Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-06
NORTHWEST NOTES

Nyo, TO eastern buyers. The highest
price paid was 23 cents.
J. p Mooney, Northern Pacific
railway engineer residing in Missoula,
was badly hurt while switching at
Stuart. Mont. His skull was crushed,
but 1t is believed he will live.
Ellwood c. Hughes, for twenty
years a lawyer OF Seattle. has been
rendered by President Taft an APP
pointment to the newly created fed
eral judgeship in Washington state.
The Linwood Land company has or
dered a White steamer automobile
to be used in carrying land seekers
between Rock Springs, Wyo, and
their lands in Linwood and Lucerne
valleys.
John Kirschweng of Butte. noted
inventor of smelling apparatus, killed
his wife and two children and COM
mitted suicide, April 49, on his broth
er's ranch near Ada, Mont. Kirsch-
weng was AIN escaped lunatic.
Fire of incendiary origin destroyed
two large hay warehouses at Boze-
man, Mont, April %, entailing heavy
loss. Indisputable evidence of incen-
diarism was found, and a reward OF
$500 has been offered for the culprits.
The Chicago police say that George
B. Kerth and N. Lawrence, under ar
rest in Seattle, charged with swind-
ling, are members of gang that has
robbed eastern business men of one
million dollars by a fake directory
game.
Ranchers and prospectors In the vi
entity of Helena are almost unani-
nous in the opinion that Montana is
likely to experience a food this spring
similar to that which occurred last
year, when millions of dollars worth
of damage was done.
After clubbing a Chinaman into I'M
consciousness and locking him in the
cellar, four men robbed the Casino,
big gambling resort of Reno, Nevada.
Of between $4,000 and $4,000. A night
Waterman, who intruded, was cap
tured and locked in closet.
Mrs. Joe Burnes and Mrs s. Camp
brell, wives of loggers. fought a
bloody duel with butcher knives at
Lester, Wash. as a result of which
the former has a fatal cash below the
heart. The women quarreled over the
borrowing of kitchen utensils.
Thomas Henessey, hotel detective In
the employ of the Albany hotel. In
Denver, and formerly house detective
at the Auditorium hotel. Chicago, was
shot and instantly killed April 20, by
man named Seildrk. The shooting
was the result of an old grudge.
The Laramie rolling mills OF the
Union Pacific railroad, which have
been idle for year, will resume oper-
ations at once. The mills produce the
continuous rail joints, tie plates. bolts.
nuts and spikes used by the Union
Pacific In new construction work.
Alive and Conscious and scarcely In
jured, John Watkins has been res
cued, after being buried twenty-six
, hours beneath twenty-eight feet OF
snow in the valley of the Cascade
, river, near Rockport, Wash. An ava
/ lanche had overwhelmed an engf
! neer's camp, all of the other men es
Gaping.
d. c. Corbin, the millionaire rail
= way builder of Spokane, Is the central
: figure in the largest mining deal made
in Spokane In several years. He hai
! taken an option on the Wagner grouT
a Of claims on Hall creek, tributary
!. of the Duncan river, In British Co
= lumbia. The price Is stated to be 50.
600, 900.
. = A coterIe OF residents OF Helena
who represent their wealth to be II
excess OF 81 900 900, have filed peti
ton in the district court to restrain
:. the municipality from Issuing or dis
= posing of an issue of bonds OF 5000,
> OOO voted at a special election for thu
l. purpose OF constructing and installing
Il municipal water plant.
y Twenty-six OF the leading lumbe
q manufacturers of Oregon Washington
o and Idaho, who control, to q larg
4 extent, the rail shipments OF the pre-
duct from that section to the east
met last week and attempted to RI
duce the production OF lumber 40 pc
y cent. The order to the mills will &
al out probably within two days.
# The state Of Montana was last wee
8 the purchaser Of the 100000 bond II
al sue authorized by the last legislator
Is for the erection Of new wings to tn
"a capitol. This action was taken b
" the state board of land commission
8 ers. and the funds from which 1t
30 to be taken will be those of the var
m GUS state educational institutions.
?. Governor Shafroth of Colorado ha
% signed the campaign expense bill an
the unique measure becomes law
ninety days The bill provides thu
70 the state shall contribute for car
paign expenses every two years
:. sum equal to twenty-five cents Il
each vote cast at the preceding ge
:. eral election, the sum to be divide
, among the political parties accordir
OF to the vote cast for their respeci'
u, candidates for governor.
~ H. e. OFT, councillor In the depai
=, ment of agriculture and commerce +
=. the Japanese government, has bee
d. appointed commissioner general