Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-11
NORTH WEST NOTES

Butte Miners union, the largest local
In the Western Federation OF Miners,
Ind President p. w Flynn has been
collected by an overwhelming vote.
miner named Sage. dismissed
from the lBoston-Pioche mine at
Phoebe. Nevada. shot and seriously
wounded the foreman who discharged
him. Cleve Carter. the victim. is 2S
years old.
Ben Bollin. a fifteen-year-old b'py,
confined in the detention quarters OF
the county Jail at Canon City, Colo.
escaped by cutting d hole in the wall
while Under Sheriff John Chetelet
slept in an adjoining room
Four men were killed in the 1ia-
l1ond mine at Butte, through a pre-
nature blast Two of them were mar
ried men and leave families. No ex-
PLANTATION has as yet been made as to
The cause of the explosion.
Engineers of the Great Northern
railway company have virtually COM
pleted a preliminary survey of a new
railroad for the Hill interests In
Franklin, Adams and Douglas coun-
lies in eastern Washington.
After a long debate, the Nevada
senate tabled the bill >making an APP
rropriation for a state exhibit at the
Alaska ukon-Pacifc exposition This
action practically means that Nevada
will have no exhibit at Seattle.
After writing a note in which he
said he was too proud to beg and
100 honest to steal and that the per-
son finding the note need not look
for any friends" A. B. Kahney hanged
himself In his room in Denver.
Secretary John IT. Burns OF the
Dry Farming congress announced last
week that the permanent headquarters
CT the congress would be located in
Denver. The records and offices of
the congress will be moved from
Cheyenne to Denver soon.
Reports received from Fort Wa
shake, Wyo., are to the effect that a
producing we'll OF black asphaltum oil
has been opened on the Indian reser~
walton. Although considerable pros
/ pecting has been done in this vicinity,
this is the first oil found in CONNER
cial quantities. Great excitement pre-
walls
Awakened by the police, who de-
manded admission to her home to
search for a fugitive, Mrs. Harry
bridge. of Sheridan. Wyo-, undertook
to awaken her husband and was hor-
rified to discover that he was dead.
Bridge succumbed to heart failure
while asleep, and had been dead sew
eral hours.
Governor Hay of Washington has
expressed verbal approval of the local
option bill which was generally APP
proved by the legislature, and viii
sign the measure The bill is COM
promise measure Every Incorporated
city under the act is a separate unit
and country districts in every county
form a district unit.
Judge harrington of the United
States circuit court at Carson City,
Nevada, handed down a decision last
week in the case of the Southern Pa
cific Railroad company VS.. the Nevada
railroad commission. The decision
sustains the commissioners in every
point and dissolves the old mjunc-
tions against them
The Pacific coast extension of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St.Paul railroad
crosses Musselshell river, Montana,
rs times in lit miles It has broken
twenty miles of bridges on that por-
ton OF the system, which begins at
the Missouri river. South Dakota, and
ends at the city of Seattle.
The effort of two powder statesmen
to demonstrate to the mine officials at
Sunrise. Wyo., that their powder was
safer than the variety used in the big
mine there, almost resulted fatally to
half a dozen men, including the sales
men and the officials. The statesmen
placed a blast of two kegs of powder
| which exploded sooner than was ex
pected.
A few nights ago Otto Jones. a
prominent Powder river sheepman
rode up to the ranch of Joseph Lacey
at Kinnear. Wyo. on the edge of the
Wind River Indian reservation. boldly
kidnapped Lacey's 16-year-old step
daughter, Miss Martha Day, and gal
/ loped with her to the railroad, where
they took a train to Chadron. Neb.
and were married.
Mrs. James r. Davis. the bride OF
one OF the richest and best known mine
operators In Nevada, died at Los An
geles, March 2. She was one of the
most beautiful and popular society
girls of Goldfeld. the daughter OF q
prominent physician, DR. e. s. Gallo
way. Mr.. and Mrs. Davis had only
recently returned from an extended
wedding trip in Europe.
Construction work on the Dodsor
dam in Valley county, Montana
which is being constructed for the
purpose of irrigating large tracts o
land lying along the Milk river, has
been stopped by an injunction Sc
cured by the Great Northern Railwa,
company upon the ground that thu
back water is threatening to under