Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-20
NORTHWEST NOTES


or early In August
Orville Kyle, who shot and killed
John Wilkes, manager OF the Cow
Creek Sheep company. at Wamsutter.
Wyo, about three months ago, has
been convicted of murder in the sec
ond degree.
While engaged in mixing a fash
light preparation In his apartments In
Butte hotel. C. A. Bousset OF Seat
tie was terribly burned about the face
and hands, as the result Of the explo-
sion OF the mixture.
The new plant of the Astoria and
Puget Sound Packing company, On
Chuckanut bay, three miles south q
Bellingham, Wash, burned last week,
causing loss of $4,000. The plant
was we'll insured.
William McGregor, aged 2S, we'll
known young business man OF Van
couver, b. c., met death while clean
ing rifle which he did not know
was loaded He was the son Of =
prominent insurance man.
John Kahn aged 93, was killed at
Goldfeld, Nevada, In a runaway The
team ran close to trestle OF the
Consolidated Mines company and one
Of the timbers came into contact with
Kain's head, fracturing his skull.
When the legislative committee that
Is investigating state Offices met ~
Olympia, Wash, May IL, sealed
charges against State Land Commits
sioner r. w. Ross were filed All the
| 80 10 Af73 IN no tpuactiuatQd
J. r. Allen. who is in hospital At
Ely, Nevada. became suddenly insane,
broke window pane and cut his
throat with the glass. also hacking
his body in score Of places. Al
though badly injured, 1t is believed
he will recover.
In the arrest at Reno, Nevada, OF
Frank Webb, the police believe they
have secured the Hammontree livery
stable holdup desperate who reliev
ed A. l.. Hammontree and M. Victor
OF $S5 and wantonly shot Jack Monroe
through the bowels.
The state council of the Knights OF
Columbus of Montana met at Butte.
May II, In annual session, State Dep
uty Jackson presiding. Official re-
ports show gain OF 800 In member
ship during the year, the councils now
aggregating total Of 1000.
The big Casino dance hall at Tono-
pah, one of the largest resorts OF itS
kind in Nevada, and made famous al
the training place for Marvin Hart
Mike Schreck Joe Cans, Jack "Twfnys
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partially destroyed by fire last week. !.
Harry Beebe, a Lander, Wyo., cow
boy with Buffalo Bits show, died in
New York on May IA, from paralytic
rabies, a rare form of disease. Beebe's
great toe was severely bruised
by being stepped on by a horse
ridden by a fellow cowboy. Partial
paralysis developed and death fol-
lowed.
Charles l.. Gustafson, an electri-
clan, died at Anaconda. Mont, from
the effects of burning oil. Gustafson
was at work on a switchboard at the
substation Of the Washoe smelters
when a short circuit caused blind
ing flash of electricity, exploding >
can OF oil which the electrician had.
in his hands
officials of the state of Wyoming
are preparing elk hunters licenses
as usual and Will issue them to APP
plicants before and during the big
game hunting season next fall The
technicality in the new game law,
which Internationally forbids the
hunting OF elk before 1912, will not
be regarded.
Broker c. W. Cockrell, who had
been confined in Jail at Butte two
weeks. because Of inability to sat
isfy a Judgment had by A. w. Dea-
witt, has been discharged from custody
by Judge McCernan of the state dis
trict court. An attempt was made,
under an old law to keep Cockerell
imprisoned for debt.
That William Garrison, whose body
was found near the river at Cheyenne
with bullet hole through his head
and a revolver lying near by, was
murdered is indicated by further ins
vestigation OF the case 1t was be-
lieved at first that he had committed
suicide.
A fire that started in the California,
beer hall at Rawhide, Nevada, at mid
night. which threatened a repetition
OF the disaster of last September,
4. when the town was reduced to ashes,
was controlled after 1t had destroyed
the beer hall and several buildings
adjoining.
The postoffice at Bremerton, Wash.
situated close to the Puget Sound
navy yard, was entered by profess
sional craftsmen, who drilled the safei
and took away its strong box con,
tanning $4,000 worth OF stamps, a dia
mond ring valued at $3.50, and nearly
5000 in cash.
Arthur George. a clerk. aged 40.
shot and killed his wife, Elizabeth, at
her home in Brighton Beach, near
SEATTLE and then taking their two