Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-07-01
NORTHW NOTES

Chrls Choening, blacksmith, for |
merly Of Greenwood Ia and Missoula, !
Mont. slot and killed himself in |
hotel at Seattle. kneeling before a |
mirror.
Miss May Cruise, daughter Of a mil
ionaire Helena banker and Henry M.
Rae, state senator from Fergus coun.
ty, were married in Denver last week,
creating great surprise in social cir
cles of Helena
Holding that under the ruling in the
Spokane case they are being forced to
the wall. Montana jobbers have filed
a protest with the state railroad CON-
mission, and a public hearing is ex
pected thereon soon.
Ed Sylvester, convicted in a Butte
court of aiding and abetting in the
violation of the anti-pool room law, he
having been engaged as marker
upon the blackboard of racing results
as given by the ticker, has been fined
$780,
The principal feature of the second
days session of the State Federation
Mont, was particularly lucid and in
teresting address on the fight against
tuberculosis by DR.. Witherspoon, of
Butte.
John William, a beet worker, en-
ployed west Of Billings, Mont, was in
stantly killed, and his wife fatally in
jured, when a Northern Pacific train
crashed into a wagon in which they,
with their son, Jacob, and Fred HUT.
were riding.
George Miller, a railroad contractor,
narrowly escaped death at Helena,
Mont, while walking in his sleep. He
fell two stories from his apartments
in the Majestic hotel to a storeroom
below, sustaining injuries that viii
cripple him for life.
r. R. Bonall, 26 years Of age, was
drowned in the Grand river at Pali-
! SADIE, Colo. Bonall, with several COM
panions, was attempting to stem the
, high water of the river by stopping a
: leak in the dyke with sand bag,
when he tumbled in.
! The Youngsters of Ely, Nevada, are
: kept busy these days scraping the dirt
under the sidewalks which are being
0. >JI l,rslng
: money dropped through the cracks
Quite few of them have been well
! repaid for their labors.
| Great Northern passenger train
5 went into the ditch near Ural, Mont.
, one day last week, wrecking a mum
p Der of coaches and injuring thirty
3 landslide caused by the heavy rains
D was the cause of the accident.
: The state board of railroad ccm
! miss .oners nave issued an order call
: ing a public hearing to be had a.
= Billings July 8, for the purpose OF con
sidering freight rates on packint
3 house products and fresh meats from
!, that city to all Montana points.
!. While attempting to crawl under {
o freight train at Rawlins, Wyo., in
/ stead of walking around the train
George Sjolin, machinist's helper
a haa one of his legs crushed and is II
: a precarious condition, the train start
, The Penwell Ranch company
Meagher county, Montana, sheep prop
erty has been purchased by an I'LL
: nois syndicate for 100000 The com
= pany was organized about year ag'
v to take over the property, but settler
came in so fast that the sheep rang
!, az curtaled, virtually Iorc 10 ~
a. of business.
ty While considering wine case II
\. Butte. Judge MCGOWAN declared tina
d brides often are offered him by pee
IT pie who wish to keep the wine room
% going. and want lenient sentences fo
e. women arrested in these dives. H
: scored the county officials, who, b
- said. are making a bluff about enfort
ing the laws
Byron Nelson and Nick Stillwel
were murdered in their saloon at Lee
= land, Nevada, Nelson being Stable
> In the neck with a stilleto and Still
!, well in the back. The authorities sus
= pect three Mexicans. who had bee
loafng about the saloon the previou
\ night.
N A logging train of the metropolitan
III Logging company, near Eureka, Cal
IN ran away on a steep grade and off Q
M a bridge eighty feet high The entir
III train crew Of four men were burie
III | under a mass of huge redwood log
Y and wrecked cars, and were Instant
III killed.
" Howard Goodman shot and kille
Il Charles Pretz, at Billings, Mont, a
j the result of a practical joke. Coco
man claimed Pretz had knocked mir
y down on the street and followe
| Pretz into his home and shot him. a
| ter which he surrendered to the al
n thorities.
III Mrs. Kate Rowland, Of noted famil
Il and a granddaughter of Lord Deyol
III shire. one of the peers of England