Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25
NORTHW EST NOTES

VII DC duFductu W pItSlueHlldi CLASS
April /, and the salary increased to
$1,000 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 IT.
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. Thornp-
son, real estate broker, was shot
and probably fatally wounded by the
Chinaman.
Although Andrew J. Davis, a 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
Lindsay'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 dance was in progress
in the dining room.
Smiling cheerfuliy 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
nc the state penitentiary at Walla
Walla on May 81.
During quarrel over the location
of fence near Knowlton, Mont, VIII
liam Bradshaw shot Rudolph Casper
in the neck and Herbert Newmap61n
the leg Casper's wound is said to be
a serious one. All the parties in
volved are ranchmen.
lowering between life and death at
IL,
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
leans charged with the assault
The news comes from Three Forks.
Mont, that gold was found few days
ago by man digging WE'LL He had
d1O oh f,.fx l. 4
gold pieces as large as pinheads. He
took a bucket of the sand, which
proved to have $50 in gold in It,
Great Falls, Mont, has the distinc.
tion of having the largest concrete
smokestack in the world, even though
the work was done by German firm.
The stack is sos feet in height and
weighs 34.00O.O0O pounds, or 1900
tons. II rests on a concrete founda-
ton rs feet deep and 100 feet in diam
eter
1t is announced that before Clar-
ence Fl Mackay of the Postal Gable
company and son of Nevadas boz
nanza king, sails for Europe from
New York, April 1, he will make def
mite arrangements to donate to the
University Of Nevada $3.50 900 for
new library and administration
building.
A. e. Holt of Oakland has brought
suit against Sholtz e Co of Denver
for $4,000 for damages for false i'm
prisonment. Holt was arrested with
George Sexsmith, who was charged
with having stolen perfumery from
the Denver firm. Sexsmith was taken
back to Denver for trial, but Holt
was released
Alderman w. A. Poffenberger. OF
Cripple Creek, Colo, who has admitted
accepting bride Of $3.50 from a pub
lie utility corporation for his vote
against granting franchise to rival
concern. and who has charged sew
several other aldermen with bribery,
has been removed from Office and will
be prosecuted.
From returns received by the state
board of equalization. the total valua-
ton of the state of Montana is fixed
at 252,294,016 Some of the CHIEF
constituents thereof are: Realty.
1924 1925 49; city lots, $40 ,5SS,S76; i'm
provements thereon, s2S,7S5,6 COS; min
ing claims and improvements, S1732.-
SlS; railroads, s36,000,000.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
line has been finished between Tacoma
and Missoula, Montana. But twenty
five miles of track remain to be laid
In Montana and then the line will be
complete from Chicago to the coast.
There is every reason to believe that
the last spike will be driven before
April 2, the date set for completion.
The mystery of the disappearance of
forty head of cattle owned by Dan
Hudson of Riyerton, Wyo.. six weeks
ago, has been cleared by the discovery
that Indians on the Wind river teser-
walton are fishing steer carcases
from the Big Horn river and holding
high carnival on beef. The steers I'M
dnuhtad1V hrola OH, he too II To,