Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-12-03
NORTHWEST NOTES.


died after suffering terrible pain for
more than six days.
News has been received in Butte
of the death at Redlands, Cal, of Dr..
John S. Marshall, who, as manager of
the Montana hotel. Anaconda, during
Marcus Days time, was the best
known boniface in Montana
In duel on the desert near Rhyo-
lite. Nevada. John Smith was shot
and killed by John Cyty, an Italian,
who was wounded in the arm The
men quarreled over some mining
property.
The board Of control of the Dry
Farming congress, which is to meet at
Cheyenne February %. announces
that requests for accommodations are
coming from various sources, indicnt-
ing widespread belief that the congress
is to be held this month.
President Roosevelt win not make
display at the Alaska Yukon Pacific
exposition of the trophies of his South
African hunt next year. In reply to
formal request, Secretary Loeb, for
the president, has replied that it will
be impossible to comply.
Because of the Importance of the
forestry reserve problem and other
public questions in which the west is
vitality interested, President Taft will
be invited to attend the annual con-
vention of the Trans Mississippi con-
gress in Denver next August.
George H. SCOTT, county clerk and
prominent Republican. and Attorney
William H. Maloney, a Democratic
leader, fought one hour and five min
utes in a gulch at Butte, under prize
ring rules, to settle an election bet
The fight was finally declared a draw.
In order to provide fou the widows
and orphans of the victims of the re-
cent mine disaster at Red Lodge,
Mont, when nine men lost their lives,
each miner at Red Lodge has been AS
sessed the sum of SO. There are over
100 miners in the camp, and the as
sessment will amount TO $4,000
Two men attacked Tom Loo. an
aged Chinaman of Reno intent on
robbery, and was beating the old man
TO death when his cries brought
scores of Cinnamon, who drove the
robbers off, but not until Loo was bad
| ly injured The robbers are believed
TO be members of an organized band.
The Northwestern railroad has dis
covered large bed of gravel at Wa
haba, west of Shoshone, Wyo., and will
in the spring establish gravel pits and
ballast it's entire line from Lander to
Omaha. The gravel is said to be sim.
liar to the celebrated Sherman hill
ballast on the line Of the Union Pacific
railroad.
Believed by the police to be on a
still hunt for the man who betrayed
Joseph Garcia, alias Cordova, into the
hands of officers of the law the night
of May 6, and incidentally the leader
of a gang of thieves who have been
operating in Seattle for the past three
months, Sadie Belcher Is under arrest
in Seattle.
George Lyman Dutson, one of the
best known residents of Star valley
was instantly killed while rolling logs
in Grover canyon, near Alton, Wyo
Two sections of log which his son
had sawed in two got away and rolled
down hill toward Dutton, who fed be
fore them, but was struck, his neck
being broken
The Western Pacific Railroad com
pany announced last week the compile
ton of it's Flower Lake tunnel, which
cuts under the Pequop mountains, in
Nye county, Nevada. The tunnel Is
on the main line of the Western Pa
cific and is 1857 feet in length. AL
most the entire distance is through
solid limestone.
An assessment of / cent per capita
Which viii total s29. 900 and which will
be used for increasing the member
ship as well as making the section
more efficient in every way, was
made by the building trades brancf
of the American Federation of Labol
at the sessions of it's annual conven
ton in Denver.
The passenger department of thu
Oregon Short Line railroad announces
that the Yellowstone park season
which usually closes along in Septem
: Der, will be materially heightened
? next summer to accommodate trave
: to and from the Alaska Yukon acffi,
exposition.
At Amboy, Wash, Fred Swindle,
: farm hand, shot and killed Ed Newell
attempted to kill Mrs. Newell. ant
hen killed himself. Back of the trae
ody is a story of unrequited love ant
dependency due to the marriage o
Newell to Mrs. Rose Hoffman, three
months ago.
Francis ]. Heney the San FRANCHISES
attorney who was shot by Morri
Haas, celebrated Thanksgiving day b.
taking an automobile ride in Colder
5 Gate park He was accompanied b,
! his wife, DR.. Beasley, Rudolph Spreck
les, William j. Burns and James Foley
his bodyguard.