Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-07
NORTHWEST NOTES

was burned to death.
Albert Whitlock, a horse breaker
was found dead near Fort Benton,
Mont. 1t is supposed that Whitlock
was thrown from his horse or that
the horse fell on him, as his neck
was broken.
Lawrence Verdon. aged 23, arrest
| ed in Butte on the charge of being
implicated in the holding up of a
street car two weeks previous, at
tempted to escape from the arresting
officer and was shot, being instantly
Killed.
In letter received from President
| elect Taft to the Rose Festival asso-
citation Of Portland, Mr.. Tafts consents
to inaugurate Portland's annual feast
of flowers on June next by pressing
an electric button at the White House
in Washington.
Sol Hendry was shot and killed at
Chapey, Nevada, while attempting to
do assessment on mining property.
the title of which was in dispute. Two
men, named Rooney and Clark, who
had claimed the property, are charged
with the shooting
]. B. Anthony, a we'll known min
ing man of Madison county, gave him
self up at Waterloo, Montana, claim
ing that he had shot Albert Morrow.
Anthony says he fired when Morrow
came at him with a pick, following
trouble over a mining claim.
At a meeting of the prominent
ranchers and farmers of Milk valley
Montana, it was decided to send a
committee to Washington to secure,
OF st. Mary's river and valley for ir
rigation purposes in the valley.
More than $4,000 pounds of butter,
said to be adulterated, was seized by
agents of the internal revenue ser
vice at the Nevada Packing company's
warehouse in Reno, Nevada, as re-
suit of complaints from local compel
itors among the Reno dairymen.
Frederick G. Buckley. who was
identified with the development of
/ Leadville, Cripple Creek, Aspen and
other Colorado mining camps, and
was known all over the west as a
mining expert, died at Redondo, CAL,
on December %, from heart disease.
The man giving the name of George
Wolf who was arrested at Moorhead,
Mimi, has been positively identified
as George t. Frankhauser, who es-
capped from jail in Helena last March,
where he was awaiting trial on the
charge of robbing Northern Paci
fic train.
The futtering of maybe about
an empty box car in the railroad
yards at Huntley, Mont, attracted
the attention of one of the workmer
rearby and continued until he be
came curious and went to the car
where he found the body of an infant
about a week old.
Joe Fashio, an Italian from Ana
conda, Mont, who committed SUI
eide In the railroad depot at Ash
land. Ore. had on his person s35t
In currency and certificate OF de
post for 81, 800 on Days bank a
Anaconda. He was APPARENTLY In
demented condition.
A state baseball league is to be or
ganized in Montana, meeting havint
been called in Helena for January
Is. at which time representatives
from Helena, Butte, Anaconda, Ldv
ingston. Bozeman and Great Fall
will complete arrangements for slz
team state league.
It is now believed that Champ {
f. Essick, secretary Of Woodme'
of America lodge at Colorado Springs
who was found dead, was murdered
and that the murder was commute
with intent to secure sum OF none
belong to the lodge which Essic
kept at his house.
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Conductor Bradford Sommervill
and Engineer Patrick Murray OF tn
crew of the freight train which co
! ,ided with a work train at Mid cal
Won ON the Great Northern railwa
0 line lust south of Great Falls, Mont
and killed seven men, are to blame fc
The disaster, according to the co
oner's verdict.
Andrew Buchanan. aged 30, en-
ployed as Iineman for the Reno Lgf
Q company. was electrocuted at Rem
b Nevada. while up on a pole doing r
d rair work. Buchanan grasped SUI
nosed dead WIRE which was conye
ing 1000 volts, the entire amour
q passing through his body.
4 Robert Emmett Fisk, for thirty-fiv
i wears editor of the Helena (Mont
Herald. and confidential friend
r President Garfield and James
= blaine. died at Berkeley, Cal, on D
. cember %, at the age OF a. M
a Fisk lost his health and moved
!. berkeley seven years ago.
q Tom Monroe, widely kno"
throughout Montana, and especial
= IN columbia Falls, was killed by
snowslide forty miles north Oh Coiui
+ Lila Falls on Christmas day. HIS COZ
: ,antnn Howard Heitsetling, standlI