Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-25

De nciQ III 0tdLtlt I'll jutit O.
Joseph Santori, aged IS, laborer at
the Anaconda smelters. was instant
ly killed by being struck with a huge
steel ladle.
John Marvin and James Ross, min
ers, were killed by a fall of coal in
the mines of the Carbonate Coal com
pany near Tacoma, Wash The bodies
were recovered.
Claire Niece, a youth of %, Killed
himself at Missoula, Mont by shoot
ing in a barn at his mothers resi-
dence, because his sweetheart. Mn
ME Van Dorm, had Tilted him.
Last year Montana planted 20 900
acres of potatoes, yielding a total of
2,760,0 900 bushels, or 1873 bushels to
the acre, which brought an average
price of 20 cents bushel, making the
value s96.70 an acre.
Attempting to go from his ranch to
Relle Fourche, S. d., during a blizzard,
w. ]. Chiesman, prominent ranch
man of Sundauce, Wyo., was overcome
by cold and persisted beside the road
His body, frozen stiff. has just been
found.
AS result OF the burning of the
Flores theater at Acapulco, Mexico,
The state board of fire commissioners
is conducting an investigation of the
moving picture theaters both in Den
yer and throughout the state OF Colo
RADIO.
A farmer who q few years ago took
up a homestead near Grover, Colo,
and began dry farming, has been Of
fered $4,000 for REIMBURSEMENT of
his 1G0 acres, but has refused to part
with it. He believes in the future of
dry farming
In order to raise $1,000 that they
may secure $4,000 promised by Clar-
ence Mackay, the students of the Uni
versity of Nevada gave bulls head"
breakfast at the university at Reno
ON Washington's birthday. Plates
were laid for 1900 people.
Henry Miller Nickel. of San Fran
CISCO a grandson of Henry Miller,
senior partner in the firm of Miller &
Lux, was frozen to death while en-
deavoring to make the fifteen-mile
journey between the Alvord ranch and
Wild Horse, village in Nevada.
Edward Myers, brother of Al Myers
the millionaire mining man, shot
himself through the head in his room
at a hotel in Goldfield, infiicting a
fatal wound. Dependency is assigned
as the cause for the act Myers
leaves a wife and several children.
After being out thirty hours, the
jury in the trial at Great Falls, Mont,
of Albert Hatch charged with par
ticipation in the robbery or passen-
gers on Great Northern train, re
turned a verdict Of guilty The de.
PENDANT, who is only 16 years old
will IN III ~
school.
j. w. Saunders. printer, was
killed by passenger train while
beating his way between KalIock and
EllSo, Nevada While trying to es.
cape observation of the trainmen the
unfortunate fellow was caught be-
tween two of the cars and held in
such a position as to cause his body
to be crushed into pulp
After lying for two nights and three
days with his arm pinioned under a
wheel of large freight wagon, out
on the wind-swept desert near Boyer,
Nevada, Thomas Lovelock, son of the
late George Lovelock, founder OF the
town of Lovelock, Nevada, was res
cued by a passing freighter, and is
now in Lovelock under the care OF
Ihysicians
MIS-. ID. knezevic, who is enroute
from Austria to Rock Springs, wyo.,
having started for this place to join
her husband. will be greeted by tragic
news on her arrival. Knezevic, who
worked hard for several years to save
sufficient money to bring his wife to
America, was killed in mine acci-
dent recently
| Retrenchment in the expenses of the
local division of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad was announced Feb
ruary II upon the arrival at Grand
I Junction, Colo, of the pay car 1t is
stated that reduction of $4,000 win
be made in the monthly pay roll, the
chief reduction probably being made
In the machine shops
Blowing a safe in the general store
of Schu Brothers, at Kapowsin.
Wash, two yeggmen escaped with
81 600 Taking a hand car from a
siding, they rode to Fern Hill, where
they ditched the car and escaped to
Tacoma The safe was blown by nj
troglycerin and with the feather
wedge and soap method.
An important decision to every
county In Wyoming has been rem
dered in the case of Messenger VS.
the Commissioners of Converse coun-
| ty, in which Messenger, who is sheriff
of the county. sought to compel the
I commissioners to return him $500 OF
horse inspection fees which he had