Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-18
NORTHWEST NOTES

merry resided in Albany, Ore He was
employed as a teamster
tfre of unknown origin destroyed
FIVE buildings in the business section
of Granada, Colo, causing loss OF
100000 The town has no fire appar-
atus, and for a time the entire city
was threatened
Two men held up Dicks saloon In
Carson City, Nevada. The two men
entered the saloon. one remaining at
the front door, while the other robbed
the three men in the saloon. The rob-
bers secured about $500
AT a meeting of the Montana de-
| murrage bureau held in Butte. March
| 10, Robert Engle was reelected d.
! rector OF the bureau The session OF
| the railroad men was devoted princi-
! pally to the discussion OF routine rail-
road matters
The Nevada assembly has passed
| a bill making 1t felony for directors
or any officer Of a banking company
to receive deposit when bank is
| insolvent The measure was passed
to remedy the defect in the Nevada
banking laws
Prominent sheepmen from several
parts of wyoming arrived at Chey
enne, March IL, TO protest before the
state board of equalization against
the assessed valuation OF sheep,
which they claim is much higher than
the present market price.
The lower house of the Nevada leg
islature has passed bill providing
for graduated license for prize fight
ing A state license costing $1,000
} will be required for an unlimited
round affair; $500 for twenty-five
rounds, and $3.50 for twenty rounds.
About Z, 900, 900 acres of land in the
counties along the eastern border OF
Wyoming are to be thrown open at
once to homesteaders, who will be
allowed to take either 100 or 800
acres. The land cannot be irrigated
r and will be for use for dry farming
only
Jesus Ramirez, Mexican tramp,
T while endeavoring to board fast
+ freight train at Boewawe, New,
caught his foot in frog OF the track
. and was pulled under the wheels,
e both legs being severed from his
" body at the thighs, death resulting an
II hour later
u Enormous losses OF sheep among
II the docks of the Red Desert district
of Wyoming are reported as result
n of the deep snow and the inability OF
II the sheep to get to feed. In some
n bands. 1t Is said, the loss will amount
o to so per cent and one hockmaster Is
e, reported to have lost 10000 head In
lie the last month
Despondent over continued Ill
ss health. without funds, and preferring
re horrible death under the wheels OF
CT locomotive to the county poor
of house. Palmer Paulson, Norwegian
a. rancher living at Elk Park, deliber-
On ately laid dowE with his head on the
rail In front of a Northern Pacific
~ passenger train at Butte and was
"a. killed
~ Captain j. A. Mitchell OF company
"a | OF the Montana national guard, To-
10 Gated at Glendive, has rendered his
to resignation to Governor Norris and
the court-martial at Helena, which
ng was about to take testimony In con-
ee nection with charges OF infractions OF
a. the military rules and disobedience OF
:, orders, 1t is understood, has been dis
= solved
he Edward Smith. city marshal OF
Moorcroft, Wyo., shot and instantly
GO killed Herman Holcomb, a bartender
~: whom he found In company with Mrs
an. Smith at the postoffice at Gillette
q. Smith, 1t is said, has suspected i'm
,or proper relations between his wife
,or and Holcomb, and came to Gillette te
I'D investigate.
An explosion OF barrel of paint
.or used for covering smokestacks came
lie- dangerously near causing the deal.
no of Dalis Meyers and III. |. Johnson
ila ssaployes of the Southern Pacific
nd shops, at Carlin, Nevada. The barre
om of paint had been placed on stow
to to thaw, when 1t exploded. covering
the men with the hot fluid.
bar The four Italians who held up ant
ust robbed Theodore Nedehft OF $31 nea
az. Birdseye, Mont, February "a, ant
re who we're afterward arrested in Butte
nd pleaded guilty in the district cour
ard and were sentenced by Judge Glen
ra- ents each to one year in the stat
penitentiary
.sts Senator Patrick DAILY OF Deer Lodg
county, died suddenly on March
ids at his home in Anaconda, Montans
has of heart trouble. He was brother G
es. Marcus DAILY. the Montana million
Is aire, and widely known in Montana
AIDE Utah and Nevada He leaves moo
est fortune:
die. Joshua Klein: Is on trial at Tacom;
Ties charged with enticing by hi
nv strange teachings two Tacoma girl
the Miss Sauvegeot and Miss Karasek.
will mis- chalet in Switzerland and holdin
he them prisoners with a number {
,ose other women who had become dew
tees of his cult.