Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-12
NORTH WEST NOTES


Butte Miners union. the largest local
and President p. w. Flynn has been
reelected by an overwhelming vote
A miner named Sage. dismissed
from the Boston Phoebe mine at
Phoebe, Nevada, shot and seriously
wounded the foreman who discharged |
him. Cleve Carter, the victim. is %
years old.
Ben Bollin, a fifteen.year-old boy, |
confined in the detention quarters OF |
the county jail at Canon City, Colo. |
escaped by cutting hole in the wall |
while Under Sheriff John Chetelet
slept in an adjoining room.
Four men were killed in the Diar |
iaond mine at Butte, through pre-
taature blast. Two of them were mar
ried men and leave families. No ex-
PLANTATION has as yet been made as to
the cause OF the explosion.
Engineers of the Great Northern
Railway company have virtually COM
pleted a preliminary survey of new
railroad for the Hill interests in
Franklin, Adams and Douglas coun-
lies in eastern Washington.
/ After "a IOUS UGUdlC, tnC ANCFoAA
senate tabled the bill making an APP
preparation for a state exhibit at the
/ Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition This
action practically means that Nevada
will have no exhibit at Seattle.
After writing note in which he
said he was too proud to beg and
TOO honest to steal and that the per-
son finding the note need not look
for any friends" A. B. Kahney hanged
himself in his room in Denver.
Secretary John IT. Burns of the
Dry Farming congress announced last
week that the permanent headquarters
Of the congress would be located in
Denver. The records and Offices of
The congress will be moved from
Cheyenne to Denver soon.
Reports received from Fort Wa
shake, Wyo., are to the effect that a
producing well of black asphaltum oil
has been opened on the Indian reser-
walton. Although considerable pros
pecting has been done in this vicinity.
this is the first oil found in CONNER
cial quantities. Great excitement pre-
vaiis.
} Awakened by the police, who de-
t manded admission to her home to
search for fugitive, Mrs. Harry
] bridge, of Sheridan, Wyo., undertook
9 to awaken her husband and was hor-
/ riffed to discover that he was dead
Bridge succumbed to heart failure
while asleep, and had been dead sew
!, eral hours.
Governor Hay of Washington has
: expressed verbal approval of the local
/. option bill which was generally ap
proved by the legislature, and vii
Sign the measure. The bill is com
promise measure. Every incorporated
city under the act is a separate uni
d and country districts in every count.
# form district unit.
l. Judge Harrington of the United
g States circuit court at Carson City
y Nevada, handed down a decision las
week in the case of the Southern Pa
v cific Railroad company VS.. the Neyadi
4 Railroad commission. The decision
4 sustains the commissioners in ever
noint and dissolves the old injunc
lions against them.
The Pacific coast extension OF tn
Chicago, Milwaukee, & St.Paul railroa'
crosses Musselshell river, Montana
u .15 times in lit miles. 1t has broke
every American record by buildln
FL twenty miles of bridges on that POI
he lion of the system, which begins q
%, The Missouri river, South Dakota an
a ends at the city OF Seattle.
The effort of two powder stalesme
of to demonstrate to the mine officials
40 Sunrise. Wyo.. that their powder wa
ne safer than the variety used II the Di
IL. mine there, almost resulted Iataiiy
no half a dozen men, including the SAFE
- men and the officials me salesme
placed blast of two kegs of poWde
which exploded sooner than was e
y, pected.
lct few nights ago Otto Jones.
Let lrominent Powder river sheepma
at rode nm to the ranch of Joseph Lace
OF at Kinnear, Wyo. on the edge OF Y
ed Wind River Indian reservation. bold
ut. lidnaped Lacey's 16.year-ofd ste
nil daughter, Miss Martha Day, and &C
g. loned with her to the railroad. wire
they took a train to Chadron, RE
Oh and were married.
~ Mrs. James r. Davis, the bride
10 one of the richest and hest known mil
ct onerators in Nevada. died at Los 4
S.. .eles. March 2 She was one OF u
- most beautiful and popular socie
sas Girls of Goldfield. the daughter OF
ieh prominent physician, Dr. y. ,. Gal
vas way. Mr. and Mrs. Davis mad on
tho RECENTLY returned from an extend
on wedding trip in Europe.
an Construction work on the Dods
dam in Valley. county, Montai
use which is being constructed for 7
ing purpose of irrigating large tracts
sef. land lying along the Milk river, b
'eal been stopped by an Injunction
ing cured by the Great Northern Railw
ing company upon. The ground that !
ats back water is threatening TO una
mine the railroad tracks.
urn a. B. REYNOLDS. one Of the earli
ota- ,.s - r.narneey Wyo and