Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-09
NORTHWEST NOTES

A blizzard general over that section
struck Butte on October 2, six inches
of snow falling, Gripping telegraph
service and delaying trains.
Joe Soelsby, motorman at Union
Pacific mine No. s, Rock Springs,
Wyo., was badly crushed in the mine,
and is in the hospital in a serious
condition.
The coal mines of Wyoming re-
sumed operations Saturday morning,
September &c, when nearly 5000 men
went back to work. This undoubted-
" marks the end of the strike.
Friends of Jerry Perman, the
young Nebraskan who disappeared |
several days ago, are now satisfied
that he was drowned in Browns lake.
and that his body is fast in the mud,
says Rawlins dispatch.
A work train on the logging railroad
OF the Chapman Logging company
was wrecked about five miles west OF
Scappoose, Oregon. Five members
of a repair gang which was riding on
the train were killed and eight injured.
The thirty-fourth annual convention
of the American Bankers association,
| held at Denver last week, came to an
| end with the election of George M.
Reynolds of Chicago, president, and
Lewis e. Pierson, of New York, first
/ vice-president.
The third annual state fair held at
Wheatland, Wyo., despite the stormy
weather. was we'll attended. The fair
| is now a fixture and preparations
have already been made to make the
next event even greater than the fair
just closed.
In an alteration at Rawhide, Ne
vada, Jack ]. Wall, formerly of Butte,
Mont, seriously cut M. Daily, an Ana
conda mining man, with razor Wall
was arrested and taken out of town
on account of threats of lynching
made by Days friends.
Miss Elizabeth Kelly, principal of
the public schools at Tacoma Wash,
for the past ten years, died at Pitts
burg, Pa, in hospital, from paraly-
sis. Miss Kelly was en- route from
Tacoma to La Trobe, Pa, to visit a
brother when she was stricken.
A sister of M. R. Preston, who was
nominated for the presidency on the
Socialist ticket and is serving twenty
five years in the state penitentiary at
Carson, is in Reno for the purpose, 1t
is said, of circulating a petition to be
presented to the board of pardons
: when it meets, asking for the pardon
:. of Preston.
In all probability the government
will install an electric light and
power plant at its big Shoshone dam
and furnish light and power to the
= surrounding towns. The power house
will be built at Corbett, Wyo., and
= power will be generated from the
water from the Corbett tunnel, which
{ has a drop of over fifty feet.
With his arms tightly clasped about
, the neck of a large buck deer, which
e had died of bullet wound, the boa!
of George Buxton Of Brockway, IL
the southern part of Oregon, wa
found in Olalla canyon by a searchin!
u party. Buxton had evidently wound
cd the animal and was preparing t.
e cut its throat when attacked.
0, A final settlement has been mad
/
r, the miners, and the papers have oeel
lie signed. The wage scale is PRACTICAL
W the same as the one in force prior t
the strike, and regulations remain VII
le tnaIIy the same. Concessions wer
h, made by both sides, and the Wyomin
OF coal controversy is now ended.
v The friends of Charles e. Holl
ep baugh have made application to Coy
IN ernor Brooks of Wyoming for a pa
don for Hollibaugh, who was col
at yieted at Buffalo of murder in the SCI
an ond degree in March, 1901, and sci
at fenced to life Imprisonment. The rel
or sons for asking for Hollibaughss pa
N. don are not given by his friends.
IT, At the headquarters of the Wy
hi ming and the National Wool Grower
Nv associations in Cheyenne 1t is a
70 nounced that the fifth annual conve
OIL ton of the former will be held
I'D Rawlins, Wyo., on Monday and Tue
tb day, January II and IL, 1909. II
-. national convention will be held
:, Pocatello, Idaho, January IA to 10.
at Articles of incorporation were fill
ia at Cheyenne last week for the Mo
tana, Wyoming & Southern railWa
~, with a capital of $5,000,0O0. The col
- pany plans the construction of Ii
from Sheridan, Wyo., to Miles Gil
80 Mont, and may also extend soui
u ward to the present terminus of {
'HS Colorado & Southern at Grin, Wyo.
A dispatch from Chicago says: G
onization of the western country "
be materially retarded If the railroa
eye between Chicago and the Pacific COZ
ase carry out plan which has been
~ vanced by the executive officia
lon Nearly every railroad in the Waste
ecu Passenger association has agreed
we abolish all low or reduced rates al
January 1, 1909.
"a The joint conference of operat