Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-11-20
NORTHW EST NOTES

Of Wyoming is at Hot Springs, Ark,
where he will recuperate from the
strain Of the recent campaign.
Harry Sanyo, tailor of Whitehsh,
Mont, was instantly killed by being
struck by a passenger train. He was
walking long the track toward the
train.
Efforts are being made for strong
baseball league in Wyoming next sea
con, 10 include the towns of Cheyenne,
Laramie, Rock Springs, Douglas and
Casper.
A wreck of a freight train in the
Harvey tunnel, forty-fve miles from
Great Falls, Mont, caused consider
able damage to equipment, bat no
lives were lost.
Carl Jacobson, a Swede laborer.
who is confined at the Cheyenne city
jail, is unusual in that he is mentally
Insound and knows it, having request
ed that he be sent to the asylum.
The secretary of the treasury has
decided to accept the donation Of
site for the new postoffice at Goldfield.
New, the triangle bounded by Main,
Broadway, Miner and Gold streets.
President J. E. Chilberg of the
Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition has
written President Roosevelt asking
that his trophies of the chase in Brit
lsh East Africa be made an exhibit at
the exposition.
An eastbound overland Burlington
passenger train crashed into a switch
engine in the Billings. Mont, yards,
injuring George Lulloff, fireman of
the passenger train, and badly shak-
ing up the passengers.
Selling pools on horse races and
maintenance of betting rings at race
tracks are under the ban of the law
In the state of Washington, according
TO decision of the state superior
court, handed down last week.
The Routt County Development
company which is constructing a sys-
tenn of irrigation work along the Colo
rado-Wyoming line near Baggs, Wyo..
has installed a giant steam shovel and
is now lifting 1000 yards of dirt daily.
William Monroe, farmer of Hutch
inson, Kan, has arrived at Laramie.
Wyo., and is prepared to spend for
trne, the savings of lifetime, in de-
tense of his son, Harry, who is charg-
ed with the murder of R. B. Kinley, a
ranchman.
Word has reached the Northern Pa
cific directory that the extra dividend
Of $11.26 Which was recently declared
by the Northwestern Improvement
company for the benefit of the North
ern Pacific stockholders, will be paid
On December 8.
Elmer Hinton, the young man who
killed Contractor Mahaney at Round
up, Mont, during a quarrel over
wages, has been captured in Fergus
county. Hinton asserts that the brain
ing of Mahaney with neclIyoke was
an act of self-defense.
A Butte Miner dispatch from Wash
ington states that the presidents COM
mission on country life will be in
Bozeman. December and Z, and will
give hearings to farmers, the State
Agriculture college professors. and
others interested in the subject.
Twenty voters cast their ballots for
dead man in Eureka county, Nevada,
when they voted for Andrew F. Stin-
son for county officer. Stinson was
j stricken unconscious while making an
election speech the day before cleo
ton and died few hours afterward.
For the third time within two years
) disastrous fire swept the rail-
road construction camp of Taft, Mont,
last week, and approximately one
third of the town is in ruins. Two
theatres, several saloons, grocery
! store, a restaurant and number OF
, funk houses were among the build
ings destroyed.
Near Billings, Mont, on the Bill
ings & Northern railroad, Monte
negran workman was killed and two
others badly hurt The men were rid
ing on a hand car and were run down
, / by a train which carried no lights,
: they being unable to see it approach
ing. The man who was killed was
frigthfully mangled
T Word has been received from the
) headquarters of the Wyoming Wool
Growers association in Cheyenne stat
ing that Assistant Forester A. f. Pot
Ter, of the bureau OF forestry, will, ear
Iy in the coming summer. investigate
conditions on the Black Hills national
forest. near Newcastle, with a view
. of admitting sheep.
The woman who attempted to kill
herself, Miss Helen Phipps, daughter
of Mrs. Genevieve Chahler Phipps,
: end two policemen in Denver, after
the failure of her attempt to extort
= $4,000 from Mrs. Phipps, has been
D identified as Mrs. Allen Reed, wife of
5 a druggist of Denver. Mrs. Reed is
! believed to be insane.
The first real fight in the twenty
0 eighth annual convention of the Amer
! lean Federation of Labor, at Denver,
!. occurred on the report of the creden.
tials committee, and resulted In the
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