Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-05-07
NORTHWEST NOTES


Wyo., to eastern buyers. The highest
price paid was % cents,
j. P. Mooney, a Northern Pacific |
railway engineer residing in Missoula,
was badly hurt while switching at
Stuart, Mont. His skull was crushed,
but it is believed he will live.
Ellwood c. Hughes, for twenty
years a lawyer of Seattle, has been
rendered by President Taft an APP
pointment to the newly created fed
eral judgeship in Washington state.
The Linwood Land company has or
dered White steamer automobile
to be used in carrying land seekers
between Rock Springs, Wyo., and
their lands in Linwood and Lucerne
valleys.
John Kirschweng of Butte, a noted
inventor of smelling apparatus, killed
his wife and two children and COM
mitted suicide, April 20, on his broth
er's ranch near Ada, Mont. Kirsch-
weng was an escaped lunatic.
Fire of incendiary origin destroyed
two large hay warehouses at Boze-
man, Mont, April rs, entailing heavy
loss. Indisputable evidence of incen-
diarism was found, and a reward of
$500 has been offered for the culprits.
The Chicago police say that George
B. Kerth and N. Lawrence, under ar
rest in Seattle, charged with swind-
ling, are members of a gang that has
robbed eastern business men of one
million dollars by a fake directory
game
Ranchers and prospectors in the vi
cinity of Helena are almost unani-
nous in the opinion that Montana is
likely to experience flood this spring
similar to that which occurred last
year. when millions of dollars worth
of damage was done.
After clubbing a Chinaman into UNI
consciousness and locking him in the
cellar. four men robbed the Casino, a
big gambling resort of Reno, Nevada,
Of between $4,000 and $4,000 A night
Waterman, who intruded, was cap
tured and locked in closet.
, Mrs. Joe Burnes and Mrs. S. Camp
breI, wives of loggers, fought g
bloody duel with butcher knives al
Lester, Wash, as a result of wn1cf
the former has fatal cash below the
heart The women quarreled over The
= borrowing of kitchen utensils.
Thomas Henessey, hotel detective il
v the employ of the Albany hotel, il
! Denver, and formerly house detectiv
). at the Auditorium hotel, Chicago, wa
! shot and instantly killed April 70, b
f man named SeilSirk. The shootLn
\ was the result of an old grudge
r. The Laramie rolling mills OF III
} Union Pacific railroad, which hay
S been idle for year, will resume ope
d ations at once. The mills produce tn
e continuous rail joints, tie plates, bolt
e nuts and spikes used by the Unio
Pacific in new construction work.
n Alive and conscious and scarcely II
Ie iured, John Watkins has been re
y cued, after being buried twenty-si
Il hours beneath twenty-eight feet
: snow in the valley Of the Cascac
:, river near Rockport, Wash. An av
= lanche had overwhelmed an eng
- neer's camp, all of the other men e
n. Gaping.
D. G. Corbin, the millionaire "a
way builder of Spokane, is the centr
IA figure in the largest mining deal mae
in Spokane in several years. He hi
vo taken an option on the Wagner grol
Of claims on Hall creek, a tributa
of of the Duncan river, in British I
80 lumbia. The price is stated to be ;
va 100000.
- A eoterie of residents of Helen
oh who represent their wealth to be
an excess of $1,000,000, have filed pc
Nv ton in the district court to restra
n, the municipality from issuing or d
inf posing of an issue of bonds OF $Ou
In 600, voted at special election for {
-, purpose of constructing and lnstalll
~ municipal water plant.
~ Twenty-six of the leading lumt
~ manufacturers of Oregon, WashlnSt
un and Idaho. who control, to lar
extent. the rail shipments of the p
duct from that section to the ca
met last week and attempted to
be- dnce the production of lumber Az
- cent The order to the mills will
81, out probably within two days.
zoe The state of Montana was last we
.ao the purchaser of the 100000 bond
lon sue authorized by the last leglsiat'
,o1- for the erection of new wings to
oit- capitol. This action was taken
III the state board of land commissl
~ ~ ers. and the funds from which II
ne ne TO be taken will be those OF the v
lst- GUS state educational institutions
leu Governor Shafroth of Colorado
sue sue signed the campaign expense bill
,leh the unique measure becomes law
ninety days. The bill provides
the state shall contribute for
- naien expenses every two years
5i snn sum equal to twenty-five cents
~ each vote cast at the preceding
sil'9 eral election, the sum to be dlVl
lers among the political parties accor1
and to the vote cast for their respec
on candidates for governor.
to H. f. OFT, councillor in the der
at ment of agriculture and commerce
'ros- the Japanese government, has
-rict appointed commissioner general