Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-04-22
NORTHWEST NOTES


attempting to escape. after having
from his wounds.
The body OF Fireman Mailman has
been found at White Pine. Mont, be-
meath his engine tender. the body
being literally ground to pieces and un.
recognizable.
Secretary Ballinger. of the interior
department, has agreed to attend, II
possible. and make an address at the
National Irrigation congress at Spo
kane next August.
Albertus II. Johnson, chief of the
correspondence division of the postof
fee department, has been designated
to represent the war department at
the Alaska Yukon-P Pacific exposition at
Seattle, Wash.
Eastern wool buyers are again in the
vicinity of Lewiston, Mont, and the
offers made are little in advance of
those last January by perhaps cent.
II cents now being offered for the best
class of wool.
Donald Boyd was convicted at
Mount Vernon, Wash of kidnapping
Patrick Mccoy, wealthy Seattle
lumberman. in the woods near Bow
last autumn, with the intention OF
holding him for ransom.
Luis McFadden, Seven Troughs
teamster, fired two shots with re-
volver at his wife, Mary, at Reno,
New, shooting away finger and pro-
ducing an ugly wound In her neck. Be
lieving her wounds mortal. McFadden
| killed himself
w. T. Onyon, assistant cashier Of
| the First National bank in Lovelock,
| Nevada, was found dead with a bullet
I, wound through his heart. 1t is be-
| lieved that the wound was self-infiict-
| ed. Bank officials declare Onyons ac-
counts are straight
The state board of health of Mon
tana has issued new set of rules and
regulations for sanitation and ventila
ton purposes, applicable on all rail
roads operating within the state, effec'
tive June /, and which is said to be
the most stringent on record.
Only $1,000 worth of property was
left by Major William A. Stanton of
Goldfield, New, who killed himself by
shooting in the California hospital
last week, according to a petition for
letters of administration filed in the
superior court at Los Angeles.
The twenty-fith encampment of the
Montana division of the Grand Army
of the Republic convened at Billings
on April Is, the encampmcnt being at
tended by about 125 members of the
! Montana post and an equal number OF
members Of the Women's Relief Corps
| Two persons were seriously injured
one probably fatally, when a touring
car containing VIZ e. Worden, a bust
ness man, his wife, three children and
Amasa lnscho, a horticulturalist, was
run down by train at San Diego, Cal.
Mrs. Worden and 1nscho being injured
Nine heavily loaded freight cars,
which formed portion of Northern
Pacific freight train being pulled into
Helena, were wicked. Just as the
train was passing the station a cou-
| ping in the middle OF the train broke
and nine cars were hurled from the
| track.
Suit has been instituted against the
Helena Hot Springs company in the
district court by James Breen, Of Spo-
kane, for $4,000. The Helena Hot
Springs company Is the concern or.
ganized by f. Augustus Heinze to take
over and conduct the Broadwater
hotel, a noted health resort of Helena,
| Mont.
Dick Anderson, arrested at Lara
mic, Wyo., on a forgery charge, pre-
ferred by the Dillon, Mont, authori-
ties, escaped while being returned to
Dillon by leaping through the toilet
window of an Oregon Short Line train
near Idaho Falls, Ida, while the train
was travelling at speed of forty miles
an hour.
Thomas Grouse, of Helena, Mont,
has just concluded negotiations for the
sale of his Fergus county ranch, to a
Chicago syndicate, headed by w M.
Powers, a banker. The deal includes
the largest cattle, sheep and horse
ranch in the state of Montana, and
the purchase price is near the million.
dollar mark.
Applications for lands under the en-
larged homestead law will not be re-
ceived by local land Offices until the
lists are received from Washington.
The officers at Washington will desig-
nate the lands subject to entry, and no
applications for unlisted lands will be
| received.
Joshua Klein, the radio active
philosopher" will be deported from
Tacoma. Klein recently was convicted
of an attack upon a woman who was
trying to persuade him to recall to
America two Tacoma girls whom he
had persuaded to join his colony in
| Switzerland
Juan Niculas. a Filipino, was exc
cuted at the Washington penitentiary
on April 16 for the murder of an
other Filipino and white boy at Port
Blakely. Niculas died with a smile
on his face. Niculas is believed to
be the first Filipino ever executed in
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