Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-07-15
NORTHW EST NOTES

and thought to be fatally injured. is
improving and will recover.
The Filipinos OF Seattle have.
through committee, protested
against the exhibition of unclad Igor
rotes at the Alaska-Y ul1on-Pacific ex-
position
The Mccormick Lumber companys
plant. located about thirty miles from
Chehalis. Wash. was destroyed by
IRE last wee he loss being es,..
mated at 100000.
Ed Dowell, brakeman on the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound rail
road, fell off his train. at Kinsie.
Mont, rolled under the cars and his
body was cut in two.
Before adjournment, a movement
was set on ro.t by sne delegate to tEJ
National Good Roads convention. in
session at Seattle for the formation
of National Good Roads association.
Two Denver & Rio Grande freight
trains met in a head-on collision at
Una, Colo thirty miles east of Grand
Junction. The crews escaped injury
Both engines and ten cars were de.
stroyed.
The coolest July night Nevada has
experienced was recorded at Reno on
the 9Th. Small bodies of water had
a layer of ice, and the wheat in the
northern part of the state is reported
to have frozen.
Three children lost their lives when
the home Of Bert Oliver, Of Summer.
Vile, Ore, was destroyed by fire and
the father and mother were severely
burned. The fire was started by the
overturning of a lamp.
! A lone bandit held NJ Assistant
Cashier Olson, of the Bank of Com
merce at Everett, Wash, shortly be-
fore the bank closed on July G.. wouao-
ed Cashier Lyon and escaped with 81
a few hundred dollars.
William McClammah pleaded guilty
at Helena, Mont, last week of intro
ducing whisky in the Fort Peck Indian
reservation, November 20, 1905 and
was sentenced to serve sixty days in
Jail and pay a fine of 500.
A murder shrouded in mystery was
committed at Reno. Nevada July s.
when Miss Maria Fava, a cook, was
shot in the back and killed by man
whom the police believe to be For
tunato Tarent.no who is missing.
Gov. Burke. of North Dakota, has
been elected president OF the Missouri
River Navigation Congress. Jerry
Sullivan, OF Fort Benton. Mont, was
elected one Of he vice-pres. dents
Omaha was voted the next congress.
Henry Saulstraw, a farmer living
near Colbert Wash, is deed with
bullet wound through his head, an,
Edward Schon neighboring rancher
is in jail, charged with murder, as tli
result OF a quarrel between the tw,
men.
The national convention OF tn,
American Woman Suffrage associa
ton, in session in Seattle, electe,
Rev. Anna Shaw as president TIT
question of the next convention cit.
was left TO the general officers TO
decision
The attendance at the Alaska-Yu
kon-Paciiic exposition on July brok,
the record for Sunday crowds, 81 .55i
people passing through the turnstiles
This brought the total attendance
since the fair opened June 1 up t,
7s1,1 40.
A Virginia City, Mont. special an
nounces that over an area two milei
} in width and indefinite in length.
hailstorm on July played havoc witt
the crops, the ground in places bein,
covered several inches with hailstone,
of unusual size
Mrs. James McMasters, aged SO,
well-known woman throughout Mon
tana, who has been living at Superio
recently, committed suicide in the no
tel at Superior by drinking poison
Dependency is supposed to have al
fected her mind.
A corpse was discovered floating il
the Kootenai river about FIVE mile,
above Libby, Mont It Is that of
man about 5 feet 6 inches tall, dark
smooth shaver, index finger an,
thumb Of right han1 gone. 1t ha,
evidently been in the water for som,
days.
w P. Hammond, the "dredge
king" and party of California CAPT
talists, have exercised an option helC
on the complete interests of the Reno
Power, Light & Water company, oper
ating a TRANSFERABLE system. Ham
mond took the relns of control OF
July 1.
Mrs. Louis Bronze. wife OF a tim
herman at Wilkeson, Wash, was muir
dered by a robber, who secured 5000
The man enticed her from the house
by telling her that her brother was
dead, crushed her skull with a stone
secured the money from the house and
escaped.
Colonel William r. Tucker, u. S
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