Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-04-29
NORTHWEST NOTES


ter OF dollar.
Colo. for an immense irrigation pro
ject which will cost almost two million |
dollars and which viii reclaim 200,- |
900 acres of arid land in southeastern
Colorado.
The Union Pacific is installing In
the Cheyenne yards a 100-ton car
scale, the largest west of Omaha. The
scale is fifty feet in length and rests
In concrete matrix seven feet in
thickness.
Patrick Donovan, doorkeeper of the
house of representatives at the last
session of the state Legislature and
prominent figure in local affairs. died
at Missoula, Mont. April %. He came
to Montana in 1861.
Three persons were injured by
jumping from second-story window
in the farm residence of George
Stahl, two miles southwest of Mis-
soula, Mont, to avoid fire that to-
tally destroyed the building.
The biggest fur seal herd of years
is passing Sitka, Alaska, according TO
a special dispatch. The natives are
killing hundreds OF them. Japanese
poachers are following the herd. No
revenue cutters are in the district
Bitter racial feeling exists at
Vashon college, Tacoma, over row
between a student named Adams and
Japanese engineer. 1t is said the
Japanese stabbed the student and
the latter drew a gun on the Asiatic.
Harvey w. Scott of the Portland
Oregonian has declined the ambassa-
dorship to Mexico, preferring to re-
main with the Oregonian. Henry l..
Wilson, now minister to Belgium 1t
is said, will be promoted to the Mex
lean post.
The highest price paid for sheep
at Kemmerer, Wyo., this year is in
volved in the deal whereby the
Quealey & Peterson company takes
over 5000 head from Boyer Bros. for
consideration of $4,000, or $3.50
per head.
Robert w. Brown was found dying
in a Goldfield lodging house from an
overdose of dope" death ensuing a
whether Brown intended suicide OF
merely took an overdose of the drug
by accident.
The moderated body of John Lind
fors has been found in his cabin neal
Twin Bridges. Mont. Robbery and
murder are suspected, and the of
J ficials are investigating. Lindfors
was we'll known in mining circles o.
that section.
Donald Boyd, convicted of kidnap
| ing Patrick Mccoy, wealthy Seattle
lumberman, In the woods near Bow
Mont, last October, has been sen
fenced to serve an indeterminate sen
tence of from five to twenty-one years
in states prison.
Rickert Assinna was shot and ia
tally wounded by Ole Nyserom, in
lonely shack at Bass Creek, nea
Stevensville, Mont. Both men ar
Firms and have been living together
Nyserom was taken to Hamilton an
lodged in the county jail
George Eccles, district attorney O
Virginia City, Nevada, in the bonanz;
days OF the lode. and legatee of
fortune of s150,000 from eastern rel
atives, was found dead last week ii
squalid cabin in Virginia City. H
died in penury and alone.
The smallpox epidemic which wa
raging among the Indians on the Goa
Vile reservation in Washington pras
tically is over. 1t is expected tn
quarantine which kept all white me-
from entering the reserve without pei
mits will be raised by May 1.
Within a few weeks, when the ba
lasting of the tracks shall have bee
completed. the Chicago. Milwaukee I
Puget Sound railroad will inaugural
train service between Butte an
Missoula, and this is expected to raj
idly resolve itself into through Sc
vice from Chicago to the Puget SCUM
country.
Judge M. j. Gordon. former counss
for the Great Northern railway, wa
arrested at Spokane last week on il
, dictments by the county grand jur
He is charged with embezzlement {
funds from the railway compan
while acting. as its attorney. Hi
bond for appearance was fixed {
$4,000.
The Montana Stock Growers ass
dictments by the county grand jur
citation, in session at Miles City, Mont
9 adopted resolutions endorsing tn
. livestock inspection laws; the wor
= of the agricultural department, an
I for enactment of needed railway legi
lation.
0 Senators Gamble and Crawford
s | South Dakota have invited PRESIDED
e Taft to attend the Missouri Riv'
S Navigation congress at Yankto
t July Z, s and 8. The president sa
j he could not attend on the dates me
+ toned. change of date may
made.
e Ed Eaton, an old-time cowboy al
a former Basin saloon man has BET
t arrested in the Black mountains u
0 der suspicion of having been connet
d ed with the recent raid in Big Ho