Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-07-16
NORTHW EST NOTES

''~e" oNhASN W Oil July D,
and thought to be fatally injured. is
Improving and will recover.
The Filipinos of Seattle have.
through committee, protested
against the exhibition OF unclad Igor
:otes at the Alaska Yukon Pacific ex-
position.
The Mccormick Lumber company's
plant, located about thirty miles from
Chehalis, Wash, was destroyed by
fire last weet The loss being estl-
mated at 100000.
Ed Dowell, a brakeman on the Chi.
cago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound rail
road, fell off his train at Kinsie,
Mont, rolled under the cars and his
body was cut in two.
Before adjournment, a movement
was set on foot by the delegates to the
National Good Roads convention, in
session at Seattle, for the formation
of a National Good Roads association.
Two Denver & Rio Grande freight
trains met in head-on collision at
Una, Colo, thirty miles east of Grand
Junction. The crews escaped injury.
Both engines and ten cars were de-
stroyed.
The coolest July night Nevada has
experienced was recorded at Reno on
the 9th. Small bodies Of water had
layer of ice, and the wheat in the
northern part of the state is reported
to have frozen.
Three children lost their lives when
the home of Bert Oliver of Summer
vile, Ore, was destroyed by fire and
the father and mother were severely
burned. The fire was started by the
overturning of lamp.
A lone bandit held w Assistant
Cashier Olson, of the Bank of Com
merce at Everett, Wash, shortly be-
fore the bank c.csed on July G. wound
ed Cashier Lyon and escaped with a
few hundred dollars.
William McClammah pleaded guilty
at Helena, Mont, last week of intro
| ducing whisky in the Fort Peck Indian
reservation, November 20, 1908, and
was sentenced to serve sixty days in
jail and pay a fine of 500,
A murder shrouded in mystery was
committed at Reno, Nevada, July 8,
when Miss Maria Fava, cook, was
shot in the back and killed by man
whom the police believe to be For.
tunato Tarentino, who is missing.
Gov. Burke, OF North Dakota, has
been elected president of the Missouri
River Navigation Congress. Jerry
Sullivan, of Fort Benton, Mont, was
elected one of the vice-presidents
Omaha was voted the next congress.
Henry Saulstraw, a farmer living
near Colbert, Wash, is dead with {
bullet wound through his head, ant
Edward Scholl, neighboring rancher
is in jail, charged with murder, as tn,
result of quarrel between the twt
men.
The national convention of thu
American Woman Suffrage associa
lion, in session III Seattle, eIecte,
Rev. Anna Shaw as president TIL
question of the next convention cit.
was left to the general officers TO
decision.
The attendance at the Alaska-Yu
kon-Pacific exposition on July brok
the record for Sunday crowds, 1855
people passing through the turnstiles
This brought the total attendant
since the fair opened June / up t
791, LAO.
A Virginia City, Mont, special al
nounces that over an area two mile
in width and indefinite in length,
hailstorm on July played havoc wit
the crops, the ground in places bein
severed several inches with Maidstone
of unusual size.
Mrs. James McMasters, aged So,
well-known woman throughout Mo
tana, who has been living at Superit
recently. committed suicide in the h
tel at Superior by drinking poiso
Dependency is supposed to have 6
fected her mind.
> A corpse was discovered floating
the Kootenai river about five mil
above Libby, Mont It Is that of
man about feet inches tall, dar
!, smooth shaven, index finger al
thumb of right hand gone. It HI
:. evidently been in the water for sor
! days.
w. P. Hammond, the "dredg
king" and party of California ca
talists, have exercised an option he
on the complete interests of the Re-
Power, Light & Water company, op,
> ating Trans-Nevada system. Hai
, mond took the reins of control
Z July 1.
Mrs. Louis Bronco, wife of I'll
herman at Wilkeson, Wash, was mi
dered by robber, who secured $6t
J The man enticed her from the hou
by telling her that her brother W
/, dead, crushed her skull with a stol
|. secured the money from the house a
l. escaped.
Colonel William F. Tucker, U.
g A., retired, who was recently divorc
1t in Chicago, was married in Denver