Montpelier examiner., 1908-04-03
NORTHWEST NOTES

and killed Sheriff Webb of Yellow.
stone county, Montana, while resisting
arrest near Billings, committed sui
eide rather than surrender
F. H. Norcross, supreme Judge OF
Nevada, has won the $1,000 prize of
fered by Senator Bourne Of Oregon
for the best-written argument why
President Roosevelt should be elected
to third term. The contest closed
on February is.
A crowd of forty tramps seized a
freight train of the Southern Pacific
company at Orena, Nevada, and
forced the crew to run the train to
Winnemucca, fifty-nine miles, where
they stopped the train outside of the
town and scattered.
The town of Tuscarora, Nevada, one
OF the oldest in the state, has been
almost depopulated through news OF
the strike. at Gold Circle The Tus-
carora News has suspended publica-
ton owing to the editor and printers
all joining the rush.
To meet the demands of the fruit
growers of California, ten extra
freight trains have been put on the
Southern Pacific during the past two
weeks, giving employment to some
thing like sixty trainmen, whose
homes are in Ogden.
Officials of the Montana Mine Own
ers' association have announced that
they have completed arrangements to
take over the Panhandle smelter at
Pen DOreille, Ida, near Sand Point
The association expects to be smelling
ores within thirty days.
Three bandits held up Edward
Hoffman and secured 1000 belong.
| Ing to the Coalition Mining company,
| at, Reno, Nevada, last week, after
which they made their way to
Schurz, stole a handcar and escaped
into the Walker Indian reservation.
One of the first coal mines in Wyo.
ming was opened by the stage com.
i pany in 1866, near the old overland
i trail crossing Rock Creek, in what is
now Albany county. The coal was
used for blacksmithing in the vicin-
| ity of the opening and was also car
ried to other places for the same pur
/ pose.
/ The town of Rawhide, Nevada, is
4 built along an arroyo that drains
southerly to a desert fiat, surrounded
| by mountains. On the east side OF
| the arroyo are Grutt, Balloon and
Murray Hills, connected, one to the
other, by saddles while on the oppo.
site side is Rosebury, or Hooligan
hill.
w. F. Armstrong, a so-called "bad
man" from Wyoming, was shot and
killed in the Palace saloon, in Whine.
mucca, Nevada, by w. H. Carter, one
of the managers. Eye-witnesses say
the shooting was in self-defense, as
Armstrong accused an employee OF
stealing his money, and when Carter
demonstrated, pulled a gun.
The board of trustees of the Uni,
versity of Wyoming have removed
President Frederick Monroe Tisdel on
the ground of alleged maladmiaistra
ton, insubordination and untruthfnl
ness in university affairs. Recently
President Tisdel issued a public state
ment making graft charges against
= the trustees.
Investigations made by the geolo
gists of the United States geological
survey have shown that coal beds
ranging in thickness from few
inches to six feet or more occur al
several horizons in the shales and
sandstones of the western portion oi
the Laramie basin, Wyoming, though
they appear to be irregular in theil
distribution.
Attorney John B. Welcome, one o
the largest individual ranch owners
of the state, died on March %, o
pneumonia, at his home in Madison
county, Montana. He was 40 year.
old and a native of New York. Al
manager of w. A. Clark's senatorial
campaign In the legislature in 1898
he was charged with having offeret
large sums of money for votes 70
Clark.
After expending a fortune in tn,
search. the engineers of the recla
/. nation. service have at last strucl
@ bed rock. CD feet below the bed o
It the Shoshone river, and work will a
g once begin on the Shoshone dam o
h the reclamation service in Wyom
n ing, dam which will be 315 fee
= high, exclusive of SIS feet beneath
!. the bed of the river, the highest II
!, the world, and which will make pos
:; sible the conversion into fields an
= orchards of 10000 acres of land.
= Forty acres of land six miles fron
Caldwell last week sold for $1,60t
The land was all unimproved, BIZ
. with good water right.
- - Western railroads have announce
that during the national Democrat
convention special rates will be pu
in effect as follows: The round tri
- between Chicago and Denver, $40
between st. Louis and Denver, $25
y and between Omaha and Kansas Cit
Ia and Denver, $17.50.
u The Democratic state eonventio
20 of Colorado to elect delegates to tn