Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-04
NORTHWEST NOTES

The Seattle Electric company has
expended $4,000 for new cars to De
used next summer during the Alaska
Yukon-Pacifc exposition.
Motor boats exhibited at the Alaska
Yukon-Pacifc exposition win be en-
tered in a race from Seattle 10 Ju
neau, Alaska. and return.
The Washington state exposition
commission viii duplicate the prizes
offered by the Alaska, Yukon-Pacific
exposition in the poultry show
John Doran, a miner, became VIC
lently insane in hotel at Reno, and
started in to demolish the furniture,
giving the officers a severe tustle be-
fore being landed in a cell.
G. Very Bartaga, a coal miner who
was shot during an ARRAY in a resort
at Diamondville, Wyo.. and who was
brought to Rock Springs to be oper
ated upon, died at the depot.
A bill has been introduced in the
| Montana legislature which would Gre
| ate a fund for disabled and MANNED
coal mine employees by levying roy
| atty of one cent a ton on all produc
| ton.
A new bill to prohibit pool rooms
| and bookmaking, except at fairs, and
limiting race meetings 10 six days In
any one year in single county has
| been introduced in the Montana leg
islature.
| Newspapers all over the United
States are going to send parties TO Sc.
attic next summer during the Alaska.
Yukon-Pacific exposition. The par.
| ties will be composed of young ladies'
selected by contests.
The supreme court of Nevada has
rendered a decision in the case OF T
B. Hickey, president of the defunct
State bank in which is upholds the
constitutionality of the Pyne banking
law passed years ago.
Following the arrival of United
States postal inspector, Postmaster j
w. Kennedy of Searchlight, Nevada
blew off the top of his head with re
volver A shortage of 5000 was dis
covered in his accounts.
TIL Seattle Aero club has offered 6
trophy for airship and balloon night:
similar to the Scientific American
clubs. The cup will be awarded t.
the winner of the contest at the
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition.
Alaska will show its salmon fisher
les, sealing, halibut and cod fisheries
and the whaling industry at thu
Alaska Yukon-Pacifi exposition b.
photographs and moving pictures.
will be the most novel moving picture
show in existence.
George Frankhauser, convicted o
holding up Great Northern train a
Rondo, Mont, when he and his com
panion stole $4,000 from registere'
mail sack, has been sentenced to lif
imprisonment in the military prisol
at Fort Leavenworth.
The state of Wyoming has offere
beautiful gold and silver cup TO
the best exhibit of dry-farming pre-
ducts made during the Transmission
Dry Farming congress at Cheyenn
next month. Other valuable prize
have also been offered.
M. ]. Meany, the Portland youtl
who was convicted upon his comics
|
ling, a well known business man 0
2 Butte, has been sentenced by Judg
Michael Donlan to twenty years i
the penitentiary, the limit
While riding along the big canal {
the Wadsworth Light and Power con
pany at Wadsworth, Nevada, RobeI
Esden, aged IL and son of the pres
dent of the company, was throw
from his horse and had his brain
dashed out against the trunk of
tree.
The Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific con
Lany has filed articles of incorpor,
ton at Reno, Nevada The princips
business for which the company
formed is dredging, pier and doc
building, railroad construction an
general engineering and constructio
work.
M. Paxton. rancher living nea
Sundance, Wyoming, shot his wife !
the face and his stepson In the groil
and then attempted suicide. but a
s of the parties will recover. Paxton
} believed to be insane. and is confine
$ in the county jail, awaiting an invest
cation.
+, The infant daughter Of Mr. an
: Mrs. T. A. Boorman of Kalispel
Mont, was choked to death by pc
I nut shell becoming lodged in tn
child's throat. The parents starte
a for Spokane to have an operation pc
y formed, and death ensued on II
s train.
Governor Norris of Montana hi
!. granted a respite of sixty days
Frederick Lebau of Flathead count
sentenced to be hanged February
It for the murder of the Yokum famil
IS Lebau's partner was given life Sc
l. tence, and Lebau wants his senten'
5 committed.
y AS the result of an explosion of Fl
: Damn following n discharge of dyn