Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-13
NORTHWEST NOTES

Disastrous floods threaten the farms
In Beaver Head Valley in Montana,
as the result of the rapidly melting
snow in the mountains The Beaver
Head river is running bank full.
The Montana State Sunday school
! association met in Helena on May IA
in the nineteenth annual convention
with a large attendance of delegates
from every section of the common
wealth.
Fire at the large stock farm OF Jo-
seph NJ. Malin, near Logan, Mont,
caused a loss of $4,000, with no in
surance. All the farm buildings, with
the exception of Mains residence
were destroyed
Thirty persons were injured, many
seriously when section of the rail
ing in the east balcony at the new
state armory in Seattle gave way
during the indoor track meet of the
Seattle Athletic club.
Senator Nixon of Nevada has intro
duced bill in congress authorizing
an appropriation of 100000 for the
erection of a monument to the late
| Senator William NJ Stewart in Chevi-
chase Circle, suburb OF Washington.
Montana is to have a new railroad,
according to articles of incorporation
| filed with the secretary of state. 1t
Is to be known as the Montana-ldaho
G. Pacific, and will run from Lapwai
Junction TO Butte, a distance of $50
miles.
! Organized opposition to any reduc-
tion in the duty on sugar is the OBJ
! iect of the movement started last
week at Colorado Springs by beet
growers, sugar factory men and bust
ness men of the city and southern
Colorado.
w. e. Dauchy, for the past three
years in charge of the construction of
the Pacific coast extension of the Mil
waukee railway west OF Butte, has
| resigned and entered into a partner
ship with a railroad contracting firm
| in the east.
James A. Dawson, night Waterman
for mill company at Three Lakes, a
small town near Everett Wash, shot
and killed his wife and 14-year-old
daughter and then killed himself. The
younger children in the house at the
time were unframed.
Unless President Taft's plans are
changed, his trip to Alaska win not
take him into the interior. AS now
contemplated the presidents tour
will be arranged to enable him to
| II, y, oct for -,
Alaska, including Sitka.
H. ]. Kelley, the Northern Pacific
train dispatcher who last March was
convicted in the district court oil
Sanders county, Montana, on charge
of manslaughter in connection with
wreck near Perma station last fall
has been granted a pardon.
ohm Cicora, president of the MAJ
zonia society, one of the richest ltal
ian residents of Seattle, was shot b,
Joe Mazeroa, an Italian baker, on May
T. in the very heart of the city. CT
coria will probably survive. Mazeros
immediately surrendered.
Mrs. George C. Ellison OF Seattle
who came to Denver to try to enec'
a reconciliation with her husband
who had instituted suit for divorce
was found dead May in her room
, A rubber tube attached to an oper
{ gas Jet was in her mouth.
The Municipal Clean Government
l league won a great victory over the
gambling and saloon interests a
Reno. Nevada, last week. by electint
three out of four councilmen and thu:
, securing control of the city council
, for the coming two years
At a meeting of the Seattle Res
, taurant Keepers association las
week. a pledge was given to l. A. Ma
, dean. director general of the Alaska
Yukon Pacific exposition, that prices
would not be raised above the pres
ent standard during the exposition
The will of former United States
senator William NJ. Stewart OF Ne
vada was filed for probate May 6
# discloses that he owned no rea
estate and his personal property di'
not exceed 81 500 in value. Ih'
amount is devised to his widow M
Stewards debts are said to aggregate
$4,000
Wool prices throughout Wyolhih'
continue we'll up, few sales havini
baen reported at less than 20 cent
oer Mound. The reason for the mark
ID increase in prices over those OF
ainable last year, the fockmaster
believe. is largely due to the organize
ion of the Chicago cooperative VOC
warehouse
An explosion of dynamite complete
, " demolished a steam shovel workln
= At Tvler's ranch, thirty miles east G
q Missoula. Mont on the Northern ~
Y rific railroad. The cranesman OF IN
steam shovel and helpers were II
..sn+lv killed Three laborers ar
: seriously injured and several receive
Y minor injuries.
l. Louis Ferris. charged with havin
!, ;ynsmited a Northern Pacifc ira
+ =; Butte in April, 1908, appeared !
e rourt May 6 for a second trial hayin