Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-08-21
NORTHWEST NOTES

engineer y. r. McMuilen was III
stantly killed at Arlee, Mont, by
Northern Pacific engine. His body
was horribly mangled.
DIR. J. M. Wilson who, with Mrs.
Wilson, was injured in a runaway &C.
cident at Douglas, Wyo., will not be
crippled as at first reported.
The Colorado Federation of Labor,
in convention at Denver, by viva
voice vote, Endorsed the Democratic
party in the national campaign.
Omaha, Neb., was selected as the
city in which the 1909 convention OF
Eagles will be held, at the session OF
the grand aerie held in Seattle.
George Evans and son, George, age
II, and daughter, Bessie, age IA, were
drowned in Snake river, twelve miles
below Huntington, Ore, while bath
ing.
The loss as the result of forest fires
/ in the Bitter Root mountains in Mon
tana will be great, several millions OF
feet of fine timber having been de-
stroyed.
AS a result of washout on the
Tonopah & Tidewater railroad near
Shoshone, Cal, a passenger train
plunged into chasm and three men
were killed.
Governor Norris has appointed fif-
teen delegates to represent Montana
at the sixteenth national irrigation
congress, to be held at Albuquerque,
September 80.
Teddy Stanton, not three years old,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Stan
ton, of Plains, Mont, was accidental
iy shot through the head by play
mate, Ralph Stevens, aged 9, and died
later.
The State Bank of Wheatland and
the First National bank Of Wheatland
Wyoming, have merged under the
name of the former, which will here
after conduct the banking business OF
that section.
State Senator P. L. Flanagan is to
be Endorsed at the Goldfield conven
ton August % for Republican senator
against Senator Newlands. Consider
able of a boom for Senator Flanagan
has been raised.
Pueblo has been chosen as the meet
ing place for the annual convention
of the Western Federation of Miners
for the district embracing Colorado
Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico, ant
the date set for September 1.
Benjamin Thompson of Pleasan
Ridge, Wyo., was thrown from hi
horse and received injuries that ma!
cause his death. Thompson has beef
unconscious since the accident, an,
fears are entertained for his recovery
e. H. Stage, IL years OF age, wa
killed at the Monticello roomin
house in Helena. He was running tn
the elevator at the place and wa
caught between the floor of the elt
yator and the door-jamb and crushe
to death.
Reports were received at the dill
patcher's office at Sparks, New, fror
Nina, New, that the residents OF ths
little desert town were greatly pc
, turbed over what they thought to b
volcanic eruption close by, on Al
gust IA.
In a quarrel following poker gam
at Seven Troughs, Nevada, T. ]. Lon
acre, better known as Snowfall
shot and killed D. c. Mclaughlin,
miner, formerly of Virginia Cit,
Longacre has been held on chare
Of murder.
Judge John Y. Batterton, count
commissioner, died at Deer Lodg
Mont, on August 10, aged 80. JudG
. Batterton came from Missouri
. 1877. Prior to moving west he hs
/. been probate and county Judge in h
J native state.
? Eight Million. eight hundred ar
I nine thousand sixteen dollars and t
t ty cents is the amount of mon'
I made by the Southern Pacific col
: pany in the state of California, durii
: the year ending on the first Monds
. In March last.
. Chief Justice Talbot, about who
candidacy for reelection to the s
. preme court bench of Nevada the
has been a great deal of speculatio
; has decided that he will seek the MOI
. nation from the Democratic conve
. ton at Tonopah.
: Five men are dead and another W
d probably die as the result of an exp
/, sion that occurred at the Albrig
). quarries, about forty miles south
a. Great Falls, Mont, where the liz
If rock for the B. & M. smelter at Gre
Ie Falls is quarried.
,e Mrs. David Miller, wife OF min
g. in the Frog Pond basin, northeast
Missoula, Mont, last week shot
Il monster bear that was attempting
le break into her cabin. The bear "
s, one of the largest ever killed in tn
IL part of the country.
Ripetown, a mining camp locat
2 nine miles from Ely, Nevada, with
4 population of about 300, was alm'
s. completely destroyed by fire ];
-, week. The fire started In saloon
- the explosion of q lamp and spre
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