Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-26
NORTHWEST NOTES

viii be advanced to presidential class
April /, and the salary increased to
$2,100 year.
Hamilton Pollard, aged rs. president
Of the State Savings and Trust com
pany, formerly one OF the bestknown
cattlemen in southern Colorado. died |
at Pueblo, March II.
The federal grand jury at Carson
city, Nevada, has returned an indict-
ment against the Southern Pacific rail-
road for granting secret rebates to the
California Sugar and White Pine
agency.
While attempting to evict a China
man from a small shack In Denver for
failure to pay rent, w. e. Thomp-
son, a real estate broker, was shot
and probably fatally wounded by the
Chinaman.
Although Andrew J. Davis, million
aire mine owner OF Butte, Mont. has
been dead more than twenty years. the
litigation over his estate, which has
| been in the courts of Montana and
Massachusetts. is not yet finished.
Reports of the washing out of the
Hauser Lake dam, now being rebuilt
! on the Missouri river. eighteen miles
from Helena, were grossly exaggerat-
ed. No permanent work of any kind
was injured in the slightest degree.
! Lndsay's hotel and two adjoining
buildings at Millers, twelve miles west
of Tonopah, New, were completely de-
stroyed by fire March 18th. The flames
broke out in the second story of the
hotel while a dance was in progress
in the dining room.
Smiling cheerfully and declaring
he had nothing to say, Nick, Petrick,
convicted of numbering Harry Miller,
marshal at Kenton, Wash, April 10,
1908, has been senteced to be hanged
al the state penitentiary at Walla
Walla on May 81.
y During a quarrel over the location
of fence near Knowlton, Mont, Will
| liam Bradshaw shot Rudolph Casper
] in the neck and Herbert Newman In
| the leg. Casper's wound is said to be
serious one. All the parties in
volved are ranchmen.
/ lowering between life and death al
J hospital in Grand Junction, Colo.
+ Mary Trail, beautiful Mexican girl
is years old, victim of brutal as
| sault, may not survive her injuries
: Confined in the city jail are two Mex
D leans charged with the assault.
The news comes from Three Forks
Mont, that gold was found few day
I ago by man digging well. He hal
!, dug about thirty feet when he foun,
n gold pieces as large as pinheads. H
L took bucket Of the sand, whic
8 proved to have $50 in gold in It.
Q Great Falls, Mont, has the distint
tion Of having the largest concret
smokestack in the world, even thong
the work was done by a German firm
81 The stack is SOC feet in height an
o, weighs 34,O00,000 pounds, or 1900
o. tons. 1t rests ON a concrete found;
4 tion rs feet deep and 100 feet in dian
eter
It is announced that before Cha
erice H Mackay of the Postal Cabl
d company and SON of Nevada's b.
le nanza king, sails for Europe frol
% New York, April 1, he will make del
q mite arrangements to donate to tn
In University of Nevada $250,000 for
new library and administratio
N building.
10 A. E. Holt of Oakland has brougl
o suit against Sholtz & Co of Denyt
le for $1,000 for damages for false IL
O. prisonment. Holt was arrested vii
or George Sexsmith, who was charge
sy with paving stolen perfumery fro
t. the Denver firm. Sexsmith was take
ir back to Denver for trial, but He
10 was released
N Alderman w. A. Poffenberger.
as Cripple Creek, Colo, who has admits
a accepting a bribe of $3.50 from pu
On lie utility corporation for his vo
Is against granting franchise to riv
concern, and who has charged Sc
several other aldermen with bribeI
has been removed from Office and W
be prosecuted.
{" From returns received by the sta
y board of equalization, the total valu
=. ton of the state of Montana is fix
at $3.50, 294,016. Some of the chi
2 constituents thereof are: Real
lid 1924, 1928, 449; city lots, $40 ,588,S76; /
DIS provements thereon, 28,7S5,608; m
d" ing claims and improvements, s1,73
ell. 81S; railroads, $36,00O,O0O.
e5 The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Pr
Tor line has been finished between Tacol
his and Missoula, Montana. But TWEEN
%. five miles of track remain to be |;
The in Montana and then the line will
Ear complete from Chicago to the Goa
ore There is every reason to believe Il
in the last spike will be driven bef'
So April 2, the date set for completion.
,ts The mystery of the disappearance
OF" forty head of cattle owned by /
Hudson of Riverton, Wyo.. six wet
ago, has been cleared by the discoy'
that Indians on the Wind river &es
~ walton are fishing steer carca
ING from the Big Horn river and hold
'esN high carnival on beef. The steers
doubtedly broke through the ice WI
ian crossing the river.
IKE Fred Bossler, well-known salt