Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-09-11
NORTHWEST NOTES

lake, Oregon, where he has spent a
months vacation, on Friday Of last
week.
Tom and Lawrence Greed were
sentenced to Is and IS months re-
spectively for stealing quantity of
watsrmelons from Union Pacific
car at Cheyenne.
James Gibbs of Del Norte, Colo.
was seriously injured In a runaway
at the Four Mile ranch, near Boggs,
Wyo., few day ago. When the horses
started to run Gibbs was thrown over
the dashboard.
H. j. Martin, a freight conductor.
formerly of Ogden, Utah, was crushed
to death in collision on the North
ern Pacific railroad at Avon, about
fifty miles west of Butte. Martin was |
sleeping in the caboose of an extra |
freight train.
The warlike Piutes of Inyo county, |
CAL. who have been always more or
less hostile to the whites occupancy
OF their territory are now SO vigor-
ously Directing to the seizure Of their
water rights by Los Angeles that the
settlers fear trouble.
James Stanwood Pierce, aged Is
| years, Is dead at his home in Tacoma
of apoplexy. He was cousin of Pre-
sident Franklin Pierce and his grand
father, Nathaniel Pirce, gave to the
Federal government the site for the
navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H.
Jack Dunn, the outlaw who recent.
~ murdered man near Spearflsh. s.
D., Is believed to be in hiding near
Hulett, in the northern part of Crook
county, wyoming. A sheriff and
several deputies have taken the trail
and hope to bring in the outlaw.
All the wyoming coal mines shut
down by the strike of the miners have
supplies of coal on hand and there is
little fear of an immediate coal fam
inc. A Butte dispatch announces that
the Amalgamated Copper mines have
six weeks stock of coal on hand.
After September IS apple growers
of the Pacific Northwest will be re-
quired to pay sharp increase in
freight rates to market their apples
in the east The biggest advances
souri, river, whereas advances to
| points east of the Missouri river are
slight.
: Dewey, the 10-year-old son of B.
F. Back, Cheyenne contractor,
found a cartridge in the alley at his
. home and after extracting the bullet,
he placed the shell on a rock and
hammered it until 1t exploded. A
piece of the shell struck young Back
in the left breast, killing him almost
I instantly.
Sheriff Smalley of Cheyenne has
: unearthed a quantity of dynamite and
Y fuse In the back yard of the home
!. recently occupied by Charles Smith
who was shot a few days ago while
resisting arrest, and who. is believed
|, to have robbed a large number Of
Y stores and residences during the pas
n few years.
e II is reliably reported at New
It castle, Wyoming, that the marrow
r, gauge railroad extending from Spear
fish, s. D., to the Black Hills ma
s. tional forest north of Nwcastle, Is t.
o be standardized and extended t.
: Newcastle early next year. Thu
= present terminus of the road is onl.
% miles distant.
4 Passenger and freight rates on tn
Pacific coast may be increased II tn
~ plans considered at meeting of Of
!, ficials of the Union Pacific railway a
\, the Auditorium Annex hotel at Oh
= cago the other day are fruitful. TIL
~ meeting was a secret one, but 1t wa
re declared that an increased tariff rat
r. to the coast had been considered.
. The Northern Pacific and subsidiar
le companies, which are defendants in
es suit recently instituted by the go
~ eminent to recover immensely vail
10 Nble coal lands in Montana. filed the
ed answer last week, which in effect
st that the government cannot go bac
it under its classification under whic
the tracts were awarded.
IA The mine whistles did not call ii
If, miners to work at Dietz, Monarc
ge Carneyville, Kooi and Riverside 9
'rt September 2. Seven hundred men al
MS out at Dietz, 400 at Monarch, 300
lie, GAINESVILLE, so at Kooi and %
sw Riverside. The miners are optimi
TIC.
OF Sergeant Bower of Troop D, Four
ib- cavalry, who wandered away fro
st camp in the Grow Creek reserv
os- while suffering from injuries receive
rio by his horse falling on him, vi
he found in Laramie, and is being carr
ro- for at a local hospital. He will 7
cover.
ng Coal miners and operators for u
or Montana district met in conferen
emit at Helena on the Bird, for the purpo
of of fixing a wage scale for the ems
re- ing year The operators are und'
Ing stood to be DESTROYS OF reducil
ted wages, which will be resisted by Z
miners.
las, Mrs. Robert Chapman, an ag
I'm, woman from Oakland. Cal. who, wi
for her husband, has been visiting thu
om- son. George Chapman, at Reno, Me-
on ga was found dead by her husba