-old daughter, was con
victed of murder in the second degre
!, and sentenced to thirteen years in
prisonment His brother, Waite
/ Long, was also convicted of the sam
offense.
viii Dickerson, the 17-year-ol
horse thief who recently escaped fror
> Deputy Sheriff To1iver while bein
brought back from Sweetwater cour
ty, where he was arrested on a FIRE
mont county charge. has been recaI
tured and is now in the county Jail q
. Lander, Wyo.
I The Campbell Construction con
I pany of Salt Lake City has bee
1 awarded the contract to construct
/ depot building at Dillon, Mont, fo
Z tho Ornnnn Short inc railroad 1