Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-07-30
NORTHWEST NOTES


is TO visit the Seattle exposition in
August, according to advices received
from Japan
In the police court in Butte, Judge
MCGOWAN charged openly that a fund
of 81 500 had been raised to bride the
court and officers to allow a wideopen
town in the restricted district.
Permission has been granted by
the United States to the Fifth regi-
ment of Canadian artillery. armed
and equipped, to enter this country to
attend the Seattle exposition.
The rapid spread of an epidemic OF
hog cholera in the Bitter Root valley,
Montana. is causing considerable con
Germ among the ranchmen, fully 1000
hogs having died from the disease.
party of prominent woman suf-
fragists, including Rev. Anna Shaw
and Miss Lucy Anthony, attended the
Seattle exposition last week, being
feted and entertained by the local suf
fragists.
Don Carlos Ellis, chief of the Sec
ton of Education. in the United States
| forest service, will deliver a series OF
| lectures on the forest work of the
government at the Alaska Yukon-Pa-
| cific exposition.
| The first Moapa, Nevada, canta-
/ loupe of the season was auctioned
last week, bringing Sill 1t is esti-
mated that 800 carloads of MELONS
will be shipped from the Moapa
valley this season.
Charles Hender, car inspector
at Monetello, Nevada, fell beneath
moving car one day last week.
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being so badly crushed that ampu-
tation was necessary.
The twelve-year-old son of A. B.
Middlekopf, of Miles City, Mont, lost
two fingers and the thumb of his left
hand last week as the result OF the
explosion of dynamite cap with
which he was playing.
The first passenger train to leave
Butte over the Chicago, Milwaukee &c
Puget Sound railroad, westbound, left
that city on June %, bound for Alber
ton, 35 miles west of Missoula, where
an auction sale of town lots was held.
The Southern Pacific Dis to begin at
, once the work OF changing the main
line of the road between Wells and
Deeth, $50 miles west of Ogden. The
new work entails the laying of twenty
! cutoff.
general movement for the estab-
lishment of an eight-hour day for ma
chinists throughout the United States
T. will be started at a convention of the
International Machinists' union to be
held In Denver next September, it is
announced.
Judge Donlan, upon the bench in
I the criminal court at Butte, dealt an
: other crushing blow at the gamblers
= of Butte last week, when he set a pre-
= cedent by refusing bail to a convicted
= gambler pending appeal to the su.
> preme court.
G. G. Petty, who shot and killed his
. wife at the Methodist church at
u Sparks Nevada, on the night of March
: 8, has been found guilty of murder In
the first degree, the jury fixing pun
L. ishment at death. Petty comes IRON
1T Asbury, N. ].
Frank Duncan, who was employ &c
le at the shearing plant of the Benton
:: Sheep company at Fort Benton, Mont.
was killed by lightning last week. He
a. WAS out on the prairie and it was no
II known that he had met with misfor
tune until his body was found.
If The sixteen-months' old daughter o
d. John Dauterman of Alder, Mont, wal
t. drowned in an irrigating ditch las
re week, having fallen into the ditcl
near the house. Seven years ago tn
IN Dautermans lost child in the sam
a manner and at the same place.
I'd Mrs. D. e. Magardard is dead. an
four others were injured as the re
er suit of an automobile accident nea
n, Spokane, when the machine going a
~ ~ V.tV Iod Hna1
of crashed into a train which was ais
A. running at high rate of speed.
Wilton OoIey, ianitor of the Minin
va Exchange building at Colorad
he Springs had his left arm terribly la
Grated by the accidental explosion {
al an eight-inch Hotchkiss shell, q relic c
g the Spanish-American war. TIE e,
% plosion was caused by hitting th
Gu shell while he was cleaning the ROOF
an where IT was kept.
"a A cloudburst In the mountain
south of Helena occurred on June 3
" the result of which was a flood. whic
q, wrought much damage in the city an
70 adjacent country. Small streams an
al dry gulches in the vicinity becan
ne raging torrents, swelling as they ral
until number of streets had all tn
fr appearance of rivers
on Two huge rattlesnakes have tie
rorized frequenters of City Park.
Cheyenne, and parents have forbidde
DO their children from entering the pla
| ground. Keeper Talbot killed one
OBJ the reptiles recently, but It's mate
en- still at large. Several men a
1t watching the park in the hope of sc
{ / ing the remaining RATHER.
his A steel gang at work on railwi
ard contract near Armstead Mont. we