Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-07-08
NORTHWEST NOTES

Crown Prince HaeuDyima of Japan
is to visit the Seattle exposition in
August. according. to advsces 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 wide open
town in the restricted district.
Permf ssion has been granted by |
the United States TO the Fifth reg |
ment of Canadian artillery. armed |
aud 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.
A 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-
4 fragists.
Don Carlos Ellis. chief of the Sec
ton of Education, in the United States
forest service, viii deliver a series OF
lectures on the forest work of the
government at the Alaska ukon-Pa-
cific exposition.
The first Moapa, Nevada, canta-
:. loupe of the season was auctioned
last week, bringing s11. 1t is est
mated that 800 carloads of MELONS
wifi be shipped from the Moapa
valley this season.
Charles Hender, a car Inspector
at Monetello. Nevada, fell beneath
moving car one day last week.
! being SO badly crushed that ampu-
; tation was necessary.
The twelve-year-old son OF A. B.
g Middlekopf of Miles City. Mont, lost
, two fingers and the thumb of his left
t hand last week as the result of the
e explosion of a dynamite cap with
e which he was playing.
The first passenger train to leave
Butte over the Chicago, Milwaukee &
Puget Sound railroad, westbound, LEFT
that city on June 2S. bound for A1ber
II ton, 30 miles west of Missoula, where
an auction sale of town lots was held
The Southern Pacific is to begin a
once the work of changing the mali
st line of the road between Wells an,
m Deeth, $50 miles west of Ogden Th'
'e new work entails the laying OF twent,
cutoff.
A general movement for the estal
lishment OF an eighthour day for ma
chinists throughout the United State
will be started at convention of tn
International Machintsts' union to b
held in Denver next September, 1t
announced.
Judge Donlan, upon the bench
the criminal court at Butte, dealt a.
\ other crushing blow at the gambiel
Of Butte last week, when he set a pr
cedent by refusing bail to a convicts
gambler pending appeal 10 the
- preme court.
no, C. c. Petty, who shot and killed h
wife at the Methodist church
he Sparks, Nevada. on the night Of Mare
no 8, has been found guilty of murder
de the first degree, the jury fixing pu
shment al death. Petty comes iro
Asbury N. j.
Frank Duncan, who was employ
at the shearing plant of the BENT
Sheep company at Fort Benton, Mon
\ was killed by lightning last week
Il was out on the prairie and it was Il
II known that he had met with misf'
II tuae until his body was found.
II The sixteen n onths' old daughter
II John DauterInan of Alder, Mont. W
il drowned in an iri1gating ditch Il
= week. having fallen into the d.
near the house Seven years ago I
Dautermans lost child in the sal
led. ulanner, and at the same place
Mrs ID. e. Magardard is dead, a
lats tour others were injured as the
line suit of an automobile accident M
tick Spokane, when the machine going
hen the rate of thirty miles an hS
lex crashed into a train which was a
illd running at nlSn rate Oh speeo-
? IA Wilton Ooley, janitor of the Min
inst Exchange building at Colori
Springs had his left arm terribly
Grated by the accidental explosion
an eight-inch Hotchkiss shell, a relic
the ne spanish American war lie
the plosion was caused by hitting
,,an shell while he was cleaning the TO
tba where it was kept.
q cloudburst in the mounta
,oor south of Helena occurred on June
silv the result OF which was a food, VIII
D of wrought much damage in the city
rmi- adjacent country. Small streams
run dry gulches in the vicinity Decd
iron raging torrents. swelling as they
TO- until a number of streets had all
appearance of rivers.
and Two huge rattlesnakes have
Hey. rorized frequenters OF cry Farh'
cell Cheyenne, and parents have forbid
ored their children from entering the p
the ground Keeper T@ibott killed one
con. the reptiles recently, but its mat
shed still at large. Several men