Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-04-08
NORTHWEST NOTES

the safety of former President Roose-
welt during his short visit to that
city.
A special train, bearing portion
of the Hartman party, broke all ea
listing records from Cheyenne to
Jutesburg, Neb., covering the IA
miles in 145 minutes.
The United States government has
brought suits in equity at Grand
Junction, Colo, against sixty corpora
tons and individuals, charging them
with cutting timber Illegally from the
government reserves.
1t is planned to make a test case OF
the Southern divorce case, being
tried at Reno, Nevada, without either
of the interested parties being in the
court room, the testimony all being
in the form of dispositions.
After litigation extending over
twenty-three years, Joseph III. Boyd
president of the National Iron works
in Spokane, has been awarded judg
ment of 100000 against the North
ern Pacific railroad The case began
in 1886.
Governor Shafroth of Colorado has
given endorsement of the dry farming
movement by attending the recent
convention at Cheyenne and later ex-
pressing his pleasure at the selection
| of Denver for the permanent mead
| quarters of the congress.
The federal grand jury at Reno,
| Nevada, has returned indictments
against l.. L. Patrick and M. B..
| O'Farrell, Goldheld brokers, charging
them with having used the mails
fraudulently in connection with the
promotion of mining stock.
The necessary grading on the cut
| off between Wells and Deeth, New.
has been completed by the contractors
and everything is in readiness for the
laying of rails and cross-ties and the
construction of section house on the
sixteen-mile stretch of roadway.
A special dispatch from Winnipeg
says that new alliance has been
made between ex-President Hill and
Mckenzie and Mann, proprietors OF
the Canadian Northern railway. Joint
negotiations are now going on for
the purchase of terminals of the Ca
madam Northern on the Atlantic
coast at Quebec.
Martin Walker and James Tanna-
hill were imprisoned by cave-in in
the Potosi mine at Virginia City, New
Men were put at work in another part
of the mine to open drift to tne
entombed miners and soon afteFward
| on
: walls, indicating they were safe. The
men were finally rescued.
Through a newspaper picture o
James C. Boyle, alleged kidnaper o.
: Billy Whitla. he was identified by
: Detective D. O. Smith as the MAI
4who, over year ago. is thought t
have been accused of passing worth
| less checks at Tacoma. While in Ia
coma he posed as an employe OF {
we'll known oil company.
At Victor, Mont, the 7-yeaT-sl'
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Georg
| Fowler was burned to death TIL
$ child was with her father in the fell
where he was burning stubble. Tn
father was attracted by the cries 0
the child, whose dress had caugh
fire, but before be could do anythin
: for the little one, she was beyond a.
hope.
Theodore Maynard, a wealthy fai
mer, living six miles northeast of Be
lingham, Wash, drove into town wit
\ his wife, and as he attempted to hel
a. her out of the carriage he found h
had been riding with a dead woman
9 She had died some time during tn
" drive.
d By saving their way through tn
bars of q window in the basemen
$. floor of the building, four convict
- made a bold attempt to escape rroI
;. the penitentiary at Salem, Ore. Tn
prison officials were cOgnizant or tn
plot, however, and the break was pr
'e vented.
ID The Fourth Dry Farming Congress
1t will be held at Billings, Mont, in o.
e, tober, when there will be exhibite
the products raised by arid agricu
ID ture in the western United State
Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the Tran
:, vaal, Russia, Australia and otht
" countries.
After seventeen hours deliberate
IL the jury IN the case or Joseph BROW
I charged with the murder of Robe
Gilruth, ranchman near Lolo. Mo
tana, February rs, returned a verdi
| of manslaughter and fixed the penal
| at ten years Imprisonment, the ma
| imum penalty.
| In an order received at the Unite
| States land Office at Helena wit
| drawal notice of five sections
| land in the Willow Creek district
| Montana, is made for the preserv
| ton of birds and other purposes. TIL
l is said to be the first order OF !
kind ever issued.
| AS the result of the disappearan
! of Nels Olsen, the pioneer raiiw;
contractor of Butte, who, according
| federal court suit, has fed leavil