Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-30
NORTHW VEST NOTES


by Ely, Nevada bakers last week.
the staff Of life now selling at Is
cents a loaf, or two loaves for quar-
ter OF dollar.
Plans have been filed at Pueblo,
Colo, for an immense irrigation pro-
iect which will cost almost two million
dollars and which will reclaim 200
600 acres of arid land in southeastern
Colorado.
The Union Pacific is installing in
the Cheyenne yards a 100-ton car
scale, the largest west Of Omaha. The
scale is fifty feet in length and rests
in a concrete matrix seven feet in
thickness.
Patrick Donovan, doorkeeper OF the
house of representatives at the last
session of the state legislature and a.
prominent figure in local affairs. died
at Missoula, Mont, April %. He came
to Montana In 1861.
Three persons were injured by
jumping from a second-story window
In the farm residence of George
Stahl, two miles southwest Of Mis-
soula, Mont, to avoid fire that to-
| tally uGSLTOy0u IHt bunuih6.
The biggest fur seal herd OF years,
is passing Sitka, Alaska, according to
a special dispatch. The natives are
killing hundreds Of them. Japanese
poachers are following the herd. No
revenue cutters are in the district.
Bitter racial feeling exists at
Vashon college, Tacoma, over row
between a student named Adams and
Japanese engineer. 1t is said the
Japanese stabbed the student and
the latter drew q gun on the Asiatic..
Harvey w. Scott OF the Portland
Oregonian has declined the ambassa-
dorship to Mexico, preferring to re-
main with the Oregonian Henry L..
Wilson, now minister to Belgium, it
is said, will be promoted to the Mex
lean post.
The highest price paid for sheep
at Kemmerer, Wyo., this year is in
volved in the deal whereby the
Quealey & Peterson company takes
over 5000 head from Boyer Bros, for
consideration of $4,000, or $3.50
, per head
Robert W. Brown was found dying
in Goldfleld lodging house from an
overdose of dope" death ensuing a
short time later. 1t is not known
whether Brown intended suicide or
merely took an overdose of the drug
by accident.
t The incinerated body of John Lind
n fors has been found in his cabin near
Q Twin Bridges, Mont. Robbery and
a murder are suspected, and the Of
9 ficials are investigating. Lindfors
y was well known in mining circles Of
0 that section.
q Donald Boyd, convicted Of kidnap-
u ing Patrick Mccoy, a wealthy Seattle
8 lumberman, In the woods near Bow.
e Mont, last October, has been SEN
t. fenced to serve an indeterminate sen.
10 tence of from five to twenty-one years
e. In states prison.
Rickert Assinna was shot and ia.
a. tally wounded by Ole Nyserom, in a
= lonely shack at Bass Creek, neal
~ y Stevensville, Mont Both men are
~ Films and have been living together
Nyserom was taken to Hamilton anC
lodged in the county jail.
D. George Eccles, district attorney OF
Virginia City, Nevada, in the bonanza
I'd days of the lode, and legatee of q
fortune of $150000 from eastern rel
atives. was found dead last week ir
a squalid cabin in Virginia City. He
10 died in penury and alone.
he The smallpox epidemic which wa!
Vi raging among the Indians on the Coal
ss vile reservation in Washington prao
=. tically is over. It is expected thu
II quarantine which kept all white mel
IT. from entering the reserve without pei
~ mits will be raised by May /.
er, Within few weeks, when the ba
ar lasting of the tracks shall have bee
ne completed, the Chicago, Milwaukee
OF Puget Sound railroad will inaugural
ne a train service between Butte an
ne Missoula, and this is expected to raj
a. idly resolve itself into through Sc
ae. vice from Chicago to the Puget SCUM
in country.
Judge M. J. Gordan, former counst
for the Great Northern railway, wa
:. arrested at Spokane last week on IL
II, dictments by the county grand jur
- He Is charged with embeZzlement
~ funds from the railway compan
pc while acting as its attorney. H
:, DOnu lot appearance was uAcu
the $4,000.
no- The Montana Stock Growers ass
'no dictments by the county grand jur
lsu- citation, in session at Miles City, Mon
'rR- adopted resolutions endorsing Il
age livestock inspection laws; the wol
was OF the agricultural department, al
put for enactment of needed railway leg
lation.
-, Senators Gamble and Crawford
"ss South Dakota have invited Preside
Taft to attend the Missouri Riv
ali. Navigation congress at Yankto
'OVo July z, and 8. The president sa
lrrl- he could not attend on the dates me
pro- toned change of date may
in made.
OF Ed Eaton, an old.time cowboy a
u a | fnrr1anr Basin salnnn man has he