Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-18
NORTHW EST NOTES

detailed 10 protect band of about
Sfty elk that are wintering in the
Willow creek basin, about fifteen
niles from Lander. Wyo.
Fred d. Hammond has been grant
ed flfty-year franchise by the Ian
der town council to pipe oil into the
city for the generation of gas, and TIC
lay pipes for the distribution of such
gas.
Two thousand families from crowd
ed cities in eastern states are to be
colonized on 10000 acres of land On
The north bank of the Columbia river
Lear Coyote Rapids, Wash, south OF
Spokane.
A northwestern baseball league,
with teams in the towns of Butte, He
lena, Salt Lake and Ogden, is now
being talked of, President Lucas OF
the Northwestern league being the
promoter
The Nevada assembly bill prohibit
ing Japanese and Chinese from &C
quiring lands or acting as corporation
agents, has been presented. to the
senate, where it will in all probability
be killed
One of the immense fly wheels at
the smelter power house Of the Ana
conda Copper Mining company's
smelters at Anaconda, Mont, burst
into fragments and wrecked the
building, but no one was hurt
Beaufort Nottingham has been
bound over for trial at Sheridan. Wyo.,
on the charge of having stolen from
Bert Dow, a Big Horn ranchman,
/ violin which had been in possession
Of the Dow family for more than It's
years.
Asbury Moore has been arrested at
Sundance, Wyo., on perjury IL
cense to marry fifteen-year-old Mary
Mack of Spearfish, S. d.. that the
| girl was twenty-one years of age. The
charge is preferred by Miss Macks
| parents.
Ex-senator Clark of Montana, &C
cording to a London cablegram to
the New York Herald is moving
about London on crutches. Senator
Clark fell down companionway dur
ing a. storm, severely straining his
right leg.
Vigorous protests from President
Roosevelt and personal friends in
Oregon are being sent to the Oregon
senate against Senator Baileys reso-
luton memoralizing congress to ex-
tend the Chinese exclusion act to In
clude all Asiatics
The Utah-Nevada Telephone com
pany, with headquarters in Salt Lake
City, has just completed arrange
line covering the new county of Clark
in Nevada, which has just been Great
ell by the Legislature.
Robert Shields, for many years vel
known in newspaper circles through
out the northwest, and at one time
organizer for the Typograpnica
union, died at ST. Joseph, Mo-, Febru
airy 7, at the age of 3S, pneumonea be
ing the cause of death
That Wyoming is to have fourteen
instead of thirteen counties is as
sured by the action of the senate
committee of the whole, which ha'
reported for passage the bill creating
Park county out of the western por
ton of Big Horn county
Samuel Boyd, brother of Stat
Senator Boyd of Reno, shot himsel
through the heart at his home in Vii
GINA City, Nevada, while standing L
front of a mirror. Death resulted in
stantly. Domestic troubles are sup
posed to be the cause.
: Miss Violet Briefly, aged %. sui
cided in Denver by jumping froT
the sixth floor of building, landin
on the pavement Brooding over tn
fact that she had not heard from he
: fiancee for six weeks is supposed t
have been the cause for the suicide
:. Among the Lincoln relics In Tacom
, is a valise carried by Lincoln on hi
( debating tour with Stephen A. DOUG
r las 1t is plain box split IN two an
a covered with black cowhide leathe
I with thin iron bands thickly studde
u with l@rge-headed tacks like buttons
II was on recommendation OF tn
y local grand jury that the Chinese di
trict of Reno, New, recently was d.
| clared unsanitary and the shacks an
: novels that existed there were tor
Gown ard burned Now the Chimes
: of the city have sued Reno for 100
the alleged amount OF damages su
| tanned.
L. Llewellyn may lose the sight {
l one eye as the result OF the explosio
of a delayed shot in coal mine
. Rock Springs. Wyo. Had the sh'
hung fire a few second longer LEY
: ellyn would have been directly owe
the the blast and would have bee
| killed.
Oziel Graves. born in Russia, N.
in 1913, assistant treasurer of II
United States and chief OF the bures
OF printing and engraving In Clev
: lands administration, died Februal
8 at his home in Seattle, OF creepir
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