Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-11-06
NORTHWEST NOTES

phries worth 1929, 800.
The funeral of Colonel E F. Ferris |
was held in Bozeman, Mont, on DC
tober 81, being one Of the largest ever
held in that city. Colonel Ferris was
pioneer freighter, being associated
with former Governor B. F. White.
John Brady, former Helena con
tractor, prominent in Democratic poll
tics, died in Basin, Mont, on October
I27. He was one Of the oldest con-
tractors in the state and had con.
tract on the first road built into Hell.
ena.
The coal miners Of the Sheridan,
| Wyo., district and the operators OF
the mines in which the men are EN-.
ployed have not yet ratified the wage
scale agreement reached by their rep
resentatives at the Cheyenne confer
ence a month ago.
| George s. Walker, secretary of the
National Wool Growers association
left Cheyenne for Shoshone, Ida,
where he will confer with President
Frank w. Gooding relative to the pro-
gram for the coming annual conven-
ton of the association.
The process of double tracking
work in Wyoming on the Union Pa
cific railroad is slower than was antic-
ipated but excellent work is being &C
complished. Handicapped by a short
age of men in the last two weeks, only
about two miles have been laid.
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and Oregon cattlemen have leased ten
thousand acres of grazing land near
Chilico lake, some distance from the
head of Butte inlet, British Columbia.
and thousands of yearlings will be
shipped in. There is no snowfall there
and the cattle can feed all the year
round.
After invading a soroity party at
Reno, Nevada, at which only women
were admitted, five male students Of
Nevada university, K Z. Tilliston, J
A. Houlihan, Ralph Dignowity, G. G
Schrapps and Lyle Selby, we're cap
tured by police after an exciting
chase. The boys may be expelled
from school.
The general land office has adjust
ed it's account with the state of Wyo
ming, showing net proceeds of the
sale of public lands in said state for
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1908
Receipts were $659,106 of which
amount $543,S65 was received from
the sale of public lands and 81 ,06s
from fees and commissions.
With cry that he was going to kill
himself, George Devere, a detective
in the employ of the Goldfield Consol
idated Mines company at Goldfield
Nevada, shot himself in the head with
an automatic revolver, death result
ing. Brooding over the killing of g
man who resisted arrest is attributed
as the cause for the deed.
Tremendous excitement exists al
Phoebe, Nevada, over the latest grea'
strike in the Mendha property. locat
ed in the Highland district. The ore
body that drifts off to the south OF
the 700-foot level so far exposes, by
actual measurement, 10000 tons OF
ore, worth net, according to the daily
returns of shipments, 100000.
With an open knife in his right
hand, Francisco Cea was found dead
in the middle OF a country road five
miles west of Billings. Mont. having
evidently been murdered and robbed
His clothing had been cut open In an
5ffort to find money which it is sup
posed he carried on his person. Cea
was engaged as a section workman.
Lewis Penwell, treasurer of the Ma
ional Wool Growers association has
received letter from Secretary G. S
Walker of Cheyenne ,W7No- telling
him that there will be meeting In
Helena November Is to discuss the
erection of a warehouse capable oil
holding 25,000,000 pounds of wool The
building will be located in Chicago.
Carl Ludwig Fehske, "a years old
) is dead at Billings, Mont. from the
effects of two strokes of paralysis
. Mr.. Fenske was the Oldest voter II
,, Yellowstone county and had cast his
ballot in eighteen presidential cleo
tons. MIR. Fenske was one of the pic
ner settlers of Wisconsin and his re
mains will be taken to Berlin, Wis.
for burial.
Okanogan county, in the extreme
|, north central part of Washington, nov
traversed by stage and freight lines
Ipperated by horses and automobiles, il
ito have an electric railway before thu
I close of another year. Colonel Alder
NJ. Dewey, of Spokane, president o
the Okanogan Electric Railway com
pany, announces that the sale 0
: bonds is practically accomplished, ant
J, that work will begin soon. The lin
and equipment will cost $2,621,2 So
James Gaskin. one of the bes
known colored business men of tn
state, was arrested at Cheyenne las
week, charged with having possession
= of one of twelve sets of harness re
Gently stolen from the government a
Fort Russell Gaskin was released o.
bond.
The naked body of D. S Murray wa
e fOund in the railroad terminal ward