Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27
NORTHWEST NOTES

dent was due to spreading rails.
More than 1000 visitors attended
the opening at Trinidad. Colo, Of the
thirteenth annual encampment Of the
C. A. r., department OF Colorado.
James Sullivan, Frank Sumo and
George Sasso were killed and Mike
Soletto was fatally hurt by a prema-
ture blast in the High Ore mine at
Butte
j. M. Staten and j. S. McInnis
have been arrested at Spokane on
suspicion OF being two of the robbers
who held up the Great Northern NAH
train near Colbert.
The brewery workers at Kalispell,
Mont, who have been on strike, re-
ported for work last week, but were
informed there were no vacancies,
and probably there would not be any
The Great Northern railway has is
sued circular offering a reward of
100000 for the arrest and conviction
of the six bandits who held up the
Great Northern fast mail at Morse,
Wash
The Somers Lumber company's
lumber plant and auxiliary factories
at Kalispell, Mont, are closed down
indefinitely as the result of general
strike order issued by the l. W. w.
About 400 men are affected
The Colorado state board of child
and animal protection has authorized
Secretary Whitehead to offer re-
ward of $500 for the arrest and con-
viction of the parties responsible for
the slaughter of sheep near Atchee,
Colo
L. H. Worley, living on farm near
Redmond, Ore, killed his bride of
four days and after burning her body,
committed suicide. He left letters in
which he said his wife had decided to
leave him, and for this reason he had
killed her.
Orian Bunker, 80 years old, resi-
dent of Loyalton, Cal, died in Reno,
Nevada, hospital one hour after he
had been brought to that city, suf-
fering from injuries sustained when
he fell from the veranda of his home
in Loyalton.
Fifty wealthy residents of Reno
Nevada, have formed what will be
known as the Nevada Jockey club and
formulated plans for the holding of
a big race meet Immediately after the
forty-day racing season is ended at
Salt Lake City.
Two hold-ups entered a saloon at
Belt, Mont, in which were congre-
gated a dozen men, grabbed all of
the money they could find and es-
capped after one of the men had fired
shot at the proprietor, the bullet
grazing the top Of his head
Fire destroyed the biggest lumber
ing plant in Skagit county, when the
sawmill, dry sheds, planning mill and
dry kilns and 100000 feet of lumber
of the Skagit Mill company at Lyman.
Wash, burned, with a loss of $780,
900, with $4,000 insurance
c. B. Smith, better known as "Shang
hair Smith, saloonkeeper notorious
all over the seafaring world as
crimp, committed suicide in a hotel
in Seattle last week. Smith in his
time had given no end of trouble to
vessel masters and the police.
Suspension of work on the high
line irrigation canal at Grand juno
ton, Cal, was ordered to permit an
investigation of the project by the in
terror department. and not at the in
stigation of outside parties, according
to reports received last week
Forty miles west of Phoebe, New,
in Cole valley, big irrigation project
has been carried out, which it is ex-
pected will bring a great many set
tiers into the state. This project COW
ers a4ouarter million acres of land,
and it is now under irrigation
Raymond Geisler, aged "a years, of
Chehalis, Wash, shot his fiancee, Miss
Lille Casada, and after helping her
to her home, six blocks distant from
the scene of the shooting, went to his
own home, where he later shot him
self. 1t is believed both will die
The Odessa property, situated on
Pelican bay, upper Klamath lake, and
four miles from Pelican home, has
been sold to Col. w. H. Holabird. AS
Colonel Holabird holds the title of rec
ord to Pelican lodge, it is surmised
that Hartman is the actual purchaser
Boastfully declaring that he es-
capped VITA ease from the Oakland
jail and that he would not be a pris-
oner in the Reno lookup twenty-four
hours, Frank Ward, alias Sullivan
Moore a negro. in custody pending
word from Oakland officers, Is being
guarded carefully by the Reno police
department.
The state board of railroad com
missioners of Montana announced last
week that it had secured an import
ant concession from the Northern Pa
cific Railroad company, this being in
the nature of the abolition of switch
ing charges for all commercial spur
work.
In the finding of the hodv of w II